On 6/5/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Another thing that has happened is the growth in the number of people who are basically second class Wikipedians, because they aren't yet acculturated, and they probably never will be. Some of these people are even administrators. So we've got a lot more stupid clutter on talk pages, a heap of stupid user categories, and those pesky old userboxes. Meh, we've worked around it, and we'll deal with it if it becomes a serious problem.
Evidently, we also have a growth in at least one person with a pretty dismissive attitude towards his fellow contributors.
So the way I see it, we've met and passed the test of our Long September. We have learned to manage change and diversity, and the quality of our articles has grown as we have learned to manage them by subject area. We're slowly but surely overhauling some of our more decrepit and non-functional institutions and processes, totally bypassing them where necessary, changing the ground rules where that can be done in a sustainable fashion. I'm very optimistic about the future.
Why does this fill me with dread?