On 6/5/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)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?