Anyone in contact with him? He has been frustrated with some recent events [1]; I got his email during the second day of Wikimania [madness] and I hadn't realized that I have to hurry before he closed his email account.
I think that his insights are very important for Wikimedia movement and that we need people like he is. So, I would appreciate if anyone is able to reach him and tell him that we miss him.
That's really unfortunate :(
The best way I can think of to honor his recent contributions is to have a look at his meta userpage: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alecmconroy
which is filled with all sorts of good and ambitious ideas about the future of our projects, and begin to discuss them. best, phoebe
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone in contact with him? He has been frustrated with some recent events [1]; I got his email during the second day of Wikimania [madness] and I hadn't realized that I have to hurry before he closed his email account.
I think that his insights are very important for Wikimedia movement and that we need people like he is. So, I would appreciate if anyone is able to reach him and tell him that we miss him.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alecmconroy
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Well, he called it "EnWP Burnout", but Wikimedia is not only en.wiki. It's quite natural to take a pause after such an activity peak, but I expect and hope that he'll soon come back and find other (less frustrating) way to contribute in one of the places when you can actually make a difference. Too bad there's no chapter he can join (I suppose), but there are still many options.
Nemo
Yeah, Alec wrote me just before he left. I hope he doesn't mind me saying this here: he told me he was scrambling his Wikimedia and GMail passwords, and that he won't be back. (He did say he's going to continue to donate, which is great; he just won't be active on-wiki.)
I have mixed feelings about him leaving. I don't know everything he did on-wiki, but I know enough to respect his contributions, and I also found his e-mails (both on-list and off) enormously thoughtful and valuable. I am sad he's left and I'm going to miss him personally: I liked him a lot, and I benefited from his ideas and opinions. So, I can't help but hope he changes his mind and comes back.
OTOH though, I want to respect his right to make whatever decision is best for him -- his hard work for the movement was a gift, not an obligation. If he chooses to come back, I'd be thrilled. If he doesn't, I will just be grateful for the contributions he made when he was active :-)
Thanks, Sue On Aug 12, 2011 11:10 AM, "Nemo" nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Well, he called it "EnWP Burnout", but Wikimedia is not only en.wiki. It's quite natural to take a pause after such an activity peak, but I expect and hope that he'll soon come back and find other (less frustrating) way to contribute in one of the places when you can actually make a difference. Too bad there's no chapter he can join (I suppose), but there are still many options.
Nemo
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On 12 August 2011 20:37, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
I have mixed feelings about him leaving. I don't know everything he did on-wiki, but I know enough to respect his contributions, and I also found his e-mails (both on-list and off) enormously thoughtful and valuable. I am sad he's left and I'm going to miss him personally: I liked him a lot, and I benefited from his ideas and opinions. So, I can't help but hope he changes his mind and comes back.
I was hoping he'd start a blog of ranty Wikimedia-related philosophical pontification, just so I wouldn't have to quote him all the time.
OTOH though, I want to respect his right to make whatever decision is best for him -- his hard work for the movement was a gift, not an obligation. If he chooses to come back, I'd be thrilled. If he doesn't, I will just be grateful for the contributions he made when he was active :-)
Of course!
- d.
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