[WikiEN-l] I've Kicked the Process Habit

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

Actually, geni is actually has it right (well, not about the
de-adminning thing, that's just silly). Look, there are tons and tons
of editors that edit wikipedia everyday and that write fantastic
articles without ever getting into much conflict, including me. I
mean, when was the last time you heard about [[User:Lord Emsworth]]
being critized on AN/I? The man has written 58 featured articles, fer
chrissakes! Why isn't he continually complaining about flawed process
on the mailing list?

Sure, some of wikipedias processes aren't perfact, in fact quite a few
of them are flawed. But you have to realise that the reason you are
burning out so much also has to do with your own behaviour, it's not
just because of evil little process wonks. You have to accept some
blame yourself. As I said, many, many of us don't feel the way you
feel about processes and policy, and we don't get involved in these
issues nearly as often.

I suggest you take geni's advice, and simply start editing a different
part of wikipedia. Find an obscure author or some nice little
wikiproject or something and just write. That's what I meant many a
mails ago when I wrote "Infact, it is how many of us use wikipedia."

As geni said: click edit, write a great article, and press submit.
It's really just that simple.

--Oskar

On 9/18/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:28 AM, geni wrote:
>
> > Perhaps but it was somewhat nicer than the full version.
>
> Geni, this may be news to you, but I'm a semi-active editor in all
> fields. I have a job and a life, and I don't have time to get
> involved with gaping idiocy that arises when one tries to edit
> Wikipedia on a regular basis. To say that I haven't made a lot of use
> of my admin powers of late misses the larger point - the paralyzing
> force of process has driven me away from virtually all aspects of the
> site. A combination of the absurd idiocy that is the CVU and a small
> mob of process droids who were disinclined to expend any time
> actually thinking about an enormously subtle sourcing issue brought
> me to the point where, as I saw it, the sane options were to just
> give up or to just go back to editing in the way that worked quite
> nicely two years ago when I got my adminship. I picked option two.
>
> Is the concept that enormous gunk of process that you appear to be so
> aware of might wear me down over the course of the last year or so
> that hard for you to understand? Or, for that matter, that offensive
> that you had to launch into such a bizarre attempt to smear me,
> including trying to re-air year old dirty laundry like when I blocked
> [[User:The Recycling Troll]], a user who turned out to be a
> sockpuppet the one person who was vocally complaining about that block?
>
> What are you trying to accomplish here?
>
> -Phil
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