[WikiEN-l] Another admin burnout

[George Herbert]

On Dec 19, 2007 6:41 PM, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 5:00 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There's a difference between people chosing to leave the project, and
> > a project where the usual mode of leaving for experienced participants
> > is an antagonistic conflict incident blowing up.
>
>
> Not to say I'm not concerned, but is that really the "usual" mode of
> leaving? Certainly it can get a lot of attention, and it's easier to keep
> track of, but I'm not sure where the numbers would be, on that one.

Fair comment.

I have not endeavored to try to measure or keep statistics.  This is
ancedotal evidence not statistical.


> Also, if people are exploding, I'd imagine that resolving the immediate
> issue which led to the explosion is only treating a symptom. Since they
> probably exploded after a good deal of building up stress, the source of
> building stress may be our greater concern. Band-aids can work wonders, but
> they won't solve underlying problems.
>
> ...trouble, of course, few seem to agree on what those underlying problems
> are.

I think there is interest from and in lots of directions.

There are interlinked problems of getting enough agreement on
particular problems being significant, how to address them, and
getting a critical mass of people working to fix them.  All of the
steps involved are typically failing over the last year, in my
ancedotal experience.  The reason I keep bringing this up is to try
and encourage attention and interest in cooperating on addressing
them.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com