on 2/9/07 2:58 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs(a)earthlink.net wrote:
I
encourage you to try designing a support system though, WP can't afford
to lose all its admins to "churn".
Stan
I¹ve learned a lot from the List today; specifically about some of the
people who make Wikipedia go. I have a hell of a lot to learn about its
administrative workings; and I won¹t even think about going near the
technical background elements (no one is ready for the chaos that would
produce :-) ) But, the people
Everyone brings their own special gifts to the Project; that¹s what makes it
work so well. Mine happens to be people: how they interact with their self,
and with other persons.
From what I have read I do believe a formal, recognized
support mechanism is
needed to help persons in the project experiencing periodic,
situational
difficulties. Were are dealing with creative personalities here, and, like
it or not, this creativity comes with a certain degree of fragility, and,
yes, flakiness (very definitely, me included in fact I¹ve been called
things I had to look up).
To even suggest that if someone burns out, there are hundreds waiting in the
wings to replace them is to dehumanize them.
I¹m going to chew on this some more. But whatever proposal I come up with is
probably going to require people to do some thinking outside the Wikibox;
but why the hell not something¹s not working within it.
Marc Riddell