[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Ray Saintonge]

Jeff Raymond wrote:

>George Herbert wrote:
>  
>
>>We apparently just lost Alkivar (hopefully just on a stress relief
>>break, but he says he's out of here indefinitely).
>>
>>We're doing terribly at keeping identified, overstressed admins from
>>ending up going over the edge.  What are we doing wrong, or what do we
>>need to learn to do right?
>>    
>>
>On the other side, his message isn't really just about admins, but 
>editors in general.  People who edit articles simply are not valued on 
>this project anymore.  Tha'ts a big problem, since it's people who edit 
>articles that got us to this point.
>
Absolutely!  Newbies get jumped on for breach of incomprehensible 
rules.  Articles are cluttered with transclusion templates that only the 
experts know how to edit properly.  Articles get threatened with 
deletion because they don't have the right kind of references.  Some 
editors become so obsessed with trying to be authoritative that they 
take all the fun out of editing.  We all want an accurate reference 
work, but there are certain intangibles that we should not accept as 
part of the cost.

Ec