[WikiEN-l] Why are veterans so militant of late; The Future. (was Bus Uncle)

[The Cunctator]

On 6/5/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another thing that has happened is the growth in the number of people
> who are basically second class Wikipedians, because they aren't yet
> acculturated, and they probably never will be.  Some of these people
> are even administrators.  So we've got a lot more stupid clutter on
> talk pages, a heap of stupid user categories, and those pesky old
> userboxes. Meh, we've worked around it, and we'll deal with it if it
> becomes a serious problem.


Evidently, we also have a growth in at least one person with a pretty
dismissive attitude towards his fellow contributors.

>
> So the way I see it, we've met and passed the test of our Long
> September.  We have learned to manage change and diversity, and the
> quality of our articles has grown as we have learned to manage them by
> subject area.  We're slowly but surely overhauling some of our more
> decrepit and non-functional institutions and processes, totally
> bypassing them where necessary, changing the ground rules where that
> can be done in a sustainable fashion.  I'm very optimistic about the
> future.


Why does this fill me with dread?