(slightly indirect to the topic, but not worth its own thread)
Hey Pete,
Thanks for your time and reflection, and that extend to everyone else, with this and related topics over the past month. Wikimedia-l has actually been a refreshing kind of place, where cautious respect and rational discourse has been taking place. I've appreciated it greatly as events progressed as they did. These conversations are what meatballwiki[0] is made of, and what built Wikimedia in the first place.
I look forward to these conversations continuing here, on meta, privately, Facebook, and all the other mediums, which is getting to my point: let's please keep all these much-needed discussions at a measured pace. I know that I'm shell-shocked[1] to a good extent from the recent past, with the burnout that comes with it as well, and I know I'm not the only one. I'd like to participate in, and not just read, these conversations, but I know it's going to take me some time to get back into the spirit of meta-discussions about Wikimedia. Othes as well.
So please, continue talking, sharing, misunderstanding and then working it out, and all those other wonderful things, but please do remember that there are some of us who are going to be silent a bit in our reflection, and hopefully we'll be speaking again in the future.
Everything else (for me, at least) is back to business/volunteering as usual.
0. http://meatballwiki.org 1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15061465#sitelinks-wikipedia