SyntheticThought
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'''Oct 16, 2018 update: Stopped editing the wiki, for the same reason good editors usually leave wikis;''' frustration from admins not blocking people who make counterproductive edits, when those people will not stop, despite repeated warnings and temp banning. | '''Oct 16, 2018 update: Stopped editing the wiki, for the same reason good editors usually leave wikis;''' frustration from admins not blocking people who make counterproductive edits, when those people will not stop, despite repeated warnings and temp banning. | ||
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'''March 20, 2019 update,''' I had started helping here again, but quit again. And am watching people who don't know me [https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenwiki/permalink/2221964348069557/ throw me under the bus on the Xenwiki Work Group]. No good deed goes unpunished. | '''March 20, 2019 update,''' I had started helping here again, but quit again. And am watching people who don't know me [https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenwiki/permalink/2221964348069557/ throw me under the bus on the Xenwiki Work Group]. No good deed goes unpunished. | ||
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That's pretty much it, that I recall. Certainly nothing destructive. | That's pretty much it, that I recall. Certainly nothing destructive. | ||
-Other than that, just helped the community when possible. Put together a compilation album, made [https://biptunia.com/?page_id=2070 some free xen VSTs], and patiently answered a lot of questions from people, especially people new to xen, on the ''Xenharmonic Alliance'' Facebook group, and the | -Other than that, just helped the community when possible. Put together a compilation album, made [https://biptunia.com/?page_id=2070 some free xen VSTs], and patiently answered a lot of questions from people, especially people new to xen, on the ''Xenharmonic Alliance'' Facebook group, and the ''Microtonalitaly'' Facebook group. | ||
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'''Read "The Great Failure of Wikipedia'''" from November 19, 2004, for more on this. Written by Jason Scott, one of the people who helped build Wikipedia in the early days: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/808 | '''Read "The Great Failure of Wikipedia'''" from November 19, 2004, for more on this. Written by Jason Scott, one of the people who helped build Wikipedia in the early days: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/808 | ||
tl:dr version of Jason Scott's article: '''The productive contributors leave because they go from "being a content creator to being a content ''defender''."'''.. When a very few people | tl:dr version of Jason Scott's article: '''The productive contributors leave because they go from "being a content creator to being a content ''defender''."'''.. When a very few people dump all over everything, and admins don't stop them, because admins don't want to be "mean." (In other words, when the ''admins'' are not ''admin''ing.) | ||
And usually a few editors jump in and tell the people trying to make things work that they're being "mean." | |||
Or the editors and admins think a wiki is a democracy. When they should think of it as private property jointly owned by the admins and editors who have made useful edits. | Or the editors and admins think a wiki is a democracy. When they should think of it as private property jointly owned by the admins and editors who have made useful edits. | ||