I have decided to withdraw from actively editing on wikipedia. This does not mean that I will not occasionally take part in discussions or votes that I consider important, or indeed make some edits, but it does formalise an active reduction in my contributions to this project.
There is not a single particular reason as to why I have decided this but it is primarily because I think that wikipedia is increasingly a failed project in some respects. This issue has not been made all of a sudden, there has been a marked reduction in my edits in recent months and this issue is as much about lifestyle issues outside wikipedia as internal to wikipedia.
However for the reasons in wikipedia I wish to use this page to better expand and explain my rationale; in particular vandalism (and its higher forms) is the primary wikipedia reason. In wikipedia vandalism is of two types, as I see it, the opportunist and the structured.
I am not sure if other, more reasonable editors simply don’t exist or have decided to play more low key but the simple fact is that these small core groups can implement very profound changes. And the latter can be very amaturish.
Looking around wikipedia, particularly in the articles I have involved myself in, I notice a lot of the editors that I have collaborated with and involved with have moved on. And it may now be simply my time to do that too.
Regards. Djegan 23:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I have decided to withdraw from actively editing on wikipedia. This does not mean that I will not occasionally take part in discussions or votes that I consider important, or indeed make some edits, but it does formalise an active reduction in my contributions to this project.
There is not a single particular reason as to why I have decided this but it is primarily because I think that wikipedia is increasingly a failed project in some respects. This issue has not been made all of a sudden, there has been a marked reduction in my edits in recent months and this issue is as much about lifestyle issues outside wikipedia as internal to wikipedia.
However for the reasons in wikipedia I wish to use this page to better expand and explain my rationale; in particular vandalism (and its higher forms) is the primary wikipedia reason. In wikipedia vandalism is of two types, as I see it, the opportunist and the structured.
I am not sure if other, more reasonable editors simply don’t exist or have decided to play more low key but the simple fact is that these small core groups can implement very profound changes. And the latter can be very amaturish.
Looking around wikipedia, particularly in the articles I have involved myself in, I notice a lot of the editors that I have collaborated with and involved with have moved on. And it may now be simply my time to do that too.
Regards. Djegan 23:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)