[WikiEN-l] Re: Burnout

Stevertigo utilitymuffinresearch2 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 17 23:31:17 UTC 2003


--- Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:

> A good plan - it's very easy to get wrapped up in
> serious debate,
> but that takes away the enjoyment - and yet there
> are thousands
> of "fun" articles to add, noncontroversial content
> that is a necessary
> part of a comprehensive encyclopedia. In the space
> of eight months
> I've seen a bunch of heavy-duty contributors burn
> out and leave
> when the fighting overshadows content creation, so I
> think we need
> to watch out for signs of burnout and encourage each
> other to explore
> new and different areas that will be re-energizing
> to work on.

Not to mention -- that this is free and donated time. 
IOW - a hobby.  When the rent checks start piling up,
its best to put the vandal-chasing and the article
arguing away for a while. 

~S~



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