[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

Thu Jun 29 12:20:15 UTC 2006

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WikiPediatrics 101.  Diseases of Infancy.  Major Syndromes, Section 1.

| In the present state of Wikipedia, the rules in practice and the
| prevailing attitudes of administrators are all skewed in favor
| of the Infantile Vandals and the Expert Disrupters, while the
| Accurate Reporters and Responsible Scholars don't stand a chance.

If I had to single out the single most serious symptom, the most critical
systematic fault that I have observed interfering with the possiblity the
WikiPatient ever recovering healthy functioning, it would have to be this:

Symptom 1.  Inversion of Priorities (IOP)

One of the more distressing aspects of WP's present condition,
at least for the un-anaesthetized observer, is the fact that
WP embodies within its basic constitution, namely, its most
celebrated and clamorously espoused policies and guidelines,
"all the right stuff" that it would take to return to health.

Sadly, even tragically, "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten",
as that classic bytage of machine translation goes.  So it behooves
a "student of systems" (SOS) to ask about the reasons or causes why.

That will be the subject of this section's inquiry.

Jon Awbrey

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