Editing Caretaker

A '''caretaker''' works quietly and patiently to make a [[large public wiki]] better.  They do not engage in "enforcement", "policy debate", or personality issues unless literally forced to, e.g. by [[usurper]] behaviour and lack of courage facing it down.  An enraged caretaker is usually a relatively formidable opponent, and often recruits many thoughtful others who object to the usurpation.  By fighting it, they seek to prevent a [[bad copy problem]] or [[self-interested fork problem]] that would result if "the original" were to be usurped completely by a [[faction]] or [[social club]] whose goals are not those of the majority of contributors - projects so usurped become [[enemy projects]] if their values and technology and culture can't be kept away from [[essential projects]] whose [[integrity]] that the caretaker wants to protect.

For instance, the following are caretakers of the Wikipedia project and often defy the [[GodKing]] and other [[usurper]]s to try to keep it "on track" as an encyclopedia:
*[[w:User:Jrincayc]]
*[[w:User:Mydogategodshat]]
*[[w:User:EntmootsOfTrolls]]
*[[w:User:Ed_Poor]]
*[[w:User:Anthere]]
*[[w:User:Cunctator]]
*[[w:User:Mirwin]]
*[[w:User:Netesq]]
*[[w:User:Kat]]

Note:  many of these users have left in disgust at the ruling Wikipedia clique, or been attacked by [[sysop vandalism]] and even [[developer usurpation]] of the powers of sysops, probably out of the entirely rational fear that some sysops agree with the caretakers more than the [[GodKing]].

There are also observers such as [[w:User:Chris Roy]] and [[w:User:MyRedDice]] who seek to gain some power by "studying" the interaction between caretakers and the usurpers.