Caretaker: Difference between revisions
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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. | 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 | 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:Jrincayc]] | ||
*[[w:User:Mydogategodshat]] | *[[w:User:Mydogategodshat]] | ||
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*[[w:User:Kat]] | *[[w:User:Kat]] | ||
Note: many of these users have | 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: | 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. | ||