Crucial moment
Wikipedia is at a crossroads – the next couple of months will decide whether it continues to grow and improve, or implode under the weight of abuse it is currently suffering.
It all started with that RFC (those of you who are regular Wikipedia contributors will know which one I’m talking about) – the Arbitration Committee’s pointblank refusal to do anything about the abuse, due to several of the members being friendly with the admin carrying it out, has given many more admins the belief that respect for others doesn’t matter, community consensus doesn’t matter, they can delete whatever they want whenever they damn well choose.
There are of course plenty of people trying to stop this – but unfortunately not enough of them are admins. Dozens of people, who have between them made thousands of contributions, have already left Wikipedia in disgust at this betrayal of the community’s trust by a growing number of administrators.
If you are a Wikipedia member (even if you haven’t edited for a while) I ask you to get involved, to try and do something about this, and save the project from the enemy within