Knowledge

User:Valentinian

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Knowledge drove away a lot of quality editors in 2006-2007 when adminship changed from a janitorial role that was assigned to everyone competent, to a complete popularity contest where quality editors working in complex fields saw their hard work ignored because some of their quality work involved
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I was hugely involved with Wikiprojects Denmark, Heraldry and Stub sorting back then. Since then I've limited myself to only making a few edits on rare occations, but from time to time I edit anonymously to check how people behave towards anonymous editors (which is quite poor).
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This message posted since I'm tired of seeing people taking a blank page as an invitation to try to log into my account, and of seeing admins interpreting a blank user page as an invitation to treat me as a doormat in the case I choose to make a few edits.
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disputed topics. Instead editors gaming the system by only doing trival edits regarding popular culture were awarded with the administrator role, and proceded to see it as a "god mode" invincibility shield instead of a janitorial role.
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Combine these two fundamental errors with a Commons that has always been broken plus endless turf wars, and the only logical conclusion is that contributing to Knowledge should never be confused with contributing something of value.
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2) A large number of administrators keep treating their favourite content as if they owned them, driving away other editors (violating
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are violated as heavily as ever. Knowledge will never grow up and will continue to be a cesspit of intolerance towards other editors.
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1) The hateful atmosphere towards newbies that plagued Knowledge back then has never been resolved (violating
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This account was in regular use 2005-2008, where I was one of the 100 most active editors per edit count.
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Two main problems made further contributions here a waste of time:
46:). This goes against the core of what editing a wiki is about. 13: 14: 87: 74:is still not respected at all. 1: 78:09:01, 13 January 2021 (UTC) 59:12:18, 13 October 2019 (UTC) 7: 10: 92: 62:Still seeing that 83: 91: 90: 86: 85: 84: 82: 81: 80: 72:WP:Five Pillars 12: 11: 5: 89: 48: 47: 40: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 88: 79: 77: 73: 69: 65: 60: 58: 52: 45: 41: 38: 34: 30: 29: 28: 25: 21: 17: 75: 61: 56: 53: 49: 26: 22: 18: 15: 76:Valentinian 57:Valentinian 33:WP:BITE 68:WP:OWN 64:WP:3RR 44:WP:OWN 37:WP:AGF 66:and 39:). 35:,

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