Just a note on the EA Wiki (and on project abandonment in general): lots of projects seem to be really badly run. The EA Wiki was offline for months because of server issues, and until recently you couldn’t even register as a new user.
I’m not sure EAs have a shorter attention span than anyone else – I imagine most would maybe try a couple of times to get onto the wiki and then just give up. That’s part of the reason I’m not worried about project duplication: so many efforts are half-baked that we shouldn’t allow one party to have a monopoly on a particular idea.
Hmmm… One thought is that if projects are half-baked due to a shortage of work hours being thrown at them, consolidating all the work hours into a single project might help address the problem. I also think having more people on the project could help from a motivation perspective, if any given project worker feels responsible for fulfilling their delegated responsibilities and is motivated by a shared vision. But ultimately it’s the people who are doing any given project who will figure out how to organize themselves.
Just a note on the EA Wiki (and on project abandonment in general): lots of projects seem to be really badly run. The EA Wiki was offline for months because of server issues, and until recently you couldn’t even register as a new user.
I’m not sure EAs have a shorter attention span than anyone else – I imagine most would maybe try a couple of times to get onto the wiki and then just give up. That’s part of the reason I’m not worried about project duplication: so many efforts are half-baked that we shouldn’t allow one party to have a monopoly on a particular idea.
Hmmm… One thought is that if projects are half-baked due to a shortage of work hours being thrown at them, consolidating all the work hours into a single project might help address the problem. I also think having more people on the project could help from a motivation perspective, if any given project worker feels responsible for fulfilling their delegated responsibilities and is motivated by a shared vision. But ultimately it’s the people who are doing any given project who will figure out how to organize themselves.