Wikipedia:Old Codgers' League
The Old Codgers' League is a group of Wikipedian codgers so old that some of them still expect CamelCase to turn into links, think Angela is a bot, and think the eleventy-billion pool was pretty funny. Every now and again they get up out of their wheelchairs and combine the forces of their canes for good.
Motto
"Walk shuffly, edit firmly, laugh boldly"
Membership
Members must demonstrate, or hallucinate about, both craft and codge. They do not necessarily have to be decrepit yet.
Honorary membership
People who have codged with pride, in various walks of life:
- Mister Rogers
- Valerie
- Anyone who edited Nupedia even once
Goals
Preservation of a sense of humor and perspective about WP and its historical elements. Protection of the point of view and goals of those who edit slowly and methodically, and aren't so comfortable with high-speed debates that later resist revisiting or more careful discussion.
There are many new groups that for one reason or another delight in destroying older parts of WP that they no longer find useful. A similar tendency finds people who edit dozens of times a day setting policy by fiat and speed over those who edit, carefully, dozens of times a month. (Each of these groups has different goals, interests, experiences, and visions for the project.)
Tasks
- Make a userbox (one which references the great userbox war, of course)
- continue to come up with new theme song lyrics
- counteract ridiculous deletionism, AfD opposes, policy literalism ...
- ... and other unfriendly behaviors
- manage to reinstate at least one of: article pools, Wikipedia chess, rouge admins, or the Wikipedia Oracle
See also
- League of Old Codgers
- Notes (ref).
- codger of the future!
- what meetings may look like
- m:AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD and Template:User_AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD for examples of how to add userbox and user categories without poking non-codgers with a hot poker
