All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIII

[Labster]

I know they're working on the auto-license extension, or at least thinking about maintaining it.

So in terms of Miraheze for me, I've kind of reached a point where participating on the wiki farm isn't really fun for me. It's not that it's terribly boring or anything, or I don't believe in it. I definitely believe that we should have free wikis for all and so on. But I have a lot of various things going on in my life, like my mother having a broken hip, my contributions to other open source projects, getting actual senior programmers reporting to me at work (how did this happen lol), trying to write fiction, working for the local Democratic Party, and you know, one of these days, maybe making an honest attempt to get a girlfriend.

So I think my interest has waned to a point that it's affecting the project adversely. I think that there was one year that went by where I made less than 10 edits on the farm, excluding the finance page. I know how to get nonprofit status in the U.S. for a wiki farm, as I have done it before. It's just that if I did so, there would be more reporting requirements, and it would all fall back on me. If I start a California nonprofit, then we need at least one person in California to provide mailing and such, and that would probably lock me in. So I haven't done anything because being less lazy makes more work for me.

I don't mind being the financial backstop for Miraheze -- I could probably support it entirely myself if I wanted to -- but I shouldn't. It's a project that should definitely exist. I could help with incorporation and tax exemption too. But I think I want out.

I don't really know how to recruit more volunteers, but that's one thing that's really needed. Is anyone here interested in volunteering to do these kinds of things for Miraheze -- sysadmin, security, finance, publicity, policy -- let me know.