Wikipedia:Old Codgers' League

The League of Old Codgers is a group of Wikipedians, some of whom still expect CamelCase to turn into links, think Angela is a bot, and think the eleventy-billion pool was pretty funny... others of whom recall that adminship is no big deal, and that enough Wikipedians can do whatever they darn well please. Indeed, some of them can remember when BBC Micros were on the cutting edge, and still think this whole Internet thing is a pretty neat idea. Every now and again they get up out of their wheelchairs and combine the forces of their canes for good.

Codgerdom in the League is not limited to people of any particular age, editing style, or length of time on Wikipedia; it is simply a fellowship of people who share a certain wikispirit.

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.


 * +sj +
 * Phoebe
 * CatherineMunro
 * Kat Walsh (spill your mind?)
 * Benjamin Mako Hill
 * Alterego
 * Ben Kovitz
 * Antandrus (If this ain't codgery nuthin' is)
 * RobertG
 * Eclecticology (talk)
 * gadfium - I think electricity is pretty neat, since I grew up in an area which didn't have it.
 * gadfium - I think electricity is pretty neat, since I grew up in an area which didn't have it.

Honorary membership
People who have codged with pride, in various walks of life:
 * Mister Rogers
 * Valerie
 * Anyone who edited Nupedia even once
 * Contributors to UseMod or earlier wiki toolkits
 * People who don't know there are alternatives to pure wiki deletion and CamelCase

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.)