User blog:Lady Aleena/Lonely editor fatigue

Lonely editor fatigue (LEF) is a condition that can affect sole editors of wikis. These editors are the only people who are currently active on a wiki and have been editing for more than a few days. Some editors can not even get the attention of the various admin on the wiki in question.

Editors who begin suffering from lonely editor fatigue may get sloppy or lazy since there are no other editors around to encourage and critique their work. There is no one else around to keep these lonely editors from making up the rules of the wiki as they write new and possibly less elegant articles. So lonely editors can start making messes on their wikis.

After a while, these editors who have been editing wikis alone, may decide to quit from depression or anger from being the only people who care about their individual wikis. They will leave behind hard to read articles, hard to follow article guidelines, and maybe a disaster.

So, while one may not have any interest in these editors' wikis, people suffering from lonely editor fatigue still need some support from anyone who is willing and interested in giving them a few moments.

Lady Aleena (talk) 21:05, September 27, 2017 (UTC)