Forum:Celebrity status and its effect on wiki community building

This may seem a strange question, but I think I have a strange situation and wondered if the wikia community at large could offer some advice. I've sort of become a celebrity because of my work on PathfinderWiki. At least, among Pathfinder fans. I was one of the most active editors of the project from its very inception, and the publishers of the source material upon which the project is based have promoted the wiki usually in context of my involvement with it. In the two years since the wiki's formation, it has become known as my project despite my best efforts to bring others into the fold and involve them in he wiki. Now I've begun working professionally in the RPG industry as both a writer and editor, even contributing several canon sources to the Pathfinder universe, and in almost every case, the new products are advertised as being written by Yoda8myhead of PathfinderWiki fame.

I really want to separate myself from the project in terms of how people perceive it, because I think it's discouraging for new editors who don't want to mess with my baby or who don't realize that I don't own or really have authority on the wiki. I feel like my pseudo-celebrity status has compromised the project's growth, even as more people hear about it.

Does anyone have advice on how I can separate myself from the project better without becoming completely inactive? How do I undo what I perceive as the damage already done? Am I overreacting? Thanks for any help or advice you can offer and sorry if this is posted in the wrong place. There isn't really a forum for this specific issue.—yoda8myhead 02:55, February 26, 2010 (UTC)


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