I Hate Wikipedia

Wikipedia is great. I love it. It's useful whenever I want to get a quick overview of some topic. No problems there.

What I hate about Wikipedia is its functionality. For me, it just doesn't function. Trying to create something on it drives me crazy. It's like trying to follow the instruction manual of the most complicated videoplayer, cellphone or what have you that you can imagine.

I attended an ATLAANZ (Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa New Zealand) conference in 2010 (and in 2009). It was great. I loved it. It was very useful for me to gain a comprehensive overview about how learning advisors operate in a tertiary environment. I attended all the online support-type of workshops, discussion groups and presentations that I could.

I was inspired to try my hand at Wikipedia again (in spite of a long history of failure). This time I got as far as creating a 'stub' about ATLAANZ on my 'personal area'. But when I came to publish the thing, I couldn't find how to do it. Aaaaarrrgh! It has screeds of pages of how to do this, and how to do that, and searching tools to check the FAQs and sift through the archives. Nothing! (Nothing, at least that I could find.)

I throw up my hands in despair and disgust. Wikipedia is not for me. I hate it.