Wikis create a lot of "senses of". For example, a sense of:

• belonging
• community
• liberation
• usefulness
• intrinsic value and self worth
• blah blah blah

Wikis can also grow boring. This occurs when the "same old" rears its head again and again and reinvention of the wheel begins to exhaust old-time users. Open the forums and see yet another posting on an issue discussed to death about 1000 times before from a bright-eyed new user who has seen the light and believes he or she is the first to have ever raised the matter.

Other reasons for making wiki time boring are more serious. They include:

• increasing belligerence on the site
• many chiefs and few actors
• personal attacks
• lack of support for projects and initiatives
• over-reliance on a person to fix certain things on the wiki
• loneliness on the wiki
• repetition of content, of solutions, of directions
• paralysis of ideas
• accusations being leveled at volunteers that their work is unhelpful
• paid staff behaving as arbiters, trend-setters and final-word sayers
• good ideas being left behind and not acted upon
• owner(s) domination
• stalking
• unsatiable curiosity about personal details
• addiction
• oh just the complete and utter boredom of the seriousness with which wiki-geeks take the whole wiki phenomenon.