More specifically, I didn’t say these improvement projects are all there is. Of course not, many editors are not associated with any projects, some are associated with several.

When you look at online communities, you see a series of roles that people play and take on over time. From pure content focus to structural focus to admin focus. Which is to say you people move on from caring about particular topics to caring about the whole thing. Members of wiki projects are somewhere in between—beyond single articles, into improving whole categories, not yet running back office processes.

As to who did this: I couldn’t figure it out clearly, nor could Jimmy Wales or folks from the Wikimedia foundation, as various emails showed. So I only said “let’s assume” it is “the usual culprit” which is good enough for my focus on technology that needs improvement. Refactoring categories is a typical improvement project activity.

By “improvement projects” you must mean WikiProjects. However, (a) WikiProjects don’t “own” or otherwise control the articles associated with them; (b) most editors don’t belong to *any* WikiProject, and those who do belong do not in any way restrict their editing to associated articles; (c) most WikiProjects are inactive (a polite way of saying “defunct”); (d) virtually all active WikiProjects have far too many associated articles to be able to monitor all of them, even if members were so inclined (they are not); rather, they tend to work on a very small subset at any given time.

And no, there is no American Novelist improvement group. There is a WikiProject Novels group, but it is (a) focused on books, not people, and (b) not limited by geography.

And this is flatly wrong: “This group decided that ‘American Women Novelists’ is a good new category. In fact, *no* group made that decision; it was made by a single person. And yes, Wikipedia is so decentralized that a single person can not only create a new category, but can then use semi-automated tools to do fairly high-speed edits to move articles from older categories to the new one.