Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:50:53 +
From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On 25 March 2010 20:45, Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
Well, they're not dwindling since
A general discussion here is not out of place, though to get anything
done, you will almost certainly have to repeat the discussion on a
centralised page on Wikipedia, suitable advertised in the right places
to attract a good number of people to your proposal.
One thing to bear in mind is that
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Phantomsteve
wikipe...@phantom-enterprises.co.uk wrote:
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Has anyone compared the activity rate of admins over time to that of
non-admins? For example, what %age of admins whose accounts were created in
2006 are active, compared to the %age of non-admins
David Gerard wrote:
On 25 March 2010 20:45, Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
Well, they're not dwindling since admin rights don't get taken away on
inactivity. ;-) But to the general question, because the standard expected
of a candidate for RfA has gone up over the years?
On 26 March 2010 08:57, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Given that WikiProjects generally will have a better idea of the
character and contributions of participants (compared to those whose
idea of RfA is an extended box-ticking process), I'd like to see
projects look
David Gerard wrote:
On 26 March 2010 08:57, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Given that WikiProjects generally will have a better idea of the
character and contributions of participants (compared to those whose
idea of RfA is an extended box-ticking process), I'd
Anecdotally, I see a lot of people decline the opportunity because the
RFA gauntlet is so obnoxious.
Looking around, reform of RfA seems to have been thought of seriously in
2006, but perhaps not since. [[Wikipedia:Admin coaching]] has offered
one solution: is this not being productive?
I'm writing from the POV of having just nominated somebody for admin
who did not succeed, and where the discussion was exceptionally
rancorous--an expoerience I think everyone on both sides found very
unpleasant.
I nonetheless think we are basically doing it right. As judging by
results, we have
