Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time

2019-04-26 Thread Johan Jönsson
Den fre 26 apr. 2019 kl 15:36 skrev Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>: > You appear to have 66 sysops on sv:? ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Wikipedia), how well to you think > this system would scale up for an order or two of magnitude more? I think it would scale well

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time

2019-04-26 Thread Peter Southwood
Of Johan Jönsson Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 12:54 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time Yes, we – Swedish Wikipedia – have had similar experiences with annual reelections (since 2006) helping us both to keep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time

2019-04-25 Thread Vi to
Meh, sysops are a mean, not a goal. Bureaucrats even less. On a wiki with just 302 active users according to mediawiki's loose definition of activity this rings me the "bureaucracy explosion" bell. Even with very low activity requirements I wonder how many administrative tasks can be performed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time

2019-04-25 Thread Johan Jönsson
Yes, we – Swedish Wikipedia – have had similar experiences with annual reelections (since 2006) helping us both to keep the bar at a reasonable level and to have a de-sysoping process that doesn't cause of strife and rifts in the community. Works well for us. //Johan Jönsson -- Den fre 26 apr.

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time

2019-04-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
This is not India-specific, and may be of interest to other communities struggling with such a question. A. -- Forwarded message - From: Ravishankar Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:05 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time To: wikimediaindia-l