concerning the new links at the top of Special:Recentchanges, i'd like to
suggest a change in link target

the 'Admins' one currently points to Special:Listusers/sysop

while this is fine most places, there are 2 big issues here

a) listusers has horrible cache problems. there is either a lengthy lag, or
people never show up at all.
(ie, i'm still not listed at
http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Listusers/sysop despite being sysopd
in october)

b) since it a special page, users cant edit it. they cannot point out which
users are current and which havent been around in months (years in some
cases).
again, this isnt a problem at new places, but large wikis have sysops that
only stay for so long, and since getting a desysop is like pulling teath
around here...
(ie, at eq2, we have 18 listed sysops, but only 4 are current, most are from
before the merge from both sides, some havent edited since 2005)

i propose changing the link to [[Project:Administrators]], (letting the
parser change that to the local namespace) so that people can setup their
own 'admin' list area.

this gives them the control of redirecting the page to where they want (if
they have a different 'admins' page setup already), listing current admins
vs MIA admins, also listing any "junior admins" such as people with rollback
or other non-full sysops as i've seen some places have.

-uberfuzzy
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