Tightening up on new page creation would free up a lot of time for admins as well as other editors. A lot of rubbish articles get created that need to be speedied.
Alan Liefting WereSpielChequers wrote: > The good news is that after dipping below the 1720 peak, admin numbers > are on the rise again and we currently have what I believe is a new > record of 1724 admins. However if one were to exclude adminbots then I > think we are still below peak levels, and even if we are now > appointing admins faster than they are resigning, the key metric is > the number of active admins, and that is currently about 170 below > peak levels, as less than half our admins are now active. > > Apart from admin bots we only have 24 admins who created their > accounts in the last 24 months, and at least a couple of them were new > accounts for returning admins. > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&dir=prev&group=sysop&creationSort=1 > What few RFAs we have are largely mopping up stragglers from years > back, so wikipedia may still be getting lots of new editors, but very > few are becoming admins > > We had a step change after rollback was unbundled in early 2008, and > there was a big fall in RFAs, Things have since deteriorated further, > there were fewer successful RFAs in 2009 than 2008, and the 2010 > results so far are continuing the trend. It used to provoke comment > whenever there were no RFAs on the board, now such events have become > normal. > > My fear is that if these trends > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/RFA_by_month > continue, we will have a growing gulf between admins and non-admins, > as the defacto requirements for RFA are becoming out of reach for most > editors. > > We may still have enough admins to do the urgent admin tasks for quite > some time to come; But I can see us becoming more dependant on the > occasional admin who can clear a 100 article backlog at CSD in an > hour or two, and I fear a growing divide between admins and others. > > WereSpielChequers > > > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
