Similarly, nothing new. Wikipedia's
expanding, so is the number of
desysoppings. We've got better things to worry about, surely. AGK
Well said. And guess what: Next year, there will
probably be more than
there were this year, and so on. Nothing alarming here, really.
On Dec 27, 2007 3:55 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/27/07, Jonathan (Wikipedia) <jonathan.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Majorly wrote:
>>
>>
>>> How many of those were because of bad admins though? Sometimes, an
>>>
>>>
> admin
>
>
>>> needs a break from seeing extra buttons they no longer want to be
>>>
>>>
>> dealing
>>
>>
>>> with, so will request to be desysopped. I don't see that as a
>>>
>>>
problem.
>>> Bad admins of course are a problem, and so are compromised accounts.
>>>
>>>
>> Less of
>>
>>
>>> that next year of course, but admins can resign whenever they wish -
>>>
>>>
> it
>
>
>>> isn't a problem at all.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, but this is more than we've ever had. I know that Wikipedia has
>> some admins retire, but we had more than last year. I'm not trying to
>> alarm everyone, but this is scaring me just a bit. I've seen a few
>> retirements because of a problem with another editor. THAT is what I'm
>> saying we need to get our act together about.
>>
>> ~Jonathan
>>
>>
> Of course there were more than ever before. There are more admins than
> ever
> before. There are more articles than ever before. There were more
>
>
edits
> than ever before. One must have a sense of proportion here. What *
> percentage* of admins was desysopped year over year, by reason for
> desysopping? That would give us a reasonable comparison point, raw
> numbers
> are meaningless.
>
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