[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] SUL pilot

[geni]

On 17/03/2008, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
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>  In a message dated 3/17/2008 11:32:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>  geniice at gmail.com writes:
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> In  practice "admin" is as close to an approximation of "long  standing
>  wikipedian" that can be done with little use of server  resources,>>
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>  False.
>  We have histories that will show who is long-standing and who is not.
>  The admin bit has nothing to do with establishing whether someone is
>  long-standing or not.
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>  W.J.

Try thinking about how the database is structured. Compare the "list
all admins" query with "list all editors with at least X months
experience and Y edits" query. Which one do you think will take up
more resources?

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geni