IMHO: The amount of jargon and legalistic booby traps to navigate now to
become an admin is gargantuan, and there isn't a strong investment in a
development ladder.
And this even though the majority of admin work that needs doing hasn't
changed significantly from 2003-2004.
This is not a strongly held opinion though and I certainly could be wrong
about the day to day work that most of the admins do.
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 4:53 PM WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
Thirteen years after I wrote about the emergence of a Wikigeneration gap
between Wikipedia's admins and its editors, I have revisited the topic,
recalculated the gap and published a new signpost article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-15/Speciā¦
To I expect few people's surprise, the admin cadre is still overwhelmingly
drawn from editors who started editing in Wikipedia's exponential growth
phase (2001-2007), Half from 2003-2005.
WSC
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