There are 1440 current admins, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_administrators and 95 former admins, according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Former_administrators] , of which 28 have been desysopped. If we assume that an equal number should have been desysopped, but have not been, that is 3.6%. That's an extremely low percentage of problems for any organization.
According to the lists of semi active and inactive admins, there are 161 inactive, judged by over 3 months inactivity at wikipedia, not only non-use of the tools. There are 286 semi-active, less than 30 edits in the last 3 months. Possibly the proportion of problems is so lo because some of the admins who would otherwise have been problems have become inactive. A few even say they are leaving to avoid stress,.
On 12/20/07, Michael Noda michael.noda@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007 12:38 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/12/2007, Michael Noda michael.noda@gmail.com wrote:
Oftentimes, people who have been around awhile develop the feeling that they, personally, are indispensable to the project; that they are part of the last line of defence against trolls, or vandals, or nationalist POV pushers, or whatever menace the person in question has taken up the tools against. It seems to get worse the more tools one has; normal editors are less susceptible to this thinking than admins, who are in turn less susceptible than checkusers and oversights.
Having collected most of the cool toys, I shall set an example by taking frequent breaks and goofing off whenever I damn well feel like it ;-p
Would that we all had *your* attitude towards this job. :-)
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