On 6/4/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt100.htm
I am not sure why these stats are incomplete after January.
Due to a shift in how the data is stored. I think there is a signpost article on it somewhere.
from November to December, the number of "very active users" in en went from just over 2000 to just under 3000. That 50% jump included a fair number of people who were new to the process, and coincides with the start of some "old timer" versus "newcomer" cultural fights about things like userboxes.
That conflict has been going on for a long time. Userboxes isn't about old timer vs newtimers. The real oldtimes have mostly stayed out of things. More midtimers vs a mixture.
This is why there is a perception that at times there have been conflicts between "admins" and "the community". In the past, there was no question at all that "the community" and "the admins" were just about exactly the same people.
--Jimbo
Been a devide of sorts for as long as I have been around. However admins are a lot stonger than they used to be. The community could control admins through policy. Now the number of admins means they can pretty much get what policy they want and mid timers are starting a trend of ignoreing it in any case. Non admins are becomeing increaseingly powerless.