On Dec 27, 2007 3:27 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
In the real world, organizations plan for a 10-12% turnover of management staff every year; Wikipedia is well below that level.
Exactly -- in fact, our desysopping rate has hovered right around 3% in both 2006 and 2007. Both 2006 and 2007 had ten involuntary desysoppings (ignoring those that appear to involve compromised accounts); in 2007 there were more involuntary desysoppings, but nothing significant percentage-wise.
It's important to understand that Wikipedia is a volunteer project -- people will move on to other things. There's nothing wrong with this turnover (although the drama should certainly be contained more than it is now).