On 6/6/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
I've always believed that eventually, a sort of seismic shift would be noticeable on Wikipedia where a certain tipping point was reached. Eventually, the number of both active users and active admins would reach a point where any individual voice was completely lost in the crowd, on a consistent and constant basis. We're not there yet--not by a long shot. But it's now, if not on the immediate horizon, only a few rotations of the seasons away. Evidence:
- [[WP:ANI]]. This, xfD, and AIV are arguably the busiest places on-Wiki.
ANI, for a sole centralized place, IS the most centralized. So much so, that's spawned numerous spin-off pages to handle the load. We have ANI, AN, BLPN, CSN, AIV, tons. Despite this, the rotation and archiving on ANI *still* has to be already set to 24 hours now. Remember two years ago? A year ago? Remember how much quieter that part of the pond used to be?
I remember the time when admins actually hashed things out by talking to each other individually on user talk pages instead of running screaming wheel war abuse to ANI - mainly because ANI didn't exist at the time.
Johnleemk