To be honest, I don't think there are any excessive backlogs. I think we have enough admins as it is. I think admin numbers are increasing roughly linearly, while everything else is increasing roughly exponentially, so we may run into problems eventually, but at the moment, things are working.
Actually things are no longer increasing exponentially. At least, number of articles isn't, and hasn't been since about September 2006.
I'm a nice person. How often have any of you ever seen be unpleasant? Much less curse. Probably never.
What the fuck are you thinking?
WP:COIN had a chronic backlog of about a hundred cases before the Wikiscanner got published. Obviously the site's volunteers weren't spotting nearly enough problems, much less solving them.
I spent my first months as an administrator frantically trying to keep WP:RFI from collapsing under the weight of unanswered requests. A few very hardworking volunteers weren't enough to keep up with the inflow. Rather than attempt to save it the community just shut it down. So for 2007 I resolved to admin coach more people. I send them to COIN and SSP whenever I can. I'd like to revive RFI if we ever get enough volunteers to run it, because the real problems that used to surface there didn't go away - they go underground.
Wikipedia has a very serious credibility problem because we're not nearly addressing deliberate exploitation effectively enough. That credibility problem is all over the news this week. And now, at this juncture, seasoned Wikipedians are actually claiming we don't need more sysops?
I used to be in the Navy. Occasionally a little Navy language is called for. You may mean well, but your head is so far up your ass you think the sky is brown.
-Durova
To be honest, I don't think there are any excessive backlogs. I think we have enough admins as it is. I think admin numbers are increasing roughly linearly, while everything else is increasing roughly exponentially, so we may run into problems eventually, but at the moment, things are working.
Actually things are no longer increasing exponentially. At least, number of articles isn't, and hasn't been since about September 2006.
on 8/26/07 12:24 PM, Durova at nadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a nice person. How often have any of you ever seen be unpleasant? Much less curse. Probably never.
What the fuck are you thinking?
WP:COIN had a chronic backlog of about a hundred cases before the Wikiscanner got published. Obviously the site's volunteers weren't spotting nearly enough problems, much less solving them.
I spent my first months as an administrator frantically trying to keep WP:RFI from collapsing under the weight of unanswered requests. A few very hardworking volunteers weren't enough to keep up with the inflow. Rather than attempt to save it the community just shut it down. So for 2007 I resolved to admin coach more people. I send them to COIN and SSP whenever I can. I'd like to revive RFI if we ever get enough volunteers to run it, because the real problems that used to surface there didn't go away - they go underground.
Wikipedia has a very serious credibility problem because we're not nearly addressing deliberate exploitation effectively enough. That credibility problem is all over the news this week.
Just today, CNN's program "Reliable Sources" had a segment on Wikipedia; and our credibility as such a reliable source was left pretty much in question. The Project didn't do too well.
And now, at this juncture, seasoned Wikipedians are actually claiming we don't need more sysops?
Durova, you are running into the same issues I do when I try to get across that the Project's culture has a cancer in it. It is authority by insinuation - not leadership by selection.
I used to be in the Navy. Occasionally a little Navy language is called for. You may mean well, but your head is so far up your ass you think the sky is brown.
This language isn't strictly Navy ;-) - we psychs have been known to use it more than once.
Marc Riddell