Walter Vermeir wrote:
I have just done a de-sysop/de-bureaucrat on the Serbian Wikpedia. There the have (now) 40 sysops and of those 25 are bureaucrat.
That is from my POV an irresponsible number of bureaucrats. I do not know how many active user there are. The have 34700 articles.
Just to say that no one (including Boris) abused sysop/bureaucrat rights on Serbian Wikipedia (there were some small incidents related to admin rights; but enwiki is full of that). Boris abused his contributor's rights (including a lot of lying on a lot of places, impersonating other people, making sockpupptes with abusive intentions etc.).
My POV is that admin/bureaucrat rights should not be a big deal. In general, people are more responsible with admin/bureaucrat rights, as well as they are more motivated to contribute to Wikipedia.
Also, there is one important message with such policy: there is no small faction of people who are keeping rights for themselves; anyone with good contributions and non-confrontative relations with others should become admin/bureaucrat.
But, mainstream on the most of Wikimedian projects now is that admin/bureaucrat permissions are not technical rights for trusted users, but political power. Such thinking rises in Serbian Wikipedian community, too. So, it seems that Serbian Wikipedia would have smaller number/percentage of bureaucrats and admins in the future.