Walter Vermeir wrote:
Ray Saintonge schreef: [cut]
While it is also possible that there can be rogue bureaucrats, these will be proportionally rarer than rogue admins. Anyone who has become a bureaucrat has a very high degree of trust in the community, and especially in relatively larger communities there is sufficient oversight to prevent the abuses that may be more common with the untested bureaucrats of tiny communities. Speaking arbitrarily, one could define a larger community, as one with at least 50,000 articles and/or 2 active bureaucrats.
Ec
Not all wikis are the same. You can not project the situation of EN to all other wikis.
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.
25 bureaucrats on such a small project doesn't make sense considering the limited duties that are reserved for bureaucrats. Still it's up to the sr community to sort that one out.
Ec