On 8/10/06, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
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.
I have long been concerned about srwiki, ever since I had one of their admins try to get me deadminned on English for refusing to support the "consensus of admins on srwiki" with regard to a content issue on enwiki. It disturbs me that srwiki's admins act as judge and jury on content, and especially since (to my untrained eye) they seem to be acting to push a pro-Serbian point of view. Perhaps the situation is not as unsavory as my brief encounter suggests, but I do think that it is unacceptable for ANY language edition of Wikipedia to abrogate NPOV, especially in the interest of nationalistic politics.
Kelly