My main worry, during my daily patrolling, is if we manage to neutralize the bad editing (vandalism, POV pushing) or if the destructive editing is slowly successfully degenerating the great content we have created in our projects.
In todays Sign-post it indicates an accelerating rate of decrease of admins on enwp, and some likewise tendency on dewp. Is this a sign that the "good" powers are losing out to the "bad" ones?
I also seen a very passive response to two massPOV editing . One, on 35 versions, is related to Hans Asperger, to state he was a nazi doctor (false, even if he was somewhat passive in some cases). Here dewp reacted quickly and after a while enwp, so these articles are OK, but in most of the other 35 this false info lies unchanged. Also I react to the effort from GazProm promoting their propaganda article /Football for Friendship / in up to 80 version, and where almost noone has neutralized it.
Are we slowly losing the battle against the "evil" forces? And if so, is then our new strategy (being good in itself) and the plan to implement it all too naive? For example I like very much the ambition to help out on areas in the world where Wikipedia etc is not established, but would it be more correct to put effort in regaining control of the very many Wikipedia versions, that is definitely degenerating and we are loosing what has been done on these. (as a test look at "latest changes" on some of the versions with low editing, it is depressing to see that there often are more vandal editing, not being undone, then proper new material)
Would it be most appropriate if we all in a 2-3 years effort concentrated on getting (back) control on our material in our projects, before we start efforts in implementing the strategy we have agreed upon. Perhaps a number of paid admins, vandal/pov fighters, about as many as there are stewards today, would be necessary not to lose out.
Anders
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