On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:25:47 +0900, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:

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Still, I do understand that there is a problem here, and I hope you can solve it. It might be a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy too

I appreciate your understanding. But not only understanding, if possible, would I like you to give us a help and assistance? I expect it wouldn't be helpful not only JA but also other projects potentially.

I am not sure what kind of assistance I can give, given that I do not speak Japanese (well, at least not more than 50 words of it).

I did make a check, and found that indeed the Japanese Wikipedia has a remarkably low number of admins. It has about the same number as the Dutch one (ja: 31, nl: 34), even though the Dutch one is about half the size of the Japanese one, and compared to other languages is relatively low. The Polish and Swedish Wikipedias have considerably more admins. I think that to compare to the other languages, the Japanese number could easily be doubled.

Before diving into the topic, I would like you to remark a fact I am not there a sysadmin. I thought JA WP needed more helper and requested sysopship twice. My requests were rejected with 65-72% approvals [JA WP holds 75% criteria for promotion]. In my view some of JA users are afraid I am a sort of authoritarians, with an iron rod, and/or suspect I don't shere with them the view what Wikipedia should be.

Interesting... On nl: we have had all requests approved upto now, usually with no objections.

Andre Engels