On 30 December 2010 11:06, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
OK, if you want a real answer: I think if you could convince admins to be nicer to people, then that would make a bigger impact to Wikipedia's long-term viability than any ease-of-editing feature. Making editing easier will give you a one-off jump in editing statistics, it won't address the trend.
Given that there are about 770 active administrators[2] on the English Wikipedia and I think you could reasonably say that a good portion are not mean, is it really quite a few people who are having this far-reaching impact that you're suggesting exists? That seems unlikely.
There is some discussion of how the community and ArbCom enable grossly antisocial behaviour on internal-l at present. Admin behaviour is enforced by the ArbCom, and the AC member on internal-l has mostly been evasive. It's not clear what approach would work at this stage; it would probably have to get worse before the Foundation could reasonably step in.
- d.