[WikiEN-l] Wheel culture

[Ilmari Karonen]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> 
> Fwiw, I agree with you, but when this point was brought up at RfA,
> some admins made the point that there are useful things they can do
> without showing up on the radar, and even an admin who only does 2 or
> 3 "admin actions" per month may still be very valuable in other ways.
> Hell, how often does Jimbo perform an "admin action"?

Not to mention that counting "admin actions" is about as useful a metric 
as counting edits.  I can easily make a hundred or two admin actions a 
day, if I put my mind to it, by clearing out some of the more monotonous 
backlogs.  Or I can spend the time carefully editing a MediaWiki page, 
which won't even show up as an admin action in most statistics.  Neither 
action is intrinsically more valuable than the other, but their effect 
on the statistics is completely different.

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Ilmari Karonen