[WikiEN-l] Things about admins

[Ilmari Karonen]

Timwi wrote:
> 
> My observation on this mailing list is that the actual behaviour in 
> practice causes a large amount of editors to become disgruntled.

Just to put the number of complaints in perspective, about 5271 new user 
accounts were registered this Saturday (EDT).  I know, since I happened 
to be logging the RC feed for debugging purposes.  That's about 3.7 new 
accounts per minute.  During the same period, 217 accounts and 98 IPs 
were blocked, 4 of them indefinitely.  Over the last 16 hours (I didn't 
start logging new pages before that), 1294 new user talk pages were 
created, at about 1.3 per minute.

Given that we have new users coming in at a rate of more than one each 
minute, one new complainant a day on the mailing list doesn't seem like 
much -- and I believe that's rather an overestimate.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen