[WikiEN-l] No RFAs in progress...

[Steven Walling]

Do you have any evidence to support this claim of a reduction in the trust
factor? I only recently (last month or two) began contributing there, and I
see people arguing for or against RFAs specifically with the word trust in
ever RFA.

On 8/22/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/23/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nobody is currently in the process of standing for adminship on
> > en.wikipedia ... the last three ran their time and were closed earlier
> > today.
> >
> > I don't recall seeing the page empty the entire time I've been here...
>
>
> * '''Support'''. We don't need new admins. ~~~~ :p
>
> Maybe now somebody will realise that something is fundamentally wrong with
> our adminship process. It does not scale; it worked when we were smaller,
> but now it seems to me that the old indicators of trustworthiness for
> adminship are unreliable; in the first place, the RfA process seems to
> diminish the importance of the trust factor, emphasising more the ILIKEIT
> and IDONTLIKEIT factors.
>
> Johnleemk
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