[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Rich Holton]

geni wrote:
> On 2/10/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/02/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if you read SEO forums much but text generation systems
>>> are getting quite good. How certain are you that you can pick up 100%
>>> of them within 150 edits? Heck write a wikification bot and even fewer
>>> will be picked up.
>>
>> I must say I hadn't heard of that one. Do you have any pointers to
>> somewhere I can read up on this?
>>
> 
> markov text generator
> 
> The tactics tends to be regarded as black hat so a lot of stuff isn't
> public and at present direct scraping wikipedia and the like is more
> popular
> 
>> I still aspire to an English Wikipedia where any editor can become
>> admin unless unsuitable - rather than the present utterly broken RFA
>> process. Meh!
>>
> 
> That will first require a more effective way of neutraliseing problem admins.
> 
Geni,

What do you see as the current issues in dealing with problem admins? Is 
it that it's necessary to go through a lengthy ArbCom process? Do you 
have any thoughts on how to improve?

-Rich