[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[geni]

On 2/27/07, Rich Holton <richholton at gmail.com> wrote:
> geni wrote:
> > On 2/27/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> on 2/26/07 10:24 PM, geni at geniice at gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Knocking out even 10 of the hyperactives would lead to serious
> >>> problems unless you can find replacements (and if you can could you do
> >>> so now? The backlogs are getting anoying again).
> >>
> >> Are you saying that the quantity of the product is more important than the
> >> quality of the people? If so, that type of thinking is what has seriously
> >> contributed to the cancer in the culture.
> >
> > I'm saying that if you want a situation where the maintenance side
> > continues to remain in any way shape or form under control you cannot
> > afford to follow any course that would result in the loss of the
> > hyperactive admins.
> >
> > This is simply a description of the current sitution.
> >
>
> How may "hyper-active" admins are there?

100 maybe 150 closer to 100. About 45 admins carry out 50% of our deletions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/deleterlist

> And if I'm following things
> corrects (and maybe I'm not), it seems that you're assuming that these
> hyperactives are likely candidates for losing their admin status. Am I
> right about that?
>

Probably. The less active you are the harder it is to upset people.

-- 
geni