[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[geni]

On 2/27/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would argue that hyper-active admins are more likely to have a short admin
> career (whether that be because of desysopping or just leaving), and further
> that the likelihood is greater than proportional to their edits.

Not exactly whuile the burn out rate is high (2-3 of the top ten on
that list I posted are gone) most are not that new.


> My ideal situation would be that admins would be very active initially so
> they can learn the ropes,

You can't inforce this

>and that they would then settle down to an
> activity level more characteristic of the long tail, where they are not so
> much admins but editors with admin powers who regularly (but not
> excessively) help out the current batch of very active new admins and once
> in a while clear out backlogs.

There are not enough new admins. Throw in the rate of rule shift and
you have a problem with the older admins.

The long tail isn't doing enough with the result that the head has to.

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geni