[WikiEN-l] Why are veterans so militant of late; The Future. (was Bus Uncle)

[John Lee]

On 6/6/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've always believed that eventually, a sort of seismic shift would be
> noticeable on Wikipedia where a certain tipping point was reached.
> Eventually, the number of both active users and active admins would reach
> a
> point where any individual voice was completely lost in the crowd, on a
> consistent and constant basis. We're not there yet--not by a long shot.
> But
> it's now, if not on the immediate horizon, only a few rotations of the
> seasons away. Evidence:
>
> 1. [[WP:ANI]]. This, xfD, and AIV are arguably the busiest places on-Wiki.
> ANI, for a sole centralized place, IS the most centralized. So much so,
> that's spawned numerous spin-off pages to handle the load. We have ANI,
> AN,
> BLPN, CSN, AIV, tons. Despite this, the rotation and archiving on ANI
> *still* has to be already set to 24 hours now. Remember two years ago? A
> year ago? Remember how much quieter that part of the pond used to be?


I remember the time when admins actually hashed things out by talking to
each other individually on user talk pages instead of running screaming
wheel war abuse to ANI - mainly because ANI didn't exist at the time.

Johnleemk