[WikiEN-l] I suppose we had to see this news story soon enough

[Gary Kirk]

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On 26/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26/10/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/wr_nm/wikipedia_people_dc_1
>
> Wow! An accurate an well written article about Wikipedia. Now I really
> have seen everything! ;)


Agreed :)

The only minor thing I would disagree with is that 1,300 admins (or
> whatever it is now) isn't really a "small group", and it does make it
> sound like it's admins making the deletion decisions rather than the
> community. Other than that, it's a great article.


They probably looked at Special:Statistics, saw that there are, what, 3
million user accounts, and  1,300 admins, which is comparatively tiny.

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Gary Kirk