[WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins - The theory that making it easier to get rid of admins is a solution to the decline in their active numbers

[quiddity]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm not a moderator, but I've just been skipping those long posts.
> They are annoying, but I may one day read those posts if I have
> nothing better to do, and sometimes there is something interesting in
> there.
>

"I apologize that this letter is so long. I did not have the time to
make it short." - Blaise Pascal

I agree.
Abd, please take the time to make your thoughts more readily parsable.
Don't force your readers to work so hard in order to find your point.
[[tl;dr]] is generally an odious dismissal, but it really does apply here.



> and this thread should go back to discussing, er, let's see:
> "declining numbers of EN wiki admins

Well, I've never applied (after 5 years of daily editing), primarily
because I'm already busy on-wiki, and the tasks I'm interested in
don't require blocking or protecting anything. I'd occasionally find
it useful to be able to edit protected pages, or view deleted content,
but there are {{editprotected}} templates and request pages that can
handle my sporadic needs.

Secondly, these comments from a few months ago have been stuck in my head:

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:53 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/10 Mike Pruden <mikepruden at yahoo.com>:
>
>> Personally, I found unloading my watchlist liberating, and I would hope that more would do the same. There's always that steady stream of vandal-fighters to stomp out any clear vandalism that pops up. It's hard to explain, but I think it's a good exercise in assuming good faith that others will make constructive edits in efforts to improve pages.
>
>
> I gave up using my watchlist in late 2004. Haven't missed it.
>

So /That's/ why we're so busy, and feel so alone sometimes!! :P
The busy policy talkpages, really (really) need regular input from the
old guard.
Watch[list]ful vigilance, is the still the best way to understand, and
influence, the undercurrents of consensus, afaik.

There's more, but I need more coffee now, and less stress in general. HTH.

Quiddity