[WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins

[Thomas Dalton]

On 25 March 2010 21:55, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:48 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 March 2010 21:03, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
>>>
>>> 1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to previous periods?
>>
>> The peak was probably back when we sorted out the fair use issues. I'd
>> say that beyond that it's pretty typical.
>>
>
>
> Typical to what period of time? Presumably the anti-vandal bots,
> huggle and the abuse filter cut down on the need for administrators
> working in that area, as an example.

Reverting vandalism has never been an admin job, it's blocking the
vandals that needs and admin and the anti-vandal bots don't help with
that. There are tools that add the block templates to user talk pages
automatically, which helps, but that's about it.