[WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins

[Peter Coombe]

On 25 March 2010 23:10, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Remember that admins used to be the only ones with a quick rollback
button, so they did do more cleaning up vandalism. Would be
interesting to look at the trend before and after that was split off
to its own right.

Pete / the wub