[WikiEN-l] declining numbers of active EN wiki admins

[Alan Liefting]

Tightening up on new page creation would free up a lot of time for 
admins as well as other editors.  A lot of rubbish articles get created 
that need to be speedied.


Alan Liefting

WereSpielChequers wrote:
> The good news is that after dipping below the 1720 peak, admin numbers
> are on the rise again and we currently have what I believe is a new
> record of 1724 admins. However if one were to exclude adminbots then I
> think we are still below peak levels, and even if we are now
> appointing admins faster than they are resigning, the key metric is
> the number of active admins, and that is currently about 170 below
> peak levels, as less than half our admins are now active.
>
> Apart from admin bots we only have 24 admins who created their
> accounts in the last 24 months, and at least a couple of them were new
> accounts for returning admins.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&dir=prev&group=sysop&creationSort=1
> What few RFAs we have are largely mopping up stragglers from years
> back, so wikipedia may still be getting lots of new editors, but very
> few are becoming admins
>
> We had a step change after rollback was unbundled in early 2008, and
> there was a big fall in RFAs, Things have since deteriorated further,
> there were fewer successful RFAs in 2009 than 2008, and the 2010
> results so far are continuing the trend. It used to provoke comment
> whenever there were no RFAs on the board, now such events have become
> normal.
>
> My fear is that if these trends
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/RFA_by_month
> continue, we will have a growing gulf between admins and non-admins,
> as the defacto requirements for RFA are becoming out of reach for most
> editors.
>
> We may still have enough admins to do the urgent admin tasks for quite
> some time to come; But I can see us becoming more dependant on the
> occasional admin who can clear  a 100 article backlog at CSD in an
> hour or two, and  I fear a growing divide between admins and others.
>
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