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

[Emily Monroe]

I say this as a new page patroller myself:

For love of all that's sweet and holy, somebody higher up please  
tighten up the technical standards for non-userfyed article creation.  
Most of my PRODs and CSDs nominations are from people who simply don't  
know what they are doing. In the meantime, they get to bypass the more  
popular recent changes, and instead their aganist-policy creations are  
clogging up the more obscure new page patrol.

Emily
On May 28, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Alan Liefting wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> WereSpielChequers
>>
>>
>>
>
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