Wikimedia project communities in general seem to be quite stagnant, if not declining, apart from Wikidata, which is and always will be a whole different case. In the case of Commons it was already very much as it is now when I joined in 2009. I always found it a very pleasant place, but overtime I understood I was the exception there, and most people had bad experiences. And it is as Yann has shown there, it's a few sysops running the entire show almost alone, not because they want that, but because nobody else helps with that.
IMO the problem is not with the existing sysops, but because people in general do not feel attracted to copyright and other similar minucious stuff which marks everyday life in Commons. And, without that knowledge it is pointless, if not counterproductive, to place a candidacy to sysop. No idea what the solution could be, but it certainly is not blaming Commons and the existing sysops. If more people was interested in copyright, less mistakes would be happening in Commons as well. Whatever the solution is, it probably passes by that.
Best, Paulo
Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga galder158@hotmail.com escreveu no dia segunda, 13/05/2019 à(s) 07:09:
A good question to ask would be why the admin group is not growing. And maybe (maybe) we can find a common answer to both problems pointed here. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe