Time to shake the Admin tree again

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Time to shake the Admin tree again

Post by Jake Is A Sellout » Sun Nov 21, 2021 2:15 am

I wonder where the urgency to recruit admins has gone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ip_by_year

Easily on course for a record low this year.

I note with some amusement that they're getting close to a point where something like 50% of Admins recruited in Year X (say, eight), have a good chance of getting onto ArbCom in year X+2 (eight seats, half to vets, half to new blood). Numbers and expectations have fallen that far.

I'm amazed that nobody is making a bigger deal of the frankly crazy idea that you only need just barely two years service as an Administrator, before you're supposedly experienced and wise enough for the top table.

It baffles me why nobody is stepping up, especially since what this last year has shown, due to the alarm bells ringing, RfA has basically become a cakewalk, you literally just have to turn up.

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Re: Time to shake the Admin tree again

Post by Jake Is A Sellout » Sun Nov 21, 2021 7:11 pm

There are apparently two perfectly capable candidates out there, FOARP and theleekycauldron. It seems beyond obvious that both of these people would pass RfA with some ease based on the past 12 months, when there's not been a pass below 95%, and no fails for merit based reasons. It's a cake walk.

Even Hammersoft breezed through in this new era of pragmatism. Hammersoft! Who interestingly claims he was never scared to take a run at RfA back when RfA voters imagined there would be a never ending conveyor belt of fresh meat. Lying! He was a classic The Rambling Man type back in the day, he would have run only to PROVE RfA was broken (because how could it NOT pass such an obviously well qualified candidate?).

How ironic that it seems to be ORCP, the very thing created to identify viable embryos so that RfA isn't wasting its time on TOOSOON or OHHELLNO candidates, that is preventing those two from taking the plunge now, right when Wikipedia desperately needs more Admins.

FOARP was advised by Ritchie333, Serial Number 20103 and Kudpung that they need to wait six months. It should be obvious to anyone that those three are exceedingly poor judges of RfA, one being an admin only by their skin of their teeth, one having no chance of ever being one, and one being a disgraced former Admin. In all likelihood, they're probably just jealous and angry that other people can get what they want/have/had, but way easier and quicker these days.

theleekycauldron (not to be confused with leaky caldron) is apparently also waiting six months to ensure they have a history of mature behaviour behind them, before the horde at RfA comb through their history. Once again, this appears to be based solely on the opinion of Ritchie333, BusterD and power~enwiki at ORCP. Ritchie's immaturity is well known, all be it less of a childishness, more of a have a tantrum and play the victim when sanctioned for harassing a woman, kind. BusterD's immaturity is clear just by reviewing their "Awards" section of their user page. The fact power~enwiki apparently now goes by the username "力" for no explained reason, and in his signature denotes his talk page with the symbol for Pi and his contribs with the letter v, just screams little boy of the interwebs to me. Tellingly, BusterD and power~enwiki both had terrible experiences at RfA, the former having had a failed RfA in 2011 that apparently burned them so badly they didn't even stand again until this June, passing (because, cake walk, even for damaged goods), the latter having only stood once in 2017, and got severely burned for thinking it would be a breeze.

This is ridiculous.

It's beyond obvious these six fucksticks are merely perpetuating myths about RfA to scare potential new candidates, because they're simply bitter and upset that it isn't the ordeal it used to be, and RfA is way more willing to take a chance and assume good faith, both because of the chronic labor shortage, and precisely because ArbCom is no longer afraid to give obvious problems like Ritchie a demerit and Kudpung his marching orders. They still suck for being late and inadequate with those sanctions, but they are at least evidence that the job is not for life for as long as you are lacking in the basic sense to know when to resign.

What really scares Kudpung and Ritchie333 I think, in a supreme irony of course, is that if the rank and file ever seriously caught on to the idea that this whole RfA is broken myth is indeed a myth, then the resultant swelling of the ranks would markedly diminish their influence.

Kudpung lives to tell the world what is wrong with RfA. Ritchie lives to tell people what makes a good Admin. It's highly likely neither were ever right. The only proof needed is for people to submit to RfA in these clearly changed times, in the numbers seen in previous boom years. Most will pass. And easily.

I'm actually half tempted to oppose both of these people when they do get around to submitting an RfA, for the sheer stupidity of not recognsing when you're being given bad advice, and perhaps caring more about their own personal fortunes, than what is best for Wikipedia. The ultimate sign of a crap Admin in the making!

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Re: Time to shake the Admin tree again

Post by Jake Is A Sellout » Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:13 am

It's official.

For the first time ever, Wikipedia has failed to promote a single Admin in five months out of a calendar year.

They're still only at seven promotions for the year, with one month to go, and the existing low for a calendar year is 10 in 2018.

They're literally breaking records.

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