A long list of admins was fired recently

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A long list of admins was fired recently

Post by ericbarbour » Sun Jan 08, 2023 10:49 pm

Eight of them were dumped this week, including some well-known longtimers (Wordsmith, Tim Vickers, Steve Smith, and Laser brain):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... riteria_1)

Which was followed by a long stupid squabble. Those nitwits really don't know what is going on, do they?

This part was especially disgusting, because Laser brain was notorious for doing a LOT of paid editing for one "special customer":
Sorry to see Laser brain in this list, someone who really flew the “admins who write great content” flag. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:12, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Also note the Signpost entry for January 1st.
As of December 30, the number of active administrators for the English-language Wikipedia stands at 497, the year's high point.
In a News and notes column of January this year, we touched on the "Administrator cadre continues to contract" issue. Since then, not much has changed and according to Signpost analysis, this is the first year in modern wikihistory that the number of active administrators never rose above 500. In 2022 the high point for active administrators was 497 compared to 521 in 2021. The low point was 449 on April 4 – compared to 434 in 2021.
During the entire year there were only fourteen new admins, the third lowest since adminship started in 2002. While not as bad as last year's low of seven, and better than the ten in 2018; fourteen a year would only maintain the current admin cadre if the average new admin lasted over thirty years as an admin. We will reiterate our statement from a 2019 special report, and say about all these data "Whether that is a problem, or how a problem would manifest, are questions still to be answered." – Bri
But in a comment below this, someone pointed out that in fact, NINETY-SEVEN admins were dumped in January 2023. Most under "criterion 2", meaning less than 100 edits over 60 months. This is a new policy, started only a few months ago. Chances are good someone will start shrieking about it, some of the dumped admins will demand their "bits" back, and eventually they might reverse the policy--but it might survive. Crazy bastards.

This is DIRE news. A substantial number of the tossed admins were longtime insiders. THE REST SHOULD BE PANICKING. But they're not.

Good evidence that Wikipedia has become so rotten and insane, they don't even notice that their "magical project" is declining. Yet the denial of any "problems" has reached new highs.

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