> Given that the total size of the community is stable or slowly growing, I
> don't see why so few candidates are coming forward for RFA.
I've written thousands of en.wiki biographies and noticed that the hardest
people to find sources for are lawyers (and by extension judges) because
these
Probably the biggest change to the process came with the unbundling of
rollback in 2008, at least that was when the biggest drop came in RFAs, and
"good vandalfighter" ceased to be sufficient to pass RFA. You also had to
show some contribution to building the pedia. We now have over six thousand
The iron law of gaps...
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 5:44 PM The Cunctator wrote:
> IMHO: The amount of jargon and legalistic booby traps to navigate now to
> become an admin is gargantuan, and there isn't a strong investment in a
> development ladder.
Yes. More generally, a shift towards a
IMHO: The amount of jargon and legalistic booby traps to navigate now to
become an admin is gargantuan, and there isn't a strong investment in a
development ladder.
And this even though the majority of admin work that needs doing hasn't
changed significantly from 2003-2004.
This is not a
