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 strongly held opinion though and I certainly could be wrong about the day to day work that most of the admins do. On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 4:53 PM WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Thirteen years after I wrote about the emergence of a Wikigeneration gap > between Wikipedia's admins and its editors, I have revisited the topic, > recalculated the gap and published a new signpost article. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-15/Special_report > > To I expect few people's surprise, the admin cadre is still overwhelmingly > drawn from editors who started editing in Wikipedia's exponential growth > phase (2001-2007), Half from 2003-2005. > > WSC > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
