As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update.
This week we've seen a lot of helpful testing from at least 15 people,
and we'd love to see more before launch.
To participate, start here:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
To see what we've changed this week, ther
On 25 March 2010 21:55, Nathan wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:48 PM, geni wrote:
>> On 25 March 2010 21:03, Nathan wrote:
>>> A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
>>>
>>> 1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to previous
>>> periods?
>>
>> The peak w
On 25 March 2010 21:55, Nathan wrote:
> Typical to what period of time? Presumably the anti-vandal bots,
> huggle and the abuse filter cut down on the need for administrators
> working in that area, as an example.
Abuse filter perhaps but the others if anything increase the demand
for the use of
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:48 PM, geni wrote:
> On 25 March 2010 21:03, Nathan wrote:
>> A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
>>
>> 1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to previous
>> periods?
>
> The peak was probably back when we sorted out the fair use
On 25 March 2010 21:03, Nathan wrote:
> A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
>
> 1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to previous periods?
The peak was probably back when we sorted out the fair use issues. I'd
say that beyond that it's pretty typical.
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A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to previous periods?
2) Is there a mean period of activity for editors, and do we reduce
the number of new administrators (or the period during which new
administrators are active)
On 25 March 2010 20:51, The Cunctator wrote:
> By all measures, en.wiki has been in decline for years as an active project.
> It's just the typical death by bureaucracy that most projects like this
> undergo.
I think "death" is overstating it. Many things show rapid growth
followed by a small dec
By all measures, en.wiki has been in decline for years as an active project.
It's just the typical death by bureaucracy that most projects like this
undergo.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
> WereSpielChequers wrote:
>
>>
>> What are the likely results of a dwindling numbe
On 25 March 2010 20:45, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
> Well, they're not dwindling since admin rights don't get taken away on
> inactivity. ;-) But to the general question, because the standard expected
> of a candidate for RfA has gone up over the years?
And because going through a continuously ratch
WereSpielChequers wrote:
What are the likely results of a dwindling number of admins, and a
growing wikigeneration gap between admins and other editors?
Well, they're not dwindling since admin rights don't get taken away on
inactivity. ;-) But to the general question, because the standard
e
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, WereSpielChequers
wrote:
> The number of admins on the English Wikipedia may possibly have
> peaked, and the number of active admins is 20% down on its peak of a
> couple of years ago.
>
> Dec 2009, Jan 2010 and February 2010 had only 19 successful RFAs
> between t
Folks,
>From Resource Shelf
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/25/at-university-of-denver-journalism-students-required-to-write-wikipedia-entries/
College students know the online resource of which they dare not speak:
Wikipedia, the voluminous internet encyclopedia demonized by many in higher
The number of admins on the English Wikipedia may possibly have
peaked, and the number of active admins is 20% down on its peak of a
couple of years ago.
Dec 2009, Jan 2010 and February 2010 had only 19 successful RFAs
between them, with December and January both equalling the previous
all time lo
I believe we had some volunteers standing at the routers shouting
"it's right over there!", but to no avail.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
> It's good to see that downtime on Wikipedia is sufficiently rare
> nowadays that it's a newsworthy event when it does happen:
>
> ht
I got to hand it to that man- to be trolling to that degree, and for
people not to be noticing, and actually paying you money for it, that
right there is top-flight trolling!
On 25/03/2010, Carcharoth wrote:
> For those in the UK who can access the BBC iPlayer, you might be
> interested in yester
-- Forwarded message --
From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Date: 2010/3/15
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Trending Topics On Wikipedia
To: "Mailing list do Capítulo brasileiro da Wikimedia."
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Google has Google Trends, Twitter has trending topics, and now so
For those in the UK who can access the BBC iPlayer, you might be
interested in yesterday's episode of a comedy/debate program called
"It's Only a Theory". The show is obscure, but not obscure enough to
not have a Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Only_a_Theory
Episode 7:
htt
On 21 March 2010 16:25, Tyler wrote:
> I'm new to this list, but I read in this beloved book I own that there has
> been an ongoing discussion that accounts created at the English Wikipedia
> will one day also work for Wiktionary, foreign Wikipedias and other Wikimedia
> projects. How come th
I'm new to this list, but I read in this beloved book I own that there has been
an ongoing discussion that accounts created at the English Wikipedia will one
day also work for Wiktionary, foreign Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects.
How come that hasn't come yet?
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