A memorable year, no? Lets see what's to come in 2011 ;). ResMar 03:45, 4 January 2011 (UTC)reply
"..based on Wales' "creepy" persona." Lol! ;p poor Jimmy... --
Ϫ 10:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Regarding "the number of active editors has fallen 10% over the last 12 months. It's entirely to be expected that the number of active admins would also fall by 10%", in fact the number of active admins decreased by 12% (from 869 to 768) in 2010. That compares to an 8% decrease in 2009 (from 943 to 869), and to a 6% decrease in 2008 (from 1004 to 943). (
data) Given that the population of admins is "aging" (for the past three years, the number of new admins has been decreasing significantly), it's quite likely that the trend (of a decrease in active admins) will accelerate. (Another reason to think acceleration is likely, if nothing changes policy-wise, is the potential for a
vicious cycle, where unpleasant tasks are spread among fewer and fewer admins, who have less and less time to do the non-admin things that got them interested in Wikipedia in the first place.) -- John Broughton(♫♫) 13:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)reply
I wonder if all of those "This user doesn't want to be an Admin" userboxes will be so popular if your predicted crash in the number of active Admins does happen. --
llywrch (
talk) 21:04, 4 January 2011 (UTC)reply
How many of the "beat Jimmy" banner submissions were actually tested? Less than 1/3 of those submitted, as far as I can tell. As variant as they proved to be in terms of their ability to attract donations, why didn't they test all the submitted banner texts?
208.54.5.51 (
talk) 16:04, 4 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Some of the submitted ideas just weren't realisticly usable for one reason or another.
Kaldari (
talk) 00:00, 5 January 2011 (UTC)reply
