On 6/4/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Due to a shift in how the data is stored. I think there is a signpost
article on it somewhere.
from November to December, the number of "very active users" in en went
from just over 2000 to just under 3000. That 50% jump included a fair
number of people who were new to the process, and coincides with the
start of some "old timer" versus "newcomer" cultural fights about
things
like userboxes.
That conflict has been going on for a long time. Userboxes isn't about
old timer vs newtimers. The real oldtimes have mostly stayed out of
things. More midtimers vs a mixture.
This is why there is a perception that at times there
have been
conflicts between "admins" and "the community". In the past, there
was
no question at all that "the community" and "the admins" were just
about
exactly the same people.
--Jimbo
Been a devide of sorts for as long as I have been around. However
admins are a lot stonger than they used to be. The community could
control admins through policy. Now the number of admins means they can
pretty much get what policy they want and mid timers are starting a
trend of ignoreing it in any case. Non admins are becomeing
increaseingly powerless.
--
geni