[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

Sun Jun 4 20:00:13 UTC 2006

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt100.htm

I am not sure why these stats are incomplete after January.  But they do
confirm what many of us felt about what was going on in December and
January...

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.

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