Inactive Wikipedia administrator survey hoax Options

[TungstenCarbide]

<edit> looks like a hoax, see tarantino's post below

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewfor...EU3RuX2RoREE6MA

"...a statistical analysis revealed a 96% chance that administrator inactivity is causing the decline in active English Wikipedia editors as a whole: "

Looks like the survey is being run by Steven Walling and "a Community Health Task Force volunteer who wishes to remain anonymous".

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related thread; The "holy shit" slide on editor retention, Sue Gardner on Wikipedia's death spiral

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[EricBarbour]

I will email Salsman and ask him if he would talk about any results he's obtained.

In case you didn't know, Salsman is a serious player in the educational software field.
How utterly typical of Wikipedia insiders to treat him like a common vandal.

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[Kelly Martin]

I will email Salsman and ask him if he would talk about any results he's obtained.

In case you didn't know, Salsman is a serious player in the educational software field.
How utterly typical of Wikipedia insiders to treat him like a common vandal.

See also this G+ thread.

[EricBarbour]

See also this G+ thread.

That bears repeating here.....

Pat Gunn - I left over the weakening of the consensus against advertising, in the wake of the VirginMedia donation and corrisponding "thank you" advert, although as I poke around now it looks like Erik Möller is the deputy director of the WMF. If I were to ever come back I would be high profile again, and there is no way I will consider going back until Erik is completely gone. I find it extraordinarily regrettable that GerardM escorted such a malignant person into power.
Feb 12, 2012

James Salsman - +Pat Gunn I share some of your concerns about +Erik Moeller because he has been absurdly contradictory in his communications to me and he seems to be very aggressive in some circumstances, E.g., lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2012-February/071769.html I know when I spoke with him at the 10th anniversary unconference he was very aggressive and unfriendly towards me. He also gave me his word that he would speak with +Jimmy Wales about admin attrition at the first Foundation Open House in San Francisco but I have been unable to determine whether he actually did.
Feb 12, 2012 (edited)

Pat Gunn - When I was running for the board, I and several of the other candidates had very negative experiences with him (he was also running for the board); these continued with other community members and were very worrying.

While I think Jimbo's neglect of the community while retaining theoretical leadership is unfortunate, Erik is actively harmful to it, or at least he was when I knew him.

One of the best, most important community members, Danny Wool, was essentially driven from where he needed to be to keep things together. (I also think it's unfortunate that Wikipedia's actual founder is long since gone, but that ship sailed before most people were involved; I lurked on the NuPedia mailing lists way back when).
Feb 12, 2012

Even Sandifer admits Wikipedia has a real problem. Though as usual, he doesn't blame the admins for any of it.