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Another day, another admin retirement: Caulde has retired. Here is the Spanish-language message:
"DirÃa adiós por ahora - podrÃa volver en el futuro. Con la mayor consideración, Caulde."
Here is an English translation:
"I'm going to say goodbye for now, but may return in the future. With the most consideration, Caulde."
Based on a discussion on IRC, this makes the 10th time Caulde's retired. Interestingly, this entry appears in the block log:
11:39, March 8, 2009 Caulde (talk | contribs) blocked Caulde (talk | contribs) (cannot edit own talk page) with an expiry time of indefinite ‎ (To prevent myself from doing something I shouldn't do.)
Your thoughts???
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Onnaghar/Rudget/Caulde/God knows what else is only twelve or thirteen, IIRC. (Edit: Aitias, another morally bankrupt child, is already on the talkpage pining for him. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)) This post has been edited by Wikileaker:
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QUOTE(Willking1979 @ Sun 8th March 2009, 1:16pm) Another day, another admin retirement: Caulde has retired. Here is the Spanish-language message:
"DirÃa adiós por ahora - podrÃa volver en el futuro. Con la mayor consideración, Caulde."
Here is an English translation:
"I'm going to say goodbye for now, but may return in the future. With the most consideration, Caulde."
Based on a discussion on IRC, this makes the 10th time Caulde's retired. Interestingly, this entry appears in the block log:
11:39, March 8, 2009 Caulde (talk | contribs) blocked Caulde (talk | contribs) (cannot edit own talk page) with an expiry time of indefinite ‎ (To prevent myself from doing something I shouldn't do.)
Your thoughts???
No great loss.
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QUOTE(Willking1979 @ Sun 8th March 2009, 5:16pm) Based on a discussion on IRC, this makes the 10th time Caulde's retired. Maybe the little shit is getting in some practice for the real (world) thing. When he's 64, or whenever it is, he'll retire, then start working again, and so on. Stretch it out till he's a hundred. QUOTE(Wikileaker @ Sun 8th March 2009, 5:41pm) Aitias, another morally bankrupt child, is already on the talkpage pining for him. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif) " ...don't leave, Caulde. You're such an outstanding admin and great user. Please stay. Please. I'd miss you incredibly badly". Brings a tear to the eye.
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QUOTE(Bottled_Spider @ Sun 8th March 2009, 10:21pm) QUOTE(Wikileaker @ Sun 8th March 2009, 5:41pm) Aitias, another morally bankrupt child, is already on the talkpage pining for him. :lol: " ...don't leave, Caulde. You're such an outstanding admin and great user. Please stay. Please. I'd miss you incredibly badly". Brings a tear to the eye. More to the point, if Aitias thinks that of him, it is almost a guarantee that he was/will return to be a useless admin.
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QUOTE(CharlotteWebb @ Sun 8th March 2009, 6:10pm) QUOTE(Kato @ Sun 8th March 2009, 5:25pm) I applaud anyone who sees the light and quits wasting their time at that place, but this Caulde (T-C-L-K-R-D)
guy? What had he written? A look at his last 500 edits shows no evidence that this guy was creating content for readers. (numbers) Not quite as bad as Essjay, to be fair. Eight percent of Essjay's edits were to actual articles? Eight? For crying out loud, and this guy was on Jimbo's fast track? You've got to be kidding me. Caulde's article edits were at 20%. Much better.
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Looks like Caulde reads WR. From the protection log:
11:56, March 9, 2009 Caulde (talk | contribs) protected User talk:Caulde [create=sysop] (indefinite) ‎ (Don't intend to return, I've lost interest in this shithole and the pricks (cue Malleus) on it; and, WR, this isn't the 10th time I've retired.) (hist)
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East718 just removed Caulde's uncivil comment from the protection log:
13:56, March 9, 2009 East718 (talk | contribs) protected User talk:Caulde [create=sysop] (indefinite) ‎ (user invoked m:RTV) (hist)
13:56, March 9, 2009 East718 (talk | contribs) unprotected User talk:Caulde ‎ (chg unprofessional log comment that's shown to all visitors of this page) (hist)
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QUOTE Do me a favour. Do you really think you're the first to wave that big stick at me? I'll tell you what I tell everyone who waves it; stick it up your arse. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Malleus, I like your talk page. It's snappy. I bet you've got some admins hating you. Anyone who gets blocked by a prick like Aitias can't be all bad.........(IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/happy.gif)
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QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 10th March 2009, 12:59am) QUOTE Do me a favour. Do you really think you're the first to wave that big stick at me? I'll tell you what I tell everyone who waves it; stick it up your arse. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Malleus, I like your talk page. It's snappy. I bet you've got some admins hating you. Anyone who gets blocked by a prick like Aitias can't be all bad.........(IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/happy.gif) I flatter myself that there are more than just"some" admins who hate me. But they couldn't possibly hate me more than I hate them.
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QUOTE(Malleus @ Tue 10th March 2009, 12:02am) QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 10th March 2009, 12:59am) QUOTE Do me a favour. Do you really think you're the first to wave that big stick at me? I'll tell you what I tell everyone who waves it; stick it up your arse. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Malleus, I like your talk page. It's snappy. I bet you've got some admins hating you. Anyone who gets blocked by a prick like Aitias can't be all bad.........(IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/happy.gif) I flatter myself that there are more than just"some" admins who hate me. But they couldn't possibly hate me more than I hate them. Haha. Eric's comment reminds me of an award Ling.Nut made for me a couple summers ago. "The Wasabi on the Wiki-sushi" award. He wrote: "I like reading your emails and talk page postings, Lara. I can always count on your comments to be...spicy? Zingy? Something with a little kick? :-) ... You are the wasabi on the wiki-sushi. :-) Ling.Nut 5 September 2007 (UTC)" That's fitting for you, I think, Malleus. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)
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QUOTE(Malleus @ Mon 9th March 2009, 11:02pm) QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 10th March 2009, 12:59am) QUOTE Do me a favour. Do you really think you're the first to wave that big stick at me? I'll tell you what I tell everyone who waves it; stick it up your arse. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Malleus, I like your talk page. It's snappy. I bet you've got some admins hating you. Anyone who gets blocked by a prick like Aitias can't be all bad.........(IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/happy.gif) I flatter myself that there are more than just"some" admins who hate me. But they couldn't possibly hate me more than I hate them. Do you wish every admin to hate you? For if you do, you fail. I know of at least one who does not.
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QUOTE(Malleus @ Mon 9th March 2009, 10:57pm) QUOTE(Bottled_Spider @ Mon 9th March 2009, 10:01pm) QUOTE(Malleus @ Mon 9th March 2009, 8:01pm) I must check up on the banning rules here before I post again, just to be on the safe side. This is well funny. Wikipedia can be so entertaining. Thank you very much. Seemed reasonable to me. Both talk in word salad and have a pretentious tendency to use foreign languages inappropriately.But that would cast far too wide a net!
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Someone might find these useful. I'm still learning the Google Charts API, and I'd like to see these in other formats eventually. New Administrators and Resignation GraphsSome notes: 1. Resignations spiked at 8 in September 2006, 16 in December 2008 and 12 in January 2009. 2. The number of new administrators peaked in October and December 2005 at 72. The number of new administrators through 2008 declined steadily, from a high of 36 to a low of 6. For 2009, the trend points downward or steady. 3. The number of resignations over new administrators first occurred in December 2008, and occurred again in January and March 2009. This excludes data prior to 2007. The last graph has a detailed view of the last six months. So... 1. The RFA process has become more difficult, which can explain some of the new administrator drops from 2005 onward. However, this does not explain the entire situation, as the number of new administrator applications has also dropped (graph coming tomorrow). 2. The number of resignations has increased dramatically over the past 15 months, and the trend points upward. Burnout, fatigue, and discontent seem to be the predominant rationales. For a long time, we counted on a healthy count of administrators to serve Wikipedia. I haven't even begun to go through the inactive list. At a brief glance, many who became administrators from 2004 to 2006 are either inactive or have diminished quantities of edits. This either indicates burnout, fatigue, time constraints, and so on. If the trend continues, then the replenishment rate will continue to be negative, but I do not suspect that it will affect Wikipedia's performance for at least another year. This post has been edited by seicer:
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The way this wiki-madhouse is set up, without admins to fix endless questionable changes, it would turn into a shredded pile of graffiti-crap within a few weeks. It's already starting. QUOTE(seicer @ Tue 10th March 2009, 7:59pm) Thanks Seicer, good work! You realize that if Wikipedia were a stock-issuing, for-profit corporation, this would probably be covered up, because it would cause their stock price to drop like a stone? Jim Cramer would be on his show, screaming "Sell sell sell".
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