Rebecca has left the building ..., ... and dropped quite a number of flags. Options

[Alison]

Hi all,

It looks like Rebecca (T-C-L-K-R-D) has now left Wikipedia after a run of about five years. Per this request, she voluntarily de-sysopped/de-checkusered/de-oversighted ... and de-ombuds'd (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif)

End of an era.

Oh, and Gaillimh (T-C-L-K-R-D) has also left enwiki, and been voluntarily de-sysopped. Admins seem to have left in significant numbers in December (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hmmm.gif)

[GlassBeadGame]

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[LessHorrid vanU]

Admin burnout as a function of time

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If you run those figures up against two other criteria, numbers of accounts and numbers of admins it may show that as numbers joining go up and increase of number of admins increases then the "wastage" of sysops leaving may not be so critical. I would comment, though, that those admins now leaving are part of the "old school/wild west/small personal website" era of yesteryear - whereas the current crop is more grounded in the struggle of simply maintaining a high profile website. The big uptake on admin functions in the last two years will have an effect as a majority reach burnout (or other RL issues take precedent) this year and the next few.

Oh, and I suppose there is a fourth , more difficult to locate, group of admins; those who have left without turning in the flags.

post edit comment; thanks... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)

[Eva Destruction]

Oh, and I suppose there is a fourth, more difficult to locate, group of admins; those who have left without turning in the flags.

A bot logs which of them are still active and updates the list each day. As of today there are 1618 accounts with the admin flag, of which 940 are active, and a further 428 "semiactive" (still making edits, but less than 30 edits in the past 3 months), making 250 who've left without turning in the tools. They're listed here by time-since-last-edit, should anyone care.

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