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)

[Littleunknownadmin]

15 adminstrators (not including the two bots and the ArbCom desyropping) left in the past month and a half, two today. And not all of them are quiet adminstrators who worked behind the scenes and so forth. Most of them were considered quite powerful. Rebbeca, AGK, head of MedCom, WJBscribe b-crat and MedCom, MaxSem a former steward, Herbythyme who was a respected admin in three projects, Thatcher a former checkuser and clerk, Jossi and Jaranda/Secret both of whom had major influence behind the scenes in some major cases, Kimchi.sg who was the major workhorse admin in 2006, Matilda one of the Australian cabal, Ais523 who did alot of metawiki work, and of course ElinorD. Other prominent editors left in other projects as well. This is a hard blow to the project, especially that RFA isn't really promoting adminstrators, and when they are, it doesn't recover all that experience these editors bring. We should have a poll for which admin we will miss the most.

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[LaraLove]

15 adminstrators (not including the two bots and the ArbCom desyropping) left in the past month and a half, two today. And not all of them are quiet adminstrators who worked behind the scenes and so forth. Most of them were considered quite powerful. Rebbeca, AGK, head of MedCom, WJBscribe b-crat and MedCom, MaxSem a former steward, Herbythyme who was a respected admin in three projects, Thatcher a former checkuser and clerk, Jossi and Jaranda/Secret both of whom had major influence behind the scenes in some major cases, Kimchi.sg who was the major workhorse admin in 2006, Matilda one of the Australian cabal, Ais523 who did alot of metawiki work, and of course ElinorD. Other prominent editors left in other projects as well. This is a hard blow to the project, especially that RFA isn't really promoting adminstrators, and when they are, it doesn't recover all that experience these editors bring. We should have a poll for which admin we will miss the most.

There is also the consideration of admins who've pretty much burned out and have semi-retired or quietly started to slip away. The first that come to mind for me are Keeper76, east718, Eliz81, and then I'm fed up to my eyeballs with the bullshit and have decided I don't feel like dealing with it anymore. Pedro is right at the edge of semi-retirement, too. Then there are those who have stopped editing due to loss of time/interest or have just disappeared suddenly. Riana has been busy with school for several months and The Rambling Man has been traveling for months. So much time from the project could leave one disinterested upon return home. Drew17 just disappeared, as did Dfrg.msc. There are many more, those are just the first that come to mind.