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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[C H]

Jossi and Jaranda/Secret both of whom had major influence behind the scenes in some major cases,

Please, Jaranda/Secret has quit countless times. He is a joke and a drama queen, and if anyone has allowed him to have "major influence behind the scenes" over anything, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

[Jaranda]

Jossi and Jaranda/Secret both of whom had major influence behind the scenes in some major cases,

Please, Jaranda/Secret has quit countless times. He is a joke and a drama queen, and if anyone has allowed him to have "major influence behind the scenes" over anything, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Tell me how I'm a joke and a drama queen, that shit was back in 2005, 06, right now I have major class issues (several math classes at one semester and chemstry), if i fail one of those classes I'm screwed, and college is more important than wikipedia.

Anyways I also agree with LaraLove, too much drama for me to handle, and removing the tools is the best way I don't get involved in that drama and will make me focus less on the project and more on personal matters and article work when I do have the time. Also Littleunkownadmin, I didn't leave because of "burnout", like many of these users seemed like they did. I'll come back with the tools over the summer (work permitting).

It's a shame that AGK left the project though, MedCom would be in shambles without his leadership and with a few other members now in ArbCom. As for the rest, the project could handle their losses, but still all these users leaving because of burnout is alarming.

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