How have they “basically shut the door” in new admins? There has been three new admins in the last three months and there is currently an ongoing request for adminship which has a 100% support rate
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Looks like they nearly shut the door on new admins circa 2008 and the existing group is slowly attriting.
Wikipedia is an RPG and it’s too hard for new players.
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
Dee@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Maybe they were denied as a Wikipedia admin?
GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 1 year ago
Hopefully they realize it's not healthy for Wikipedia in long term and make a course correction.
No idea how they work internally but probably some kind of mentoring program would be in order. There's now way someone relatively new will learn all their quirks that have been developed in the past decade and too many people on the internet expect you to know everything already to be worth a shit to them.
Silverseren@kbin.social 1 year ago
There is a mentoring program and I'm a part of it. Unfortunately, a lot of the accounts going through it very blatantly aren't there to actually make a good Wikipedia article on something, but to instead promote themselves or their company.
gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Half-baked idea incoming.
Wiki Jr. A Wikipedia dedicated to kids culture. Kids contribute and edit, have a mentor, put it on college applications. When they turn 18 can migrate account to real Wikipedia.
Silverseren@kbin.social 1 year ago
Possibly, though Wikipedia and all of its related projects have an 18+ requirement. Likely because of copyright issues, as under 18 year olds legally can't give up a share-alike license on the content they make.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Free child labor, nice
MBM@lemmings.world 1 year ago
I don’t know if it still exist, but that used to be a thing. I was pretty active on there during primary school.
GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 1 year ago
You think recruiting new blood is the biggest hurdle right now?
Silverseren@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think long-term retention is more the problem. There's plenty of new editors that show up to do something, but they don't care about being an editor on broader subjects long-term.
There's attempts to retain interest more through things like editathons on specific topics, such as with the Women in Red group, that have seen a decent amount of success.