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> Walter, what you did with desysopping that guy was wrong. Everything was
> falsified and I have a reason to believe it was all a deed of
> Bormalagurski (Wiki Serbia @ meta) whom we had recently desysopped. If
> you do a checkuser for the guys two accounts, you'll see a Canadian and
> a Spanish IP (the first on meta, the second on sr:). Slaven (who
> erroneously got desysopped) never claimed to want to be desysopped and
> this is just Boris' vendetta for his own dethronement. I'm a bureaucrat
> at sr: wikipedia but I don't want to do the honors of redoing what's
> already been done. I think Walter should return the rights. Evidence to
> purport my claims is the following:
> The account on meta was created a couple of days ago and Slaven is known
> to have gone to a vacation at about the same time. He's blocked himself
> because he couldn't stand the situation our community was in at that
> moment, but he never wanted his rights taken away. Please correct this asap
> Filip

I fixed it. Sorry for the mix-up.

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Pawe³ 'Ausir' Dembowski
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Walter Vermeir wrote:
> I have just done a de-sysop/de-bureaucrat on the Serbian Wikpedia. There
> the have (now) 40 sysops and of those 25 are bureaucrat.
>
> That is from my POV an irresponsible number of bureaucrats. I do not
> know how many active user there are. The have 34700 articles.

Just to say that no one (including Boris) abused sysop/bureaucrat
rights on Serbian Wikipedia (there were some small incidents related
to admin rights; but enwiki is full of that). Boris abused his
contributor's rights (including a lot of lying on a lot of places,
impersonating other people, making sockpupptes with abusive intentions
etc.).

My POV is that admin/bureaucrat rights should not be a big deal. In
general, people are more responsible with admin/bureaucrat rights, as
well as they are more motivated to contribute to Wikipedia.

Also, there is one important message with such policy: there is no
small faction of people who are keeping rights for themselves; anyone
with good contributions and non-confrontative relations with others
should become admin/bureaucrat.

But, mainstream on the most of Wikimedian projects now is that
admin/bureaucrat permissions are not technical rights for trusted
users, but political power. Such thinking rises in Serbian Wikipedian
community, too. So, it seems that Serbian Wikipedia would have smaller
number/percentage of bureaucrats and admins in the future.
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