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If you want to see changes in the number admins on the English Wikipedia, go look at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard this evening. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:49, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
- I think Liz is referring to the 97 de-sysops today under criterion 2 listed at Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2023#January 2023. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:12, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
  - Yep. I knew it was going to happen on January 1st but I didn't expect to be watching it happen in process at the stroke of midnight UTC time. Turns out, it's a lot of work to desysop that many administrators so thanks to Xaosflux for spending his New Year's Eve handling bureaucratic work. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:35, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
Looks like I've gotta keep working as an administrator for another 22 years. If I can make it that long without getting banned by the WMF. LOL Happy New Year wbm1058 (talk) 13:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
There is an easy way of fixing this problem, copy the way Wikipedia in Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål work regarding admins. First, change from electing admins for life-time, to a fixed period. Second, make it easy to be admin. As in Wikipedia in Norwegian Bokmål, the criteria for being elected is quite low (must have participated for at least four months, must have a userpage and at least 1000 edits and being possible to reach by email + general knowledge about how things work). Ulflarsen (talk) 13:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply