Things that extend a wiki career

Re: 1. The editors have to ask for those privileges. I'd assume they expect them to get them, and that getting them is not a big deal; however, not getting them could be, and could lead to them leaving the community. Re: 2. Ditto, plus an anegdotical evidence that I know at least one editor who, as one of the reasons for leaving the project, mentioned that his 2nd RfA was "shut down" by his "enemies". Re: 3. I wouldn't be surprised, although this is a very rare occurrence. Re: 4. I'd think it does. See my thoughts on that in a mini-essay. Re: 5. I doubt it, speed should be the same, worldwide, controlling for end-user infrastructure. Re. 6. I'd expect it does. This needs more studies, certainly. --Piotrus 23:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Piotrus,

Editors don't always have to ask for privileges. We've done some interesting work on EN wiki creating prospect lists of people who should have the Reviewer Autopatroller or even I think the Rollback flag. My experience of turning up on people's talkpage, complementing their work and setting their account as an Autopatroller is that people take that very positively, and the ones I check who've recently had articles deleted or been warned about copyvio wouldn't know that I'd looked and moved on.

As for Internet speed, I'm pretty sure that it does vary around the world according not only to the speed of the local connection to the ISP but also connections further afield. Certainly my experience of editing in South America was that local sites might be OK but Wikipedia and also UK sites were much slower there than when I'm in London. My understanding is that the squid servers in Amsterdam are meant to increase speeds for editors here in Europe, and the new data centre in Virginia will speed things up by being closer to Internet hubs.