Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150608231255/@comment-34115-20150609102745

(Moving an edit I was going to make to my post to a new post)

Wikipedia has over 1000 sysops and more and more sysop flags being granted continually. Wikipedia's user list does not list the last login date or last edit date of a user, nor does it let you sort by that date. Wikipedia has worries about inactive sysop accounts being taken over by a malicious user and used to do damage to one of the top 10 highest traffic sites on the internet, to which a few seconds of rogue sysop activity or mistakes can negatively affect millions of readers around the world.

Wikipedia's rationales for de-listing a sysop when they're been inactive for a year are irrelevant to a wiki... With 10 sysops. A detailed user list. That will remain relatively undamaged if any sysop goes rogue. Isn't relied on by the world as a key resource. Run on a wiki farm with a vulnerability that allows a user with a little trickery and knowledge of a certain (not very well known) flaw to takeover any wiki on the entire farm.