Ad, I heard, about five years ago, a rumor that nlwiki requires (or once did?) everyone to stay active in the mainspace. Is that true? If so, what precipitated the creation of this rule?
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I am not sure. Requirements for new sysop go up every year. Inactive sysops get desysoped. The tendency to guard autonomy of the content projects is to keep anyone who is not an active contributor to mainspace at armslength. The pity thing is there is more to do in a content project than editing mainspace.
Perhaps if we looked back at the "golden olden days", we would discover that we complained about all the problems we had then, too.
The story I heard was something like everyone needs to make at least 30% of their edits in the mainspace, because otherwise, you are creating drama. Are the admin rules as unwritten as they are at the English Wikipedia? Perhaps having unwritten minimum standards leads to this creep in requirements. In 2004, 500 edits was enough. In 2014, 5,000 is the minimum. In 2024, we may demand 50,000.