On 20 August 2010 19:37, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem with the idea of administrators is that
they have too much
power (or are perceived as having too much power) and thus the RFA
process becomes unduly picky. If you spread the powers out over more
people then this issue is largely or completely avoided.
Almost nothing on MediaWiki is irreversible. I'd like admin powers to
be *much* more widely available. So making a level below "admin" with
more powers than the typical autoconfirmed user strikes me as a method
that actually has a chance of passing muster with the community as it
stands.
(The dangerous things an admin can do include putting
potentially-malicious JavaScript into the default configuration. That
would be a power not to spread all round. History merges are also all
but irreversible. What other admin powers are actually dangerous?)
- d.