[WikiEN-l] Adminship as a reward

Tue Jun 22 03:43:34 UTC 2004

Recently, a user was nominated for adminship because
thought " . . he needs to be rewarded for all the hard
work and dedication." <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship&diff=4060639&oldid=4060350">[1]</a>

Though the user in question was very well qualified
for adminship, I am disturbed by the trend that
adminship is some sort of "reward" or "vote of
confidence" in the name of the community, however, in
reality adminship is a vote of confidence and reward
for making a great deal of edits and behaving well in
the process.

I propose that the community start issuing awards of
merit to users that will be voted upon by the
community over a period of a week. Some of the ideas I
kicked around were...

the <i>Wikipedia Peace Prize</i> - for users who have
worked to resolve conflict in the community.

the <i>Gutenberg Award</i> - for users that have
extensively improved the main-namespace content of
Wikipedia

As such, we will be able to stroke the egos (and
hard-working motivation) of users, while seperating
adminship from the equation. I hope that in such a
situation, the community will finally be able to give
certain users a resounding vote of confidence when
adminship would be inappropriate.

--H. Cheney

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