[WikiEN-l] Thoughts on the process of requesting adminship

Fri Jul 1 07:24:24 UTC 2005

I think admin is a position of trust and we should be careful who to
hand this to because revoking adminship is something only a few people
could do. As of now, I think there's enough administrators to fufill
the jobs we have, so I don't see how having more is going to help the
project. It's only going to side-track administrators into blocking
problem users that gained admin status.

--Mgm

On 7/1/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> While frequenting Wikipedia, web forums and IRC channels I have
> noticed a strange correlation between the number of administrator
> users and the strictness of that communitys behavioural guidelines.
> Take IRC, for example. In IRC channels there are between 20 to 800
> users, a number of them are supervisor users who are able to kick and
> ban other users.
> 
> Enter a channel with 50 users whereof 10 are administrators. Say "fuck".
> Enter a channel with 50 users whereof 5 are administrators. Say "fuck"
> and observe what happens.
> 
> Assuming both channels are English language channels, in which channel
> are you more likely to get kicked/banned from? That's right - the one
> with 10 administrators!
> 
> Remember when the most important rule was "ignore all rules"? I agree
> that the Request for Adminship procedure is cumbersome but not sure
> that bringing more admins in will make Wikipedia better. Or that it
> will solve the real dilemma of an exclusive group in an open
> community.
> 
> Sorry if this is not entierly relevant, but you said _please_ discuss. :)
> 
> --
> mvh Björn
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