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

Sun Jul 3 20:30:44 UTC 2005

>From: Timwi <timwi at gmx.net>
>
>Rebecca wrote:
>>
>>>There is no fundamental reason not to apply soft security to
>>>adminship.
>>
>>That it's unnecessary, for starters. What we have now works fine.
>>Changing that creates a whole lot of security problems that we just
>>don't need - particularly with no compelling reason to change in the
>>first place.
>
>You are asserting that "what we have now works fine" even though I have 
>already mentioned numerous times why I think it does *not* work fine. I 
>have provided what I think is a compelling reason to change in the first 
>place.

Your argument boils down to this; it's not working fine because I think the 
bar is set too high.

>>The Open Directory Project continually hung an axe over people - and
>>they left as a result, in droves. Let us not make the same mistake.
>
>I suppose we're doing the other extreme (high bar for entry to adminship 
>and even higher bar for getting "axed out" of adminship) - and we have 
>rather few good admins as a result (500 out of 25500, less than 2%, isn't 
>very much for something that's supposedly "no big deal"). That's the 
>mistake on the other side of the spectrum...

Ah, but how many regularly active editors?  Probably no more than 1000.

Jay.