[WikiEN-l] Vandalism concerns with commons images

Thu Sep 15 01:55:46 UTC 2005

G'day Anthony,

> I think Ryan makes good points, but I think the real problem is that 
> becoming an admin is too difficult in the first place. Whether it's making 
> 5000 edits on EN or 500 edits on the commons, these are unnecessary 
> requirements. Adminship should be granted to anyone who can be trusted not 
> to screw things up, and the number of edits has no direct relevance on that 
> point.
> 
> The fact that "adminship should be no big deal" should be a Wikimedia rule, 
> at the foundation level. While the individual projects should have some 
> leeway in enacting this rule (at least until the projects are better 
> merged), I find it hard to see how someone who is an admin on the EN project 
> could be denied adminship in the commons project. The reverse is probably 
> also true, but I don't know enough about how hard/easy it is to get 
> adminship on the commons.

I think if people could be de-adminned for obvious abuses (say, 
unblocking themselves) without going through ArbComm, we'd see the bar 
lowered significantly for adminship.  Nobody wants to risk creating a 
rogue (or even rouge) admin.

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Mark Gallagher
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