[WikiEN-l] Parker Peters's comments

Sun Oct 8 03:07:22 UTC 2006

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>On 10/6/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Some adminship requests get opposed because the user aren't familiar in a
>>specific field of administrator work. If we could specifically give people
>>the tools they have the knowledge for, more requests would succeed. Perhaps
>>it's time to run that plan to give people separate admin tools.
>>    
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>Even as screwed up as things are today with respect to RFA the fact
>remains that adminship is more about trust than about knowledge. If we
>can't *trust you* to refrain from breaking the site too badly than you
>should have exactly zero admin features.
>
I agree

>That adminship is mostly is sometimes being obscured the fact that
>there is no clear way to measure trust... but breaking up adminship
>into little boxes will not solve that.
>
I'm somewhat inclined to believe this.  If you break adminship into five 
levels it will just mean five promootion levels for people to complain.

Ec