On 4/23/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
With 800 administrators how can you possibly determine
the level of
trust that we can put in each.
To a degree I do this for every user.
And there have been arguments made that
we need more admins. The mantra is that being an admin is no big deal.
Once a person is an admin he has the technical ability to put the
goatse.cx image on the main page, but we trust him not to do that.
More correctly I trust them to be able to figure out they will be
reverted instantly and blocked for the rest of eternity.
An
agent acts with the authority of Wikimedia in an external environment;
is there any evidence that any ordinary admin is acting on behalf of
Wikimedia when he is dealing with the real world? Agency is often
linked with employment, but none of our admins are being paid to do that
job. Nobody is required to sign an agreement saying that they won't
give away secrets or even defining what would be a secret.
Yet. In practice I suspect most admins have a pretty good idea what
they are not meant to talk about.
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geni