[Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

Sun Jan 16 18:06:54 UTC 2011

I am going to be quite frank and say that it is pointless to have this
discussion on this list. Only a fraction of the english wikipedia community
are on it. If you are genuinely serious about this then propose it on the
english wikipedia. This is not a foundation level issue nor will it ever
become one so put it to the community.

Seddon

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> 2011/1/16 Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>:
> >
> >> Nope, it doesn't have to be this way. There should be no "full admins"
> >> and "partial admins"; there should be no "admins" at all. There should
> >> be people who protect pages and people who block vandals. Some people
> >> may have both permissions.
> >>
> >
> > The suggestion sounds reasonable to me, but I do not see any way it could
> > be implemented.
>
> You think that the community will object? I understand where that
> feeling comes from, but if the community really wants to have
> "administrators" that have both privileges, it may continue with the
> current deal by granting both of them to whoever passes "RFA".
>
> In fact it's quite likely that communities will want to give as little
> permissions as possible to users.
>
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