On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Kelly Martin wrote:
Unfortunately, I don't have any better proxies for
"will not abuse
administrative privilege". But I do think it would be a good idea to
have admin selection be more deliberative and less of a popularity
contest, as it is today. But the best solutions to accomplish that
all involve creating special "administrator selection committees" or
similar such bodies, which will be roundly decried as anti-democratic
and cabalistic by people who are more interested in Wikipedia as an
social experiment. And while this latter group is smaller than the
group of people who are interested in Wikipedia as an encyclopedia,
this smaller group is disproportionately represented amongst those who
participate in community processes, thereby skewing "consensus" toward
the "social experiment" point of view.
I wish I had a solution to THAT problem.
Kelly
Kelly, you seem to always ascribe bad faith to people for no reason
other than the fact they disagree with you. I wish I had a solution
to THAT problem.
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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch