[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

Fri Jun 9 16:44:23 UTC 2006

On 6/9/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Exactly why it needs to be removed now before it becomes completely
> entrenched.  First we started getting people who wanted adminship to
> have control, and now they have adminship, and are taking control.

In the end there is no certian way of telling how people will turn out
until they become admins. for the most part RFA works.

Admins are not meant to be able to exercise a significant degree of
control over the project. That they can is not RFA's fault.

>  We
> should have stopped this a year ago, but we weren't paying attention,
> and now we have a lot of bad admins to show for it.
>

Not really. 721 fully active admins. Number of those doing things I
regard as negative comes in single figures.

> That was, um, what, seven months ago?  My attitudes have changed
> rather significantly since then, as have those of the project.
>
> Kelly

Project hasn't changed much in seven months. Deletionist/inclusionist
wars have largly ended. Userbox issue has appeared. FRA and FC
standards have gone up but real chnage has been pretty minimal
certianly compared to say my first 7 months on the project (arbcom
just starting up introduction of the template namespace and the lose
of msg:)

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geni