[WikiEN-l] Separating admin accounts from user accounts (Re: katefan0)

Sun May 28 22:14:02 UTC 2006

On 5/28/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/28/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not really. It just so happens that our admin who works on pokemon
> > articles has never edited [[Raticate]]. in any case it would be fairly
> > trivial to use brute force searching to figure out who was doing what.
>
> Yes, if we allowed brute force accessing of it.
>
> Anyway I'm just brainstorming here. What if we had classes of admins
> that were "secret", but agreed not to involve themselves in edit
> disputes at all (eg, protecting pages, rolling back...)

Litits thier usefulness somewhat.

>How can we reduce the likelihood of admins getting WR'd?
>

We can't really. All we can do is warn people what they are taking on.
Some will be careful as to their idently others will be less
concerned.

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geni