On 17/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: Interesting claim. The counter would be that admins are the better engineers and a man may indeed profit by the sweat of his brow. Nah communist party would advocate that everyone gets it as soon as they want it while the reality would be that it would only be available after standing in line for several hours. Both models break down since they assume that they are not dealing with a post scarcity situation (which for the average user wikipedia is at least on a day to day basis). In practice "admin" is as close to an approximation of "long standing wikipedian" that can be done with little use of server resources, -- geni

Off-topic, but <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows rofl. why are you balancing pencils? everyone knows it's rocks that get balanced... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_balancing and pencils that get combined or carved... http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/pencils.html http://www.jennifermaestre.com/pencil_show.html http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html quiddity (sorry. but he wasn't making much sense either...)

On 18/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: Wow, talk about melodramatic. It is a one-time event, literally.... Peter

On 3/18/08, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: Oh for god's sake, how did this troll get so many responses? How admins are distinguished from unprivileged users is a valid topic for conversation, but this thread is about the long-awaited and much welcomed single-user login (SUL) feature finally being implemented. Tim's reasons for restricting the initial rollout to admins are perfectly valid, and there is really no reason the rest of us can't wait a few weeks or so. WJohnson, your contribution to this thread was truly lamentable. Please don't do it again. Steve (listmod)