On 2/8/07, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 2/8/07 10:34 PM, Michael Snow at
wikipedia(a)earthlink.net wrote:
We are supposed to be focusing on quality, not
quantity, with
respect to
the encyclopedia articles. It's high time we
did the same for
administrators.
A resounding YES!
Marc
I'd have to say a resounding NO. The article quality philosophy says
that
we have enough articles and we should put higher priority on improving
the
ones we have than adding new ones. That philosophy isn't workable with
admins.
Without the context provided by the remainder of my message, I'm afraid
you've misunderstood what I meant by this. I was addressing the way we
evaluate candidates for adminship, a bloated process that emphasizes
quantity (as in volume of activity) over quality.
I am more concerned that we have a process to choose quality
administrators, rather than invent a way to get large numbers of
mediocre-to-poor ones. The current system badly needs to be redesigned
to accomplish the former and avoid the latter. A natural byproduct of
this may well be that we get more administrators because the process is
not so tortuous.
--Michael Snow