[WikiEN-l] Your comments on wikien-l regarding adminship

[Thomas Dalton]

> This is wrong. Wikipedia was working right from the start, even before
> adminship existed.

It only worked because the vandals hadn't found it yet. If you removed
adminship from Wikipedia now, we would not be able to control the
vandalism. Obviously, I have no way to prove that, but I'm confident
it is the case.

> You're also forgetting that Wikipedia is not the only wiki, and that
> MediaWiki is not the only wiki engine. Most other wiki engines do not
> have an "admin" user level at all, and last I checked the Pattern
> Repository was still working just fine.

The English Wikipedia is by far the biggest and best known wiki, and
as such is the biggest target for vandalism.