On 14/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
You want experenced and active admins. Something everyone is short of to do non admin maintenance tasks includeing adding welcome templates? This does not seem to be a reasonable use of rescourses.
Call it "admin and patrolling" - a lot of tagging work can be done by non-admins.
I'm sorry to say, but such claim doesn't give a very good picture of your knowledge of Commons. The admin process in Commons is the laxest one I know. 200 edits! I didn't know that much when I applied for adminship. I hadn't done much maintenance work. And I was elected.
I know other porjects with more relaxed standards. We are not however looking at candidates with nor previous background You need people who can speak spanish. You need admins with image experence who can speak spanish. The only place you can get them quickly is from the spanish wikipedia. Rather than haveing them make 200 edits which are less critial it would be mnore effective to provide links to crash courses in commons adminship policy and then basicaly rubber stamp their aplications.
If we can find good admin candidates for commons that people can vouch for, that'd be great. But a mere call for admins in the first instance would be the first thing to do, on the es: equivalent of [[WP:AN]] on en:.
- d.