The iron law of gaps...
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 5:44 PM The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO: The amount of jargon and legalistic booby traps to navigate now to become an admin is gargantuan, and there isn't a strong investment in a development ladder.
Yes. More generally, a shift towards a Nupedia model (elaborate seven-step processes, focus on quality, focus on knowing lots of precedent and not making mistakes, spending more time justifying actions than making them) is making sweeping, mopping, and bureaucracy generally more work, less fun, and more exclusionary.
Perhaps asking everyone to adopt someone new, or sticking "provisional" tags on a family of palette-swap roles that are Really Truly NBD Wikipedia:Pencils_are_no_big_deal We Mean It This Time, would help stave off the iron law in a repeatable https://longnow.org/ideas/long-term-building-in-japan/ way//
SJ