Steve Bennett wrote:
On 12/21/06, Chris Picone ccool2ax@gmail.com wrote:
...except admin. Why can't trusted users handle admin? It's not like admin is a big deal, so we should hand it out more liberally.
Adminship lets you do lots of very different things, including protecting/unprotecting, accessing deleted revisions of pages, deleting pages, blocking users, rollback, modifying protected articles, templates, and stylesheets and more. This range of powers is so diverse that it's hard to even imagine one person actually needing them all.
Admins can:
* Delete, restore, view deleted revisions * Protect and unprotect on various levels, edit protected * Edit global interface (MediaWiki: namespace) and user interface (User: space .js and .css files other than their own) * Block, unblock users, IPs, IP ranges * Rollback, rollback with bot parameter to remove from RC
This is from a technical point of view; the combination of these things just makes it look like they can do a whole lot more.