Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:45:38 +0200, you wrote:
Is adminship really something that cannot be "learnt on the job"?
Adminship can *only* be learned on the job. The point is, of course, that the admin tools are only really useful for certain classes of actions (like fighting vandalism).
Not necessarily. I have already gone over four years without becoming a Wikipedia admin. If I were to change my mind now I would most likely use Wikipedia adminship to revue the edit history of deleted articles that have been transwikied to Wiktionary. That would be a passive use that would not even appear in the logs.
If you don't already do this things then you will make more and bigger mistakes if you start doing them with admin tools than with regular editor rights, and if you don't intend to do these things why do you need the tools? An admin has no more or less status in the community than any other editor in good standing.
In theory!
There are many editors who do nothing but create good content, and steer clear of edit wars, POV-pushers, contentious subjects and so on. Would that there were more of them! And they have no need of admin tools.
Generally true.
Ec