On Feb 9, 2007, at 9:39, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:50:04 -0500, Keitei nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
In order to become an admin, one must have an impeccable track record and have been aiming for adminship for quite some time.
Not so. I was invited a couple of times before I finally accepted a nomination, I never aimed for it. Who would? They'd be mad.
A lot of people do... c.f. Editor review. However, I meant that in order to get the edit summary percentage right, and the proper namespace distribution, the right total number of edits, edits per day, all the ridiculous arbitrary things, one pretty much has to be aware of these arbitrary measures and aiming to reach them. Which is a horrible, horrible thing because we get those people who come to Wikipedia just to be admins and aren't really in sync with the mores of the project and all that jazz. Well, theoretically we do at least.
--keitei