I think admin is a position of trust and we should be careful who to hand this to because revoking adminship is something only a few people could do. As of now, I think there's enough administrators to fufill the jobs we have, so I don't see how having more is going to help the project. It's only going to side-track administrators into blocking problem users that gained admin status.
--Mgm
On 7/1/05, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
While frequenting Wikipedia, web forums and IRC channels I have noticed a strange correlation between the number of administrator users and the strictness of that communitys behavioural guidelines. Take IRC, for example. In IRC channels there are between 20 to 800 users, a number of them are supervisor users who are able to kick and ban other users.
Enter a channel with 50 users whereof 10 are administrators. Say "fuck". Enter a channel with 50 users whereof 5 are administrators. Say "fuck" and observe what happens.
Assuming both channels are English language channels, in which channel are you more likely to get kicked/banned from? That's right - the one with 10 administrators!
Remember when the most important rule was "ignore all rules"? I agree that the Request for Adminship procedure is cumbersome but not sure that bringing more admins in will make Wikipedia better. Or that it will solve the real dilemma of an exclusive group in an open community.
Sorry if this is not entierly relevant, but you said _please_ discuss. :)
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