From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Alphax (Wikipedia email)
I fear the day when a group of people will say "Hey! Let's all become admins on Wikipedia! All we have to do is revert vandalism for an hour for three months, and then we can all become admins and trash the place!" Actually, I wonder why it hasn't happened already.
I think because it's too much like hard work. Remember when there was all that hoo-har about neo-Nazis banding together to try to take over WP? Jimbo said that this wouldn't happen, because in the end WP was an encyclopaedia not a game.
It didn't happen anyway, but a few folks here ran round like headless chooks for a while, and when the neoNazis started up their own fork, a few people went over and vandalised the crap out of it, and then came back here and gloated.
Anyway, if we get a bunch of genuine rogue admins acting in an organised manner, I think it would quickly be noticed and brought under control. It wouldn't be a matter of voting or wheel-warring. In the end Jimbo and his trusted assistants would squash the invasion and we'd be better off to the tune of many packets of three months anti-vandalism work.
Peter (Skyring)