On 3/5/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Is what for PR reasons? Start with admins? I guess not; it gives us a defined subset of generally active and high profile users.
Yeah, I mean it would actually be useful for PR, the fact that essjay was an admin did help carry the story in a lot of areas. People outside wikipedia have weird and innaccurate views of what admins are, so if there was some problem with a non-admin user's credentials I don't think people would get so upset.
No, I'd see it as something that should be available to all, but I have no objection to trialling it on admins to see what the overhead is like.
That seems reasonable, I would imagine the admin overhead might be a lot higher per person than non admin, with non-admin users being less involved and willing to verify that information. It does seem like there may be a subset of non-admin users that are very subject-oriented that might enjoy this system though, but I also have no problem taking it slowly as long as the eventual goal is to open it for everyone.
Judson (enwiki:cohesion)