In Wikien-l, you wrote:
I've already explained this elsewhere, so I'll only give a quick summary here. Wikipedia does something _right_ by letting everyone edit. The underlying philosophy is that everyone starts out as innocent, and is blocked from editing only if they show misbehaviour. Adminship is the wrong way around. Users start out as being viewed with caution and suspicion, and must "earn" their admin "privileges" by fulfilling some ridiculous set of criteria. The _right_ way would be to demote the ones who misuse it, not to prevent the constructive ones from being constructive.
Have you seen my proposal for adminship? It's on my blog at http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2006/10/proposal-for-adminship-on-...
Kelly