On 2/12/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
This is wrong. Wikipedia was working right from the start, even before adminship existed.
It only worked because the vandals hadn't found it yet. If you removed adminship from Wikipedia now, we would not be able to control the vandalism. Obviously, I have no way to prove that, but I'm confident it is the case.
Don't need anything particularly drastic to prove it. Any mediawiki installation that isn't locked down or supported by a strong admin presence will be spammed into oblivion in short order. See:
http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Category:Spammed