2011/1/16 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 15 January 2011 21:55, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Before writing that proposal i reviewed many,
many pages of "RFA is
broken" discussions not just in the English Wikipedia, but in Hebrew,
Russian and Catalan ones, too. Nowhere have i found a proposal to dump
the concept of adminship completely and to split it into several
roles, although i admit that i didn't read all the archives through.
The closest thing that i found to my proposal is what happens in the
Portuguese Wikipedia, which has the "Deleters" group (it has a lovely
name in Portuguese - "Eliminadores").
It has been suggested before. It's even on the "Perennial proposals"
page on the English Wikipedia. The page about this proposal
specifically is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Limited_administrators
What they do in the Portuguese Wikipedia is not what i propose; it's
only close to it. What's listed at [[en:Wikipedia:Perennial
proposals]] is very different from what i propose. I don't propose
limited adminship; i propose to retire the concept of adminship
entirely, because it's an outdated lump of very different things. (And
by the way, i have a habit of re-reading Perennial proposals every
couple of months.)
A checkuser, for example, is not a limited admin. He's a checkuser and
it's good that it is this way.
What i would really like to hear in this discussion is opinions
outside of the English Wikipedia.