2011/1/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
On 15 January 2011 21:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@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 I don't propose limited adminship; i propose to retire the concept of adminship entirely, because it's an outdated lump of very different things.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.