Hoi, Admins are not controlled on the Dutch Wikipedia. At best there is room for censuring them. Control means that the community enforces behaviour of admins. When people insist that people do things in a certain way, they have to appreciate that admins are volunteers. When this urge of control becomes too much people can and do decide not to be an admin anymore and consequently all the control the community thought it had is lost.
There is little that cannot be done without having the "buttons" that are essentially everything that an admin has over a non-admin. When an admin goes overboard and starts to BAN people for no obvious reason, the admin has lost his control and is likely to get censured. When a community is fractured to the extend where opinion is divided in power blocks, we have a situation where it is questionable to what extend the objectives of having a WMF project are still primary. This is the situation in several projects where the main issues are political and/or the dogmatic imposition of rules that have little to do with the aim of the project.
Thanks, GerardM
On 9/10/06, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
If your question can be shortened to "are the admins controlled" the answer is YES! To be exact, by the comunity. The community can appoint and send away admins, and can control them.
further there is at the dutch wikipedia (and we are somehow weird, fyi) a community reprepresentative that has access to the sysop-mailinglist and could shout alarm if the admins were plotting something bad. Afaik he has never had to use his access to shout alarm, although he reads almost everything on-list.
@domas: I started earlier, here: "In Japanese Wikipedia all admins seemes to be anti-Japanese cruel Korean fascists." ;-)
Lodewijk
2006/9/10, Peter Rocky7 freudianjungianp@hotmail.com:
Greetings
I am [[User:Rocky7]].
Is there inspectors to investigate the behaviors of all admins in
English
Wikipedia?
In Japanese Wikipedia there is no inspectors to investigate whether the behaviors of admins are right or not, so almost Japanese Wikipedians
cannot
trust admins at all. And it seems very clear that admins abuse
sockpuppets
terribly unfairly. They have been blocking superior Wikipedians one
after
another. They would have done out of jealousy, inferiority complex,
and/or
anti-Japanese hate.
In Japanese Wikipedia all admins seemes to be anti-Japanese cruel Korean fascists. They cannot be Japanese characteristically. It is the fact
that in
Korea anti-Japanese cruel Korean fascists have been oppressing
pro-Japanese
people since 2000.
Japanese are peaceful and generous, but Koreans are aggressive and sly
(at
least since 1945).
Why have the server of Japanese Wikipedia been set on Korea? Very heavy
and
terribly unfair!
Who have left the adminships of Japanese Wikipedia to sly anti-Japanese Koreans who pretend to be Japanese?
The relation between Japanese and Koreans is the same as that between Israeli Jews and (Palestinian) Arabs.
Is there the board of inspectors to investigate the behaviours of all
admins
in English Wikipedia? If not, please create it. Now! As far as admin's vandalism abusing ordinary Wikipedians is left, it is extremely obvious that there is no use preventing anons from creating
new
pages. The prank like that of [[Siegenthaler Sr]] cannot be settled
unless
admins be re-elected and trusted.
As long as general Wikipedians cannot respect admins, it's the worst
method
to set a limit to releasing the newest version of the article. I don't
know
why the admins of Deutche Wikipedia can take such a silly
countermeasure.
After all, The Problem of Wikipedia is evidently the Problem of Admins.
Do you understand?
I hope that there would be wise admins here who can think and act
logically
and help build the ideal of Jimmy Wales.
Thank you.
Rocky7
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