Jan Kulveit wrote:
But is it that way anywhere? In both wiki communities
I know something
about it seems
-any explicit level of trust has social implications
-status of admins in the community is increased more than what would
derive from technical powers of admins
-this leads to increased demands on adminiship candidates
-there is a positive feedback, more trust is demanded and admins are
more trusted group
My guess is this works naturally, and repeatig "adminship is not a
big deal" doesn't help much.
I know I got adminned on
en.wikipedia.org without much discussion, while
I was still pretty new. I edited for 4-5 weeks, requested adminship,
and was given it. Since admins don't really have that much power, and
what they do have is easy to take away, I don't see why that isn't ideal.
-Mark