On 9/10/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/10/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
For comparison, on en:wp -
On en:wp, there was a perception for a long time that admins were impossible to remove even if they were widely thought to have gone off the rails. Then in early 2006 a bunch of admins got de-adminned by the Arbitration Committee after Jimbo asked the AC to look into the matter in question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pedophilia_u...
There were previous simular cases.
Day to day admins are regulated by other admins. I don't think en has a sysop-mailinglist.
Not only is there not an en:wp admin mailing list, the lack of one speaks directly to what role admins play in en:wp. I believe both Dutch and German have mailing lists for sysops, where admins deliberate on decisions. At least in the case of de: the weight of all admins is behind the action of anything endorsed by consensus on that mailing list. This is quite a bit different than the "janitor" role that en:wp tries to keep admins to. (But even in en: it's certainly grown to be more than a janitor's role.)
I think it would be great to document community "norms" for each of the 10-15 largest Wikipedias just to get a feel for what best practices are out there.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)