On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:06 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree that admins might not be necessarily trusted
with permissions which
would screw up site operations. We do no administrator ID verification, and
the length and breadth of high load website operations/architecture
experience is not a selection criteria. Limiting it to people who
understand what effects it could have, and who are better known to the
community/foundation, seems sensible.
Any reason not to set this up as a new userright we can have Arbcom hand to
admins on request/review/background verification?
Uh, what's you're point?
Bureaucrats are not required to identify themselves and about half of
them do not, cf.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers/bureaucrat
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Identification_noticeboard
I understand a couple of them are believed not to be legal adults either.
—C.W.
—C.W.