[Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/1/15 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> On 15 January 2011 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
>> Now, fight.
>
>  First review the discussion that has already taken place at WT:RFA

I suppose that you refer to the English Wikipedia. This list is about
more than just the English Wikipedia.

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").

The discussions that i did read say that RfA *process* is broken
because the questions are repetitive, because the nominees are not
required to identify themselves, because there's no provisional
adminship, because the desysopping process is dysfunctional, because
the bureaucrats' cabal decides whatever it wants without regard to
discussion etc.

I say that that the "A" in RFA shouldn't exist.