[Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

[Thomas Dalton]

On 15 January 2011 21:55, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 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").

It has been suggested before. It's even on the "Perennial proposals"
page on the English Wikipedia. The page about this proposal
specifically is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Limited_administrators