[Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/1/18 Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
> <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>>
>> That's the point - i do think that it's a Foundation-level issue, or
>> more precisely, movement-level issue. That's because "RFA is broken"
>> discussion are perennial in all Wikipedias which have functioning
>> communities of about 50 regular writers or more.
>>
>
> [citation needed]
>
> And I don't mean that all facetiously.  It'd be worth documenting the
> relative "brokenness" of admin selection processes across languages.

Ziko van Dijk's "Tell us about your Wikipedia" project [1] in 2008 was
advertised through sitenotice on Meta and it was quite successful.
Something like this could be repeated with focused questions about
adminship. It won't be complete and precise, but it is reasonable
low-hanging fruit.

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_your_Wikipedia