I propose that the community start issuing awards of merit to users that will be voted upon by the community over a period of a week. Some of the ideas I kicked around were...
the <i>Wikipedia Peace Prize</i> - for users who have worked to resolve conflict in the community.
the <i>Gutenberg Award</i> - for users that have extensively improved the main-namespace content of Wikipedia
I really like this idea. Independent of the adminship issues, the more ways we have of rewarding users and spreading wikilove, the better.
moink