[WikiEN-l] Re: Adminship as a reward

[Anthere]

hcheney wrote:
> Recently, a user was nominated for adminship because
> thought " . . he needs to be rewarded for all the hard
> work and dedication." <a
> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship&diff=4060639&oldid=4060350">[1]</a>
> 
> Though the user in question was very well qualified
> for adminship, I am disturbed by the trend that
> adminship is some sort of "reward" or "vote of
> confidence" in the name of the community, however, in
> reality adminship is a vote of confidence and reward
> for making a great deal of edits and behaving well in
> the process.
> 
> 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
> 
> As such, we will be able to stroke the egos (and
> hard-working motivation) of users, while seperating
> adminship from the equation. I hope that in such a
> situation, the community will finally be able to give
> certain users a resounding vote of confidence when
> adminship would be inappropriate.
> 
> --H. Cheney

I think these are nice ideas :-)