On 9/14/05, uninvited@nerstrand.net uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote:
In an effort to start some serious discussion on this, I present herewith some pros and cons of granting some form of commons adminship to wikipedia admins (including en, de, fr, and possibly other large wikipedis).
Being granted administrator access is a sign of community respect, earned within the community. If you want the respect of other related project communities, participate in those other communities. I expect members of other Wikimedia communities to establish themselves at Wikipedia-EN before they get admin access.
If you don't like the requirements that each of the other communities establishes, don't try to short circuit their processes through discussion on the "parent project". Go there, and convince them it is in their best interest to grant common adminship. Don't start here and say "Hey, they should grant me adminship upon arrival". Here, I think the only appropriate discussion is whether Wikipedia-EN grants other projects' admins immediate access to our admin toolbox upon arrival. Just as they have no business telling us who to grant adminship to, we have no business telling them.
Even though adminship is supposed to be "no big deal", I'm opposed to any form of automatic common adminship on Wikipedia-EN for other project admins. If it truly is no big deal, then it should be no big deal to establish yourself anywhere you'd like to have admin tools. I just don't like the idea of getting additional access by peerage. It doesn't recognize the will of the individual communities involved.
The exception I see is for those who are personally chosen by Jimbo or a quorum of the Board for any reason they see fit.