[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:45:38 +0200, you wrote:
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>>Is adminship really something that cannot be "learnt on the job"?
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>Adminship can *only* be learned on the job.  The point is, of course,
>that the admin tools are only really useful for certain classes of
>actions (like fighting vandalism).  
>
Not necessarily.  I have already gone over four years without becoming a 
Wikipedia admin.  If I were to change my mind now I would most likely 
use Wikipedia adminship to revue the edit history of deleted articles 
that have been transwikied to Wiktionary.  That would be a passive use 
that would not even appear in the logs.

>If you don't already do this
>things then you will make more and bigger mistakes if you start doing
>them with admin tools than with regular editor rights, and if you
>don't intend to do these things why do you need the tools?  An admin
>has no more or less status in the community than any other editor in
>good standing.  
>
In theory!

>There are many editors who do nothing but create good
>content, and steer clear of edit wars, POV-pushers, contentious
>subjects and so on.  Would that there were more of them!  And they
>have no need of admin tools.
>
Generally true.

Ec