[WikiEN-l] Analysis of Request for Adminship

[charles matthews]

"Steve Bennett" wrote

>Because ultimately, if adminship is not to be a
> "reward for hard work", then it should be bestowed upon the top X% of
> the population, rather than every editor who has done good. And we
> don't know what X is.

We do know you can be a good editor, without being a suitable person for 
adminship (no names, no packdrill).

It is sadly the case that we are short of ways to recognise people's 
contributions.  Leaving aside long-dead notions such as wiki-money, there 
appear to be just these, really:

- barnstars (but these are wholly debased as a coinage)
- WP:1000, which is not really great as a measure
- admin status granted
- getting 'your' article featured (no ownership, naturally, but this is 
effective in areas where it works).

We could do with a fresh idea here.  I didn't much like past article 
competitions, BTW.

Charles