[WikiEN-l] Rename admins to janitors

Earle Martin wikipedia at downlode.org
Tue Mar 6 13:24:41 UTC 2007


On 06/03/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Why don't we do the same thing with administrators? No need to do a
> global search & replace, just change the key pages and MediaWiki
> messages and leave old mentions of "adminship" on talk pages and such
> around. But change it to something like "janitor". Or at least
> something less formidable than "administrator", like "trusted user."

How about "housekeeper"? It's a term with a long history in the wiki context:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020621223248/http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VolunteerHousekeeper

> Seriously, people.

Quite.

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