[WikiEN-l] Rename admins to janitors

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On 3/6/07, 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."
>

I have always liked the name "custodian". It's a little like janitor,
but implies that you are doing your job in order to protect and help
wikipedia rather than solely cleaning up after (messy) people. I think
that term fits much better with the others as well (Bureaucrats etc).
Thoughts?

Judson
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