[WikiEN-l] Rename admins to janitors

[The Cunctator]

On 3/6/07, cohesion <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
>
> 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?


Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?