[WikiEN-l] Rename admins to janitors

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Tue Mar 6 19:37:16 UTC 2007


On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Erik Moeller 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."

That'll be like claiming that RFCs, TFDs, etc. are not votes.  The main thing
you accomplish is that you make it easier to [[WP:BITE]] the newbies since
now everyone has to avoid certain shibboleths in order to be taken seriously.




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