On 5/30/07, Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
The most important thing for a Wikipedia administrator to understand is the Spirit of Wikipedia. You don't get that cleaning up vandalism (or, as CVU fans describe it, "whacking vandals"). You get that cleaning up vandalism and copyediting and writing articles and discussing protection and discussing deletion and co-ordinating article cleanup efforts and ... there's all sorts of avenues to becoming a good contributor, but you need to have walked more than one of them to be a good admin. At the moment, though, it's trivial to pass RfA even without anything remotely resembling Clue, and this not only provides us with poor admins, it also makes it possible for malicious users --- Trojan admins --- to gain access they shouldn't have.
The other reason the alleged Trojan admins like building up edits fighting vandals is that it involves minimal talk-page interaction, which means they leave less of a distinctive "voice," making it harder to identify them.