On 10/8/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/7/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
I've always seen Wikipedia admins as acting mainly in an executive role, basically they're the wiki-police.
Exactly, CZ got it right by calling them "constables" while we still hold on to the "no big deal" myth and talk about admins being janitors and having mops.
We really have many different admin job roles, some of which are completely mop-like, some of which involve a lot of constable-like-ness, some of which are a mixture.
Not every admin actually does every role, by far, though we're all empowered to.
Enumerating and categorizing in more detail might be useful activities. I have no bandwidth, though.