[WikiEN-l] Who monitors Wikipedia?

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:29:35PM -0600, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008 17:20, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > >  Besides, anything that makes more work for our servants isn't a bad
> > > thing.
> >
> > Admins are not servants, they are under-appreciated volunteers.
> 
> Like government, administrators on Wikipedia are at best a necessary evil, and 
> at worst a threat to everything important.  They must be kept under strict 
> control: a close watch and a short leash at all times.
> 
> They are volunteers, yes: they volunteer to be our servants.  They should not 
> act on their own initiative, but merely implement the will of the community.
> 
> The more unpleasant and difficult we can make their task, the fewer eminently 
> unsuited volunteers we'll have to sift through.  We should make it so that 
> only those completely and genuinely interested in being the servants of the 
> community at large will want to bother with it.

Then you will not find too many.

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