[WikiEN-l] Superusers?

[David Gerard]

On 20 August 2010 19:37, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem with the idea of administrators is that they have too much
> power (or are perceived as having too much power) and thus the RFA
> process becomes unduly picky. If you spread the powers out over more
> people then this issue is largely or completely avoided.


Almost nothing on MediaWiki is irreversible. I'd like admin powers to
be *much* more widely available. So making a level below "admin" with
more powers than the typical autoconfirmed user strikes me as a method
that actually has a chance of passing muster with the community as it
stands.

(The dangerous things an admin can do include putting
potentially-malicious JavaScript into the default configuration. That
would be a power not to spread all round. History merges are also all
but irreversible. What other admin powers are actually dangerous?)


- d.