[Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

[Florence Devouard]

On 5/12/13 8:26 PM, Thehelpfulone wrote:
> On 12 May 2013 18:47, Florence Devouard <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Alternatively, it might be good to really move as much as possible of the
>> Wikimedia Foundation Wiki to meta (where at least, the community is in
>> charge of who is admin and who is not).
>>
>
> Mostly in charge, there are a few exceptions where adminship has been
> granted by WMF staff for their work without going through any formal
> community procedures:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Administrators#Temporary_adminship_or_adminship_by_decree
>


I do not see that as a really problematic issue. Unfortunate, but not 
really problematic. As long as the appointed admin behave within 
community rules and does "good", there is only damage to our pride and 
disrespect to the rules. But ... results over rules. Result is what 
matters. Rules is only a way to get there.

A serious problem would be
* IF the staff was the one deciding who is admin generally
* IF the staff was boldly removing admin access to volunteers



Still, if you want to be a bit pointy, you should probably mention that 
it is unclear why 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Smazeland still 
needs to be an admin

Flo