On 20 August 2010 19:37, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
