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Is admin really the natural progression after editor, as you seem to be assuming? IMHO, the interest in the "project" part of Wikipedia that is required to be a
by jowea 3y ago
Is admin really the natural progression after editor, as you seem to be assuming? IMHO, the interest in the "project" part of Wikipedia that is required to be an admin isn't intrinsically linked to being a prolific and dedicated editor.
Although having a decent number of edits is a de facto requirement for adminship.
- MBCook 3y agoIt seems like the natural progression if someone is interested. You can delete or lock people from editing articles with it, which seems useful if you like editing Wikipedia.
- Kim_Bruning 3y agoEh, you're not allowed to use the extra tools without consensus from the rest of the community, so end of day you don't really gain much, and you can do pretty much everything without them. (By way of experiment: one particular admin had their admin bit disabled and it took people a over a year to notice that they'd done so.) Personally I still think 90% of the regular editors should have the tools anyway, but people kept inflating the requirements, or actually rejecting admins on the basis of "we have too many already" As tomodachi94 points out, being a wiki admin ideally should not be a big deal. It just sort of became that way on English Wikipedia, unfortunately.