On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you get the sense that wp:en *needs* more admins? > If not, I'm happy where I am, really. That's fair, but it's really the wrong question. It's rarely about "does WP need more admins". The much more appropriate question is, "do you find yourself doing (or wanting to do) tasks to better help the project, for which you would need admin access, when the community would trust you with that access". For example I sought sysophood at a point when I found I was too often having to ask others to block sock-puppets, or could advise but not actually address disruption and disputes. There were a number of occasions I would have helped resolve the matter but could only offer advice or ask others to act, which was wasteful. I felt the community had enough evidence of my editing to trust my conduct, and was right to so judge. (As it happens I withdrew because 15% of users wanted to see more edit summary use, but that's separate.) There were other reasons, noted in my RFA, but the basis was my wish to help certain areas where I had reached a "non-admin ceiling" better and a need of the tools to do so, not whether or not the project "needed more admins". Hope that clarifies? :) FT2 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l