Re: How to Select Administrators

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:20:35PM +0000, Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
> Brion, Jimmy, & Tomasz;
> 
> Thank you for your replies. I translated your messages and shared with 
> others in Japanese 'pedia.
> 
> I particularly appreciate Jimmy's support. Right now, though, we have very 
> few urgent problems (no vandal, no heated controversy), and I think I 
> better not rush to select admins based on my personal judgements. We have 
> started some open discussions about role of admin, etc. and some expressed 
> interest in being one.
> 
> Before long, perhaps after a week or so, I or someone from Japanese 
> wikipedia would again contact you or Brion with a list of names selected 
> among us.

On Polish Wikipedia there is policy that sysops have no special rights
over other Wikipedians - it's just technical thing that may be used
*only* for administrative tasks (moving articles, deleting them, fighting
occasional vandalism), not for dealing with "heated controversy".