Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150619060400/@comment-4189499-20150630145604

Wildoneshelper wrote: How are you still going to solve the problem of novices being admins? Admins from other wikis can be admins here too if they wish to even though they didn't edit here much or didn't know much about the content here, or they don't know how this wiki works. Besides edit count, is there any other way to cope with the problem? Simple. Judge their potential effectiveness as an admin by the quality of the work they do on this wiki and only this wiki. Nobody's going to promote somebody who barely edits to the position of admin! They need to be active enough to have established a positive presence in the community, and to demonstrate that they make a large and positive contribution to this wiki, and prove that they either a) go above and beyond what a regular user is expected to do or b) would be able to vastly improve their ability to edit this wiki through having access to admin tools. Novices won't be edited because they won't have been able to demonstrate any of this, which is a symptom of a low edit count. The edit count does not have to be observed directly to be able to see that a user isn't experienced enough for the job, or that they haven't contributed enough to this wiki in particular.