Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-4242472-20140816221856/@comment-1370845-20140816230353

While I still think that Admins can be taught (and that there is no logical reason not to teach people how to care for the wiki)

None of them were taught anything. OluapPlayer was never taught a thing, he learnt from several wikis, this included, how to edit. Cyrannian learnt most of his skills, far as I understand, through moderating a different forum, not a wiki, he learnt how to edit wikis on his own. Xho - a former admin - was never 'taught' to create the Fiction Universe, his biggest contribution, nor to fight vandals. Ghelae learnt to be an admin on the old Tardis Wiki and, once again, was never taught. I was given directions at most, and am an otherwise self-taught coder. You can just look at Wormulon's old talk archives to see he was never perfect, nor was he tutored, before he got to where he was now. And neither Ose, Morgoth, Mason, Zagorian or any of the old admins have ever been taught a thing either.

The role is so vague that you need to learn it for yourselves. And if we need to teach you something, you have already shown you are incapable. Because if you are neither willing nor able to learn for yourselves, like we all did, then you are neither willing nor able to take on this role.