Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1073312-20140816013529/@comment-1073312-20140816030346

I'll make some notes.

I have tonight/this morning, considered promoting a admin. It seemed like a nice idea at first glance, but then, I still worry that by giving an admin representative, it strengthens the idea that adminship should be a social or status matter. Representatives means factions, and no doubt, very new users would be confused by it.

What about a method of representation that doesn't require power (extra buttons that are entirely for maintenance should have nothing to do with social matters, they do not even refer to them). Like GD12 mentioned, a neutral arbiter (a task that would be VERY hard mind you). We do need something to represent differing ways of thinking on the wiki, so instead of conflict, we can all agree on the project (or abstain).

I should say the only reason we have a lot of admins was because a few years ago, I was the only admin active, so I needed many to get the ball rolling. Xho has since dropped out. More isn't better for any other reason.