User blog comment:Sprinklemist/The Long Awaited New Admin Topic (Admin opinions wanted, especially)/@comment-1221823-20110915224715/@comment-1153194-20110915235209

I don't think it makes any sense at all. It's not to put people in positions of authority, it's mainly to have people to help out where needed, and particularly to delete the overabundance of unused files and pages, which cannot be done by regular users. It also has to do with organizing the wiki better in terms of the library system. Gideon in particular wants to help out in that effort. Also, if issues do come up, there are now more admins to be likely to be able to handle the situation when it arises, and I think they'd do so effectively. It's not that we need a lot of admins for that, though, as this is a pretty peaceful wiki. I don't think that will change.