User blog:Gideoncrawle/ADMIN BLOG POST: Should SpaceWeather be promoted?

Various people have suggested from time to time that SpaceWeather (who is currently a Chatmod) would make a good administrator. My understanding is that there has been discussion of this matter amongst admins as well, and I’m not aware of any serious opposition to the prospect of making him an admin, so I think it’s time to put the question to a vote.

Please note that we are not considering other admin candidates at this time. This blog will deal solely with the question of whether to promote SpaceWeather; so commenters, please stay on that topic.

To the best of my knowledge, the main argument against promotion is that some people think we already have enough active admins. We currently list nine on the home page, and we have traditionally sought to have 6-8 active admins at a time.

The argument I will make in favor of promotion is that, quite frankly, I could use the help. Ever since Sprink left, I’ve had the primary burden of doing the work that keeps the wiki running smoothly. To put it bluntly, I’m starting to get burned out. Webly and (especially) Rhonda do their share of adminly stuff when they’re here, but neither is here regularly anymore. Reddy and Toad have become little more than glorified chatmods, as their admin work is now mostly confined to policing and supporting the chatroom. The other admins are no longer on the wiki regularly and/or rarely do adminly stuff when they are.

That’s where SpaceWeather comes in. He’s helped quite a bit with the ongoing wiki cleanup project, so we know that he doesn’t just want the title; and he’s here on most days, so we can expect him to be available to do stuff that needs doing when it needs to be done.

Our standard practice is that the admins vote on admin candidates, but regular users are welcome to make on-topic comments as well.