Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-5939269-20160504224254/@comment-5939269-20160505131259

Pinkgirl234 wrote:

DatDramaPlant wrote: I thought this was a discussion thread?

The stress is NOT on the mainspace. If you want something mainspace-oriented, go for content mod. Why should we have administrators if they don't become fully excellent mainspace first? To be excellent in mainspace is one of the highest expectations of the community for an administrator. No. Administrator is defined as a person responsible for running a business, organization, etc. Mainspace being the "purpose" of the wiki, an administrator would be someone who's job it is to make sure that those "below" him/her are completing said job. An administrator's job would be to mediate said mainspaces, and to make sure that they are running smoothly. An administrator's job would be to take action against those who are detrimental towards the goal. An administrator's job is not to do the grunt work of making mainspace edits, more so ensure that the job itself runs smoothly.

The word administrator is equivilant to words such as supervisor, director, leader, overseer. Case in point, it simply isn't part of the job of administrator to make edits, and while any administrator could go out of their way to do so, it shouldn't be required.

We need to stop looking at mainspaces as the ultimate point of staff positions that don't need them. They shouldn't be the deciding factor of how we promote people that are deserving of such positions.

If you worked in a job position, you'd likely start in a low front end position, equivilant to the people whose job is to make edits here. As you ascend the ranks however, your job isn't so much grunt work, so much as it is ensuring that the process runs as smoothly as possible. You won't see Executive Directors out in the spot of a cashier because it simply isn't their job anymore.

Besides, we already have lower staff positions that are geared towards mainspace. If we needed to use mainspace to use excellency, we could already do so for those positions. But we shouldn't be deciding to promote people to "executive director" based on how good they are at being a cashier.