Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats
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Within Wikipedia a bureaucrat is a user who has the technical ability to give other users adminship. See m:Bureaucrat for more information.
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[edit] Wikimedia or Wikipedia?
The text reads:
- These capabilities are held only by stewards, a small multilingual group that serves not only the English Wikipedia but all Wikimedia projects in all languages.
Should not that be Wikipedia instead? There are various Wikimedia projects managed by individual companies or other organizations.
- Um, no. All Wikimedia projects are managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Are you sure you're not confusing it with MediaWiki? Titoxd(?!?) 07:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What Wikipedia is not
Wikipedia is not a Bureaucracy
Wikipedia is not a moot court, and although rules can make things easier, they are not the purpose of the community and instruction creep should generally be avoided. A perceived procedural error made in posting anything, such as an idea or nomination, is not grounds for invalidating that post. Follow the spirit, not the letter, of any rules, policies and guidelines. Disagreements should be resolved through consensual discussion, rather than through tightly sticking to rules and procedures.
Why do we have bureaucrats? Dudtz 10/27/06 8:43 PM ET
- I've suggested changing the name before - perhaps to "functionary" - but the current name was chosen to emphasise that bureaucrats do not have a higher status than other users, not to try to create a bureaucracy. Warofdreams talk 02:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
