User blog comment:KazMx/Rights or Wrongs? - The Kaz Corollary/@comment-3358335-20110912182236

I read this earlier in the weekend and wanted to digest it. I think there are a lot of important things here, but overall, Kaz, I believe you are wrong. Bureaucrats and Administrators should be  guiding  forces not necessarily  driving  forces of the wiki.

Wiki's are about content, but even before content, this wiki is about a game. And that is the most important thing that editors/staff should remember when making changes. This wiki was created by us (All of us, even if it was founded by a few) to further our enjoyment of a game. To also further other people's enjoyment of a game by putting as much information in an easy to access format as possible. However, if people are taking the wiki so serious that they don't take time to enjoy the game, then it is a failure.

I think that in this blog the priorities are incorrect. They should be:
 * 1) Real life. (Girlfriends (all 4 of them), jobs, and school.
 * 2) Enjoying the game.
 * 3) The LoL wiki
 * 4) Other Wikis

As far as Bureaucrats, Administrators, and Moderators go it should not be decided by a popularity contest. People should be in those position that show a degree of maturity in influencing how the wiki develops, which includes conflict resolution. I did not think that Tech was ready for adminship, but I voted for him. I voted for him because I also didn't think that Zelg, Neon, or Nystus was ready for adminships either and I knew what would happen if Tech got it. Zelg and Nystus did some amazing things with the content and format, so did BBlige. However, a majority of the time the lack any skill in conflict resolution to the point where people want to remove their additions simply because of who it came from. Learning how to present a good, yet drastically different, idea to a group of people with differing opinions is a valuable real-life skill that needs serious development in those individuals. Personally, I don't mind using the wikia as a training ground for children to learn those skills, as a parent I know the only way to teach my children responsibility is to give them some. I also know that they are going to blow it the first few times as well and there are consequences, such as having privileges removed. So how serious is it that two kids are going to get in an edit war on a talk page in the grand scheme of things? Not very.

Anyway, I think that the Challenge is misguided. Everyone here is an editor, so most of the edits should be handled by the greater populace. The "staff's" job it is to make sure that the overall "vision" of the wiki is maintained, in a way that promotes the greatest participation by the average user.