User blog comment:BBilge/This site really needs: an attitude edit/@comment-3325853-20110421183247

I have insufficient time to respond fully to your excellent post, but I did want to comment on one small part. I do definitely agree about the "handing out ownership of entire categories of pages to specific users". That's seemed very bizarre to me since that role was created. I do believe the intent is "this person watches those pages and counters-vandalism, maintains consistent formatting, verifies information, helps other editors, etc, etc" which is what you want on a wiki, but certainly the way some things are stated or setup makes it look a lot more like "this person is master of those pages and has decision rights over every aspect of those pages unless overridden by an administrator"...that makes people not want to even bother contributing...it's almost setting it up as if it's that person's job to make sure everything is done and 100% correct. It's a strange system.