Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 18:46:41 schrieb Gwern Branwen:
There are only 3 bureaucrats/admins; one is a dummy account, one is Ashley, and one is John Peterson (who hasn't edited for a year).
One solution would be to have Ashley re-enable user registrations. This has been suggested before, but no one knows how bad the spam would be. Another solution would be to sysop a few users to admin/bureaucrat, so that even if a few are inactive or away, the rest can handle requests.
I support that.
If I might suggest some users we might give the bit to: myself, dons, Magnus Therning, Neil Mitchell, and byorgey.
I consider these users trustworthy. Which of them besides Gwern are willing to take the job?
All have been editing the wiki for some time, some have administrator experience on Wikipedia, and all have commit bits for various Haskell repos (and so presumably can be trusted). (Of course, this list isn't intended to be exhaustive; they're just who comes to mind looking over Recent Changes.)