Openness vs. Earning Rights

WikiHow:

• Everyone can edit (fully open)
• Patrol/Add Images needs registering (still open)
• Become an Article Booster needs passing a Test
• Admins (delte/block) through election
  
  
  
  
• boosting is a status to be earned (an achievement to be "unlocked")
• patrolling marks something as "patrolled" (some kind of approving)
• it's about earning trust to gain access to more powerful tools
• Administrators drop out after being elected, because the fully "leveled-up"
• voting is problematic, because its a vote on character, but people can't "know" everyone (new admins are elected by existing admins)
• 92 existing admins, probably about 20 active ones
• "We should rename Admin to Janitor" - Eric Moeller on Wikipedia Admins
• Becoming an Admin is a "Social Trophy"
• Existing Admins voting for new Admins could create a closed circle
• Not enough incentives (like barnstars) makes the Adminship an incentive
  • trophy system
  • stackexchange is a good example
• ThumbsUp for single edits
• How to acknowledge good writers?
• Backup encourages (reverted, rereverted by someone else)
• Dunbar's Law (Monkeysphere) - you can't know everyone -> need for hierarchies/titles
• reward systems can be gamed
• assigning trophies is hard when quality is involved
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