“ | Current Wikipedia policy is to grant administrator status to anyone who has been an active Wikipedia contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. Most users seem to agree that the more administrators there are the better.
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— Camembert, Requests for Adminship, July 2003 |
“ | Contrary to the Wikipedia mantra 'Adminship is not a big deal', it is — because of the very stressful and oft humiliating experience of the inquisition itself. The trials and tribulations of being a sysop come later.
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— Kudpung, Wikipedia:RfA reform 2011 |
Requests for adminship (RfA) is the process for creating new administrators on Wikipedia. RfA has been around since June 2003, when Camembert created the page after discussion on a mailing list. Reform of the process has been discussed continually since at least 2005, but the process has remained virtually the same as when Camembert created the page in 2003.