User blog comment:Sannse/Sneak Peek at the New Look - Themes/@comment-3100721-20100921041200/@comment-3100721-20100922045409

You are missing something (Danny/toughpig's citation isn't on Wikia, rather the forums). What he wrote and taking what Sannse wrote in the blog and a comment on a previous page explicitly states that Staff will use it first, then roll-out the tools to administrators (yes, Sysops as Crats are always with those tools, no sense giving them the same rights). I believe that if they want a better community, hand the tools out to all registered users to prevent as much bias as possible.

Control for the admin? The point is that I do not want to see a certain logo on a specific Wiki, so I use CSS to change it. If I don't like the skin, I'll go and change it with even more CSS. This is the point of a personal CSS and not everyone knows how to use it. If they have a registered account and want to change the skin for just that one person where no one else will see it, then they should be allowed to use this tool.

There are a few things that control creates, it violates all editors are equal on the wikis that have it as a policy, use common sense (also known as ignore all rules) in that not everyone wants the same thing, and consensus can change and when there are many, many administrators and many active editors, they can compromise and have a skin the majority likes.

Administrators are normal users, just with an extra set of tools. Nothing more, nothing less. Defining privileges and administrative abilities as such isn't the best thing to come up with this idea of limited usage.