User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-27393108-20160114110814/@comment-27393108-20160115063832

"If you trust someone to edit your JavaScript, why don't you trust them to delete content?"

That's the wrong question to ask. The way to earn that trust is the same for every admin: demonstrate your knowledge of a wiki's topic, be a prolific editor, be active in the community, learn your way around local customs and policies, show good social skills... etc. But none of these things give you a chance to demonstrate your technical skill. So a technically inclined user would have to show all manner of non-technical abilities before he or she even gets the opportunity to show what they're really good at?

It's quite possible to understand a wiki's category hierarchy, its template structure, its JavaScript etc. without actually knowing how the wiki ticks. You don't even need to know what a wiki is about to fix a CSS issue or a Lua error. You can demonstrate your ability to make those fixes without any understanding of the wiki. So it would be quite useful to have a different path to adminship for technical users. Having a different kind of adminship with reduced privileges would shorten that path greatly.