Forum:How many admins is enough?

I've been wondering about this for a while, so I decided just to come here and ask. Of course, I understand it would vary depending on how large and how active the wiki is, but how many admins should a wiki have before refusing anyone else for the position? Also, what would be the main disadvantages of having too many admins? THB  → Talk ← 16:37, June 21, 2010 (UTC)

Well, it is not really how big a wiki is but how much activity the wiki has. If there are a lot of active users and IPs, the more admins, the better, up to a certain extent. You should never really have number of admins greater than the number of normal active contributors. Too many admins may result in conflicts between them and can be quite dangerous like that with pages being deleted and blocks being made all the time. 16:41, June 21, 2010 (UTC)

It depends on what you think adminship entails. Frankly, I believe it should be no bigger of a deal than giving a trusted user more controls to perform advanced tasks. If you trust them, I don't see any problem with having more admins than normal users - there are always conflicts, even between normal users, and admin actions are undoable just the same as normal user's. Just make sure you have some pretty basic policy laid down and that you trust your admins and you should be fine. -- 16:52, June 21, 2010 (UTC)