User:B Fizz/Admin for X years/Survey 1

Instructions

This survey deals with the main idea of WP:NOBIGDEAL. Please respond to each statement on a scale from 1 to 10, representing how much you agree with each statement, 1 being completely opposed, 10 being completely agreed. Please use integers in your response: no decimals.

Statements

1. Being an admin should be 'not a big deal'.
2. Being an admin is generally viewed by Wikipedians and admins as 'not a big deal'.
3. There is a discrepancy between #1 and #2, and this should be fixed somehow.
4. I would like to be informed of any follow-up or similar surveys.

Responses

Please respond in a format similar to mine (use ~~~~~ for the current date). Concise comments regarding the reasons for your answers would be much appreciated, but please keep it short. If you feel the urge to expound on your response, please do so in the #Other comments section.

Opinion of User:B Fizz

1. 8 - most of what an admin does is simply carry out the will of the community, though sometimes preemptively.
2. 3 - the excessive process of RfA and the endless debate of CDA prove that we think being an admin is 'a big deal'.
3. 7 - RfA and other admin-related processes should be simplified.
4. 9 - Since I'm conducting such a survey, it's only fair that I participate in similar surveys.

My opinion was last updated: 16:32, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Other comments

Reasons for the survey

After exploring the idea of "Admin for X years" and getting some feedback, I have realized that one of the core ideas behind my proposal is WP:NOBIGDEAL. I have created the survey to get a feel for what the community thinks about this core idea, though I hope the survey can be useful in general as we perennially consider things like revamping RfA, enacting CDA, etc.

Another reason for the survey is to explore the possibilities of surveys. I'm working on writing User:B Fizz/The need for a survey mechanism, though far from complete. Any help with that (links to past conversations, if any) would be much appreciated. ...but what do you think? ~BFizz 16:32, 1 March 2010 (UTC)