Forum talk:Administration Discussion/@comment-4085927-20120217054032

"The admin team should contain people with various skills, including some with knowledge of (or interest in learning) advanced wiki markup including templates, CSS and JS." I think this should be changed, many users have a great interest in templates, CSS and JS that is until they take the time to look into it and realize how hard it looks. I think they should have to show some knowledge by actually make those kinds of edits before moving to admin. This site has a number of CSS and JS mods, many are being changed quite often and some stop working as wikia make site wide changes. What happens if all the admins had some "interest" but never went any further with that, then suddenly they need to remove some malfunctioning code but have no idea how to even find it. What happens then? I think its reasonable to expect a user to learn how to find all the common.css, wikia.css etc. and have a reasonable idea on whats going on in them. Currently only myself and Math have an idea on how to manage these files, no one else seems to have an idea. Then with templates, what if a users makes an edit but the admin has no idea what they did because they know little about templates? I don't think this is too much to ask as many users on the wiki already work with templates and the basics of css and js aren't very hard to learn. To be clear i don't expect a user to be able to write scripts i just think they should have an idea on what there looking at so they can make changes without making large site wide mistakes and remove the codes if needed.

Regarding the current admins i think we need a reshuffle. Most of the current admins don't need the rights and are far too inactive or inexperience to use them correctly.