Thread:Bagwis/@comment-12719-20171028081346/@comment-12719-20171028090036

Regarding why admins and moderators exist, I came from a wiki culture where admins were only really needed to handle major disruptive stuff (disputes between disagreeing editors, large template/javascript/css refactor, or malicious vandalism), and ideally their powers should not be needed just to keep content on the wiki up-to-date. With smaller wikis that don't have critical mass, the need for the wiki to function without admins become even more crucial, because it only take one or two real-world distractions to make us disappear from the online world.

When I'm the only admin maintaining a wiki, I try to design it so that even if I get hit by a truck one day, random visitors would still have no problem editing the contents of the wiki until somebody feels dedicated enough to adopt it.