Jimmy just needs to get the community to agree on a policy that administrators have a finite lifetime,like 4 or 5 years, after which time they get effectively blocked from all administration access. They can then contribute a hell of a lot of good but will be prevented from forming an emergent elite class of wiki administrators. Wikipedia can do this like no other community due to the huge number of people who volunteer.
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Jimmy just needs to get the community to agree on a policy that administrators have a finite lifetime,like 4 or 5 years, after which time they get effectively blocked from all administration access. They can then contribute a hell of a lot of good but will be prevented from forming an emergent elite class of wiki administrators. Wikipedia can do this like no other community due to the huge number of people who volunteer.