Thread:Talk:New Page Triage/Triage Principles section/reply (3)

A survey is currently  being  carried out among  patrollers  that  asks, among  other things, for respondents to  provide their opinions on  whether NPP  should be a right, and if so, by what  criteria they  suggest  it be based upon, and by  whom or how  the right  could be accorded. Based on this data, the Wikipedia community(ies)  will  be asked to  reach  a consensus on  these matters; what  we can do, and are doing here at  MediaWiki, is bump start  such  proposals by listening  to  the community's needs,  developing  software solutions  for them, and offering  valuable statistics for the Wikipedia communitiy(ies) to  take into  consideration  during  their  debates.

For those who have the tools, adminship  is most  definitely no  big  deal. As such, because it is not  a goal  to  be achieved, there are no stepping  stones to  it. Having minor rights are sometimes taken into  consideration by  RfA !voters, but  they  are not  a prerequisite for adminship. Nevertheless, experience drawn from research appears to  demonstrate that  many  candidates for adminship  and other rights may  indeed be 'trophy  hunters'.