Draicone wrote:
This is similar to the system we have on Wikiversity, actually. Anyone can nominate themselves for custodianship (our term for sysop), but a present custodian has to accept them for mentoring, and then they undergo a mentoring period for a number of weeks, after which the community can comment on their performance and decide if they can become a full sysop or not. Their actions generally come under further scrutiny during their mentorship period, and its assumed that they'll learn not to do anything stupid (of course, tests are acceptable and encouraged, I blocked myself for 10 minutes during my probation period to familiarise myself with it). It is, in essence, quite an effective system considering Wikiversity is just coming up.
This is why project autonomy is important. It increases the probability that at least one project may find a solution that works. It is still had to say how such a working solution will scale.
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