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.
Ec