Hi Anirudh,

Thanks for sharing the recent developments in enwiki regarding sysop selection. As far as I have checked, fewer sysops getting elected every year seems to be a global trend.

After the first three months period, bureaucrats automatically renew adminship

* For next 6 months
* After that, for next year
* After that, permanent adminship is granted.

Sysops don't need to go through another election or file a request. It automatically gets renewed as long as there are no major unresolved complaints against the sysop which merits a desysop discussion.

I am also adding the qualifying criteria to nominate one for adminship:

A potential candidate seeking adminship should have

    * At least 1000 mainspace edits

and/or

    * At least 50 articles creation

and should have

    * contributed actively in at least some of the months in the past one year in general, be cordial with other users
    * in general, contributed to the overall development of Tamil Wikipedia by helping other users, conducting workshops etc.,
    * in general, show inclination to learn Tamil Wikipedia rules, culture and abide by that.

In general indicates one's general behavior excusing one or two incidents where they behaved to the contrary.

All the 10 candidates got elected with almost unanimous votes.

All candidates who got their adminshipin January 2019 have renewed it for the next 6 months.

This shows that the community was willing to trust in many users but was limited by a lack of process to elect them.

Ravi