I would suggest that everybody be reappointed on a 1 year temporary
adminship basis and then we convert everything to permanent then. To my
mind, this offers several advantages:
*in a transition, people are bound to move on, this means those who
decide that the new project is not for them will simply be removed
automatically by the conversion process in a year
*at the beginning, every project (I'm talking about the smaller
non-english ones) has plenty of activity, but it fairly often dies down
way before than a year, and the project is left with a high number of
admins that were initially approved, shutting out Global sysops and
misdirecting new users to inactive admins
*it would make all admins, no matter when or why or how they gained the
tools elected by the new wikivoyage community directly, as in most of
our wikimedia wikis
*the new project will likely have a community that's a "merger" of the
wikivoyage community, wikitravel community and wikimedia community plus
some new folks, and I imagine some re-imagining of guidelines, processes
and whatnot would take place, it only makes sense that admins be
re-appointed for otherwise the project would lack management, but it
also might end up generating collisions, and difficulty to integrate;
temporary appointment would mean that the community would simply be able
to run for a year with the admins, then in a year's time they could
evaluate how things are going and confirm that everything's going okey.
My main points honestly are the likelyhood of a long list of admins that
then decide they don't like the new project and become inactive and
making all admins directly elected by the community, which is the usual
practice on our wikis.
Regards,
Snowolf
On 23/10/2012 20:01, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In the migration process, one of the questions that has come up is the
> initial assignment of the administrator rights. Our current plan is
> to assign administrator rights to anyone who currently has them on the
> legacy Wikivoyage wiki (and I'm certainly open to expanding that to
> include the legacy Wikitravel wiki, I just don't know how many people
> are in that group that aren't already wikivoyage administrators).
>
> I wanted to toss that out as a discussion point here and see what the
> general feeling was about that as an opening position? Am I way off
> base? Is there something else that would work better? My main
> interest here is a lightweight system that will work to get the
> project launched.
>
> pb
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