Folks, I do submit that we are overthinking this. We can make the process as complex as we like, but it is not going to affect the end result or get us any additional benefits.
On the English Wikivoyage, almost everyone who is an admin has been elected when he or she was at Wikitravel. A couple were elected later and I believe that a couple have the privilege for technical reasons. All of them should get carried over as it is - they have all received community approval.
There are a few Wikitravel admins (not IB admins) who have not created accounts on Wikivoyage or have not asked for admin privileges, probably because of laziness or whatever. I'd expect it isn't going to be worth the effort for the WMF guys to identify them and make them sysops (and if they haven't even created accounts, how'd you do that?) But in terms of policy, I'd expect the community to decide that anyone who was an admin at Wikitravel just needs to ask and they will get privileges here as well. (Obviously, none of this is going to apply to the IB employees who made themselves admins, or to any admin "elected" by the current rump community there)
The above should apply to all the language versions other than German and Italian that we are launching. The ones we are incubating, that is another story. Temporary sysoping etc. can be done there.
The German and Italian Wikivoyages are an even simpler case. Everyone who is an admin now should simply continue.
On 23 October 2012 23:31, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe@wikimedia.org> 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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