I meant just everyone that was already an admin elected by the community, not anyone appointed by IB.    FWIW, our admin policy has always had an inactivity clause in it, so I don't think setting up a 1 year transition run is necessary…. we can simply de-admin anyone who is not active any longer.

I don't foresee "collisions", but yes there will be some getting to know each other. But I think it's important to remember that this is WT and WV communities, that already exist, with policies and administrators in place;  new members obviously encouraged and accepted, the way they always have been…. by learning about existing policies and practices, and then contributing, and building consensus to make changes if desired and necessary.  But we aren't starting from scratch here, hashing out new policies…. right?

Cacahuate



On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:11 PM, James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes agree. Only those who where community appointed by the community as admins and are still interested in being involved should be handed the admin tools.

James Heilman

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Saqib Qayyum <saqib.qayyum@hotmail.com> wrote:
Recently, I learned that Internet Brand employes working on WT website as admins recently appointed few new admins on the site without any community consensus. Giving admin privileges to those new WT admins at new WV website is a very bad idea...

Saqib
English Wikivoyage

From: philippe@wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:06 -0500
To: wikivoyage-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikivoyage-l] Initial userrights


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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