On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:40:47 -0500, Powers wrote:
Here's a dumb question.
As a bureaucrat on English Wikivoyage, I can make users into Administrators, but I cannot remove that status. Now, I don't know that we've ever had to do that, but technically we do have an inactivity clause. Is there a reason that Admin status can't be removed once granted?
Powers &8^]
Most WMF projects ask the stewards to remove the admin status. For instance, when I decided to retire from Russian Wikipedia, I left a request on Meta. Local bureaucrats can not desysop anybody. Any project can opt-in however.
If you think this is good for English Wikivoyage bureacrats to deadmin users, open a poll, keep it running for two weeks, and if the outcome is positive, file the Bugzilla request.
Cheers Yaroslav