Re: [Wikivoyage-l] Initial userrights

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: