[Foundation-l] The new steward team

[Anthere]

Your new stewards are now

*[[user:Andre Engels|Andre Engels]] (en, nl, de, fr, nds, ...)
*[[user:Angela|Angela]] (en)
*[[user:Anthere|Anthere]] (fr, en)
*[[User:AstroNomer|AstroNomer]] (es, en)
*[[user:Daniel Mayer|Daniel Mayer]] (mav) (en, es)
*[[User:Danny|Danny]] (en, he, yi)
*[[User:Datrio|Datrio]] (pl, en)
*[[user:Fantasy|Fantasy]] (en, de, it, <small>fr</small>
*[[User:Oscar|Oscar]] (nl, en)
*[[User:Shizhao|Shizhao]] (zh, en, ru)
*[[User:Sj|Sj]] (en, es)
*[[User:Snowdog|Snowdog]] (it, en, fr, es, ca, pt)
*[[User:Waerth|Waerth]] (nl, en)
*[[User:Yann|Yann]] (fr, en, gu, hi)


Amongst candidates for year 2005, all but one were elected with high 
level of support. To be fair, I did not check out the last participants 
for non-perfect suitability for voting, because by looking at the 
results, it is crystal clear 9 candidates satisfy the "at least 30 
votes" and "at least 80%" of support and crystal clear the last one does 
not. Since the total number was expected to be 10 editors max... I see 
no sense in calculating complicated statistics.

Astronomer, Danny, Datri, Oscar, Shizhao, Sj, Snowdog, Waerth and Yann 
are simply elected by very large consensus, and that is it.

As for Traroth, I will just tell him that he not being recognised as 
suitable in this role, absolutely does not diminish the quality of his 
edits, which are appreciated by the french community as far as I know.

Reminder for Stewards : it is usually best to avoid removing sysop 
rights (except when asked by the user himself out of tiredness) on your 
own favorite projects. Both because you could be biaised, and because 
others could consider you biaised. Generally, let other stewards take 
the responsability of unsysoping people in your community. Also, 
remember that the role of a steward is not to change his own status to 
help himself, NOR to act unilaterally, but only to do what is useful and 
according to community rules.

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As proposed a few months ago, and not rejected by anyone, inactive 
stewards will be destewarded. This follow the same habit that what we do 
for sysops on meta.

Last activity at Special:Log/rights show that
* Looxix was very active initially, but he is no more. He has left the 
project (he asked me personally to remove his rights)
* Karl has never done any steward activity according to the log
* Arno Lagrange has only done steward activity to give himself sysop 
rights (last february).

Karl will be removed his rights due to inactivity.

Note that Arno protested yesterday at the idea of his steward rights 
being removed, pleading that he had been elected, had never abused the 
position, supported linguistic diversity, had the intent to use it again 
to give himself rights on some projects to help.

Angela answered him that being a steward was first of all a collective 
role ("I expect stewards to carry out the requests at requests for 
permissions"). Which he never did.

I support Angela here. Stewards should not just be super sysops, but 
people helping the editors getting the access rights they need, 
according to community wishes. A steward not carying those tasks is not 
useful and is  spreading a false image of many people being able to help.

I totally respect Arno request for more diversity but Snowdog and 
Astronomer will now be able to help with the it and es communities.

There is a habit on meta that goes this way.

"if you need a status, ask for it. If you do not need it any more, give 
it back". This is the reason why sysops are unsysoped after a year of 
basic inactivity on meta. If they do not come to meta, there is no sense 
in them staying sysop. This is not a criticism of their person, nor a 
measurement of their trustefullness in the community.

So, I will wait people comments on this. However, if Arno activity keeps 
limited to giving himself rights when he needs it and never helping the 
community, I think he should be removed.

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All this will naturally be applied when the db is no more in the 
read-only mode. But the vote is closed.

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In all cases, thanks for your unanimity and for the quiet surrounding 
this vote :-)


Anthere