[Foundation-l] Hi, Jimmy Wales, please estabish the board of inspectors to investigate admins.

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2006/9/12, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>:
> The English Wikipedia, the one you seem to think needs it the most, already
> has something like that: the Arbitration Committee. If people feel an admin
> is acting bad, they'll try dispute resolution to try to improve them. If it
> doesn't improve, then they get to be taken to the Arbitration Committee.
> Many administrators have lost their admin status through this.
>
> So what you've proposed for the English Wikipedia is somewhat in effect.
> Although, a system like this could also be on the other, smaller Wikipedias.
>

In smaller Wikipedias admins can be simply watched by the enitire
community. In smaller projects it is quite difficuilt to find a group
of people which all communnity can trust enough to give them a right
to dissmiss admins.

In Polish Wikipedia one can loose adminship status by RFC process. If
there are more than 3 people angry for an admin they can create RFC
page for him/her. First week of RFC is just discussion about his/her
behavior and this is quite often enough to let him/her understood how
to improve. If many people agree with criticism of RFC creators, "bad"
admins quite often simply resign from adminship themselves. If the
people do not follow RFC creators point of view or even blame them for
not understanding the rules of Wikipedia, admin stays with us.
Finally, if the voices in RFC are mixed then there is voting for
dissmissing admin.

Any admin can also ask for voting again his/her right for adminship.

As I rember from around 89 current admins in Polish Wikipedia in two
cases there was RFC after they resign themselves, there were 3 cases
where people do not agreed with RFC creators and 3 admins, blamed by
several angry users, asked themselves for revoting their status with
quite success (80%+ votes for let him/er to stay).


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