[Foundation-l] Term of service?

[Ryan Dabler]

On 5/22/06, THD <theodoranian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Friends,
> There are some people proposing a policy for administrator's term of
> service
> in Chinese Wikipedia. In the proposing policy, when the term of service is
> over, administrators shall get their administrative power through a
> re-election. I want to know that is there any Wikimedia project with this
> kind of policy? In my own opinion, this is quite weird. I want to know
> what
> will other language editions do when facing this kind of proposal. Thanks.
> THD


This sounds like Meta's policy for administrators.  At the end of each
year-long term, an administrator is up for election and he must win a
majority of the votes to keep his sysop powers for another year.  On the
English Wikisource, a similar policy was just enacted, where a vote of
confidence is held at the end of each adminstrator's term of service and the
community must give support to have the admin keep his rights.  Having terms
of service isn't a common policy, but it is not unheard of on the Wikimedia
projects.

Z