[Foundation-l] Term of service?

[Jon Harald Søby]

The Swedish Wikipedia also uses this system, with terms of one year at
a time; reëlections are held four times a year, once a quarter. They
just enacted the policy, and the first round of reëlections seems to
have gone quite well, with many administrators reëlected, and some
being desysopped.

On 5/22/06, Ryan Dabler <zhaladshar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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