You appear to have 66 sysops on sv:? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Wikipedia), how well to you think this system would scale up for an order or two of magnitude more? Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Johan Jönsson Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 12:54 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time Yes, we – Swedish Wikipedia – have had similar experiences with annual reelections (since 2006) helping us both to keep the bar at a reasonable level and to have a de-sysoping process that doesn't cause of strife and rifts in the community. Works well for us. //Johan Jönsson -- Den fre 26 apr. 2019 kl 00:41 skrev Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org>: > This is not India-specific, and may be of interest to other communities > struggling with such a question. > > A. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:05 PM > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time > To: wikimediaindia-l <wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Hi, > > Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time after a gap of almost 5 years. > > After 2013, we hit a policy deadlock where we couldn't agree on how to > elect a new sysop, what are the qualities of an ideal sysop, etc., > > Even after repeated attempts, we could not solve this as the fear of being > not able to easily desysop someone made us look for higher and higher bars > for a perfect admin. > > So, how did we solve? > > Recently, MediaWiki allows someone to get sysop access for limited periods > of time like 1 month, 3 months, etc., This is how Stewards grants adminship > in many small wikis. > > We felt when there is the possibility of granting adminships for trial > periods and renew them thereafter, we don't need to keep the bar for > adminship very high. > > We also proposed to start a Wiki Admin School where others can mentor the > new admins. > > So, after a month long discussion and community consensus, we conducted our > sysop elections and elected 10 sysops at a time. > > Right now, we have 42 sysops with one of the highest sysops per users > ration among all global Wikis. > > We plan to elect 6 new sysops every quarter and are discussing a similar > policy for bureaucrat election. > > We strongly believe having a diverse pool of sysops makes them feel > empowered to serve the Wikimedia movement for a long period of time. > > If you are interested in knowing more, take a look at the policy here > <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/7gmi> and the discussion in the related talk > page. > > Thanks, > > Ravi > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
