Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship

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The WikiProject on Adminship is a WikiProject for discussion of new approaches to granting adminship at Wikipedia.

Mission statement

The adminship process at Wikipedia has been essentially unchanged over three years despite a hundredfold increase in the number of editors. Wikipedia has outgrown the RFA process, which no longer is effective in either (a) selecting the best people for the adminship role or (b) ensuring their enculturation. Our mission is to (a) formulate an alternative mechanism, (b) be advocates for its adoption by the community at large, and (c) work to ensure its success once adopted.

Membership in the WikiProject on Adminship is open to Wikipedians who support significant changes to the RFA process.

Methods

Review and catalog the extensive discussion and fact-finding that has already taken place
Consider the /Role of admins
Identify the /Goals of the adminship process
Develop and discuss alternative proposals with an eye towards selecting one or two best methods for further elaboration

Tasks

none agreed yet

Discussions

Viable discussions on this topic may be moved to subpages.

/BN -- originally from Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

Possible ideas

Proposals

Listing here does not imply endorsement of a particular idea by WikiProject members.

All of these projects are either inactive or were rejected by the community.

Discussion-based -- Somewhat complete, needs review. Copied from a subpage of mine.Voice-of-All 22:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Requests for adminship is not a vote -- Tony Sideway's initiative (which is unfortunately inactive)
Temporary Deadminship
Administrator recall
Requests for adminship process
Wikipedia:RFA as RFC - A proposed format for RFA loosely based on the user conduct RFC format. - Stephanie Daugherty (Triona) - Talk - Comment - 05:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Qualified adminship voting - A proposal to have RFA as a vote, but exclude frivolous opposes such as editcounts and so on. Cynical 18:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Participants

_→AzaToth 02:26; 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Doc 09:09; 4 October 2006 (UTC) -- Yup; keep me in the loop. Sounds more constructive than other shows in town
FayssalF 17:31; 5 September 2006 (UTC) -- Will do my beast!
FloNight ^talk
Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 16:07; 5 September 2006 (UTC)
jc37 15:15, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
John Reid
Lar as time permits.
Michael
=Nichalp «Talk»= 11:10; 14 September 2006 (UTC) Can only contribute after Oct 2006.
People Powered 19:44; 16 September 2006 (UTC)
~~Ram-Man~~. Only if the page is moved away from a WikiProject; which it is not. — Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)} 17:08; 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Dan | talk
Richard 06:08; 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Robdurbar
Seivad
Simetrical (talk • contribs) 05:50; 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Ter e nce Ong _{(T | C)} 09:18; 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Triona (talk · contribs · count) - time permitting.
The Uninvited Co.; Inc.
Voice-of-All 00:34; 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Werdna talk criticism 09:13; 13 September 2006 (UTC) — Interested in participating
Williamborg (Bill) 05:28; 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Cribananda 06:07, 19 December 2006 (UTC) cannot contribute until Jan.[reply]
Clockwork Soul 19:26, 30 December 2006 (UTC) – I'll help as I can.[reply]
DTGardner 22:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC) – Great Idea, intend to become involved[reply]
Captain panda In vino veritas 03:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC) I would like to reform RfB so to help with this, I have joined.[reply]
Majorly _{(o rly?)} 00:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 22:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Maximillion Pegasus (talk) 21:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Freshbakedpie ^{(Wanna talk?) \'_'/} 21:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]