User:Jared/sandbox3

The following proposal is one of many different ideas as to how to make Wikipedia's Requests for adminship process as fair as possible for both the candidate and the integrity of Wikipedia as a community.

Overview

This proposal, first envisioned at the reform proposal page by Carcharoth suggests that RfA use a pool of randomly selected users as a jury of sorts to express their opinions on whether the candidate should receive adminship or not. By making the process random, the hope is that the candidate will be reviewed by a wide variety of people, not just those who frequent the RfA page with a set agenda.

The randomly selected users (herein referred to as "the jury") will be notified that they have been chosen to review the editor to see if he or she is fit for adminship. Those who wish to abstain from taking part may certainly do so. As well, those who have not been picked may also comment (and would be encouraged to do so), but their opinions would only be there to assist the members of the jury in making their decisions. Each person who is chosen gets to weigh in their own opinion (they do not have to come to a unanimous decision), and should deeply comment on why they have decided that way. Given that a set percentage of those users first contacted actually give feedback at the RfA, an admin will close the RfA if he or she feels that the arguments for one side outweigh the arguments for the other side.

Specifics

The electorate for this random pool of users will be all users who have (what specifications?; either edited in the past X days, or have at least X amount of edits). From this list of users, updated (how often?; before each RfA, or each week), 75 users will be randomly pulled by drawing random numbers and having each user assigned to a number (is there an easier system?).

Is this a discussion? A bot could certainly do an editcount check with this new function on users (maybe start at the first user and check every one until you have a pool of 10000 for that week?) then save them to a file (or wiki page) then, when an RfA comes up, it could generate 100-200 random numbers and pull those users out, post that list to the RfA talk page, and send a message to each user. Another way could be to generate those userid numbers, look each up, and then wait until we get 100-200 qualifying users, then post them? I can look into both possibilities, and I'll watch this. --ST47Talk 21:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

It could be a discussion, though really we should use that "discussion" tag up the top... Why don't you and Jared merge the work you've done on 'my' proposal, and then we can rename it the Jared and ST47 proposal? :-) Seriously, a central page for this would be better rather than having stuff split between here, that page ST47 produced and WT:RFA. Carcharoth 15:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)