Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review
Status as of 19:33 (UTC), Thursday, 16 May 2024 (
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- Phase II is open for discussion! Participants are invited to contribute towards improving and refining the proposals for a reminder of civility norms at RfA, administrator recall, designated RfA monitors, and an RfA mentoring process.
Introduction and structure
It has been two and a half years since the requests for adminship process has undergone any significant attempts to reform or improve it. However, as laid out at the 2021 and 2015 RfA reform pushes, RfA is widely agreed by the community to be toxic and hostile to participants and candidates, and has had the effect of discouraging qualified candidates from seeking adminship. Because those prior RfCs have established community consensus on what is at issue with RfA, this RfC will largely focus on proposing and testing solutions to make improvements to RfA, and then re-evaluating those solutions in light of their trial runs.
RfA reforms will be proposed in two phases: in Phase I, proposals will be discussed that either make small changes to RfA or test out changes on a few subsequent RfAs. Any proposals that require workshopping or follow-up can be discussed in Phase II, where participants will discuss the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of broad-strokes ideas. Phase I will be open to new proposals until March 8, at which point voting will continue but new proposals will be closed procedurally; phase I officially ends when all proposals have been closed. If Phase II has not started yet, the RfC tag will be removed until the first proposal from Phase I comes up for review; it will close when the last proposal from Phase I that requires review has been discussed.
Proposals
Phase I
Open
- Proposal 2: Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA, initiated by HouseBlaster
- Proposal 3: Add three days of discussion before voting (trial), initiated by Barkeep49
- Proposal 3b: Make the first two days discussion-only (trial), initiated by Usedtobecool
- Proposal 4: Prohibit threaded discussion (trial), initiated by SilkTork
- Proposal 5: Add option for header to support limited-time adminship (trial), initiated by theleekycauldron
- Proposal 6: Provisional adminship via sortition, initiated by BilledMammal
- Proposal 6b: Trial adminship, initiated by Awesome Aasim
- Proposal 7: Threaded General Comments, initiated by Lee Vilenski
- Proposal 8: Straight vote (trial), initiated by Mach61
- Proposal 9b: Require links for claims of misbehavior, initiated by Reaper Eternal
- Proposal 10: Unbundling 90% of blocks, initiated by WereSpielChequers
- Proposal 12: Abolish the discretionary zone and crat chats, initiated by Kusma
- Proposal 12b: Abolish crat chats and allow discretionary relisting, initiated by Ivanvector
- Proposal 12c: Lower the high end of the bureaucrats' discretionary zone from 75% to 70%, initiated by City of Silver
- Proposal 13: Admin elections, initiated by Novem Linguae
- Proposal 14: Suffrage requirements, initiated by Kusma
- Proposal 16: Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs, initiated by Thebiguglyalien
- Proposal 16b: Require a reconfirmation RfA after X years, initiated by Thebiguglyalien
- Proposal 16c: Community recall process based on dewiki, initiated by Soni
- Proposal 16e: Allow the community to initiate recall RfBs, initiated by BilledMammal
- Proposal 16f: Require a reconfirmation RfB after X years, initiated by Cryptic
- Proposal 17: Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions, initiated by SchroCat
- Proposal 18: Normalize the RfB consensus requirements, initiated by theleekycauldron
- Proposal 20: Make RFA an internal non public process, initiated by WereSpielChequers
- Proposal 21: Reduce threshold of consensus at RfA, initiated by Ritchie333
- Proposal 21b: Slightly reduce threshold of consensus at RfA, initiated by HouseBlaster
- Proposal 22: Change the name from RFA to "Nominations For Adminship", initiated by North8000
- Proposal 24: Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process, initiated by SportingFlyer
- Proposal 25: Require nominees to be extended confirmed, initiated by Femke
- Proposal 27: Introduce training/periodic retraining for admins, initiated by WereSpielChequers
- Proposal 28: Limiting multi-part questions, initiated by HouseBlaster
Successful
Unsuccessful
- Proposal 1: Impose community sanctions on RfA, initiated by theleekycauldron
- Proposal 9: Require diffs, initiated by jc37
- Proposal 11: Set some of the Admin criteria, initiated by WereSpielChequers
- Proposal 15: Community-based process for appointing CheckUsers and Oversighters, initiated by Interstellarity
- Proposal 16d: Community recall process initiated by consensus, initiated by Novo Tape
- Proposal 19: Discussion-only RfAs, initiated by SportingFlyer
- Proposal 23: All Admins are probationary for first six months, initiated by Chetsford
- Proposal 26: Have the admin corps select its own members, initiated by Herostratus