Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150812013021

I see there are quite a lot of people complaining about the new administrator selection method. I'm also bombarded by how bad the method is. I think the principal problem is that the duration of voting and nomination is too long. Therefore, I start with:

Voting changes

 * There will be a voting round if the administrator candidate has submitted the application before the voting day. The voting round starts from every 1, 8, 15 and 23 of the month.
 * The voting period will last for 1 week, enough for users to make their support to other users.

I think the period is much more reasonable. Now in the voting round, I also see the lack of normal users voting, especially for one of our candidates here. In the future, this could be a problem which will lead to the candidate of not being an administrator. Therefore:


 * The user must at least receive 7 normal user votes.

For the nomination round, I do think the prerequisites are reasonable enough. They can weed out novices and avoid administrators or other powerful users from other wikis being an administrator here at the fastest speed. The latter may cause problems like still not quite fitting in the community and not knowing much about Candy Crush Saga, which may lead to reverting edits which is misunderstood as vandalism.

I would also clarify one thing is that administrator candidates do not need to necessarily write a blog post and ask for support for other users. They can also ask for support of other users by posting on their message walls stating why you want to be an admin, and what qualifies of you to be an admin. Of course, blog post is still acceptable. I think as long as the blog post has received more than 4 supports, you can just stop replying.

I would also clarify that administrator candidates can ask only one admin here to write them a recommendation letter and it's no need to ask several admins at once. It is the best to be written at message walls, emails, user talks, or maybe you can scan your letter too. I think it would not be good to write it as a reply on blog posts, because I don't know if you are using your comment to support your user, or your comment is a recommendation letter.

In my opinion, I really recommend you to write a nomination letter of yourself, but still I also propose the following:

Another method of choosing admins
Bureaucrats can nominate users to be an admin. If a user is nominated, it has to be approved by all bureaucrats. The user must also say that he has no problem with being an administrator. After that, the voting round will start like the voting round of the first method. 