Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150812013021/@comment-17897872-20150812023210

Wildoneshelper wrote: 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 22 of the month. The voting period will last for 1 week, enough for users to make their support to other users. Do we need a voting round? It gets repetitive when we need both a voting round and nomination round. Can't we just start with the nomination round? And 1 week. Thank you!

Wildoneshelper wrote: The user must at least receive 7 normal user votes. Okay, but even if all admins vote support, the person can't be nominated if no normal users vote? Seems odd.

Wildoneshelper wrote: 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. Yes, we need prerequisites if we do it this way. The threads can be instantly closed if the prerequisites are not met. But I still don't agree with mainspace edits and such. Rather how active the user is and how long the user has been here is more important. Also we still don't need a voting round of supports, the nomination rounds will already iron out the novices.

Wildoneshelper wrote: 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. I still fail to see why we need recommendation letters.

Wildoneshelper wrote: 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. If a bureaucrat wants a user to be nominated, simply ask the user whether or not he has no problem. Approved by all bureaucrats? That's kind of sad if one bureaucrat really hates the user and everyone else loves him.

Wildoneshelper wrote: Do you think we should ask the administrator candidates to give documents on their leave if they could not edit in a part of the month? (Problem: Privacy issues) The admin doesn't have to, but it most recommended to. The admin must if the period is too long and we think he becomes inactive and is at flight risk of demotion.

Wildoneshelper wrote: Do you think we should count IP votes as well for the minimum requirement for a user to be an admin? NO. Discrimination? Maybe, but most IPs are sockpuppets of other users, and we just can't trust them because of cheaters. Shame on cheaters, and really sorry to those experienced IP addresses!