 | This page in a nutshell: This is a collection of suggestions for a proposal to form an alternate admin selection process which will exist in conjunction with the current method of RfA. Everything is tentative and subject to reasonable comments on the talk page. |
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Jimbo Wales asserted in this discussion a desire to implement a process alternative to RfA. A process to serve the interests of Wikipedia, and the group of editors who may avoid requesting adminship mainly because they are not favorable to the current process. It is preferred that this process be reasonably expeditious in delivering a sub-set of administrative tools to qualified applicants upon reasonable request.
A new user group, tentatively called Admin apprentice will be created with limited administrative authority (this needs to be defined). The admin apprentice will demonstrated their fitness for the full tool set by their conduct as an apprentice. After a determined period of time and/or number of log actions, without incident or major concern, the apprentice admin will be granted full administrative authority. It is also desirable that any user who achieves administrator by this alternative means will by its own virtue be subject to a standard recall which also must be developed. It is also desired that this proposal develop initially as a trial, with evaluation parameters in place. After the trial, the process will be evaluated and go to the community for consensus to permanently adopt the alternative, or discard the endeavor as failed.
This policy tells us that adminship was "not a big deal". Yet it has become a big deal for many (for good reason). Mainly because it is viewed as a lifetime appointment, with excessively cumbersome means to remove the right. Therefor a tenet of this proposal is to return to standards where it is truly not a big deal. It will be a chance for someone to assist the project with firm foreknowledge that the bit can be easily removed upon cause. Like rollback this is not a lifetime appointment; if it's not abused, you retain it.
Administrators will continue in their full role as well as future candidates who succeed RfA. These proposals are not intended to replace RfA or other attempts at reforms that are part of the RfA reform 2011 project. The RfA process would remain viable and likely assume additional roles associated with this proposal, in particular as part of the recall process.