UDWiki:Administration/Re-Evaluations

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Once a year, all sitting sysops will come up for re-evaluation by the community. The idea of this re-evaluation is to ensure that each sysop still has the trust of the community, which is vital for a sysop to have. This will give the community a chance to voice their opinions about how the sysops have been doing, and re-affirm or decline their trusted user status.

The idea of a sysop being a trusted user is a part of the guidelines for the general conduct of a sysop. The guidelines for the re-evaluation is the same as for being promoted to a sysop (which is reposted below), but with a few minor changes in wording.

Guidelines for System Operator Re-Evaluations

Once a year, on Urban Dead's birthday (July 3rd), all sysops will be subject to a community discussion. Sysops may also put themselves up for re-evaluation at any time (see below). All users are asked to comment on each candidate in question, ask questions of the candidate, and discuss the candidate's suitability for continuing to be a System Operator. This is not a vote. It is instead merely a request for comments from the wiki community. This will continue for two weeks, as all users get a chance to air their opinions on the candidate.

Once the two weeks are up, the Bureaucrats will review the community discussion and make a decision for each candidate based upon it. The user will be notified of the status of their re-evaluation, and will be retained in their position should it appear that the community is willing to continue to accept them as a System Operator. In the event that the decision is negative, then the sysop will be demoted back to regular user status, where after a month's time, the user can re-submit themself for promotion.

Before users voice their opinions on the candidate who wishes to continue their System Operator status, the following guidelines should be reviewed by the user:

General User Guidelines for System Operator Re-Evaluations

Before voicing their opinion on a candidate's re-evaluation bid, a user should consider some of the following questions:

• Has the candidate spent significant time within the community as a sysop?

We define this as the candidate having made at least one edit in the past 3 months. It is recommended that a user look over the the sysop activity check and last 500 edits to determine the level of activity of the candidate.

Note: The Truly Inactive Sysops policy dictates that a sysop who hasn't made an edit within four months is automatically demoted. Therefore, for a sysop to be re-evaluated, they need to have made an edit before that time-frame is up.

• Has the candidate maintained significant activity within the community?

We define this as at least 50 edits under the candidate's name since their last re-evaluation. It is recommended that a user look over the candidate's last 50 edits in order to get a feel for the activity of a candidate.

Note: looking in a User's User contributions might give false results for this criterion, as the edit history used to be periodically purged on this wiki.

• Has the candidate expressed interest in maintaining the community?

We define this as clear evidence that the candidate is already performing maintenance tasks and continuing taking a leadership role on the wiki.

• Has the candidate expressed a desire to continue to be a System Operator?

We define this simply as indicating in the candidate's request their desire to continue to maintain the position.

• Is there an indication of trust in the candidate.

We define this as a minimum of three other users (preferably users with at least 200 edits under their name and at least one System Operator), willing to vouch for the candidate's suitability for the role.

If a candidate is highly exemplary in one guideline, a certain level of flexibility should be extended to the other guidelines. Other guidelines for qualifications may be used, these are just a few suggested things to consider before a user voices their opinion.

Re-Evaluations still open for discussion

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Re-Evaluations still needing to be processed

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Recent Re-evaluations

User:Krazy Monkey

Might as well get this done. I don't want to be last. =/ Anyway, I've been on the wiki since some point waaaaaay back in April 2006, became a sysop round about February last year and I've made a veritable shit-load of edits since then. Admittedly, I have been away quite a bit over this summer due to work and holidays and stuff, but I'm back now and getting stuck back in. The main tasks I do are generally deleting stuff, moving stuff, categorising images and some other stuff like double and broken redirects. In any case, I think I've covered everything and if the community will have me, I'm quite happy to continue being a sysop. -- Cheese 21:16, 3 September 2009 (BST)

• Vouch - you do lots of sysopy things--THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 21:27, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - As those to the left of me. --Rahrah^{Come join the #party!}21:30, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - A great freaking sysop imnsho. Makes quality contributions, and isn't afraid to weigh in with an opinion while acting fairly ;). What more can we want?--_GANG Giles Sednik _CAPD 21:33, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Probably the best sysop we have in the team. I trust him to make the right decisions. --Thadeous Oakley 21:46, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch without hesitation.... sure he makes the occasional bad call but who doesn't? At least Monkey Boy here will give everyone a fair hearing which is a hell of a lot more than some deserve. --Honestmistake 22:56, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Not perfect, but generally honest, even about his mistakes. --Papa Moloch 22:59, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - no explanation necessary. --WanYao 23:07, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Abstain - I don't know; he's been in that closet for a long time now... </dumbfamilyguyjoke>. Seriously though, I don't feel like I know him well enough to judge his character. Lelouch vi Britannia is helping make Ridleybank green_ and gives Achievements 23:32, 3 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Only J3D has been a better sysop than this man--CyberRead240 00:40, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 02:28, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - As everyone. --Haliman - Talk 02:46, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Duh. --Paddy Dignam^{IS DEAD} 03:04, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Sheet.--SirArgo ^Talk 03:06, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Durnk wiking fwt.----Nallan (Talk) 04:11, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - As Moloch. Cyberbob  Talk  04:18, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - as SLR --xoxo 04:55, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - He's a good 'sop, who should stay a good 'sop.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 10:25, 4 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Other than the problems inherent in all of this wiki's sysops he's good people. Conndraka^{mod TAZM CFT} 14:07, 5 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Good sysop, nothing else to add.-- Adward  15:18, 5 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - T^HEL^ORDG^UNS^LINGER 01:33, 6 September 2009 (BST)
• Vouch - Everyone's pretty much said everything I would have had said. --DBHT 19:58, 6 September 2009 (BST)

  Vouch - Yesh. --Akule ^{Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™} 22:56, 10 September 2009 (BST) An hour too late man, but thanks for the confidence. =) -- Cheese 23:07, 10 September 2009 (BST)

The community discussion is now over. I leave this in the hands of Boxy and Link now. -- Cheese 23:07, 10 September 2009 (BST)

Kept -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 03:31 13 September 2009 (BST)

Archived Evaluations

• Complete list of Re-Evaluations Requests
• Successful Re-Evaluations Candidacies
• Unsuccessful Re-Evaluations Candidacies

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User	Position	Last Contribution	Seat Available
A Helpful Little Gnome (Contribs)	Bureaucrat	2021-10-29	2021-12-01
DanceDanceRevolution (Contribs)	Bureaucrat	2021-10-28	2021-12-01
Rosslessness (Contribs)	Sysop	2021-10-14	N/A
Stelar (Contribs)	Sysop	2021-10-29	N/A

Total Sysops: 4 (excluding Kevan, LeakyBocks and Urbandead)

Last updated at: 03:58, 28 October 2021 (UTC)