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

Vapor

• Vapor (talk | contribs | UDWiki contribs | logs1 | logs2 | vndl data | sysop archive)

I'm going to go ahead and open this up a couple of weeks early so there isn't so much of an overlap with Ross, who is due on the 9-16 or Thad who is on 10-9.

So, I pretty obviously meet all the technical requirements so y'all just let me know how I did these past 7.5 months. Cheers. ~ _{21:18, 29 August 2011 (UTC)}

• Question. What's your next project? --"Workshed" 21:23, 29 August 2011 (BST)

  Uhh I'll be kind of tied up with October Bash 2 for about 1.5 months. But I have UDWiki:Wiki Suggestions cooking (see here for a few minor details). I've got maybe one or two ongoing projects that I work on as well. ~ _{21:36, 29 August 2011 (UTC)}

• Strong Vouch - Works hard, keeps a cool head and is tech-savvy. All around an advantage to have in the team. -- Spiderzed█ 22:01, 29 August 2011 (BST)
• Question - If re-promoted, would the candidate continue to use american dating conventions?--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 22:29, 29 August 2011 (BST)

  You can pretty much count on it. When I remember to use European convention, it looks so odd to me.~ _{23:48, 29 August 2011 (UTC)}

  Strongly Against - The candidate accepts his flaws and acknowledges that he is unwilling to change them to attempt to better himself.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 01:04, 30 August 2011 (BST)

• Vouch --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 22:56, 29 August 2011 (BST)
• Strong Vouch Seems like a sensible guy.--Alice Gravesend 01:38, 30 August 2011 (BST)
• Fuck this guy - and fuck whatever retard suggested him for promotion in the first pl- oh wait. Vouch. 01:50, 30 August 2011 (BST)
• Double Fuck this guy as miss. vouch.--User:Sexualharrison02:28, 30 August 2011 (bst)
• vouch - No regrets about promoting vapor, has been very stable sysop. -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 04:26, 30 August 2011 (BST)
• Hold on a minute. I'm no longer a crat, so I can vote on things again, after abandoning my own foolish rule. Semi-Uber-Vouch. --"Workshed" 09:18, 30 August 2011 (BST)
• Question Are you a boy or a girl? --THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 18:21, 30 August 2011 (BST)

  Misanthropy and Harrison both said they want to fuck vapor, so he's obviously a man.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 18:29, 30 August 2011 (BST)

  Mis drinks. 19:30, 30 August 2011 (BST)

  harrison smokes and drinks. --User:Sexualharrison20:49, 30 August 2011 (bst)

  I am a man. Isn't it obvious by the flopping of my e-penis? ~ _{21:02, 30 August 2011 (UTC)}

  Now you're getting the hang of this internet speak! --"Workshed" 21:14, 30 August 2011 (BST)

  Sirens taught me that there are only men on the internet. --Akule ^{Maker of fine, hand-crafted UDWiki sass since 2006 -- Akule School's back in session™} 21:27, 30 August 2011 (BST)

• Vouch --^A_O^R_D^M_O^P_R^I _! ^T 20:51, 30 August 2011 (BST)

Re-Evaluations still needing to be processed

There are currently no Re-Evaluations to be processed.

Recent Re-evaluations

User:Spiderzed

Archived here as successful. -- Spiderzed█ 23:26, 7 August 2011 (BST)

Archived Evaluations

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

Re-Evaluations Scheduling

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)