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

Karek

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

Since it is already late in the British day, I'm opening Karek's RE, which is due today. -- Spiderzed█ 18:17, 18 September 2012 (BST)

• Abstain - He's technically capable, but not mentally.

  I apprieciate that he's (very) active, does the grunt work consistently, while displaying a certain knowledge and expertise of both coding as well as wikilaw. On the other hand, he often can't handle being disagreed with, loves to throw accussations of bias/vendattas and doesn't know when to stop arguing when it accomplishes nothing more then inane walls of text. Although he's been behaving nicely lately, I'm hesistant whether this is an actual change in behaviour or more the result of lack of feasible drama.

  I would be willing to vouch like I did last time, because in the end, I find him capable enough and he brings something different to the table than other ops. However, I can't help but notice that I'm on some sort of shit list of his, and that he prefers to ignore me as much as possible and, in all honesty, I cannot fully support a sysops when said sysops does not support me as a member of this community. Therefore I abstain -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 19:23, 18 September 2012 (BST)

• Vouch. Same reasons as last time. Personality clashes aside, he's a good op. ~ _{19:38, 18 September 2012 (UTC)}
• Question - Is Thad's abstain the result of "bias/vendettas"? --Shortround }.{ My Contributions 20:02, 18 September 2012 (BST)

  Hold on there, I never accussed him of being biased against me. I trust him to be impartial, even against me, it just seems to me that he would prefer to see me leave the wiki rather sooner than later. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 20:18, 18 September 2012 (BST)

• Question. Why is it important to retain dinosaurs on the sysop team? --I'm not the Ross UDWiki needs, I'm the Ross it deserves. 20:12, 18 September 2012 (BST)

  I am a dinosaur (actually, a wiki dragon) and i take offense in that question --hagnat 20:16, 18 September 2012 (BST)

  Shut it haggy. Before I get mainly Cretaceous on your ass. --I'm not the Ross UDWiki needs, I'm the Ross it deserves. 20:23, 18 September 2012 (BST)

• Vouch good sysop, will trade with him again. A+++++++ --hagnat 20:15, 18 September 2012 (BST)
• Question - What has been your single biggest contribution to the wiki in the past eight months since your last evaluation? Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 20:16, 18 September 2012 (BST)
• Vouch - He knows what he's doing. I trust he'll be able to keep doing what he's doing. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 20:50, 18 September 2012 (BST)

Re-Evaluations still needing to be processed

There are currently no Re-Evaluations to be processed.

Recent Re-evaluations

• Rosslessness - archived as successful -- boxy 11:26, 8 September 2012 (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)