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

User:DanceDanceRevolution

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

My A/RE is due tomorow but there's no real point waiting. Don't really have much to say, been an op for 2 years, spent a cumulative year of it as a crat, both times filling the void where more favourable crats either left or withdrew. I happily spend time on udwiki as a user or an op so no matter how this evaluation goes I'll be around regardless.

Will happily answer any questions, etc. -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 07:43, 17 June 2011 (BST)

• Vouch - No questions needed. DDR is sensible, fair and there's no reason why he shouldn't remain a sysop.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 08:47, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Strong Vouch - DDR is experienced and good at what he does, and other than the candidate blindly chosen by the dead, he was the most popular at the last crat election.--Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 10:07, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch - Not a tosser, just Australian. --Papa Moloch 10:26, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch - is conspiring against me --Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 11:11, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch massive flaming Aussie fagot--User:Sexualharrison13:10, 17 June 2011 (bst)
• Vouch i like turtles -hagnat 14:09, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch Alt+F4 more years. ~ _{14:29, 17 June 2011 (UTC)}
• Vouch - DDR has his moments on the opinion pages, but overall, he does a decent job. Not my favourite op by a long shot, but worth to be kept around. -- Spiderzed█ 15:02, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Aye go on then 15:18, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Vouch Spider pretty much sums up my thoughts. I often disagree with him but i do trust him not to purposely fuck things up. --Honestmistake 18:40, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Strong Vouch - I know he's not the most popular, especially with certain groups, but he does good work. He's smart enough to know the difference between the rules that matter and technicalities that don't, he's good at admitting when he's wrong, and he's not afraid to speak his mind. —Aichon— 19:59, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Abstain - <insert personal opinion with 20% more vulgarities and trolling>--THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 20:08, 17 June 2011 (BST)
• Strong Vouch - Best sysop we have. The fact that's he not considered "popular" by the local tribes of idiots but still manages to breeze through this re-evaluation is a testament to this. Also the only modern wiki survivor of my favorite Australian club. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 20:40, 17 June 2011 (BST)

Re-Evaluations still needing to be processed

There are currently no Re-Evaluations to be processed.

Recent Re-evaluations

There have been no recent re-evaluations

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	2024-06-10	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)