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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Recent Re-evaluations

Rosslessness

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

I hate the Crat sub rule on Re-evaluations, So almost a year since my last one, so re-evaluate me. Questions always appreciated. --Ross^WHO????ness 16:00, 24 August 2012 (BST)

• Question: What do you think is the most significant concern regarding the wiki today? —Aichon— 16:10, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  Bears. --Ross^WHO????ness 16:34, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  On a more serious level the lack of information in some key areas. For instance there's still no reference anywhere to the different coloured squares for surrounding NT's in necronet scans, no ingame history to the perma death cities or other such things. --Ross^WHO????ness 16:34, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  What do you believe are currently your chief contributions towards the betterment of the wiki? —Aichon— 17:24, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  Honestly? Blocking Spambots instead of doing any of the stuff I want to.--Ross^WHO????ness 18:28, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  What's your opinion on the various pieces of slashfiction regarding you? Which is your favorite, and why? If you had to provide one quote for your fans, what would it be? —Aichon— 00:15, 26 August 2012 (BST)

I've always suffered a lot less trolling, abuse and random misconduct charges than most sops, so it was only be expected my online persona be twisted in another direction. Personally I'd recommend User:Infrastructure/Story --Ross^WHO????ness 15:12, 27 August 2012 (BST)

• Against: Time for your retirement. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 17:13, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  Would have been a more efficient burn if you hadn't needed two attempts to format it correctly. --Ross^WHO????ness 18:28, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  Blame Aichon, I just followed his format at first. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 18:43, 24 August 2012 (BST)

• Question: Where do you think the game in general and the wiki in particular are heading? -- Spiderzed█ 17:16, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  I'm quite hopeful about the wiki. We are taking a good look at a lot of the important pages and trying to record the legacy in a better way. Game wise, I think we will know the answer to that in December. In the meantime I'm pushing Amazing to host a clone city, perma death rules, all buildings beginning ruined with 100ap repair cost. But he's too busy being renditioned, extraordinarily. --Ross^WHO????ness 18:28, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  Satisfactory answers. Change policy to make Ross crat for life. -- Spiderzed█ 21:44, 25 August 2012 (BST)

• Question: What areas do you feel need improvement, for the wiki and for yourself as a sysop?-MHSstaff 18:31, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  Personally, I need to complete stuff. Persons of note, this giddings things, individual zombie skills pages, the history of the perma death cities. my third the difference experiment, unimplementia, the list goes on. As for the wiki, I think history in game is the thing we need to get done. Everyday more of us leave. How many of us ever met Ron? Basic formatting and guides can wait. Maybe. --Ross^WHO????ness 18:35, 24 August 2012 (BST)

  Vouch Good answers. -MHSstaff 18:42, 24 August 2012 (BST)

• Vouch --Alice Gravesend 23:42, 24 August 2012 (BST)
• Question - What question would you ask yourself if you were a bureaucrat asking questions on a bid and you were the person whose bid it was?--Shortround }.{ My Contributions 23:49, 24 August 2012 (BST)

Inane Movie Trivia questions, My opinion on specific wiki editors, something quite difficult and technical to betray my complete lack of wiki fu and whether Im a girl. That kind of thing.--Ross^WHO????ness 00:08, 25 August 2012 (BST)

Questions - What's your opinion on you? How do you make a div appear upside down and a span shine yellow? How many voice actors are there in the movie Dumbo? What's your opinion on Rooster's technical wikifu? Was Bambi a girl?--Shortround }.{ My Contributions 09:56, 25 August 2012 (BST)

I'm sexy and I know it, I ask Karek, None, it's animated, excellent, Bambi was a deer. --Ross^WHO????ness 10:45, 25 August 2012 (BST)

Your answers are satisfactory. Abstain.--Shortround }.{ My Contributions 15:04, 25 August 2012 (BST)

• Question what do prefer editing the wiki in boxers or briefs? and tell us how you really feel about thad.--User:Sexualharrison02:32, 25 August 2012

  Boxers. It's a heat issue. My opinion on Thad is pretty much my public opinion on Thad. he did some good work, he became a sysop, he stopped doing good work. it happens to many of us. --Ross^WHO????ness 09:46, 25 August 2012 (BST)

• Against as thad--User:Sexualharrison21:53, 25 August 2012
• Question: What? -- _{Org XIII} ^Alts 03:19, 25 August 2012 (BST)

  Like, totally. --Ross^WHO????ness 09:46, 25 August 2012 (BST)

  Question 2: Now using only the same letters (but not the same words) as your previous response, why should you continue being a sysop? -- _{Org XIII} ^Alts 16:12, 25 August 2012 (BST)

  I'd like to know your response to this as well. I know the perfect reply but I'd like to know ifnyou come up with the same thing or something different. ~ _{17:43, 25 August 2012 (UTC)}

  I, Ross, are a guy, who???? goes less to sys it but not try to go. --Ross^WHO????ness 00:28, 26 August 2012 (BST)

  I reserve my "not a vote" until I hear Vapor's response. -- _{Org XIII} ^Alts 01:20, 26 August 2012 (BST)

  My response pales in comparison and shall be withheld. ~ _{02:21, 26 August 2012 (UTC)}

  For I was ready to say against, but then I realized the g and b came from the date on the sig. Well played. -- _{Org XIII} ^Alts 22:20, 26 August 2012 (BST)

• Vouch. Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 12:54, 25 August 2012 (BST)
• Question - Should we bug Kevan again about the spambot problem or should you guys keep just blocking them as they come in? ~ _{17:43, 25 August 2012 (UTC)}

  Not really. Looking at the annoying rayban one its from a fairly obvious chinese IP range, we can probably just look at banning the entire range. --Ross^WHO????ness 00:28, 26 August 2012 (BST)

  Question 2 So like, what are you waiting on then? ~ _{02:21, 26 August 2012 (UTC)}

  Letting someone with more savvy IP skills than me to block the whole range. --Ross^WHO????ness 15:13, 27 August 2012 (BST)

• Question - What do you think of all these questions? --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 19:37, 25 August 2012 (BST)

  I love them all. --Ross^WHO????ness 00:28, 26 August 2012 (BST)

  Hmmmm I'm not sure if that's the answer I'm looking for. Can you answer this in a little more detail, please? :P --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 00:31, 26 August 2012 (BST)

  I like them tall ones, I like them short ones, I like them brown haired ones, I like them blonde haired ones, I like them big ones, I like them skinny ones, I like them carrying a little-bitty weight ones--Ross^WHO????ness 00:34, 26 August 2012 (BST)

  Hmmmm that's a convincing answer. Vouch. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 00:48, 26 August 2012 (BST)

• vouch - D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:37, 27 August 2012 (BST)
• Question - When editing or deciding anything when it comes to the wiki, what is more important to you: the case at hand or the effect that edit/decision will have on the community and future decisions? -- Johnny Twotoes 06:10, 27 August 2012 (BST)

  Breaking it down, when I edit anything I'm a user, and fully expect my edits on public pages to be modified, improved or discarded. When it comes to admin decisions I have a clear idea in my head of what the wiki is, and how it should run. This is probably most obvious in the A/A cases I've managed, but it's important to remember when it comes to decisions, I'm one of many decision makers. Being a Crat is irrelevant. All the position gives me is the right to promote and demote, and that's a process entirely backed by community involvement. The wiki evolves, but we can only deal with the problems put in front of us. So, probably current supersedes long term future precedence. --Ross^WHO????ness 12:07, 27 August 2012 (BST)

  Vouch :) -- Johnny Twotoes 21:45, 27 August 2012 (BST)

• Vouch -- Asheets 20:02, 27 August 2012 (BST)

Kept - -- boxy 03:08, 3 September 2012 (BST)

• Question - was anyone expecting a different result? -- boxy 03:08, 3 September 2012 (BST)

  Iscariot D^ANCED^ANCER^EVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:30, 3 September 2012 (BST)

  There can only be Boxes? --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 10:30, 4 September 2012 (BST)

  Only Thad, but that's a given. --I'm not the Ross UDWiki needs, I'm the Ross it deserves. 10:55, 4 September 2012 (BST)

  I am outraged and feel as though my abstain was not taken in to full consideration.--Shortround }.{ My Contributions 10:56, 4 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	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)