UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Another Inactive Ops Policy

Changes

To the current policy will be in italics and red coloring.

Rules of demotion

• A Sysop that does not make a significant contribution to the community in 1 month will be considered for demotion. A member of the Administration will judge whether or not another sysops contributions in the past month have been significant or not, and if they are found to be wanting, they can then request a Bureaucrat's judgment.

• This is to avoid, for example, the case of a sysop simply making a few edits with the aim of avoiding the demotion.

• One week after the call for a 'Crat judgment, dependant on the actions of the sysop under scrutiny, the Bureaucrat will decide whether or not to carry out the demotion.

• The Bureaucrat is trusted and bound to make a fair decision, and not to demote a sysop who clearly demonstrates a return to activity on the wiki.

• Any demonstrable abuse of this power by a Bureaucrat, however unlikely, could (as with any other abuse of specific powers) be grounds for a Misconduct case.

• If the sysop makes no response at all to the warning, they must be demoted.

Sysop Hiatus

• It may be that a sysop knows in advance that they'll be taking a hiatus from this wiki.
• Any sysop may negate their future demotion based upon inactivity for up to 6 months by placing the following {{SysopHiatus}} template at the top of their user page or talk page:

I am on a sysop hiatus.

If I do not return within six months I will face potential demotion due to inactivity.

Purpose

• To rid the sysop list of any long-term inactive users and sysops who are not intent on making any active and meaningful contributions to the community.

• This may promote the take up of new sysops as voters realise that there are less active sysops than the full list implies.

• This policy does not purport to judge whether or not a sysop is currently engaged in sysop-specific duties, but only whether they are active generally.
• This policy is not meant as a punishment, but instead a simple housekeeping task.

Note

• This policy was heavily inspired by the fact that multiple members of the ops team come to the wiki and edit maybe once or twice a month if we're lucky.

Also, inb4criesofSAtakingoverthewiki.