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Articles tagged: Reforming RfA edit
News and notes Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
2021-12-28
Wrapping up 2021 with a pair of auctions, activity surrounding administrators, and an audit.
Discussion report Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
2021-09-26
Emotional injury and rising standards against a backdrop of a dwindling sysop cadre: the 2021 Requests for adminship review grapples with tough issues.
Special report Administrator cadre continues to contract
2019-07-31
A new record set: fewer than 500 active admins.
In focus The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages
2019-01-31
Did you know that there was an admin who thought that the metaphor of the mop was a joke, and now they know it's not?
Op-ed The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise
2018-07-31
How admins would-bes run the gauntlet
Op-ed What do admins actually do?
2018-06-29
What do admins do?: Admins volunteer to be abused – or so it seems.
Op-ed Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?
2018-05-24
Kudpung has some thoughts on the reasons for becalmed forums and the reluctance of candidates to (wo)man the rigging.
Editorial Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
2015-02-18
Go Phightins! shares his thoughts on admin attrition and the size of the administrative backlog.
News and notes Another admin reform attempt flops
2013-04-15
The most recent move to reform the requests for adminship process on the English Wikipedia has failed, after a complex and drawn-out three-step procedure for community input was subject to decreasing participation as time wore on and came up with no clear consensus.
News and notes Requests for adminship reform moves forward
2013-01-21
Various proposals, ranging from as large as a transition to a representative democracy to as small as a required edit count and service length, have been debated on the RfA talk page in the last three weeks.
Special report Adminship from the German perspective
2012-10-22
Examining adminship from the German perspective: Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
Op-ed AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins
2012-10-15
There is wide agreement among English Wikipedians that the administrator system is in some ways broken—but no consensus on how to fix it. Most suggestions have been relatively small in scope, and could at best produce small improvements. I would like to make a proposal to fundamentally restructure the administrator system, in a way that I believe would make it more effective and responsive. The proposal is to create an elected Administration Committee ("AdminCom") which would select, oversee, and deselect administrators.