Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Admins and stewards/Automatic detection of admin candidates

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Automatic detection of admin candidates

  • Problem: There is a persistent shortage of admins. We need a better process for recruiting new admins.
  • Who would benefit: Everyone.
  • Proposed solution: More of less the reverse of an anti-vandal bot. Run a bot which examines editors' history: contributions, talk page activity, warnings, block logs, etc. etc., and use appropriate algorithms (to be determined) to detect accounts that might be potential good admins. (This might, for example, be a neural network trained on the contributions of current admins before they were made admins.) Make this list public, and send those accounts messages suggesting they put themselves forward for adminship.

    It's also possible that this automatic pre-review might also offer communities the possibility of shortening the current lengthy review/interview process for admin candidates selected this way.

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