Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Archive/Limiter la durée des mandats

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Limiter la durée des mandats

NoN Proposes a social/community policy change rather than a technical feature. Any community that wants to can implement this policy as they see fit.

  • Problem: Concerne les seuls admins. La durée indéfinie donc infinie des mandats induit la constitution d'un “esprit de groupe” qui a pour effet de former une sorte de caste qui préserve ses positions au détriment de la fluidité des contributions.
  • Who would benefit: Tous les contributeurs.
  • Proposed solution: Limiter la durée des mandats (pas de suggestion ferme mais un ou deux ans me semblent une bonne option) et le nombre de mandats (selon moi, un à trois).
  • More comments: Rien à ajouter, sinon mon salut à toutes et tous.
  • Phabricator tickets: Je me demande ce que signifie “Phabricator tickets”... Pas très important sinon que ça dénote d'un “entre soi” très net, seuls les connaisseurs des méandres de Wikipédia peuvent décoder le terme.
  • Proposer: Olivier Hammam (talk) 04:01, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remarque incidente: Je soumets ma proposition en français parce que mon anglais est insuffisant, merci d'avance à qui se donnera la peine de me traduire en pidgin globish anglais.

Discussion

I shall attempt a first-draft translation into English, with assistance from machine translation since my French is elementary. I'm hoping that someone with a better knowledge of French can fix any parts that are grammatically awkward due to my not knowing on my own what the original French says. I also will attempt to tinker with it by machine-translating it from French to Spanish, which I do know well. Global teamwork FTW! 🤣 Lawikitejana (talk) 08:42, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Problem: Only admins. The indefinite and therefore infinite duration of mandates creates the formation of a "group spirit" [in-group] which has the effect of forming a sort of caste which preserves its position to the detriment of the flow of contributions.
  • Who would benefit: All contributors.
  • Proposed solution: Limit the duration of mandates (no firm suggestion but one or two years seem like a good option) and the number of mandates (in my opinion, one to three).
  • More comments: Nothing to add, otherwise my greetings to all.
  • Phabricator tickets: I wonder what "Phabricator tickets" means ... Not very important except that it denotes a very clear "in-group" [clique], only connoisseurs of meandering Wikipedia can decode the term.

Propose: Olivier Hammam (talk) 04:01, 4 November 2018 (UTC) Incident note: I submit my proposal in French because my English is insufficient, thank you in advance to whoever will take the trouble to translate mine into pidgin globish English. [De ríen! (You're welcome! / ¡De nada! Lawikitejana (talk) 08:42, 4 November 2018 (UTC) ][reply]

Quick note: this user was blocked indefinitely on frwiki in 2017, followed by a block on enwiki, dewiki, itwiki and nlwiki for harasment. — 0x010C ~talk~ 10:47, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
We already do this when we elect stewards, and any wiki can implement this without further technical work – Swedish Wikipedia has one-year terms for admins, 'crats, check users etc. This is a decision that's up to each individual community. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 16:05, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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