Wikimedia Futures Lab/Dashboard/Experiment Tracker/Temporary Admin Role for Medium Wikis
- Experiment owner(s) - add your usernames: Renvoy, SanBonne
- Experiment title: Temporary Admin role for Medium Wikis
- Brief description of experiment:
Given that: there is a decline in administrators across all wikis.
We suggest trying: introducing an experiment of temporary admins as a way to (a) meet urgent needs, and (b) find potential candidates for long-term.
Questions to ask in evaluation:
- How well do temporary admins do?
- For a given wiki, what temporary period would they use, and what is ideal
- How many go on to become long term admins? (votes, etc)
- How many people go on to less good faith action after they get promoted?
- Survey temporary admins about the experience
- Potentially survey the community on trust
- Other people in support: User:CS_natematias
Next steps:
- JNM interview User:Renvoy write the story of Ukraine’s wikipedia, for recruitment (include data on admin decline, and how Ukraine is different)
- Create a guide to introducing this policy, including a set of templates that would be useful (User:Renvoy can document what Ukraine did)
- Recruit potentially interested wikis and people, and create some way for them to have conversations, ask questions, and support each other
- Communities to reach out to:
- User:SanBonne can reach out to Arabic and French Wikipedias
- Anticipated completion date:
- Link to a page where people can follow progress - this can be your own userpage / sandbox:
Notes
[edit]- Eliminators on several wikis.