Blog:New process - qualitipedia staff

The relevant page will be updated soon. This is the launching announcement for how network staffing will go forward.

As much as there's been progress, I clearly cannot operate the entire network by myself nor can I be the only one with 'network' authorization. I lack the time and persistence to do that and quite frankly I feel rather unsupported in doing it by other existing bureaucrats, and there are additionally people who can bring things to staffing who can only be enabled with proper jurisdiction. So I am now executing the 'network admins' idea, which will empower select users who are well established and popular on the wikis with the ability to act as an extension of bureaucrat will. They will be able to help maintain structure and rules that are set in place by bureaucrats as well as community votes, and for the time being they are empowered under my own jurisdiction. In other words someone who is considered a 'network admin' is directly empowered by me. Their activity is assessed by their communication/collaboration with bureaucrats/me, and is not bound to how active they are on particular wikis. They are expected to be competent as well as models for what I would like to see from admins going forward.

All others are considered local admins, users with significant history and activity to wikis they specialize in, and their activity is assessed on a per-wiki basis. I seek two things. Either communication/collaboration with the bureaucracy, or simply keeping their noses clean. While I would like to see admins at least putting administrative powers to use in the vein of Allistayrian or Katsumi, I will not actively demote local admins who are at least active as users. If they are inactive for multiple months on particular wikis however, they will be returned to the normal user base. I intend to review this periodically.

I have plans for a low rank moderating position that carries fewer expectations and is a way for users to demonstrate competence on individual wikis, but that is not ready to be announced or executed yet. It would combine all 'little' ranks into one, such as comment admin, rollbacker and content moderator. Users who have any of these rights and are active would be placed into moderator and new, trustworthy candidates would be able to join it as well.

In time I hope to see admins become network admins, well-established local admins who can actively guide their chosen wikis or moderators. Frankly I think a shakeup in the bureaucracy is due as well, but we'll see how this arrangement goes first.

TigerBlazer is the first designated network admin, empowered to act on all wikis and act with the consent of bureaucrats as such. He is not the boss of local admins (for now they are all still equal and directly answerable to community vote or bureaucrats), but if something isn't done right locally he can take it directly to me, where I'll either manage it myself or he can be delegated to handle it.

Other candidates can be nominated. Some have been contacted, and I await more definite confirmation.

That's all for now, any comments, questions, critique and so forth are welcome by comments as always.