[Foundation-l] Opt-out global sysop proposal

Mon Aug 31 01:55:25 UTC 2009

Many of the list regulars might remember the global sysop proposal that had
been brought up around May and June 2009. The idea ultimately fizzled,
because there was simply not enough support to actually have a global,
non-opt out sysop group. Since then, a new proposal has been drawn up, which
is currently running, that allows communities to opt-in to a global sysop
wikiset, which would allow users in the global sysop usergroup to act as
sysops only on those wikis. However, the issue with this is that no project
has actually bothered to opt-in, so the process has been dead for the better
part of a year. Meanwhile, the stewards have had to combat an increasing
amount of vandalism on the small wikis, and even though global rollbackers
can help some, blocking vandals and deleting nonsense pages ultimately
becomes the job of just a few of the active stewards.

The situation could be easily remedied if there were a global sysop group;
there are a good number of trustworthy global rollbackers who would be
excellent global sysops. I drew up a proposal to automatically opt-in "small
wikis" (as defined within the below proposal) into a global sysop wikiset.
Global sysops would have full administrator tools on those wikis, but would
use them only in response to blatant vandalism. Please take a look at the
third link and give your opinions about the proposal on the talk page.

2008 Proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops_(2008_proposal)
Current process (opt-in), inactive:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops
Opt-out proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops/opt-out_proposal

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