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Rolling administrator elections

1. ELECTION FREQUENCY

1.1 Every month, an election is held to appoint administrators.

2. NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES

2.1 Any editor in good standing[1] may nominate themselves for election.
2.2 Candidates must submit their nomination at least seven days before the close of the election.
2.3 Unsuccessful candidates may renominate again in future elections.
2.4 Any Bureaucrat may order a Sock Puppet Investigation on any or all candidates, for any or no reason.[2]

3. METHOD OF ELECTION

3.1 Eligible voters can vote for as many or as few candidates as they like
3.2 Voters may only cast positive votes[3]
3.3 The candidates are ranked in order of votes received. Candidates ranked in the top 10% are elected as administrators
3.4 In the case of ties, the candidate(s) with the earlier account creation date(s) are elected
3.5 The Wikimedia Foundation may veto any successful candidate, for any or no reason, as an Office Action[4]

4. TERM LIMIT

4.1 Administrators elected in this fashion are granted administrator status for a period of three years.
4.2 Administrators may stand for re-election within three months of the end of their term.
4.3 Administrators standing for re-election retain their administrator status until the election results are declared.
4.4 Administrators that are unsuccessful in standing for re-election lose their administrator status immediately, even if there is some time left in their previous term

5. RELATIONSHIP WITH EXISTING RfA POLICY

5.1 Existing administrators elected under the old RfA process retain their lifetime administrator status.
5.2 The current RfA process would run in parallel with this process, and admins successful under that process would be appointed for life as is currently the case.
5.3 Candidates may not concurrently nominate for election and the normal RfA process
5.4 There would be no difference in technical tools between administrators elected under this method and the existing RfA process
5.5 Administrators elected under this policy would be categorised as "Elected Administrators"

Notes

If this new process is successful, it is expected that the old RfA process would end, and remaining active admins appointed under the old RfA model would be auto-promoted to bureaucrats at some point.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Good standing" is to be defined
  2. ^ This is to prevent abuse of the election process, by stacking the field with sock puppets.
  3. ^ Voting for every candidate except for the candidates you dislike is effectively the same as negative voting.
  4. ^ This is in order to satisfy legal requirements such as the viewing of deleted content

Wikihow proposal

Elections

Desysopping

Possibilities

Following should be discussed at RfA:

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