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  • Swedish Wikipedia uses a admin system in which each admin is only selected for a year at a time, to decrease the need for someone nominating another admin for de-adminship. Each month there are votes about a few admins' tools. This also means that non-active admins are sorted out without any particular process; the time merely runs out for them. The process can be followed here. Hannibal (talk) 22:22, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • The segmented by-lines for this article are reassuring. Does the Signpost intend to use them in all future pieces about matters in which Signpost writers have a conflict of interest? AGK [•] 00:17, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I guess that a process like the Swedish Wikipedia has will only work well for smaller Wikipedias with less than approximately 100 admins. Swedish Wikipedia has currently 89 administrators; there are 268 in German WP, and 1,444 in English WP. If every admin has to be re-elected annually, you get an average of 7.4 admin re-election procedures per month with 89 admins, that's of course manageable. But with 268 admins you would get already more than 22 re-elections per month, and for 1,444 admins more than 120... I do not think that the process would scale well. Of course, the communities are much larger. But having to decide whether you want to re-elect 22 admins per month, let alone 120, will be too much for many individual community members and make the results less meaningful. Gestumblindi (talk) 20:15, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is a very good point, Gestumblindi. We may eventually have knowledge of enough admin systems to determine the extent to which (i) the size of the active community; (ii) the raw admin count; (iii) the age of the project; and (iv) cultural/linguistic and other factors, have played into the distinctiveness and commonalities between the systems. It would make a good PhD project.

    I neglected to add here the comments of User:Savh, a respected member of the Spanish WP; given the short notice, he was unable to send them before copy-deadline, which was largely my fault:


Tony (talk) 11:32, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]