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Revision as of 00:23, 6 November 2024
This page is for drafting mini RFCs to change the administrator elections process.
- Please do not vote. This will come in a later phase on a different page.
- Please do feel free to modify RFC text on this page. For example, to include additional options.
Pass percentage
What should the required percentage be to pass an administrator election?
- Option 1 - 70.00% (current)
- Option 2 - 65.00%
- Option 3 - 60.00%
Maximum # of candidates in each election
What should the maximum number of candidates in each administrator election be?
- Option 1 - Unlimited (current)
- Option 2 - 10
- Option 3 - 15
Scrutineers
Who should the scrutineers be (the folks that have access to voter IP addresses and browser fingerprints in order to look for sockpuppets and cheating) in future administrator elecitons?
- Option 1 - 3 stewards (current)
- Option 2 - 3 English Wikipedia checkusers
Unofficial voter guides
For future administrator elections, what shall the rules be regarding unofficial voter guides?
- Option 1 - May not be mentioned at Wikipedia:Administrator elections. May be mentioned on other pages such as talk pages. (current)
- Option 2 - May not be linked from any election-related page.
- Option 3 - Add a sentence to Wikipedia:Administrator elections that states
An unofficial list of voter guides may be found at Category:Wikipedia administrator elections 2024 voter guides.
Official voter guides
For future administrator elections what shall the rule be regarding official voter guides?
- Option 1 - No official voter guide shall be produced (current)
- Option 2 - An official voter guide shall be produced, containing only a pre-agreed set of factual statistics in a pre-agreed format
- Option 3 - An official voter guide shall be produced without restriction on content or formatting
Suffrage requirements
Who may vote in future administrator elections?
- Option 1 - Use the arbitration committee elections suffrage criteria: created their account over 2 months before the election, have 150 mainspace edits by 1 month before the election, have 10 live edits in the year running up to 1 month before the election, not be sitewide blocked during the election, not be vanished, not be a bot, and not have already voted with this or another account. (current)
- Option 2 - SecurePoll will be programmed to require extendedconfirmed on English Wikipedia, not be sitewide blocked on English Wikipedia, and not be a bot. Additionally, scrutineers will remove any duplicate votes, sockpuppet votes, or vanished account votes.
Minimum vote requirement
Should there be a minimum vote requirement to elect a candidate?
- Option 1 - no requirement. (current)
- Option 2 - require 20 supports minimum to pass
- Option 3 - require 50 supports minimum to pass
- Option 4 - require 100 supports minimum to pass
- Option 5 - requirement based on quorum, e.g., if a majority of voters abstain, there is no quorum to pass. [I don't understand this one. Can it be reworded for clarity?]