Talk:Wiki governance audit

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Guest Admins

I see a role for guest admins in small wikis and it might be worthwhile setting up a standard protocol. Take the Afrikaans Wiki for example (which, AFAIK is not in need of any guest admins). Everybody on the Afrikaans Wiki is reasonably fluent in English. Therefore any admin from another Wiki who is fluent in English and who has a passable knowledge of Afrikaans could become a guest admin. They would be expected to read anything that is in Afrikaans, but will write in English.

My views are influenced in part by my knowledge that in certain small countries (eg Lestho or the Falkland Islands), the chief justice is not a resident of that country, but makes periodic visits to fulfil his role. (See for example here.) Martinvl (talk) 18:22, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Update

Today I have completed the first run through of the wiki governance audit. For several months now I have known that this is going to be my final project on the Wikimedia global scale and that I will be cutting back on my contributions globally and focusing on the English Wikipedia where I started in 2005.

I hope that this venue continues in some form. The templates made it a bit clunky, and database reports could do a lot of it. (Also I don't think I once found a privacy violating script - I think this is checked through some other method; and, auditing big wikis was probably a waste of time.) I also did it alone. My original plan was to socialize this a bit more, but all sorts of scheduling issues led to bursts of activity and then long periods of inactivity, which is not ideal for trying to coordinate with others.

While statistics are still coming in, here is where they stand now:

• 1 steward removed
• 2 CU rights removed
• 1 OS right removed
• 37 admins removed
• 6 bureaucrats removed
• 1 importer removed
• 1368 pages deleted
• 1 global bot removed
• 120 wikis added to global bots
• 130 wikis added to global message delivery
• 1 wiki proposed for closure

I want to think all the local and global users who fulfilled the multitude of requests that made this project possible.

It has now been roughly 10 years since I started becoming more active globally, including 1 year as a steward. Now more than ever, it is important to have a freely available source of information about our world, and as we saw with the Croatian Wikipedia and other recent cases, what happens on a global Wikimedia scale can have impacts on real life. I am grateful to the Wikimedia community for letting a mostly English-only administrator from California contribute to the project in this way, both as a steward and in the years that followed.

While I still foresee making edits and requests (and maybe votes) on Meta if there is a need, I will be cutting back my participation on Meta for the foreseeable future. Other commitments in my life have increased, and I am struggling to keep up with all these other wikis. I also feel that my experience as a former steward is becoming out of date, since I have not been a steward now for over 7 years and do not intend to become one again. I will continue as an administrator and editor on the English Wikipedia, which is also requiring more of the time that I have for Wikimedia projects.

Best wishes, Rschen7754 07:11, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Will this be carried out in 2023? I really hope someone from WMF can step up and perform this work. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)