User:Zombiebaron/sandbox

Administrator Reform

Arbitration Committee

This proposal in a nutshell: We should spend the next 6 months ratifying an Uncyclopedia Arbitration Committee Policy with the goal of holding annual ArbCom elections alongside VFS in October.

Uncyclopedia's administrative system has always closely mirrored that of the English Wikipedia, with a few key differences. On Wikipedia trusted users request an elevated set of permissions that allow them to perform janitorial tasks, and a separate annually elected Arbitration Committee handles matters of arbitration.

“ The Arbitration Committee of the English Wikipedia has the following duties and responsibilities:

1. To act as a final binding decision-maker primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve;
2. To hear appeals from blocked, banned, or otherwise restricted users;
3. To handle requests (other than self-requests) for removal of administrative tools;
4. To resolve matters unsuitable for public discussion for privacy, legal, or similar reasons;
5. To approve and remove access to (i) CheckUser and Oversight tools and (ii) mailing lists maintained by the Arbitration Committee.

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Our version of an Arbitration Committee need not be exactly the same as the English Wikipedia model, but I believe the creation of a similar Committee will have a positive effect on Uncyclopedia not just as it is now, but also in the future. Admin tools will just be for janitorial work so a greater number of trusted users can have access to them, administrators will no longer be solely responsible for arbitration, and we will finally have a clear system for conflict resolution. As somebody who has had to deal with our current system for resolving matters unsuitable for public discussion, I personally feel that the creation of a committee elected to deal with such matters is long overdue.

I am proposing that the community undertake a series of votes and collaborative efforts over the next 6 months to build our version of an Arbitration Committee. This vote is the first phase of the process: where it will be determined if there is support for this reform, and where initial feedback can be given on how our ArbCom should function. If this vote is successful the project will move to the Village Dump where everyone from the community will be invited to collaborate on the policy. The goal will be to have a policy completed by the October VFS vote where we will begin the annual ArbCom elections.

Vote

Score: +1 votes in favour of future votes

1. Obviously -- The Zombiebaron 19:01, 31 March 2023 (UTC)