Riordan Wiki:Administrators' noticeboard/Admin Discussion Center

Inactive
I don't know if some have noticed, but Menara has officially been inactive for a month. It started on September 21st (vacation for three weeks beforehand). Clearly, we cannot demote her like a normal user. I was wondering if we wanted to continue to wait longer to see if she comes back or start a community consensus. SayuriDarling  ~ “And like the sea, I'm constantly changing from calm to hell.”  04:58, October 21, 2013 (UTC)


 * Mmm,  heh, I'm one to talk   perhaps we can demote her to just an administrator and then see what happens from there?  05:07, October 21, 2013 (UTC)


 * I think we should wait until November, make her into an admin, and if she comes back, back to bureaucrat 01:40, October 22, 2013 (UTC)


 * Wassup.


 * What about making her into an admin now (it takes awhile anyway) and then if she comes back in a month, we can just simply promote her again and if not demote her. SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  04:13, October 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure. Also, we should probably promote a new admin and some new rollbacks. I gave Solo+pbellUNITE rollback and chat moderator rights and demoted Vgfsirius and Erv.


 * Personally, I don't think we need a new admin, but if we did get an admin I would be best if it was someone who wasn't in America because a lot of things happen while we are (supposed to) be asleep. Would you mind creating the consensus blog to demote her? SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  13:53, October 24, 2013 (UTC)

More admins(?)
Does anyone think that we need more admins and rollbacks due to the recent increase in active users? I'm getting tired of having to delete weird pages and reverting somewhat stupid edits.


 * I think that would be good. Once November starts, I'd suggest, then once we elect our new admin, I guess it would be useless to have Menara as a bureaucrat, let alone an admin anymore? I mean, I doubt she will be ever coming back, sigh (but if she does, we should promote her again). 20:07, October 27, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sounds fine. We need an odd number for voting purposes anyway. It's an even number now. SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  15:07, October 29, 2013 (UTC)


 * We could use another admin and some more rollbacks. Frodo the 9 fingered~  When You Play a Game of Scones...  20:44, October 31, 2013 (UTC)


 * I'll also be more active again now that my Pokemon high is going down. Also with October passed, I can stop watching scary movies all the time. Darkcloud1111  umbreon1111.gif Fastest Hero Alive  21:45, November 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * So we've established we need a new admin. Possible election dates? SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  21:50, November 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * 11.11. cuz it looks kool like dat.
 * Okay, lol. Lucky 11's sounds good. SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  22:09, November 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * Notice how you used a k instead of a c! Totes cool, dawg! Lolz 00:19, November 2, 2013 (UTC)


 * OH GLORIOUS LEADERS OF THIS FANTASTIC WIKI, PLEASE HEAR ME OUT AS I, MOST HUMBLY, SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING: Let us promote not one, but two (2!) new admins and, additionally, promote one of our current admins into bureaucrat position to compensate for the inactivity of Menara. Please leave your input below.


 * It would be fine to have a new bureaucrat and two more admins, but does our workload really need that? Having even another admin wouldn't really change much, so it seems like two might be a bit of an overkill. 22:52, November 3, 2013 (UTC)


 * I really don't think we need two admins. Also, the voting numbers would be off (even numbers are death). I think one would be good enough as long as the people who are running are sufficient. I don't particularly see a reason to need a new b-crat because we don't exactly need to have tons of people promoted or something. Typically you have more admins than b-crats. SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  04:04, November 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * The point is I want to have as little work as possible. Fair enough. Although it's going to be awkward having to choose only one of the current rollbacks, who are all sufficient for the task.


 * If we can't decide, make them fight to the death Hunger Games style and it can be easily solved. SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  05:19, November 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * So just for clarification, we're only promoting one person to admin and one person to bureaucrat ( gee, I wonder who that's going to be ), right? -- 14:52, November 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * No, we're just making someone an admin. SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  15:38, November 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * But then we have one less bureaucrat 'cause Menara left.


 * But usually wikis have less bureaucrats than admins and it's not like we need more people to be promoted to adminship or have a wave of requests for chat mod/rollbacks. We just need someone to be able to delete blogs and pages. SayuriDarling   ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  16:15, November 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed. After all, the only difference between bureaucrat and administrator is the ability to promote. 14:23, November 5, 2013 (UTC)

FFAF + Holidays
So I was thinking I would create the blog tomorrow (prayer circle for my mac to be fixed) and then open it for Halloween and Friday. Or we could just do a separate holiday blog because usually people note that it's a certain holiday i.e July 4th. Also, I don't think that holidays should be exclusive to just America so I don't know how that would work really. SayuriDarling  ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”  06:33, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

Demotion Time
The current demotion time is three months for administrators, but HC and I were discussing about changing it to one month because three months just seems to long. Any suggestions are appreciated and also, should we go ahead and make the forum post to demote her? SayuriDarling  ~ “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”   16:33, November 9, 2013 (UTC)