User:Kirb/Sandbox/EiC

The Editor-in-Chief is a position on the wiki with much responsibility. They are an elected representative and community leader of the wiki who helps settle disputes when the natural process of gathering consensus fails, and intervenes whenever editors become disruptive or malicious.

The Editor-in-Chief's responsibilities include:

• Helping lead the staff to encourage good edits, welcoming new members, setting up projects and collaborations, and anything else beneficial to the wiki.
• Contacting other websites/groups for the purpose of affiliation with the wiki, agreeing on terms of affiliations, and managing current affiliations.
• Recommending users for staff positions/promotions to the rest of the staff, and carrying out promotions.
• Serving as a representative of the community to NIWA, Grifkuba, affiliates, and any other groups.
• Delegating their responsibilities to other staff member(s) whom they feel can perform the job well.

A user may remain as Editor-in-Chief for as long as they choose, as long as they have staff support. At the time of their departure, they may run an election to see who will be elected the next Editor-in-Chief. They may nominate one person, and the Editor-in-Chief's vote counts as one vote. However, the Editor-in-Chief cannot close the election until the nomination and voting periods have ended, and a simple majority has been reached, even if the Editor-in-Chief's selected candidate is not elected.

If the incumbent Editor-in-Chief has no nominations, they may simply oversee the election process.

If the incumbent Editor-in-Chief becomes unavailable for an extended period of time, responsibility falls to the site owner(s) to hold a new election, or appoint a temporary Editor-in-Chief to fulfill the position until one can be formally elected.

On the 6th of September, 2019, Samwell was elected WiKirby's first Editor-in-Chief.

On the 30th of March, 2020, YoshiFlutterJump was elected WiKirby's second Editor-in-Chief.

On the 24th of April, 2021, Gigi was elected WiKirby's third Editor-in-Chief.

Assistant Editor-in-Chief

The current Editor-in-Chief can appoint an assistant Editor-in-Chief (AEiC), who can take over in the event that the EiC is absent for a long period of time. Otherwise, the AEiC has the same responsibilities as other Bureaucrats.

In the event of the community losing confidence in the EiC, whether for extended absences, abuse of power, or any other reason, the EiC may be removed from their position and have the AEiC automatically take over.

The staff of the wiki can vote to remove the EiC (and AEiC, if needed) from their positions.

The assistant Editor-in-Chief then becomes the acting Editor-in-Chief, and holds the position until the next EiC is elected.

Election timeline

As EiC terms have no expiration, elections are held on an as-needed basis.

While the election is going on, the user running the election is called the "organizer".

• The organizer is ideally the current EiC, although the site owner or another staff member will have to do it in the case of the EiC being removed for absence/abuse.
• They decide when the election starts and ends.
• They should remain neutral for the proceedings.
  • If they become a candidate for EiC themselves and accept the nomination, another user should take over for them as organizer.

Nomination Period

• 1 week (168 hours)
• To be a candidate, a user needs to be admin or above, unless no suitable admin accepts a nomination, in which case a moderator may step up.
• Users can nominate themselves and others.
• Another user must second the nomination for them to be considered certified. If a user isn't certified, they will not be carried into the voting period.
• If they do not wish to run, a user may remove themselves from nomination by striking out their name.

Voting Period

• 2 weeks (332 hours)
• Ideally, each vote should come with reason(s) for or against the candidate, but if the voter has a personal reason to not reveal it, the organizer may allow the vote’s reason to remain private. The organizer can, if needed, disqualify a vote if the reason is personal, invalid, irrelevant, etc.
• The winner is the user with the most votes and strongest reasoning.
• In the event of a tie, the organizer is the deciding vote, voting in favor of the user with the strongest reasonings collected by the users who supported them.

Nominating and voting

All nominations and voting should go in a subpage of this page, with the title of the subpage following the format: "WiKirby:Editor-in-Chief/Election_#" where the number is the cardinal number of elections that have happened before, plus one. Generally, the voting page will be set up and moderated by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief and other bureaucrats. Copy the following code into the voting page, replacing the <number> and <username> variables as appropriate:

This page is for electing the WiKirby's <number> [[WiKirby:Editor-in-Chief|Editor-in-Chief]]. Please vote on and discuss this election below.

== Nomination period ==
''Nominate people by placing their wiki username here. If you wish to second a nomination, place  "#* seconded" under the nomination of the same person. Please sign it when you are done.''

If you are nominated, but wish to remove yourself from the list, please use <del>StrikeThrough</del>, rather than remove your name. If a certified nomination isn't crossed out, it will be assumed that the user has approved being nominated.  

== Voting period ==
* Add your vote by using the code # ~~~~.
* If you wish to nominate another user, create appropriate new subsections under the "Nominees" section.
* ''Voting began at ~~~~~.''

<!-- Start: 1 for each nominee -->
=== <username> ===
==== Statement ====
==== Support ====
# ~~~~

==== Oppose ====
==== Comments ====
<!-- Stop: 1 for each nominee -->
== Results ==

[[Category:Requests for permissions|{{PAGENAME}}]]

Add links to the voting page here under "Current Election", at WiKirby:Requests for permissions under "Editor-in-Chief", and in an announcement on the main page's News template.

After both the nomination and voting periods are over, the election may be closed by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief, or the bureaucrat they have chosen to place in charge of overseeing the election. The winner will be the user with a simple majority of votes. The voting page should be fully protected. The links on WiKirby:Requests for permissions and the News template should be removed, and the link here under "Current Election" moved to "Past Elections". The News template should then notify users of the newly-elected EiC. The winning user should then be promoted to Bureaucrat, if they are not already one.

Current Election

(none at this time)

Past Elections

• Election 1
• Election 2
• Election 3