Submissions:2014/Dealing with abusive admins

Title of the submission

Dealing with abusive admins

Themes (Proposal Themes - Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Education)

Community

Type of submission (Presentation Types - Panel, Workshop, Presentation, etc)

Workshop

Author of the submission

E-mail address

Reguyla@gmail.com

Username

Reguyla

US state or country of origin

Virginia

Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)

Wikia/Wikipedia

Personal homepage or blog

N/A

Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

There has been a rising problem with abusive admins on Wikipedia for the last couple of years. There needs to be a detailed workshop established to document the problem and implement a solution. There are a lot of things that can be done, but the community has been reluctant or incapable of doing them for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is fear of the loss of admins because of changes. Some would argue its not a problem however, when the community can be trusted to vote an editor the tools but it takes a multi month arbitration meeting to remove the tools from an abusive admin, that is a problem that surely anyone can recognize.

Length of presentation/talk (see Presentation Types for lengths of different presentation types)

Since this would be more of a workshop, I would say an hour minimum would be needed to establish the problem and discuss it and possible another hour to discuss possible solutions. 75 Minutes

Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?

Possibly, if I think its being taken seriously

Slides or further information (optional)

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1. Reguyla (talk) 18:57, 13 April 2014 (EDT)