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Thanks for your coverage of other projects. It's helpful and interesting to learn how they do things.

I hope we'll see more of these articles. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 12:14, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent coverage! --Tito Dutta (talk) 13:01, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This is a really neat and valuable perspective on how another Wikipedia project handles the same issues we face. Thank you for presenting it so well! Ocaasi^{t | c} 13:08, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
My thanks too! Great to hear how other communities tackle the same issue. Samw (talk) 14:56, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting article. On French Wikipedia, the administrator's recall procedure requires 6 editors within 6 months instead of 25 editors within 3 months. DeansFA (talk) 14:57, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That 50% + 1 rule should be used in en.Wikipedia for deciding administrative/governance issues. Cla68 (talk) 05:33, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A similar system has been working for years at the English Wikisource. Administrators are reconfirmed each year by simply majority vote, and special votes of confidence can be called in usual circumstances if enough established users support the need for one. This simple system guarantees accountability, and has been a primary factor in ensuring good admin-community relations. Plus it makes being an administrator much less of a "big deal" (which is a very healthy thing). I'll admit that I personally opposed this system when it was initially introduced (at the time I thought it would be too much of a beaurocratic burden to maintain), but I was totally wrong. It has worked fantastically and it is easy to maintain (take a look). I think it would work just as well at the English Wikipedia. Dovi (talk) 07:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to know whether editors think part or all of the German system should be imported to en.WP. Thoughts, WereSpielChequers? Tony (talk) 12:32, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting to see the separation of powers, this is something I believe we need on the English project. Rich Farmbrough, 02:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC).[reply]
From the article I don't understand why it's believed that the recall system made the election of new administrators easier: stats also don't seem to support this conclusion. On it.wiki there's a similar system since 2006 and it has never really helped new elections even though the required majorities are far stricter. --Nemo 17:09, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]