Requests for Comment/Changes to the Dormancy Policy (3)

The changes proposed here relate to wikis being made read-only (as in locked from editing) being part of the dormancy process.

The proposals below are not dependent on other proposals unless otherwise stated. K599 (talk) 16:53, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

General commentary
This section is for commentary, not for voting.

Part 1 (Inactivity state)
Don't set wikis to read-only as part of the dormancy process. The particular changes this entails are the following.

Change the current process of going inactive, then closure, then deletion eligibility, into going inactive, then deletion eligibility. The time period for being closed would become part of the time period for being inactive.

Manual closure of wikis is not affected.

As closure would stop being part of the dormancy process, emails and any other relevant notifications will be sent to bureaucrats when their wikis become inactive.

Changes to adoption are detailed in part 2.

The table below shows the new timeline for the dormancy process. You can see the current one on Dormancy Policy.

As part of transition, all automatically closed wikis are set to be inactive, and bureaucrats of inactive wikis are sent an email alerting of inactivity.

Part 2 (Adoption)
With part 1 getting rid of automatic closures, adoption should be changed from reopening to requesting local rights for a wiki when there is a request made on a wiki and its existing users designated to handle them according to local policies are inactive. This does not change anything for how manually closed wikis are handled.

Part 3 (Deletion notification)
Bureaucrats will be notified through email, and any other methods that are used in other parts of the dormancy process, when their wikis become eligible for deletion as defined in Dormancy Policy.