User:Anthony.Sebastian/sandbox-test

Referendum regarding Editor-in-Chief

Title: Recreating position of Editor-in-Chief and modification of Citizendium’s government

Goal

This Citizen-initiated, Charter modifying referendum proposes that Citizendium recreate the position of Editor-in-Chief, who would have broad executive powers and specified restrictions. In doing that will necessarily require modification of the governance of Citizendium (see below).

The goal of having an Editor-in-Chief is to allow a qualified candidate to essentially develop Citizendium rapidly in directions emerging from the Editor-in-Chief’s agenda.

Role of the Editor-in-Chief

• The Editor-in-Chief will be responsible for developing new ideas and programs to enhance Citizendium’s mission of developing a comprehensive compendium of knowledge. He/she will consider suggestions from the Citizenry at large.

• The Editor-in-Chief will chose an advisory group of at least ten members from among the entire Citizenry to evaluate and give feedback to the Editor-in-Chief regarding his/her proposal for developing rapidly in some specific direction.

• Included in those evaluations and feedback would be proposals to create new, or to revise, current Citizendium policies.

• The Editor-in-Chief will be responsible for approving articles, adjudicating disputes, and approaching organizations for sponsorship and/or partnership, again with evaluation and feedback from his/her advisory group.

Time commitment of Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief will be required to maintain a near-ubiquitous presence on Citizendium, being logged in at least five days per week and actively working each logged in day for at least two hours. He/she may have a yearly vacation allotment of four weeks. He/she may take them consecutively or not.

Tenure of Editor-in-Chief

The tenure of the Editor-in-Chief will be four years, giving him/her time to put his/her stamp on Citizendium. The current (2016) Managing Editor composing this referendum will not accept a nomination for the position, except in the case that all other nominees decline.

Specified restrictions on powers of the Editor-in-Chief

One restriction on the Editor-in-Chief will be to not eliminate the verified real names policy, or to modify it in any way.

Mechanisms for removal of Editor-in-Chief from office

• The Editor-in-Chief can be impeached for malfeasance or inappropriate behavior. The call for impeachment requires support by 25% of active contributors (see below for definition of active contributors). The call for impeachment requires a Forum post describing the reasons for removing the Editor-in-Chief, and list the names of the supporters. Discussions of the reasons for impeachment will proceed on the Forum for three weeks. Within ten days after the three week discussion period a final judgement will be made by the Citizendium Council.

• the Editor-in-Chief may be removed from office through a vote of no confidence by 50% of active contributors.

Definition of active contributor

An active contributor is any user who has contributed to the wiki on two separate days in each 4 of 6 months prior to the requisite issue.