Wikiversity:History of Wikiversity/Custodianship


 * August 15, 2006 Wikiversity project launch.
 * Cormaggio had shepherded the Wikiversity proposal through approval and he was given bureaucrat tools.


 * The first Colloquium thread was about the need for sysops, see this page version


 * The Administrators page was soon started, see: day #1 version


 * August 18, 2006. Wikiversity:Administrators linked to Requests for Adminship (and moved to Candidates for Custodianship on August 19). See: day #1 version


 * Administrator Creation and Behavioral Criteria Guidelines and Policy was started, see: day #1 version


 * The term "custodian" was selected to replace "administrator", see: Wikiversity talk:Custodianship


 * Cormaggio suggested that Wikiversity, "have some sort of nomination system and not voting system for choosing admins", see: this chat log.


 * The Custodianship page was started with the idea of probationary custodians. See: original version of the page


 * The one month duration of probationary custodianship was established on August 18, 2006, see: duration of the probationary period.


 * August 19, 2006. Probationary custodians started, User:Digitalme made a probationary custodian, see: day #1 version.


 * List of custodian mentors started, see: day #1 version.


 * November 3, 2019. Probationary custodians marked as historical.