Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship/Algorithm

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An algorithm approach would be one that roughly fills the following proposal nicked from Jimbo Wales' statement of Wikipedia principles:

For example: rather than trust humans to correctly identify "regulars", we must use a simple, transparent, and open algorithm, so that people are automatically given full privileges once they have been around the community for a very short period of time. The process should be virtually invisible for newcomers, so that they do not have to do anything to start contributing to the community.