OLPC:Administrators

This is the de facto place for admins to coordinate. Some notes for administrators. You can see a list of admins at Special:Listusers.

For older requests, see the archive.

Nominations for adminship

Adminship should be no big deal. Administrators need to learn how to use the logs, the delete and protect tabs, and the block tool; please nominate regular wiki users you trust, checking that they have some familiarity with the wiki.

Avril K. Davis

Edward Tufte acolyte, Web Developer, WikiMaster, Wikipedian, Brewster (which has absolutely no relevance), Future Curmudgeon, Photographer

Style Nazi Katie 23:23, 27 January 2008 (EST)

Comments

• Thunderous Support. --Sj leave me a message 00:13, 28 January 2008 (EST)
• Yay for Katie! ffm 10:19, 28 January 2008 (EST)
• Strong support. Phil 15:30, 4 February 2008 (EST)

Nikki Lee

Contributor, art group director, Olin chapter organizer. --Sj leave me a message 21:19, 13 January 2008 (EST)

Comments

• Support. --Sj leave me a message 21:19, 13 January 2008 (EST)
  • seconded, especially if we're asking her to revise the Main Page, Participate, and create and maintain a batch of Welcome tutorials. Mchua 22:34, 13 January 2008 (EST)

Zdenek

Long time content contributor, php hacker. Not an active Wikipedian, but uses wikis regularly; trustworthy and prolific.

Comments

• Support. --Sj leave me a message 12:01, 1 January 2008 (EST)

Seth Woodworth (isforinsects)

Content curator, volunteer coordinator, and documentation slave. Wiki-competent.

Comments

• Support: avid support gangster and wiki patrolman :) --Chihyu 15:14, 4 February 2008 (EST)
• Strong support. Phil 15:30, 4 February 2008 (EST)
• Bien sur. --Sj talk 20:58, 4 February 2008 (EST)

Questions and Answers

On Administrative tasks

• I've been patrolling the general edits, does it help? I try not to patrol technical and similar edits that may compromise the hardware/software builds, etc

  Yes, it helps.

• I'm trying to categorize the site, and was thinking that Wikipedia's handling of subcategories as expandable lists would be a nice extension to have in order to avoid content being lost deep within sub-categories (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_architecture)

  Ahh, interesting point. We should do this.

• I've been doing some reworks with the Ask OLPC a Question area (mainly writing up /Summary pages for the ... about XXX pages). The selection of questions (and body of the answer) could use some OLPC staff member to review their correctness. comments? should those /Summary pages be protected? if yes, only to registered users or exclusively admins?

  No need to protect them; just keep an eye on them. I try not to protect anything until some vandal starts to make them unusable.

Where are our readers from?

Some time ago I raised the question about who's reading what - and more importantly (for me) from where. (See here). My question originates in that knowing that kind of information we may be able either to tune content or promote/demote links in the front page, faq, etc. For example, if I knew that it was argies rarely visit Argentina's page, it could mean that they are looking for other kind of news, data, whatever; but at least I'd know they aren't reading it - maybe it's just lack of local diffusion.--Xavi 20:49, 20 January 2007 (EST)

A project for the stats team...

Current bureaucrats

see also: Special:Listusers

• Cjb ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Felice ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Jg ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Krstic ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Mako ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Sj ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Walter ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)
• Wmb@firmworks.com ‎(Bureaucrat, Sysop)

Current sysops

• Aburton
• Bernie
• Cavallo
• Chihyu
• Firefoxman
• Jacobolus ‎
• Khassounah ‎
• mchua
• Mcfletch
• Mlj
• Papert
• Xavi ‎
• Rafael Ortiz
• Wad