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, and recent rights changes at special:log.

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.

To nominate a user, please add a section with their name, and a username (talk · contribs) template below it, along with a paragraph describing their work and why they should make a good admin. List newest nominations at the top of the page.

Iain Davidson

Ixo (talk · contribs) Avid supporter, OLPC Wiki watcher/maintainer, support-gang, grassroots, developer, and repair location (once application process is decided). Maintains over 8 Wikis weekly: examples: http://aobn.org http://relectronics.org/wiki http://notes.homelinux.org http://resume.homelinux.org also Wikipedian. Other skills - graphic designer, photographer, programmer in 6+ languages..  :)

Reasons for request:

• So I can stop wiki spam, such as Special:Contributions/61.130.108.194.. instead of just be able
• Clean up delete, deletere and empty wiki pages.
• Protect 'core wiki pages' and /translate from spam and other non-suspecting web surfers.

Comments

• support as long as those hr's really stop! --Sj talk 01:49, 10 February 2008 (EST)

Nikki Lee

nlee (talk · contribs) 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)

Recently discussed

Seth Woodworth (isforinsects)

sethwoodworth (talk · contribs) Content curator, volunteer coordinator, and documentation slave. Wiki-competent.

Comments

promoted. --Sj talk 01:49, 10 February 2008 (EST)

• 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)

Zdenek

zdenekBroz (talk · contribs) Long time content contributor, php hacker. Not an active Wikipedian, but uses wikis regularly; trustworthy and prolific.

Comments

Not promoted; not yet well enough known or familiar with wikis --Sj talk 01:49, 10 February 2008 (EST)

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

Avril K. Davis

katie (talk · contribs) 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

promoted. --Sj talk 02:12, 10 February 2008 (EST)

• 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)

Older 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