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. After two weeks, any bureaucrat can close the nomination; people with unanimous support are likely to be adminned.

Nominations for deadminship

user:felice

Felice was a wiki admin and bureaucrat while she was updating pages that were being pushed to the live webserver and handling official OLPC materials, but hasn't been active this year and is likely to be active in the future. To keep the admin lists clean, I nominate her for regular user status. (She probably also doesn't want to receive random talk-page notifications from people who need bureaucrat help.) --Sj talk 16:11, 24 April 2008 (EDT)

• support as nominator

Recently discussed

Morgs

adminned: --Sj talk 16:11, 24 April 2008 (EDT)

morgs (talk · contribs) OLPC-za member, long-time hacker and contributor. Trustworthy and recently more active around the wiki. --Sj talk 00:47, 20 February 2008 (EST)

Comments

• support as nominator. --Sj talk

Thanks SJ, I accept :) --morgs 02:19, 20 February 2008 (EST)

Iain Davidson

adminned: --Sj talk 16:11, 24 April 2008 (EDT)

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 being able to edit them out.
• 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)

  Question: when should pages be protected, and how do you test for deletability when someone tags a page with delete or deletere? --Sj talk

  • A: protect:I would only protect/unprotect pages, if I were instructed/authorizied to make changes. If heavily used 'for public' pages, with mostly static information... are getting hit by vandels or spam, and causing confusion/interference with functon. I might protect the page, and then let Sysops (You/others?), know what I did and why.

    A: delete:I look for any page linking to current page (What links here). If any, see if there are better places to link. Also I look through history, if intentionally blank, for awhile. Then remove.

    A: deletere: pages, should only be those in the middle of double-hops. And again, check links in, and out. Make sure appropriate via history. In some cases, if there's some question, I might contact the last few editors to see about the background story. I'd also check Talk pages, to make sure nothing is lost permanently.

    Spam: For pages with spam, access to 'rollback' changes, or block repeating spammers/ip would be greatfully easier for me to help cut down system wide spam. Would also check 'User contributions', to see if real person or actual page spammer.--ixo 08:05, 14 February 2008 (EST)

• support, this user will use the tools well ffm 21:04, 4 March 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

adminned.

• 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)
• Support. She's been doing a great job of maintaining the wiki site pages, and brings great ideas... and actually implements them ! --ixo 22:08, 11 February 2008 (EST)

Seth Woodworth (isforinsects)

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

Comments

adminned. --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 adminned; 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

adminned. --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.

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
• Holt
• Jacobolus ‎
• Khassounah
• Katie‎
• mchua
• Mcfletch
• Mlj
• Nlee
• Papert
• Seth Woodworth
• Xavi ‎
• Rafael Ortiz
• Wad