OLPC:Administrators: Difference between revisions

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This is the de facto place for admins to coordinate. If you are looking for information on being an administrator, or on admin rights and responsibilities, see notes for administrators and the administrator's manual.

For a list of admins, see Special:Listusers
For a list of recent rights changes, see special:log
For older requests, see the archive.

Nominations for adminship

Adminship is 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.

All editors and wiki-users are encouraged to weigh on on nominees for adminship.

To nominate a user, add a section here with their name, and a username (talk · contribs) template below it, along with a paragraph describing their work and why they would be a reasonable admin. List newest nominations at the top of the page. After ten days, nominations should be closed, and any admin can do the closing; nominations with more than 80% support are likely to be adminned. Nominees with unanimous support from more than three editors can be adminned after five days.^{see talk}

none

others to consider

mollydb, barb0101, davewa

Nominations for de-adminship

We have a small number of active admins and bureaucrats, and should clean up our lists to reflect this fact.

Admins who haven't edited or used admin privs in over a year may have their flag removed. Anyone can argue to support/keep the flag for any of these folks; if there's no argument in favor it will be removed. Easy enough to get it back if desired later; this way the list of admins and bureaucrats is reasonably accurate.

Recently discussed

Older archives : archive 1 | archive 2

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.

What should I be doing to patrol vandalism?
Take a look at OLPC:Vandalism and monitor Special:Recentchanges using some of the features there : toggle viewing "logged in users", for instance, and you will only see the IPs who have never logged in. You can also visit Special:Contributions/newbies to see contribs by the newest users.

List of current Admins

see also: Special:Listusers (The manual listings below are incomplete. Click the header links for a database listing.)

Bureaucrats

inactive

Wmb@firmworks.com (talk · contribs)

Administrators

inactive

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 == Nominations for adminship ==
-Adminship should be no big deal.  Administrators need to learn how to use the [[special:log|logs]], the delete and protect tabs, and the [[special:blockip|block tool]]; please nominate regular wiki users you trust, checking that they have some familiarity with the wiki.
+Adminship is no big deal.  Administrators need to learn how to use the [[special:log|logs]], the delete and protect tabs, and the [[special:blockip|block tool]]; please nominate regular wiki users you trust, checking that they have some familiarity with the wiki.
 '''All editors and wiki-users are encouraged to weigh on on nominees for adminship.'''
-To nominate a user, please add a section with their name, and a {{User|username}} 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 ten days, any bureaucrat can close the nomination; people with unanimous support are likely to be adminned.  Any nominee with unanimous support from more than three editors can be adminned after five days.
+To nominate a user, add a section here with their name, and a {{User|username}} template below it, along with a paragraph describing their work and why they would be a reasonable admin.  '''List newest nominations at the top of the page'''.  After ten days, nominations should be closed, and any admin can do the closing; nominations with more than 80% support are likely to be adminned.  Nominees with unanimous support from more than three editors can be adminned after five days.<small><sup>[[OLPC talk:Administrators|see talk]]</sup></small>
+* none
-=== [[user:gregorio|gregorio]] ===
-Greg has been a dedicated and paranoid editor for over a year, and is now helping maintain activities for our releases.  He could use adminship to protect and unprotect (and edit) such pages.
-* '''support''' ----[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 06:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
-=== [[User:Hiro|Hiro]] ===
+=== others to consider ===
+* [[User:mollydb|mollydb]], [[user:barb0101|barb0101]], [[user:davewa|davewa]]
-{{user|hiro}}
+== Nominations for de-adminship ==
-Nominating myself so I could undo-vandalism and keep the pages clean. I do have wiki skills as I'm also a technical support for [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org New World Encyclopedia]
+''We have a small number of active admins and bureaucrats, and should clean up our lists to reflect this fact.''
+Admins who haven't edited or used admin privs in over a year may have their flag removed.  Anyone can argue to support/keep the flag for any of these folks; if there's no argument in favor it will be removed.  Easy enough to get it back if desired later; this way the list of admins and bureaucrats is reasonably accurate.
-'''Comments'''
-* '''support''' -- Hiro is a very positive member of the [[OLPC:Support gang|S-G]] and I am convinced will used his powers for good in anti-vandalism [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] 00:43, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
-*: you don't need to be an admin to do good with anti-vandalism.  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
-* '''support''' Hiro has jumped in consistently to help, and is clear to say when he needs help or to get a second opinion, an inclusiveness that is valuable. [[User:Culseg|Sandy]] 12 September 2008
-* '''support''' -- Hiro is a badass who livens things up, whenever we need him.  [[User:Holt]] 12 September 2008
-* '''neutral''' - A week of editing isn't much.  You may want to spend a bit more time getting to know this wiki and how people use it before becoming an admin... you can always install godmode-lite to get all the undo features (via javascript) that an admin gets :-)  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
-'''Questions'''
-* What sort of tech work do you do for the NWE?
-* What types of page cleaning are you interested in?
-'''Answers'''
-* In NWE, they don't use html codes within the wiki, so most of the time the templates being imported from wiki doesn't work. I help them convert that to wiki format, check double re-directs, and make template for special occasions.
-* I'm interested in counter-vandalism, because it really makes me mad to see people vandalize and it feels great to undo that within a manner of time. I don't know what other cleanings I could do, but I don't think I'll be suitable honestly for English/grammar article cleanup part, haha. --[[User:Hiro|Hiro]] 00:27, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
-== Rollbacker ==
-For anti-vandalism purposes, there is a mass rollback-all by-user feature to mediawiki
-[[Special:Listusers/rollbacker]].
-If you want to help fight wiki-vandalism apply to receive the ''rollbacker'' permission and fight wiki spam!
-For proper use of the tool, see the wikipedia help article: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Reverting#Advanced_features]
-=== [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] ===
-I'm applying myself as I do not yet have this permission, even though I already have other permissions.  Generally it should be much easier to get ''rollbacker'' permissions than admin.  It doesn't require as much community support.  [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] 16:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
-: No-big-deal-'''support'''.  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 06:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
-=== [[User:Mchua|Mel]] ===
-I agree with Seth that it should be much easier to get ''rollbacker'' permissions than admin, and would also like to apply for rollbacker privs. I am a current sysop but focus primarily on technical wiki content creation; the easier it is for me to fight spam, the more likely I am to do it. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] 15:57, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
-== Nominations for deadminship ==
-''we have a lot of accounts that are inactive, and quite a small number of active admins and bureaucrats, in fact.  We should clean up our lists to reflect this fact.''
-These accounts should get a review by a bureaucrat, I'm not necessarily nominating them for de-adminning, just noticed these when looking through user rights log. [[User:Cjl|Cjl]] 15:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
-: They've never used their powers, or only used them for one day; and don't have personal emails set.  We can deadmin them temporarily; I trust all of them, and all are welcome to reapply here for adminship.  I think we should mandate that admin candidates set a valid email address so they can be reached. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 19:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
-'''comments'''
-*  There should be some general principle that admins/bureaucrats who are inactive for 1 yr / 6 mo should be put up for a quick flag vote. gaining/losing a flag should be no big deal, but the list of people with the flag should be a fair representation of people interested in listening to requests that need a trustworthy (and available) janitor's response.  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
 == Recently discussed ==
+Older archives : [[OLPC:Administrators/Archive|archive 1]] | [[OLPC:Administrators/Archive2|archive 2]]
-=== [[user:CScott|CScott]] (b)===
-Nom for bureaucratship.  Because scott likes to be given random urgent tasks, and knows how to dance with a mop.  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 07:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-* anti-vandalism '''support''' --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 07:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-*: Done.  We need more bureaucrats so that I'm not the only one accepting such requests.  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
-=== [[user:Danny|Danny]], [[user:Papert|Papert]], [[User:ZdenekBroz|ZdenekBroz]], [[User:Cavallo|Cavallo]] ===
-* [a] {{user|Danny}}  no user page, still sysop (b removed)
-*: asked on userpage about this, has history and talkpage --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
-*: Removed. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
-* [a] {{user|Cavallo}}, {{user|Papert}}, {{user|ZdenekBroz}}
-*: users who have never used their admin flags, and are unlikely to do so in the near future.  all can reapply or be renommed.
-*: Removed the latter two.  Cavallo is inactive but knows how to use the wiki, and may need to edit/move protected pages. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
-=== [[User:skierpage|skierpage]] ===
-{{user|skierpage}}
-Nom for adminship for his help with and expertise in the maintenance of [[Semantic MediaWiki]].
-: {{done}} --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 08:39, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' as nom -- [[User:Mstone|Michael Stone]] 21:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' -- skierpage has done great work.  [[User:Cjl|cjl]] 22:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' -- getting s.page sysop isn't just important it's mandatory [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] 23:40, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 03:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' -- SP kicks butt.  [[User:Holt]] 12 September 2008
-=== [[user:AuntiMame|AuntiMame]] ===
-{{user|AuntiMame}}
-Could use help with a little mop-and-bucketing around the site.  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 06:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-: {{done}} --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 08:39, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' as nominator -- --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 06:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' -- [[User:Cjl|cjl]] 22:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' -- Diane is excellent and can more than be trusted with sysop [[User:Sethwoodworth|Seth]] 00:09, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
-* '''support''' -- AuntiMame's a true Godsend -- don't overwork her plz.  [[User:Holt]] 12 September 2008
-=== [[user:femslade|femslade]] ===
-{{user|femslade}}
-Self-nom: I would like admin to facilitate my work in cleaning up and organizing the wiki particularly semantic templates and pages.
-: <looks around>
-:: {{done}} ''was done some time ago, out of policy, but out of supposed necessity
-* '''support''' --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 19:06, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 == Older Questions and Answers ==
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 *: Take a look at [[OLPC:Vandalism]] and monitor [[Special:Recentchanges]] using some of the features there : toggle viewing "logged in users", for instance, and you will only see the IPs who have never logged in.  You can also visit [[Special:Contributions/newbies]] to see contribs by the newest users.
-== Current bureaucrats ==
+== List of current Admins ==
 ''see also: [[Special:Listusers]]''
+(The manual listings below are incomplete. Click the header links for a database listing.)
+<span class=plainlinks>[http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=bureaucrat&creationSort=1&limit=250 '''Bureaucrats''']</span>
 * {{user|Cjb}}
-* {{user|hhardy}}
+* {{user|cjl}}
-* {{user|Jg}}
+* {{user|CScott}}
-* {{user|Benjamin Mako Hill}}
+* {{user|DanielDrake}}
-* {{user|Sj}} ‎
-* {{user|Walter}}
-* {{user|Wmb@firmworks.com}}
 * {{user|Edmcnierney}}
+* {{user|LFaraone}}
+* {{user|mchua}}
+* {{user|Sj}} ‎
+* {{user|sridhar}}
 ''inactive''
-* {{user|Krstic}}
+* {{user|Wmb@firmworks.com}}
+=== <span class=plainlinks>[http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=sysop&creationSort=1&limit=250 Administrators]</span> ===
-== Current sysops ==
-* {{user|cjl}}
+* {{user|Bert}}
-* {{user|CScott}}
-* {{user|Edmcnierney}}
 * {{user|Femslade}}
-* {{user|Firefoxman}}
+* {{user|godiard}}
 * {{user|Holt}}
+* {{user|homunq}}
 * {{user|Ixo}}
-* {{user|Kimquirk}}
+* {{user|jvonau}}
 * {{user|Leejc}}
 * {{user|mchua}}
-* {{user|Mcfletch}}
 * {{user|MitchellNCharity}}
-* {{user|Morgs}}
 * {{user|Mstone}}
 * {{user|nlee}}
 * {{user|Sethwoodworth}}
-* {{user|Xavi}}
 * {{user|rafaelOrtiz}}
 * {{user|Wad}}
+* {{user|Walter}}
 ''inactive''
-* {{user|Aburton}}
+* {{user|Benjamin Mako Hill}}
 * {{user|Bernie}}
-* {{user|Cavallo}}
 * {{User|Chihyu}}
-* {{user|Danny}}
+* {{user|hhardy}}
-* {{user|Felice}}
+* {{user|Jg}}
-* {{user|Jacobolus}}
 * {{user|Katie}}
-* {{user|Khassounah}}
+* {{user|Kimquirk}}
-* {{user|mlj}}
+* {{user|Morgs}}
-* {{user|Papert}}
+* {{user|Xavi}}
-* {{user|ZdenekBroz}}
+<span class=plainlinks>[http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=bot&creationSort=1&limit=250 '''Bots''']</span>

OLPC:Administrators: Difference between revisions

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Nominations for adminship

others to consider

Nominations for de-adminship

Recently discussed

Older Questions and Answers

On Administrative tasks

List of current Admins

Administrators

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OLPC:Administrators: Difference between revisions

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Nominations for adminship

others to consider

Nominations for de-adminship

Recently discussed

Older Questions and Answers

On Administrative tasks

List of current Admins

Administrators

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