OLPC:Administrators

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 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.

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 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 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.

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 ----Sj talk 06:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

  Done.

Hiro

hiro (talk · contribs)

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 New World Encyclopedia

Comments

• support -- Hiro is a very positive member of the S-G and I am convinced will used his powers for good in anti-vandalism Seth 00:43, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

  you don't need to be an admin to do good with anti-vandalism. --Sj talk

• 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. 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 :-) --Sj talk

  I haven't seen any updaets from Hiro since that one week... one of the reasons that more than a week's work is welome. Being an admin is no big deal, but it's important to have some experience with the site, to know its deletion and blocking policies and where communication takes place. --Sj talk 00:12, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

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. --Hiro 00:27, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Homunq

I'm self-nominating because it would be nice to be able to delete pages. I've come across enough false starts that have fuller versions elsewhere. Most of the wiki-work I do does not need the tools, but if I come across stuff (blockable vandalism or deleteable patent nonsense) on the way I'd like to be able to do it. Homunq 04:23, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• support -- Long and positive history on wiki, a well-known nym and contributor. Can be expected to use sysop privs wisely. cjl 05:50, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
• support --Sj talk 00:12, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Bert

Bert is one of the oldest contributors to the project and this wiki, and maintainer of our Etoys package. Bert has been around a long time, and knows some of the aspects of page protection that need to be maintained and fixed (say, for core activities) as well as the difference between good and bad edits.

Comments

• support as nom -- --Sj talk 00:12, 27 December 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: [1]

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. Seth 16:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

No-big-deal-support. --Sj talk 06:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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. 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. 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. --Sj talk 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. --Sj talk

Recently discussed

CScott (b)

Nom for bureaucratship. Because scott likes to be given random urgent tasks, and knows how to dance with a mop. --Sj talk 07:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

• anti-vandalism support --Sj talk 07:27, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

  Done. We need more bureaucrats so that I'm not the only one accepting such requests. --Sj talk

Danny, Papert, ZdenekBroz, Cavallo

• [a] Danny (talk · contribs) no user page, still sysop (b removed)

  asked on userpage about this, has history and talkpage --Sj talk

  Removed. --Sj talk

• [a] Cavallo (talk · contribs), Papert (talk · contribs), ZdenekBroz (talk · contribs)

  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. --Sj talk

skierpage

skierpage (talk · contribs)

Nom for adminship for his help with and expertise in the maintenance of Semantic MediaWiki.

Done. --Sj talk 08:39, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

• support as nom -- Michael Stone 21:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
• support -- skierpage has done great work. cjl 22:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
• support -- getting s.page sysop isn't just important it's mandatory Seth 23:40, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
• support --Sj talk 03:00, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
• support -- SP kicks butt. User:Holt 12 September 2008

AuntiMame

AuntiMame (talk · contribs)

Could use help with a little mop-and-bucketing around the site. --Sj talk 06:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Done. --Sj talk 08:39, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

• support as nominator -- --Sj talk 06:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
• support -- cjl 22:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
• support -- Diane is excellent and can more than be trusted with sysop Seth 00:09, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
• support -- AuntiMame's a true Godsend -- don't overwork her plz. User:Holt 12 September 2008

femslade

femslade (talk · contribs)

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 --Sj talk 19:06, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

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.

Current bureaucrats

see also: Special:Listusers

• Cjb (talk · contribs)
• hhardy (talk · contribs)
• Jg (talk · contribs)
• Benjamin Mako Hill (talk · contribs)
• Sj (talk · contribs) ‎
• Walter (talk · contribs)
• Wmb@firmworks.com (talk · contribs)
• Edmcnierney (talk · contribs)

inactive

• Krstic (talk · contribs)

Current sysops

• cjl (talk · contribs)
• CScott (talk · contribs)
• Edmcnierney (talk · contribs)
• Femslade (talk · contribs)
• Firefoxman (talk · contribs)
• Holt (talk · contribs)
• Ixo (talk · contribs)
• Kimquirk (talk · contribs)
• Leejc (talk · contribs)
• mchua (talk · contribs)
• Mcfletch (talk · contribs)
• MitchellNCharity (talk · contribs)
• Morgs (talk · contribs)
• Mstone (talk · contribs)
• nlee (talk · contribs)
• Sethwoodworth (talk · contribs)
• Xavi (talk · contribs)
• rafaelOrtiz (talk · contribs)
• Wad (talk · contribs)

inactive

• Aburton (talk · contribs)
• Bernie (talk · contribs)
• Cavallo (talk · contribs)
• Chihyu (talk · contribs)
• Danny (talk · contribs)
• Felice (talk · contribs)
• Jacobolus (talk · contribs)
• Katie (talk · contribs)
• Khassounah (talk · contribs)
• mlj (talk · contribs)
• Papert (talk · contribs)
• ZdenekBroz (talk · contribs)