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.

FGrose

FGrose (talk · contribs) has been active on the wiki for some time and has recently been doing some much needed wiki-patrolling and counter-vandalism work. If he accepts this nomination, I think his efforts on behalf of the wiki would benefit from having rollback and could be trusted to use delete/block appropriately to help maintain wiki order. cjl 03:02, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I will help incrementally, with admin tasks as well, if desired. --FGrose 03:33, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Time-lapse yes - I agree with Cjl that FGrose has been a great contributor (recent edits look excellent, thanks for the countervandalism!) and can be trusted to wield admin privs responsibly based on his participation in non-wiki project areas as well. His edit history is not as deep as some of our other admins (aside from recent rollbacking, it seems to be centered around Rochester-area pages), so my vote turns to a yes one week after he accepts his nomination here, so that there's more of an opportunity to look at and explore other areas of the wiki to see what can be done with his eventual mop and bucket. Mchua 04:01, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Rollbacker

For anti-vandalism purposes, there is a mass rollback-all by-user feature to mediawiki: Special:Listusers/rollbacker. NB: We haven't turned on that feature in our installation; that's a first step. It's not at the "apply for permissions" step yet... --Sj talk 09:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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)

support --Sj talk

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.

Inactive admins

Admins -- who haven't edited or used admin privs in over a year. 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).

well? can this be done and let's move on? _Yamaplos 03:30, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Done. --Sj talk 15:19, 9 February 2009 (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
• support. Same with email lists - starting and closing one should be trivial, within say that same 1 y / 6 month window of tolerance Yamaplos 18:45, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
• support and a +1 to Yama's idea of extending this to inactive mailing lists as well.

Recently discussed

For full archives, see OLPC:Administrators/Archive.

CScott (b)

result: done.

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

gregorio

result: done.

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

result: no consensus; not adminned, can apply again later

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

result: Done. --Sj talk 09:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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)

  Note: be careful when deleting! If it's not a speedy deletion candidate, please tag it with {{delete}} and add it to Pages for deletion.

• support Mchua 21:43, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Bert

result: Done. --Sj talk 09:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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)
• support cjl 06:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
• support Mchua 21:43, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

cjl (b)

result: Done. --Sj talk 09:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Chris is good at listening to all sides of a situation and figuring out what is important, and has been part of the community for a long time. A good person to keep an eye on adminship and renames.

Comments

• support as nom - --Sj talk 00:17, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
• accept SJ's nomination. cjl 06:51, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
• support Mchua 10:28, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
• support (nom nom nomination) Seth 16:36, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
• support Yamaplos 18:42, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Mchua (b)

result: done.

Self-nomination: I would like to be able to help with the administrator-creating queue as well as renames (such as RT#31710). I have been a wiki admin here for nearly 1.5 years, have a long history of edits and welcoming new wiki contributors, and have this page on my watchlist. Mchua 21:43, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

• support -- Mel certainly has the requisite skills, experience and temperment to serve the OLPC wiki community well in the b-crat role. In addition, we must face the fact that a good number of the current b-crats are either less active on the wiki (due to other demands on their time) or perhaps inactive all together. cjl 22:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
• You mean she wasn't one already? support --Sj talk 15:54, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
• support _Yamaplos 03:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC) (how do you do the cute effects in the sig, SJ?)

  I'm guessing it would work with something other than '<sub>' - you can see from the wikitext that your markup is being automatically converted to html characters... --Sj talk

Hi - just popping in here to note that it's been more than the 10 days after which any bureaucrat could close the nomination, one way or the other. Mchua 05:03, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

• Done. cjl 22:54, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Deflagging from inactivity

Admins :

• aburton (talk · contribs)
• cavallo (talk · contribs)
• mlj (talk · contribs)
• jacobolus (talk · contribs)
• khassounah (talk · contribs)

Bureaucrats :

• Benjamin Mako Hill (talk · contribs)
• jg (talk · contribs)
• krstic (talk · contribs)

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.

Bureaucrats

see also: Special:Listusers

• Cjb (talk · contribs)
• cjl (talk · contribs)
• Edmcnierney (talk · contribs)
• hhardy (talk · contribs)
• mchua (talk · contribs)
• Sj (talk · contribs) ‎
• Walter (talk · contribs)

inactive

• Wmb@firmworks.com (talk · contribs)

Current sysops

• bert (talk · contribs)
• cjl (talk · contribs)
• CScott (talk · contribs)
• Edmcnierney (talk · contribs)
• Femslade (talk · contribs)
• Firefoxman (talk · contribs)
• Holt (talk · contribs)
• homunq (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)
• Benjamin Mako Hill (talk · contribs)
• Bernie (talk · contribs)
• Cavallo (talk · contribs)
• Chihyu (talk · contribs)
• Jacobolus (talk · contribs)
• Jg (talk · contribs)
• Katie (talk · contribs)
• Khassounah (talk · contribs)
• Krstic (talk · contribs)
• mlj (talk · contribs)