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.

For older requests, see the archive.

Nominations for adminship

Adminship should be no big deal; I am nomming a number of regular wiki users I trust. --Sj leave me a message 11:58, 1 January 2008 (EST)

Chih-yu Chao

Working with Kim Quirk. Has extensively edited Support_FAQ and other relevant pages.

Has expertise in human-computer interaction and intelligent tutoring systems.

Volunteered in OpenOffice.org native language project & MITOCW localization project. Can help with Chinese <-> English translation.

Support - I trust this user, would use the tools well. ffm 15:20, 7 January 2008 (EST)

Firefoxman

Working with Michael Connet. He requested adminship by mail.

Comments

• Neutral Support now; ffm has been quite active recently. Sj talk 19:06, 8 December 2007 (EST)

  now an admin. --Sj leave me a message 11:50, 1 January 2008 (EST)

Bernie

X, h-->u bindings, transparency, and couch expert. All around good guy and clear writer.

Comments

• Support as nominator. --Sj leave me a message 11:58, 1 January 2008 (EST)

Holt

Support staff; sensible and careful. Not yet a veteran wiki user, but a veteran of Wikimania '06 and learning quickly. Also not trigger happy with deletion or protection.

Comments

• Support as nominator. --Sj leave me a message 11:58, 1 January 2008 (EST)
• Support - support-gang manager, OLPC employee, and an all around nice guy. 15:22, 7 January 2008 (EST)

Zdenek

Long time content contributor, php hacker. Not an active Wikipedian, but uses wikis regularly; trustworthy and prolific.

Comments

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

Questions

• 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.

• FYI: People are still posting general questions on the Talk:The_OLPC_Wiki page, even though it is supposed to redirect to Talk:Main Page (which makes it something of a black hole for questions). Is it possible to disable editing on that discussion page (or merge the two)? —Joe 11:51, 7 September 2007 (EDT)

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

• Khassounah ‎
• Papert
• Aburton
• Cavallo
• Jacobolus ‎
• Mlj
• Xavi ‎
• Rafael Ortiz
• mchua
• Mcfletch
• Firefoxman
• Wad