OLPC:Administrators

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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.

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.

CScott

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)

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)
  • [a] Danny (talk · contribs) no user page, still sysop (b removed)
    asked on userpage about this, has history and talkpage --Sj talk
  • [a] Cavallo (talk · contribs), Papert (talk · contribs), I am a PhD student living in Czech republic. I have a lot of experience with IT and management. I am working on a project that has dictionaries for more than 60 world languages. Here is my personal page

Content bundles

I am working on many content bundles for the XO. If you would like me to build a new content bundle for the XO please Submit your ideas

Here is a list of content bundles I have already prepared:

  • abridged_wikipedia - English, Spanish, Portuguese
  • animals - English
  • bible - English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swahili, Thai, Chinese
  • childrens-library
  • classical_music_midi
  • famous_paintings
  • featured_pictures
  • games_nes
  • koran
  • olpc-dictionary
  • web_design
  • wikibooks
  • wikihow
  • wikislice-chemistry - English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
  • wikislice - English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, French, Russian, Romanian
  • wikislice-physics - English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
  • world_factbook

You can try all these bundles at dev.laptop.org/~arael/preview and download them from http://dev.laptop.org/~arael/bundles

USB measuring units for the XO

We are working hard on a special hardware that will allow kids to use their XO to measure various things. It is possible to use the USB ports to connect many sensors and display results on the XO.

USB measuring devices for the XO - technical details

OLPC dictionary

I have started to develop a dictionary of basic meanings for the OLPC project. I think language education is very important and kids have to have a good dictionary so they can learn foreign languages. The dictionary I am working on is very special because it is not just a bilingual dictionary but connects all languages in the system. It contains definitions, synonyms, sound files and images. Preview version of the dictionary


Features:

  • Contains set of 1700 most important concepts
  • Each concept has a definition in English language
  • Entries of the system are sets of synonyms
  • One or more images can be assigned to each concept
  • Sound files with pronunciation can be assigned to each word
  • IPA pronunciation and hyphenation can be assigned to each word
  • The dictionary can contain large number of languages (for example 50 languages)


I have collected screenshots of about 50 different dictionary applications . It takes to analyze these dictionary applications to create ideal dictionary applications for the kids. The application has to be easy to use yet very powerful.


Features of the dictionary application:

  • Easy to use
  • Searching is very fast
  • Ability to display HTML formatted content
  • Ability to download updated data from the internet


I am working with many users from all over the world. The entries in the dictionary of the basic meanings have to be edited to make sure they are correct. If you know reliable people who can help to edit/review entries please contact me as soon as possible. Our system contains entries for more than 60 world languages so it takes tens of people speaking tens of different languages to review all these entries.

Ideas

Here is a list of New Ideas I have for the One Laptop Per Child project.

Contact

You can contact me on:

My project

Interesting resources

Other multilingual dictionaries:


Dictionary applications:


More resources:

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

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

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

inactive

Current sysops

inactive

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