Community Central talk:Admins and mods/Archive 1

Nominating other users
So, are we allowed to nominate others? 17:25, 4 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * Yes, but they should agree to the nomination before they become admins. Angela 18:54, 4 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Individual Wikia
I presume each should have its own page modelled on this page? Robin Patterson 23:46, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't believe that every Wikicity needs to have a formal policy on becoming an administrator. See Common mistakes.  The bar for becoming an admin is very different depending on the wiki.  Look at my adminship on various wikis:
 * I became a bureaucrat on the Calgary wiki just because I asked for its creation.
 * I became an Administrator here becase I was already an admin on the Calgary wiki and of the few Wikia regulars, no one objected within a week after I expressed interest
 * I am up for adminship on Wikipedia with a couple more oppose votes so far. It appears likely to pass, but a couple of oppose votes would knock it down.


 * Generally, the more users on a wiki, the harder it is to become an administrator. And this makes sense to me.  If we go back to the Calgary wiki, I would make any remotely regular contributor an admin if they wanted it.  One reason for my confidence, is that I read EVERY edit on the Calgary wiki.  I would clearly be able to monitor the actions. If anything was done that was inappropriate, I could intervene quite easily.  I guess I'll go update the Calgary wiki to invite people to request adminship.


 * But hey, this is just my opinion. -- JamesTeterenko 16:41, 22 Jul 2005 (UTC)

It all matches my opinion too. Thanks for spelling it out, James. I see Calgary has minimal page creation related to its (two) admins. Sensible until requests start flooding in. Robin Patterson 06:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Time to split the page?
With two current active nominations, a growing list of admins-by-date, and more paragraphs being added here and there, I suggest we split off a couple of parts of the page.

WP and some individual Wikia have a separate project:Requests for adminship or similar. Creating that would make the editing of it distinctly easier (less scrolling and fewer equals signs).

Then we can look at what's left, rearrange it a bit, and maybe split off another piece.

Robin Patterson 06:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Perhaps something like meta has: RfP (Central is very much to Wikia, as Meta is to Wikimedia). --Splarka (talk) 00:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Lookupcontribs
Hi, I'm not interested in becoming an admin on Central Wikia, however having lookupcontribs stauts would be helpful for me, to track some cross-wiki vandals on spanish language wikis. Is it possible to applay for lookupcontribs status without nominating yourself for adminship at central?--Rataube 17:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)


 * That is probably possible. I have no objection to non-sysops having this, but we don't know how much of a resource drain this is, at the moment. --Splarka (talk) 00:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)