Community Central:Admins

If you can answer yes to the following questions, please ask to be an administrator in the requests and nominations for adminship section below.


 * 1) You would like to help keep the Central Wikia free from vandalism and other bad edits,
 * 2) you are an admin on at least one other Wikia,
 * 3) you understand how to use admin powers (see user access levels and the administrators' how-to guide), and
 * 4) you feel you're trusted by the Wikia community.

Users who feel that someone else fits most of the above criteria may nominate that person in the same section below.

For a list of current administrators, please see Special:Listadmins (Staff also have admin rights on all wikis). Users who are no longer active will have their adminship removed (this can be re-applied for at any time). If you feel an admin is no longer suitable, please raise that issue in the Requests and nominations for de-adminship section below.

Admins of the Central Wikia can be contacted via the off-site status page when Wikia is down since they have contact details of various people who might be able to fix the site.

Requests and nominations for adminship

 * If you nominate someone else for adminship, please let them know that they should leave a message here stating whether or not they accept the nomination. Users will be made admins after one week if there are no objections.

Charitwo
Hi, Wikia. I would like to become a central sysop because I see great potential for a collaborative project that I would like to be a bigger part of. I am currently an administrator for FFXIclopedia, which was recently brought to Wikia. I admit I had my doubts about it at first, but after seeing how helpful the staff and techs have been working out the kinks and offering their assistance in making the transition as smooth and quickly as possible(especially during a scary wheel war of 3 admin accounts that were compromised), and neat MediaWiki features Wikia offered that we never thought of, my thoughts about Wikia were a complete turnaround. I have thousands of edits worth of experience creating new content, formatting existing content, patrolling recent changes for vandalism and policy/template compliance, participating in countless deletion and move request discussions and resolving them as well. I'm always coming up with new and creative ways to improve articles, templates, or designing interface messages for maximum convenience. I am always on #wikia and #cvn-wikia and offer my input and assistance to the best of my ability. I feel tight-knit communication with the community(ies) is(are) vital to the success of any wiki and I feel I can better this hub of wikia with my creativity, patrolling and admin experience, and assisting the staff in any way I can. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to bring it up and I would gladly answer any inquiries. Thank you for your time in reading my RfA :) -- 04:30, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

 * Too few Central contributions, in my opinion. Try again after spending a bit of time around the place :) -- Manticore  Talk 07:31, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Is that the only reason? The aforementioned qualifications written at the top of this article do not require a specific number of edits. Edit count should be irrelevant, it's the quality of existing edits and the potential for growth. At least that's the case with 4 users listed here promoted using this process, 2 of which have even less than I do. -- 18:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't say "edits", I said "contributions". You've been here for a little over a month, so quite frankly, I don't trust you yet. -- Manticore  Talk 08:04, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I use "edits" and "contributions" interchangeably, matter of opinion I suppose. The requirements listed above say nothing about the quantity of "contributions" anyway. I'm applying per my original post above, that should more than cover for #1. I'm an admin on FFXIclopedia, and I am well aware of how to use and not to use the admin tools. As for #4 I waited til it felt about right, based on the interaction with others in #wikia. It feels wrong to be opposed on the grounds of which previous admins promoted with a similar number of contributions, one of which the majority were in the userspace. -- 15:26, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


 * As per Manticore, not enough contributions overall and lack of experience, might want to try in a few months or so..-- Cometstyles 10:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Lack of what experience? There is nothing I don't know about MediaWiki functionality or the admin tools. And I am well aware of Wikia policy and guidelines. I can also distinct between a "i dunno what im doing edit" and a "bad faith edit" and provide the proper guidance depending on the situation. I wouldn't apply for something that would be over my head or that I wouldn't be able to take responsibility for. For both of you, or anyone else interested, feel free to chat with me on IRC about any uncertainties you have. -- 15:26, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it's rather obnoxious of you to say you know everything about MediaWiki and the admin tools, especially because as a JRSysop at FFXI, by your own admission, you don't have access to all the tools normal administrators do. -- Manticore  Talk 15:10, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm just defending myself, and the only difference between the two is one can block and the other cannot as well as MediaWiki: edit rights. Although I have inputted on a few interface changes as I mentioned above. Regardless, and per Dantman's comments, just because I have access to the sitewide JS, AWB/MWB access lists, etc doesn't mean I will be utilizing them, nor do I have any desire to do so. It's not obnoxious, even if I had no tools at all doesn't mean I wouldn't know how to (and how not to) use them, with the exception of javascript. You want to quiz me? The reason I applied was how Dantman so eloquently described it, a sysop flag. I was interested in watching and making sure edits are in good faith and differentiate between those that are not and those that aren't sure what they're doing, and guide them in the right direction. If your primary concern is the integrity of the site interface, make a group that doesn't have access to it, no skin off my nose. On that note, the volume of distrust and paranoia in this RfA is unnerving. I'm putting myself on the line here. Anything I would do here reflects on Ganiman and the FFXIclopedia community. You're making a deal out of something that's not a big deal. As cheesy as it sounds referencing it, it's true. This is something I'm offering to do in my spare time to help you guys out. I'm not sure why you or I are commenting further anyway, this was technically supposed to end 3 days ago, despite not more than 3 members of the community having a chance to input. I'd think if it was such a big concern there would be a lot more people among the 40~ staff, the 20~ sysops, or anyone else in the community voicing their opinion. This isn't exactly a snowball here. --Charitwo 05:18, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Guess I half to come in and clear up the misunderstandings and misinterpretation.
 * Firstly, that set of 4 things at the top is nothing. That's just there as the general guide to stop dozens of users who shouldn't be applying in the first place. That's not really even considered when it comes to nomination, overall it's what the community feels about you as a user. Consensus over a static list of requirements in otherwords.
 * It doesn't matter how much you know about policies and stuff from past experiences, every new wiki you go to has a different set of policies, and a different way of doing things. Even if you know the general things from being an admin on the FFXIclopedia you are still a newbie here because you have not been around long enough to absorb how we do things here.
 * Edits don't really matter, what matters is a familiarity with the community and many Wikia. You may have been admin on one wiki, but you haven't been around to to many others. Even if you see an admin who may not have had many edits here, they most likely were admin on a number of other Wikia wiki, and did a lot of their help for Wikia on all of those wiki.
 * You're still a new user here: You came from a freshly added wiki and haven't been around for very many months (Look at me, I wasn't RfA'd till I had been here for 9 months), You're only a JRSysop there, you haven't been admin on very many other wiki and thus have not seen the many different ways of administering wiki that are used on the many wiki around here.
 * Central Sysop isn't just another type of sysop flag. It gives us access to the Spam blacklist, Interwiki map, the Image and url filters, the Global JS, and the access lists for the AWB and MWB tools. People who get sysop here are active users who are solidly integrated into the community and completely trusted with few doubts.
 * Take a look at the past RfA's, the major factor you'll see in people getting Sysop here was either no-one had a reason to oppose it and everyone supported it (Like you'll see in mine and GHe's RfA's), someone else was the one to do the RfA because they were active in the community and felt that they were highly trusted and there was a good reason for them to be sysop, or any opposition had easy reasons that calmed the people opposing. If you have a lot of opposition, then generally the community does not trust you enough, which as you'll remember is #4 in that list up there you were mentioning.
 * Just something off the note, but you do know that you are using a Signature template!? That was discussed in the forums here, and it's something that overall is frowned upon. That does show that you have not been familiarized with a lot of the things we do around here.
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Oct 7, 2007 @ 16:41 (UTC)

List of administrators
Administrators are sorted by the date on which they became administrators. All staff also have admin access.


 * August 2007
 * Phil.e.


 * May 2007
 * Dantman


 * April 2007
 * Leon2323


 * March 2007
 * Jack Phoenix


 * January 2007
 * GHe


 * November 2006
 * Cid Highwind


 * June 2006
 * Szoferka


 * May 2006
 * Kirk


 * January 2006
 * Robin Patterson
 * Chronarion


 * July 2005
 * DCLXVI


 * May 2005
 * CocoaZen
 * Jellochuu
 * Mathx314


 * April 2005
 * Me at work
 * GreenReaper
 * JamesTeterenko