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)

I am also interested in this. — Jeff G. ツ 11:06, September 30, 2010 (UTC)

HI
Can I Become a sysop?
 * Of course you can. The only question that remains is Why? --DCLXVI 01:34, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Can we split the nomination process into a different page entirely?
I find the nomination and discussion stuff rather distracting from the information about Wikia administrators. The "See also" section looks like a tiny island that needs a bridge connection to the top introductory text to skip over the sea of nomination text in the middle. One article about Wikia administrators, one separate article to chatter about nominees, please. -PanSola 01:22, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Like what wikipedia does, transclude the RFA onto the main page from a subpage? -- 01:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * How about I turn individual nominations into Subpages and DPL them inop a list. The page can be a bit of an index pointing to See also, About, and RfA pages. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Nov 19, 2007 @ 03:46 (UTC)


 * My primary concern is the votes and comments and discussions and debates and drama taking over the main Administrators article. So as long as those are not directly on the main Administrators article, I feel a lot less strongly about the implementation.  I'm inclined towards having a separate Wikia:RfA article which uses either transclusion or DPL for management of individual nominees. -PanSola 03:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Mysteriously disappearing rights?
So when charitwo asked me in IRC to look at a few candidates for deletion, I happened to notice that I wasn't able to delete them. This seemed a little odd, as I don't recall being told anything about removal of my local sysop or lookupcontribs rights, and the log is strangely silent on the topic. CocoaZen (sysop, lookupcontribs, beta) also appears to be affected. Can anyone shed light on this mystery? --GreenReaper(talk) 04:24, September 9, 2011 (UTC)
 * A while ago, as part of changing the permission structure for staff/helper/etc, a review was done of the admin rights on a number of "Wikia" wikis, this place being one of them. I was told to cleanup many outdated rights of inactive/gone users and former staff. There are no logs, because it was done with a server maint script, since it was being done as part of a long list of rights changes and we didnt want to flood out the logs or recent changes or blast a ton of emails. You will want to contact Sannse for more exact details. --Uberfuzzy 14:21, September 9, 2011 (UTC)