Re: Terms for adminship

Phroziac wrote:
> You would probably annoy the stewards if you desysop a lot of people,
> but I really don't think you'll have to desysop as many as you think.
> This is a good idea, and I tried to get something similar passed on en
> wiki, and it didn't work....obviously. We have 500 *active* admins, we
> would have to run several re-elections all the time, constantly. So,
> remember, this won't scale well.
> 

Playing Devil's Advocate, I dispute that number.

I don't think that all 500 are *active*.

We could try it out for Bureaucrats first...

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Re: Terms for adminship

Ok, but they would still have to be reconfirmed all the time under a
proposal like that...

On 10/1/05, Alphax <alphasigmax <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> Phroziac wrote:
> > You would probably annoy the stewards if you desysop a lot of people,
> > but I really don't think you'll have to desysop as many as you think.
> > This is a good idea, and I tried to get something similar passed on en
> > wiki, and it didn't work....obviously. We have 500 *active* admins, we
> > would have to run several re-elections all the time, constantly. So,
> > remember, this won't scale well.
> >
>
> Playing Devil's Advocate, I dispute that number.
>
> I don't think that all 500 are *active*.
>
> We could try it out for Bureaucrats first...
>
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Re: Terms for adminship

2005/9/30, Raphael Wiegand <rdb_wikipedia <at> gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On de:, we had this discussion some months ago. Finally, we came to the
> conclusion that there would be nearly 3 re-elections starting every week
> which would be to much; nobody can or wans to vote three times a week in
> re-elections and additionally in new adminship requests

On nl: re-elections are done en masse 4 times a year; this might be
too much for de: (50 re-elections at once), but a system where all
re-elections are being combined once a month could work out.

Andre Engels

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Information in advance about mowiki happenings

Hi all,

Currently there is a sysop election on mowiki, where 3 candidates are
pitted against each other rather than being voted on separately: Me,
Dmitriid, and Jeorjika.

I have 131 contributions in the main namespace, Dmitriid has 10, and
Jeorjika has 0.

Now, there are a number of issues here which I wish to consult with
the wider community over.

First of all, who is allowed to vote.

As it stands now, everybody who has already "expressed an opinion"
about the Wikipedia may vote. The majority of people who have
"expressed an opinion" are ro.wikipedians, with a minority of
Moldovans and others (including people such as Oleg Alexandrov,
Landroni, Dmitriid, Jeorjika, Gabix who are Moldovans, OldakQuill,
Monedula, who are from elsewhere).

This has always seemed unfair to me, since most of these people have
less than 10 contributions total, and only a few of them have any
contributions in the main namespace.

When suggesting that only people with a certain number of
contributions prior to a certain date (say, 10) be allowed to vote, I
was labelled as antidemocratic. When an "outsider", Christopher
Sundita, attempted to vote, his vote was deleted on the grounds that
he had not previously "expressed his opinion".

Re: Wikimentaries and multimedia collaboration

On 9/26/05, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for pointing this out, Sj. I talked about a Wikimentary and the
> logistics thereof at Wikimania with Rory O'Connor (Globalvision) - but
> I'm just wondering, where has the talk taken place since then?
> Privately? Or on-wiki/list (commons-l)..?

Aha!  Was it you who put the bug in his ear?  Once Wikimentary gets
added to the OED, etymologists will want to know.  Talk has largely
been by email and phone with Rory, as part of an older discussion of
how progress with their own short documentary is coming.  I've
transcribed the relevant parts of all private conversations to that
meta-page, so you can see there hasn't been all that much talk yet.

I'm trying to get Rory to edit wikis directly, but it's difficult.   --Sj

> Cormac / [[User:Cormaggio]], eh, ditto 

Date and time-formats

Dear all,
My name is Dennis Dikkerboom and since a couple of days I'm the new
ambassador of the Frisian Wikipedia. Since the new version of wikimedia (3th
of July) changed the format of dates and times to an American style, like
this: 22:10, 2005 jul 4 (UTC). We wondered if we could change it somehow
back to the original style, like this: 23.02, 1 jul 2005 (UTC).

Best regards,
 Dennis Dikkerboom

Re: Date and time-formats

> My name is Dennis Dikkerboom and since a couple of days I'm the new
> ambassador of the Frisian Wikipedia. Since the new version of wikimedia (3th
> of July) changed the format of dates and times to an American style, like
> this: 22:10, 2005 jul 4 (UTC). We wondered if we could change it somehow
> back to the original style, like this: 23.02, 1 jul 2005 (UTC).

I'm not sure why it's changed, but the best way to request it be
changed back would be to file a request at bugzilla.wikimedia.org

Angela.

uh

I have not gotten any list mail for several hours. Is the list down?
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Re: uh

Phroziac wrote:
> I have not gotten any list mail for several hours. Is the list down?

We should have QOTW (Quote Of The Week) on this list, this one is great


Gerrit.

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Re: uh

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> Phroziac wrote:
> 
>>I have not gotten any list mail for several hours. Is the list down?
> 
> 
> We should have QOTW (Quote Of The Week) on this list, this one is great
> 
> 
> Gerrit.
> 

Heh. Well, thanks for confirming it's not. But that's weird to not get
any email for so long. Did someone ban some trolls?
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