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Leaderboard

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I was encouraged to reapply for sysop by @Gryllida: on my talk page. I only intend to use the rights for routine antivandalism purposes (such as deleting pages - I've tagged hundreds of pages over the years, and have a fairly good understanding on what is and what isn't content plausibly suitable for Wikinews), and can help in technical stuff or abuse filters. I do not intend to create news articles or contribute on that front, however, though I may still make the odd copyedit or two.

P.S: I did apply for this back in 2019 or so with nearly the same rationale, but the community did not want an "anti-vandalism"-only sysop at that time. That's also why I didn't reapply for the right until now. Leaderboard (talk) 15:17, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request successful. You're now a sysop. Congratulations. This request may be closed. Gryllida (talk) 20:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Questions and comments

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Thank you for volunteering. We desperately need more active admins. I have two questions:

  • Question Would you be willing to do more than just anti-vandalism work that is needed from admins? For example, we need admins to archive articles as part of routine maintenance.
  • Question You mentioned helping with technical work. We currently utilize Flagged Revisions to control/protect published articles. However, Flagged Revisions is no longer supported (as mentioned here). Do you have any ideas for moving us away from Flagged Versions? —Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 15:18, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Michael.C.Wright
  • That sounds like something that could/should be done by a bot flagged with admin rights, and indeed I think I should be able to code it up (for reference: I'm the author of a bot that runs on nearly 800 WMF wikis, namely the metawiki:Global reminder bot).
  • I don't think Flagged Revisions is the main issue - it's actually something that's extensively used on my home wiki, namely English Wikibooks and as you can see on the Phabricator thread, there's been significant work done in reducing the convolutedness of that extension. As a result, my feeling is that it's here to stay. Something that's more important is this project's use of LiquidThreads (or LQT - mw:LiquidThreads) - that predates mw:Flow which itself is in the process of being removed. The community needs to get rid of it urgently, and the simplest way is to replace with regular talk pages - mw:DiscussionTools has made commenting on regular wiki pages considerably easier.
Leaderboard (talk) 15:29, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The archive template says that archival is done by a bot. Is this not the case? Gryllida (talk) 22:34, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Which archival template? Leaderboard (talk) 03:49, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I'm not familiar with the process: I randomly recalled seeing {{Archive-unreviewed}} on one of articles. I had another look and I see that this and many others were archived by hand. Can someone tell me the workflow for archival. What are the criteria? Is it supposed to occur 24 hours after publishing? Gryllida (talk) 04:23, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's kind of a mess. I've seen the following:
  • User:ArchiveBot_(usurped) automatically protecting pages - this was stopped at around 2008 or so.
  • The article initially being semi-protected, and later fully-protected. This is how it works now, and it's completely manual. I think initially after publishing, it's semi-protected, and after a week or so, fully protected. That's the general approach.
Leaderboard (talk) 04:59, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

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Support BigKrow (talk) 17:41, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support We need more active and involved admins to support this project. The ability to code bots to do the tedious and mundane admin work is a force-multiplier. —Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 16:07, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support It is a pleasure for me to work with Leaderboard. There are reasonable responses above including about flaggedrevs without jumping to assumptions or conclusions. Leaderboard is a technically competent user with clarity in communication including in challenging situations. There was a previous request for adminship which highlighted lack of involvement with other parts than spam, which was frowned upon; I consider the persistent involvement in this wiki as an indication of knowing the workflows and having an interest in improvement of constructive content here. Gryllida (talk) 22:41, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support I have no doubt that Leaderboard can be trusted with admin rights. And I think it is clear that Wikinews can use more active users with admin rights. --MGA73 (talk) 06:47, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support no worries about making leaderboard a sysop here. Ternera (talk) 20:08, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per Michael.C.Wright - Wikinews needs more active and involved admins.--Pharos (talk) 19:32, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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