Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship

This page documents an official process on English Wikiversity that has wide acceptance among participants. When editing this page, please ensure that your revision reflects consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

Instructions Please add your request for custodianship (or other staff positions) below. Include a short summary of why you think you should be given the privileges and please refer to your involvement in other Wikimedia projects. If you have sysop/bureaucrat status at a sister project, please indicate so as well. In a wiki, trust arises from good editing of webpages and "good editing" is what advances the project. If you have a record of good editing then you are likely to be trusted and be granted the tools to protect pages from vandalism and block vandals and delete useless pages. Having those tools really just means you have to do more work -dull and boring work- for the community. All candidates should please place their requests or nominations on a subpage and transclude it here.

Requests and Nominations for Probationary Custodianship

Notes Registered users can both request custodianship, or be nominated for it by others. Candidates that have not accepted a nomination, or have failed to secure a mentor within one week are archived as incomplete. See MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook for some details on what options are available for custodians. Candidates can request a mentor from those listed at Wikiversity:List of custodian mentors; the requested mentor must agree. Candidates: please respond to any questions from the community about your wiki editing and wiki participation.

Mathonius (talk | email | contribs | stats)

Hello, following Draicone's suggestion, I would like to request custodianship. I'm an administrator on my home wiki, the Dutch Wikipedia (since October 2010), and on Meta (since August 2011). My contributions on this project focus mainly on countervandalism. If I may, I would like to have Draicone as a mentor and - furthermore - I agree with the standard stop agreement. Kind regards, Mathonius 11:51, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Comments

• Mathonius is relatively new to Wikiversity, but he has already assisted with the routine vandalism through SWMT, and with his background as a sysop I'm sure he'll be able to make a strong contribution to the custodian side of the project. --Draicone ^(talk) 15:19, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Custodians willing to mentor

• As discussed, I am happy to mentor Mathonius. --Draicone ^(talk) 15:19, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Probationary custodian period started

• Y Done, welcome aboard! --SB_Johnny ^talk 16:36, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Ruy Pugliesi (talk | email | contribs | stats)

Hi everyone!

I am applying for probationary custodianship on enwikiversity. My contributions mainly focus on countervandalism work over here.

I am already experienced with administrative tools on Meta-Wiki (where I am mostly active) and on other content and non-content projects, like ptwiki, hiwiki, mediawiki, testwiki and strategywiki. I'm also a global rollbacker.

If I may, I would like to have SB Johhny as a mentor. =D

Regards, Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 13:35, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Questions

• In what ways do you consider your administrative experience at Meta-Wiki to benefit participants at Wikiversity?

As a cross-wiki vandal/spam fighter and a sysop on several projects, I think I have enough administrative experience for dealing with vandals and other maintenance activities. I have learned from my experience as a SWMT member how to establish a appropriate course of action in a great variety of situations. Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 15:44, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

• What do you consider appropriate actions for vandalism at Wikiversity?

First of all, we should leave the vandal a warning message and let him aware of to what policies he is not following. Otherwise, further violations may incur a block. Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 15:44, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

-- darklama  13:50, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

• Would you mind starting a blog? If not, why? What do you think about tasks for custodians as mentioned here?

Seems to be interesting. However, I think I wouldn't have enough time to concentrate my efforts in such kind of activity due to my cross-wiki work over all Wikimedia projects. Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 13:39, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

• Which learning project/resource do you like at Wikiversity?

Mainly Computer Science, Communication Technologies and Linguistics. Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 13:39, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

• Which one do you want to improve with your contributions?

Possibly Linguistics and Computer Science. However, as I said above, my contributions mainly focus on countervandalism work and other administrative tasks. Thanks for your questions. Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 13:39, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat + Identi.ca 14:01, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

• How do you redirect a vandal's energy and enthusiasm?
• How do you transform a vandal into someone that creates and participates in courses?
• Do you think volunteering to be a mentor for vandals would be a good use of your time?

-- darklama  14:31, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Answers (1, 2 and 3):

Redirecting a vandal's energy and enthusiasm is something hard to do, but it's not impossible at all. Sometimes, vandals represent the "dark side" of good faith editors who became disappointed with things that occured a long time ago. I venture say that "mentoring" may be the key word here. We can always show them how interesting a wiki can be by bringing up unexplored things to do in a project.

Can I think of volunteering to be a mentor for vandals? Maybe. I am already experienced with mentoring a reformed vandal/sockpuppeter on Portuguese Wikipedia. He actually did some positive contributions after my mentorship. I think that everybody should be given a second chance to become a positive contributor and edit freely. Thanks for your questions. Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 13:39, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Custodians willing to mentor

Given his experience (especially as part of strategywiki), and Draicone's recommendation, I'd be more than happy to mentor. --SB_Johnny ^talk 07:56, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Probationary custodian period started

Y Done -- Jtneill - Talk - c 02:00, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Nominations for Full Custodianship

Notes Candidates for full custodianship are listed here by their mentor after the one month probationary period. Do not add self-nominations to this section (use the section of this page Requests for Custodianship).

Nominations for CheckUser

Notes CheckUsers are required to follow Wikimedia Foundation's CheckUser policy, including requirements for gaining access to the checkuser tools. Candidates must be 18 years of age or older, of legal age in place of residence, be familiar with Meta:Privacy policy, and supply identification to the Wikimedia Foundation. Candidates must have 70-80% agreed consensus or more and a minimum of 25-30 votes in support by local community members. Following this, permission must be requested from the Wikimedia Foundation. Projects must have 2 or more check users, or none at all.

None at present.

See also

• Bureaucratship
• Candidates for Custodianship/Archive of nominations for full custodianship
• Candidates for Custodianship/Archived - archive of failed nominations
• Candidates for Bureaucratship/Archive of pending nominations
• Custodian requests
• List of custodian mentors
• List of probationary custodians
• Wikiversity:Support staff