Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/RM77

RM77 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

Hello everybody. Before all, I'm sorry for the english mistakes I could make, French is my native language. I wish I could have the Custodian rights on EN.WV. I recap my reasons, it's not for personal accomplishment :) :

There is an increasing amount of vandalism which is let daily on the main namespace (i.e : Drilling Engineering)
One more admin is worth it on a relatively new project like Wikiversity
This could help the collaboration between FR.WV and EN.WV.

Indeed, I'm a bureaucrat on FR.WV, and a regular contributor on it since december (opening of French version) with about 4K edits. I'm also sysop on FR.WB, and a regular user of FR.WP.

Questions and discussion

Hi RM77. You only have 7 edits on this project... perhaps you might want to wait a while (and get familiar with simple stuff like the {{delete}} template when patrolling for vandalism). --SB_Johnny | ^PA! 14:17, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I note your comment about increasing vandalism. I wasn't aware that we have had increasing vandalism recently - indeed, the opposite. If I've been missing a lot of vandalism, I'd like to know about it - perhaps you can point me to the regularly vandalised pages? McCormack 15:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
See here and here. Keep in mind that I've done a couple hardblocks too, using CU data from wikibooks and the CU logs for Wikipedia... it's still fairly low-level, but definitely a growing problem. You probably don't notice it much because we're blessed with a fairly large and active cadre of Custodians, so many hands are making light work for all of us. --SB_Johnny | ^PA! 17:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm... I note that 39% of this month's deletions are mine. I think I notice... We interpret the volume and severity differently. -- McCormack 17:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's less a question of volume than percentage of volume. Special:Statistics shows only about 4500 pages likely to be content. If you look at that and then look back on those logs (as well as reversions), it's actually not so tiny an issue. Also keep in mind that all wm projects tend to have less vandalism during late summer in the Northern Hemisphere, because the kids are mostly outdoors, rather than bored to death in the house. --SB_Johnny | ^PA! 18:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes - I agree with all of that. -- McCormack 18:32, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi RM77. Though custodianship is "no big deal", I think you really need to learn how a project works before being helpful as a custodian. I know you're a very good user and I trust you based on your work on the French-language Wikiversity, but I agree you should wait before requesting custodian tools here. On a sidenote, I'd love to see more collaboration between fr.wikiversity and en.wikiversity, but you don't really need custodian tools to do that, do you? Cheers, guillom 13:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, you should know the project better. E.g. I am custodian at the German wikiversity. So, one would think then it is about the same. But there are differences between these two Wikiversities (as recommended below, join the IRC channel and you can acclimate faster). ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 17:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The major method by which en-Wikiversity tries to lower the barrier to custodianship is by allowing existing custodians to mentor probationary custodians. If you can get one existing custodian to trust you and be your mentor, then you get a month with the admin tools and can then demonstrate to the rest of the community that you can be trusted. One way to get to know some custodians is to participate at #wikiversity-en. --JWSchmidt 14:08, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would recommend as JWSchmidt said. He is my mentor I got to know him at the IRC channel and can ask for things and get them cleared fast. Visit us at the IRC channel. ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 17:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]