Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Archived

Requests listed here have been archived for any (but not limited to) the following reasons:

Lack of activity for a significant length of time
No reason to promote the user to custodian
No sysop willing to mentor the user
Candidate withdrew prior to confirmation as full custodian

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

Requesting admin privilege. I plan on being very active in this project, and want to do anything to best of my ability to insure it's success. Masterhomer 06:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Custodians offering mentorship

To the candidate: Please indicate who you will accept for your mentorship

none yet

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

I would like to request administrator status on the wikiversity project. I plan to be a major contributor to the site. My credentials are as follows : I have a degree from the University of London in Computer Engineering (1st Class Honours) and am about to commence a PhD which involves assisting Undergraduates and marking coursework. I therefore will be able to assist in most Engineering and Technical subjects as I have actually done or doing the courses. Oliver 11:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I would like to say that I appreciate your enthusiasm and would like to thank you for applying for adminship here. I would also like to point out that there is much you can do simply as a "registered user" here where your contributions will be taken seriously. The primary purposes of "adminship" is mainly a protection of the project against those who would do harm. Significant tools available for those with "sysop" status include user blocking, page protection, and page deletion/undeletion, all of which are mainly to stop those who would try to "vandalize" this project and add content that is decidedly inappropriate. Those individuals currently with this "privilege" are mainly those who have been involved with Wikiversity for some time and have been known among the organizers of Wikiversity. With one exception, everybody has also been an admin on other projects and brings considerable experience from the other Wikimedia projects to here as well. That said, becoming an admin is not supposed to be a big deal. --Robert Horning 13:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Custodians offering mentorship

To the candidate: Please indicate who you will accept for your mentorship

None yet

Deon555 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

Hi :) I request Custodianship on Wikiversity. I have been on English Wikipedia for quite a while, and have around 1,500 edits. I have my own wiki that I mess with and test things on, so I am familiar with the tools. I have Vandalproof and Rollback priv's on english wp, so I am trustworthy. I would be happy to be under the full watch of a mentor or two, and am happy to learn new things. I would mainly watch Recent Changes, New pages etc for vandalism; and would protect pages and temp block users where necessary. Thankyou. --Deon555 03:54, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Custodians offering mentorship

To the candidate: Please indicate who you will accept for your mentorship

None yet

Geo.plrd (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

I request Custodianship on Wikiversity. I have some personal wikis and am trustworthy. I am a active contributor to other Wikimedia Projects. i will be focusing on vandalism, deleting garbage, and protecting MVPs. Thanks Geo.plrd 01:35, 25 August 2006 (UTC) Custodians offering mentorship To the candidate: Please indicate who you will accept for your mentorship[reply]

I will accept anyone, I would prefer Robert Horning though.

== Jimmy Ambo (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account) Jimmy Ambo|**|Talk|**|Contributions

I think I should be an admin because I am admin and founder of The Beatles Wiki, and the Your Pets wiki, on Wikia. I think I am elligible because I spend lots of time online, and love helping.Jimmy Ambo 14:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Custodians offering mentorship

To the candidate: Please indicate who you will accept as your mentor

no mentorship offers yet

Discussion

Comment: "Dealing justice" isn't what custodianship is about - or, even if it unfortunately turns out that way, it should not be someone's intention in becoming one. It sets an immediately bad tone, in my opinion. Perhaps you have other motivations/desires that would be more appropriate? Cormaggio 14:13, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Hi all! I'm requesting custodianship on a temporary basis by means of the probationary period. I'm a sysop on the English Wikipedia and am well-versed in how to use the extra buttons. I haven't been very active at Wikiversity as of yet, but I love the concept and am eager to begin collaborating with other people in the pursuit of knowledge. Cheers Hoopydink 12:23, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Custodians offering mentorship

To the candidate: Please indicate who you will accept as your mentor

no mentorship offers yet

Discussion

I support Hoopydink fully, as he's a great contributer on Wikipedia, already knows how to push the buttons, and I think he'd be a great asset here.--digital_me 03:47, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Would like to see some contributions first and foremost. I feel Custodianship is jumping the gun a little bit. That being said, contributions to other wikiprojets is significant. There-fore I will remain neutral on this nomination. RichMac 03:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

N Not done request is stale. --Golden_burg111 20:58, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alex43223 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

I am requesting a mentorship for custodianship. I want to help with many of the custodian related tasks here on Wikiversity, as there aren't a whole lot here now, and I think I could be of help. Just to be clear, I do realize there is much I can help with without having sysop access, but I'm very familiar with the way MediaWiki works, and as such, this is my main interest here. Although I am not a sysop on any Wikimedia projects (yet), I have about 2800 edits on Wikipedia, where I contribute ALL over the place (see my userpage here). I have been all around Wikimedia for a couple years now, and I have the utmost interest in helping it achieve its full potential. As far as MediaWiki goes, the reason I understand it well is that I have helped develop php code for my own wikis and have taken the role of sysop/bureaucrat on a few others. Since I am requesting a mentorship for custodianship, I think that if chosen to be mentored, you will see the amount that I have to offer. Thank you for the opportunity, and I hope there is a mentor willing to accept me. Alex43223^{Talk | Contribs | E-mail} 04:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

archived March 27 due to lack of mentor (no activity) sebmol ^? 21:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Punk Boi 8 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

I am requesting a mentorship for custodianship. I want to help with many of the custodian related tasks here on Wikiversity, as there aren't a whole lot here now, and I think I could be of help.

I am very familar with Mediawiki, being a Wikipedia editior and wanting to learn.

Thank you

Punk Boi 8 06:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

archived March 27 due to lack of mentor (no activity) sebmol ^? 21:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Student Galaxy (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

Student Galaxy

Hello, I am a very experienced editor at wikiversity and I have had up to 6 months experience, being here since November. In this time, I have been very involved in the community creating many pages, often welcoming new users, and helping cleaning up vandalism on many occassions. I think I could do with the admin tools here as I am careful in what I am doing and I often avoid breaking rules and rushing in without thinking. I like to have responsibles, and I know there is no fun in becoming a trusted member of the community, but I am sure I could manage it. Student Galaxy 21:02, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions and dicussion

Special:Contributions/Student Galaxy frankly (in my opinion) does not indicate much "custodial" type of activity, but this should not exclude your nomination as a probationary custodian. My hope is that your editing activities will grow to include a bit more Wikiversity:Maintenance and get more "maturity" as an editor of learning resources. My intent is to encourage you to be patient and show some more diligence - not to discourage your nomination. Hang in there, Student Galaxy! -- CQ 21:41, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I really hate to do this, but I'm afraid I must strongly oppose Student Galaxy's nomination for now. CQ is right on the money: hang out a bit more, and if you find you need the tools, you'll ceetainly have them. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 23:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Archived 8/21/07, no mentor.

Bennyboyz3000 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)

I request the "no big deal" of sysop status. I am a seasoned editor over at the English Wikipedia, and enjoy taking part in behind-the-scenes housekeeping tasks. Granted I'm brand-spanking new here (however I've done a fair bit of reading), but I would like to put the custodian buttons to good use in the running this wiki, and my mop would be used as a mop, not as an accompaniment to subject matter edits. I intend to help out with any tasks needing custodian action, especially things like setting up new initiatives and projects, as I have done on Wikipedia. I'm sure this excellent project would benefit from someone else's help - I won't hurt anyone :-) --Bennyboyz3000 17:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions and discussion

Custodianship might be "no big deal", but you have to be able to attract a mentor. Generally this means that you have to show some devotion to editing at Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 15:41, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Archived 9/9/07, no mentor.

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

Hi OpenSource lovers! I am here to kindly request the role of custodian... I have been using wiki-related services for about 5 years. I have at my disposal many papers that I have written from my research that have piled up. I haven't had the nerve to publish my papers until now. I hope Wikiversity will give me a chance.

I am always online, participating in various collaborative projects and I feel I want to be a part of what's going on at Wikiversity! I hope this plea of mine will be granted. Thank you. Vicmiclovich 11:06, 15 July 2008 (UTC)Victor[reply]

Hi Victor, Sounds like we could really do with you around here! Lots of possibilities. Custodianship I would think sounds very much within your grasp, but you would be well advised I think to plough ahead with editing, develop your user page, build your edit history, participate, create some learning resources, and start publishing your papers (we really need more of this!). And delve into Wikiversity, what it is, how it works, etc. This will help you to get to know the place while it gets to know you :). Then you would be well placed, I imagine, for custodianship. That could all happen quite fast, depending on you. We want custodians, but we are also wary of those who seek for fast 'status' without first some dedicated local apprenticeship. See Custodian and How to be a Wikimedia sysop for some more ideas. Also, feel free to discuss anything you like also at the Colloquium. Look forward to seeing you around. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and when you want to nominate (or when someone nominates you) for Probationary Custodianship, it goes here: Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Try also visiting the Wikiversity:Chat, ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 16:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

above copied from Wikiversity:Custodian requests --Abd 00:01, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

I request adminship and sysop status. I was an early administrator on English Wikipedia[[w:User:Mirwin][[[w:User:Lazyquasar]]] until nonparticipation triggered reversion to regular user status. As http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Lazyquasar at Wikibooks for the express purpose of participating with Wikiversity, I have been active in discussion and debate regarding Wikiversity on all applicable sites and the foundation mailing list. I have contributed a fair bit to the Engineering section at the Wikibooks prototype. I intend to be doing a fair amount of work with Wikiversity and feel I can be an efficient and fair administrator. I also have some interest in seeing Wikimedia ported to Java and interfaced to some distributed technologies. I owned/operated a computer consultanting firm for eight years and have a clear understanding of "first do no harm" when given access to mission critical servers. As owner it was my responsibility to train the systems analysts I dispatched to client site in the art of doing no harm that could not be repaired or recovered efficiently. --Mirwin

Support - Michael has been a very long-time supporter of Wikiversity during much of the phase while this project was before the WMF board of trustees, and has helped contribute a major portion of the content that is already here on this project as well even before en.wikiversity became live. I would love to see him become the first "official" admin (not done on a temp basis just to get thing going). He certainly understands the mission of Wikiversity and wants to make some very meaningful contributions, and would be very useful for the vandalism patrol as well. --Robert Horning 13:38, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I no longer require custodialship, please put me on the list to be stripped of this responsibility at earliest opportunity. I will be limiting my participation for a while to tutoring algebra if my nephew or other people need it from Robert's Algegra Environment. Thanks! Mirwin 06:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for permissions change

above moved from Wikiversity:Custodian requests --Abd 00:01, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

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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]

His last edit was on 16th August. Should we write him an email to awake his interest again ? LOL ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 17:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No mail will be needed :) I had been busy last days.

I agree with you all, I think I asked Custodianship too early. Guillom, I'll make all my possible to divide my time between FR.WP and FR.WV, so that's why the collaboration between FR.WV and EN.WV is not that much advanced. I swear I make my possible :)

If being a mentor is one of the way to get the Custodians tools, I will try it. I'm quite used with admin tools...

I go around here when I can. Forgive me for my late answer :) RM77 <=> We talk. 20:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

N Not done User withdrawn. --~~Golden_burg111 22:06, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Archived 12/13.07, no mentor.

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

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

Hello everyone, I'm Ben and I would like to help out more at Wikiversity. So far during my short time here I've absorbed alot of the very accepting and friendly culture. Wikiversity isn't like Wikipedia, it's not screwed up and ultra structured - which goes against the wiki principle. Admittedly I'm not a brilliant content contributor but I have the willingness to help which I personally look for in terms of a sysop candidate.

Anyway, onto the nomination. I'm Pumpmeup pretty much everywhere, and a seasoned gnome (behind the scenes guy) on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (where I'm a trusted user). I intend to get started as a custodian everywhere I can - backlogs are my specialty! After the probationary period was up (or at least until I'm better known in the community and more acquainted with different ways of doing things) I would like to get into setting up the foundations (and new endeavors) for when the wiki hits its critical mass and then explodes in population, so we've got solid building blocks in place (in the form of specialized help pages, desks, policy, projects, etc). --Pumpmeup 12:11, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions and discussion

One way to help get yourself a mentor is to participate at IRC #wikiversity-en. --JWSchmidt 16:07, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

N Not done No custodians willing to mentor the user, this request has been left here for 7 years, with no outcome. --~~Golden_burg111 17:48, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]