Sounds fair enough. I just candidated myself to this effect. Lodewijk
2017-01-31 15:21 GMT+01:00 WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>: > Commons admins remain admins indefinitely, all they have to do is at least > 5 logged Admin actions every 6 months and not break the rules to the point > that people decide to recall them. > > Rather than ask the WMF to give someone an admin override facility for > Commons it might be easier if some more people from this list ran for admin > on Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators > > > WSC > > On 31 January 2017 at 12:58, Ynhockey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are Commons admins approved temporarily? I know some Wikipedias >> (including Hebrew) don't have permanent adminship and re-approve admins >> every once in a while, but it's probably a disastrous policy for Commons if >> it's the case. >> >> Anyway, as much as I am surprised that no top WLM organizer is a Commons >> admin (although there's clearly at least one admin on this mailing list), >> it's possible to get around this, although not easy. Lily has a good >> channel to the WMF and most of us are long-time users who know many others >> + many developers. The solution can be technical, and it can come from the >> WLM: perhaps a new user group that can only see historical revisions and >> restore without some of the other admin rights, perhaps an options to >> archive images that "need" to be deleted on groups of Commons policy, but >> aren't opposed by the foundation's legal team (might be a solution for URAA >> images as well), etc. >> >> I know that many in the community don't want any WMF interference, and >> the WMF wants to repair community ties—both are completely understandable. >> I don't want to suggest that we should interfere with these processes, but >> do think we can implement some kind of solution on the side. After all, WLM >> is a big project that costs a ton of resources. Just in terms of money, the >> WMF (or sometimes local donations) funds it with tens of thousands of >> dollars, directly or indirectly. It's therefore worth investing a little >> bit more to technically support projects like WLM. >> >> —Yan (Ynhockey). >> >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> WereSpielChequers, 31/01/2017 09:39: >>> >>>> I'm not an admin on commons, but where I am an admin it would be >>>> expected that you would check the history of a file before deleting it. >>>> >>> >>> It's expected on Commons too, see <https://commons.wikimedia.org >>> /wiki/Commons:Deletion_policy#Speedy_deletion>. >>> >>> When mistakes happen on Commons, we're sometimes too quick at >>> generalising. Currently Commons has issues with one or two rampant admins >>> who make semi-random deletions en masse (and even edit war on deletion >>> requests). Hopefully the situation is temporary. >>> >>> Nemo >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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