Wikisource:Administrators

Current administrators

Administrators are given access for one year per the Administrator policy. Regular votes are held to confirm each user's status. Other languages indicate the areas in which the administrators might be able to converse with outside project members, or help provide public domain translations.

Username	Other languages	Confirmation	Other access
BirgitteSB	Spanish (intermediate)	2009-02	bureaucrat
Brion VIBBER			developer
Cowardly Lion		2009-02
Danny	Hebrew	2008-06
Eclecticology		2009-02
FloNight		2008-12
GrafZahl	German, French (basic), Latin (basic)	2008-02
Hesperian		2009-02
John Vandenberg		2008-11
Jusjih	Mandarin, traditional and simplified Chinese, French (basic)	2008-11
Lar	German (basic)	2008-11
newmanbe	Spanish (basic), Esperanto (basic)	2009-01
Pathoschild	French	2008-03
Politicaljunkie	Latin (basic)	2008-10
Quadell		2009-02
Shanel	French (basic)	2008-08
Sherurcij	French (basic), Arabic (learning)	2008-09
Spangineer	Spanish (advanced), Portuguese (basic)	2009-01
Tarmstro99		2008-12
ThomasV	French	2009-01	developer
Yann	French, Hindi	2008-11
Zhaladshar	German (basic), Latin (basic)	2008-11	bureaucrat

Please edit the list at the Meta-Wiki when adding or removing names from this list.

Confirmation discussions

"Administrator access depends on the continued support of the community. This may be tested by a vote of confidence, in which a simple majority (50%+1) must support the user's continued adminship for it to be retained. Any user may propose a vote of confidence, but at least three established users must support the need for one before it can be called. Such a proposal is made automatically one year after the last scheduled or called proposal. The full schedule of proposal votes is available on the administrators page.

"In the case of an unscheduled (called) proposal, the user may not use administrator access for any non-trivial action at any time until the vote is closed. A bureaucrat will eventually archive the discussion and, assuming consensus, request removal of administrator access by a steward."

—Administrator policy (as of 01 October 2007)

A minimum of three established users must oppose below for a confirmation vote to be called. Users are free to indicate support for the administrator, although this has no effect on the outcome. Inactive administrators will automatically lose access unless a majority support continued access.

AllanHainey

status	administrator since 10 December 2005 (unanimous)
activity	active (contributions, logs)
discussions	adminship (passed), reconfirmation (passed)

• Oppose continued adminship, inactive and email not activated. John Vandenberg 19:20, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose keeping tools now since no editing or activity with admin tools since late April 2007. If he is active again I would gladly support re-gaining the tools. Thank you for your prior service to the Community. FloNight 19:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose; inactive.--BirgitteSB 19:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per all above. Cowardly Lion 02:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Inappropriate to have an admin with no e-mail link.--Poetlister 16:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per all above.--Jusjih 02:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
• Sadly, oppose on grounds of inactivity and lack of e-mail address.—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 17:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

BirgitteSB

status	administrator since 06 December 2005 (unanimous)
activity	active (contributions, logs)
discussions	adminship (passed) reconfirmation (passed)

• Support continued adminship. Actively using the buttons, patrolling, and 1500 contribs this year, with a high percentage being maintenance and administrative edits. John Vandenberg 19:20, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support continued adminship. Active editor and admin. Helpful and knowledgeable. FloNight 19:43, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Cowardly Lion 02:22, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support. —Benn Newman ^(AMDG) 03:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support, of course. Quadell 18:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support ++Lar: t/c 02:43, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support Certainly no problems!--Poetlister 16:41, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: Since she was recently given the bureaucratic bit by near-unanimous consent, it would be hilarious (though manifestly inappropriate, and probably technically impossible) for her to not get consensus to retain admin rights. I think it's safe to close this as "reconfirmation passed". Can any admin close this, or does a bureaucrat have to? And can Birgitte safely do this herself? —Quadell (talk / swapmeet) 17:47, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Um, it's not technically impossible to have 'crat without having admin. I've seen stranger things happen. As for closing, I think anyone (even a non admin) can close successful reconfirmations (by marking closed and then archiving) but it tends to be at the end of the month. I think. The Forms Must Be Obeyed :) ++Lar: t/c 05:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
    • It seems simplest to archive the reconirmations at the end of the month in order to put the people for the next month at the same time. It doesn't much matter who does this as long as they follow the list correctly.--BirgitteSB 20:05, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support Yann 10:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support (obviously :-) ).—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 16:58, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Nominations for adminship

Older nominations are archived.

ResidentScholar

216.165.199.50 (talk • contribs)

64.154.26.251 (talk • contribs)^[1]

ResidentScholar (talk • contribs)^[2]

Ok, I know this is a bit odd, and that there are a few minor technical difficulties to overcome before this is possible, but damnit, this person (whoever it is) is a keeper, and cares about the quality of our project.

On the content side of things, User216 has consistently progressed on a very large work History of the United States 1801-09, and has worked on many others such as An Essay Towards a Theory of Art, The Poetical Works of William Cowper, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Electra, Philoctetes and others.

What is more impressive is that User216 has 217 edits to the Wikisource namespace, of a total of 1500+ edits. These mostly consist of identification and discussion of copyright violations and deletion proposals. While not all of them have been successful, many have been found to be undesirable, and User216 is quick to acknowledge when there is a suitable reason to keep. In addition User216 takes the time to notify the user when that is appropriate.[3] I think it is safe to trust User216 to close WS:COPYVIO and WS:PD based on consensus within the legal limitations.

Another example of User216's Wikisource namespace contribs is the expansion of Wikisource:Ancient Rome. John Vandenberg 14:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

John has my thanks for the hospitality expressed in his nomination of me as administrator of the project. I accept the nomination with the understanding that my role would be limited, at least for now, to increased responsibilities in what I have been assisting in doing in the past, namely to closing the WS:COPYVIO discussions in which I have before participated in and moving them to Wikilivres if necessary. (and WS:PD discussions also if that would be helpful). In recent days in the course of rechecking the labeling of the license status of the modern era authors (I'm up to the Gs), I have discovered possible copyvios at a rate of about one work for every two letters of the alphabet, if that can give any indication of the future volume of such discussions. Another role I see users and admins doing is patrolling edits. I would be willing to learn about that as well, but as far as shaping policy and that sort of thing, I have personal limitations that would prevent regular attendance on long-term projects, and you would have to depend on good fortune for my ability to help in those areas. If that changes, we can discuss increasing my role.

Relating to shaping policy, and so there's no surprises, I do have a minor policy suggestion about the main index that I haven't broached because of the smallness of the role I've occupied before, but that's the only "agenda" item I want to pursue as an Administrator. If in the future I see how a change could significantly improve things, and have the ability to follow through, I will bring it up in the appropriate venues as I did at Wikisource:Reform month and on some of the Administrators' user pages, with deference to my more senior Adminstrators. I am also willing to share my ideas for Wikisource, even if I can't personally follow through on them, where appropriate.

Thanks again, John, for the honor of the nomination.

ResScholar 07:11, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

• It's technically impossible to assign groups to an IP address, and that is very unlikely to change in the future. That is neatly circumvented if they register an account, perhaps something like User:216. They also need to accept the nomination for adminship, of course. —{admin} Pathoschild 15:30:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

• Support. Wow, humble and hard-working. What's not to like? —Quadell (talk / swapmeet) 12:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support If we're sure these are all the same person, he's earned it.--Poetlister 15:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support - Great to see an account created. Giggy\^talk 09:33, 30 January 2008 (UTC)