[Wikiml-l] Global Sysops

[Jyothis E]

All,

As you may have seen, the global
sysop<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysop>s
are active. They will do sysop's job in those places where there are not
enuf admins. Since Global sysops cover a lot of Indian wikimedia projects, I
thought it is worth mentioning here in the list. Current elected GSs are
those who had been doing counter vandalism and Small wiki monitoring for
quite a while. ( I am not sure how many are aware of the great job of the
SWMT <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWMT> and  such CVN groups. they are
the silent guards, imho). Most of them can be found in various irc
channels and can be contacted in case of emergency - say some one is causing
trouble and you dont have a sysop around - on their meta talk pages or IRC.


Please see some details that we should know:

*From Meta page:*

*Global **sysops* <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sysop> are highly trusted
users with a strong track record of cross-wiki contributions that have sysop
privileges on many small
wikis<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops/wiki_set>,
for the purposes of antivandalism and routine maintainance. They are not
users with sysop tools on all wikis and they have *no* extra editorial
control over content or the local community.

Scope

By default, global sysop would be *enabled* for every project that meets one
of the following criteria:

   - fewer than *ten* administrators exist; or
   - fewer than *three* administrators have made a logged action within the
   past two months.

Projects may opt-in or opt-out at their own discretion if they obtain local
consensus. Simply inform any steward of the community's decision. A
wiki set<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook#Managing_sets_of_wikis_.28for_global_groups.29>,
located here <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_sysops/wiki_set> is used
to give rights on the included wikis only.
See the current list of Global sysops
here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/Global_sysops>.
Questions and comments are welcome.

Regards,
Jyothis.

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