First of all, I hereby inform everyone of the recently
created Administrators' noticeboard, located at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard
Secondly, everyone who is watching recent changes have
probably seen that the mass-upload of scans for
Wikisource is commencing. I personally had worries
about this, but since they do belong on Commons, this
flooding-problem must be possible to solve in some
technical way.
Third. Because of the ever-increasing traffic, several
new admins have been promoted:
August 16th, User:Lestath (pl, en-2, la-1)
August 17th, User:Cnyborg (no, en-3, +others)
August 17th, User:Odder (pl, en-2, de-2)
August 30th, User:Platonides (es, en-2, fr-1)
August 31st, User:Drini (es, en-3)
We welcome them and hope they will make good use of
their admin abilities.
Fourth. Because of the increased traffic, there is a
larger backlog, although not critical. There are
around 1,100 images without source from July, and 100
left from June. The categories can be reached from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unknown .
The speedy delete categories should never have a
backlog. Recently the copyright violation category,
located at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Against_policy
, was up to 140 images, which is too much. Now it is
down to about 50 which is acceptable, but keep an eye
on it. In case anyone is interested, there is also a
category for duplicates,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Duplicate ,
that hardly gets any attention.
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs Linux
and understands MySql to make a specific
administrator-list. A complete tutorial is available!
/ Fred-Chess