Its true, things are slow on WikiBooks, and I take responsability for it. Every since I have been down in Mexico (10 months or so) my access to the Internet has been limited and I have not been keeping an eye on things like I used to (someone had called me the glue that held WB together). Well now I have Internet in my house again and can be online more regularly and hope to be able to help things run more smoothly.
BTW I was made a steward a while back and supposedly able to make admins and some other stuff, but how in the world do I do it? Is there a tutorial somewhere? Right now on the Spanish page I'm not even allowed to edit protected pages. I thought I was supposed to have some sort of power that transcends all of the wiki sites. Thank you to anyone who can help set me straight on that.
Adios amigos, Karl
Karl Wick wrote:
BTW I was made a steward a while back and supposedly able to make admins and some other stuff, but how in the world do I do it? Is there a tutorial somewhere? Right now on the Spanish page I'm not even allowed to edit protected pages. I thought I was supposed to have some sort of power that transcends all of the wiki sites. Thank you to anyone who can help set me straight on that.
There are instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards
-- Tim Starling
Karl Wick a écrit:
Its true, things are slow on WikiBooks, and I take responsability for it. Every since I have been down in Mexico (10 months or so) my access to the Internet has been limited and I have not been keeping an eye on things like I used to (someone had called me the glue that held WB together). Well now I have Internet in my house again and can be online more regularly and hope to be able to help things run more smoothly.
BTW I was made a steward a while back and supposedly able to make admins and some other stuff, but how in the world do I do it? Is there a tutorial somewhere? Right now on the Spanish page I'm not even allowed to edit protected pages. I thought I was supposed to have some sort of power that transcends all of the wiki sites. Thank you to anyone who can help set me straight on that.
Adios amigos, Karl
Note that you do it all from meta itself.
the most important page is : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
ant
Karl Wick a écrit: I thought I was supposed to have some sort of power that transcends all of the wiki sites. Thank you to anyone who can help set me straight on that.
No, you have the ability to make other users into admins, assuming there is consensus on their wiki to do that/or there is no community there to vote on this, _and_ they have no local bureaucrat.
Anthere a écrit:
the most important page is : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
You mean http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions :-)
Angela
Angela a écrit:
the most important page is : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
You mean http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions :-)
Angela
Might it be a freudian slip ??? :-)
Ant
I'm trying to give someone sysop permission on the en.wikibooks.org site and it tells me that I don't have permission to do it ...
I went to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Makesysop and then to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Makesysop and it tells me "The action you have requested can only be performed by users with "sysop" status." I'm supposedly at that status and well beyond.
BTW the instructions on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards seem kind of ambiguous. To make BillPeet an admin on the English WikiBooks I would type in "BillPeet@enwikibookssysop" ? Maybe it is to my disadvantage that I didn't study much programming ...
Thanks for the help, Karl
On 4/28/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Angela a écrit:
the most important page is : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
You mean http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions :-)
Angela
Might it be a freudian slip ??? :-)
Ant
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On 4/28/05, Karl Wick karlwick@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to give someone sysop permission on the en.wikibooks.org site and it tells me that I don't have permission to do it ...
The English Wikibooks has its own bureaucrats, so this is not something a steward should normally be dealing with. Is there a reason those people can't do it? If so, it may be better to find some more bureaucrat candidates for that wiki instead.
I went to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Makesysop and then to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Makesysop and it tells me "The action you have requested can only be performed by users with "sysop" status." I'm supposedly at that status and well beyond.
You can't use Special:Makesysop at Wikibooks because you are not a bureaucrat on that wiki. You can only use the version at Meta.
BTW the instructions on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards seem kind of ambiguous. To make BillPeet an admin on the English WikiBooks I would type in "BillPeet@enwikibookssysop"
No, you should type BillPeet@enwikibooks in the first field and sysop in the second field.
See also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bureaucrat
Angela.
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