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Karl Wick

28 Apr 2005 28 Apr '05

8:56 a.m.

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

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Tim Starling

28 Apr 28 Apr

8:59 a.m.

Karl Wick wrote:

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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

Anthere

9:13 a.m.

Karl Wick a écrit:

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Note that you do it all from meta itself. the most important page is : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages ant

Angela

9:24 a.m.

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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:

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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

Anthere

9:41 a.m.

Angela a écrit:

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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

Karl Wick

10:05 a.m.

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(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

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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 _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l

Angela

10:42 a.m.

On 4/28/05, Karl Wick <karlwick(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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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.

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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.

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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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