On 11/24/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Hundreds and hundreds of articles" -- why
not give some EXAMPLES so
people can check out your unbelievable story?
Yes! Call the Mediawiki software guys, because here is something
impossible happening! Show them what articles disappeared, and let
them be puzzled about how they disappeared without anything being
shown in the logs.
... I don't know about his relationship to
Interlingua, but he is a
STEWARD. That means he has special privelages. He has a licence to
kill, so to speak, and you do not. He is trusted by the community, if
he sees a massive base of articles he feels need deleting, he can just
delete them without asking anybody. If somebody complains at a later
date, other stewards will check their complaints, and if it seems he
made an inappropriate judgement, his action would be reversed.
Well, we are supposed to only work based on what the local wikipedias
want. However, as I stated, there WAS no local wikipedia community at
the time. There were 117 total edit actions in July. The number of new
articles a day had not gotten above 0,5 for months.
That German fellow WAS an
admin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only admins
and stewards and developers and bureaucrats can delete
pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, he was made an admin especially for this occasion, because
these articles were hanging around on the wiki, and there was no admin
at the time to do the work. He volunteered, and he got the job. He did
not discuss with the admins because there WAS no admin to discuss
with. And there wasn't much of anyone else either.
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
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