This sounds like an odd advice starting from someone asking about simultaneous image upload to commons. Nikita, you can use a tool like the commonist for simultaneous upload -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist
or ask an admin in #wikimedia-commons
I'm not sure why you are promoting Sysadmin access to new individuals who are asking about simultaneous image uploads, I would imagine those are order of magnitude, apart from each other.
If you want to offer sysadmin access to new individuals without even a mention of their qualification or even a user account. How can I say anything?
Regards Theo
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Nikita,
Thanks for your reply.
Here's a list of the Wikimedia community's IRC channels:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels
In the future, when you have a technical problem with Wikimedia sites, try visiting one of the IRC channels that the developers and system administrators use to coordinate their work, such as #wikimedia-tech .
A few of our system administrators are volunteers. There's an incomplete and out-of-date list here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators
You asked: "How can I help?" If you have system administration skills, you can help by getting a Labs account https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs . Labs users talk via the #wikimedia-labs channel on IRC and the labs-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l . Tasks that new system administrators can take on are listed here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs#Proposals
and you can learn about the current architecture of Wikimedia's operations infrastructure at
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/
However, as I mentioned, the system is still under construction and so please don't feel discouraged if there's not much you can do yet.
People without system administration skills can help in this particular situation by learning them, or by spreading the word about Wikimedia technical opportunities in general.
Thanks!
-- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
On 01/31/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote:
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:54:51 +0530 From: nikita belavate niki8891@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Message-ID: CAPYgbuP3s=+1pdm-tZUwdSq3j4_nCL7pF69F8_DhWyPVKqWC6Q@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hii, Thanks for your response. We tried at Wikimedia-in Channel ( wikimedia India). Thank you for the information you mentioned. It will be very helpful to have volunteer system administrations. How can i help? Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote: On 01/30/2012 07:00 AM,
wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote:
nikita belavate niki8891@gmail.com wrote:
The major technical challenge started here while uploading the
images.
The
system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and
only
one
person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time.
We tried
calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then.
My sympathies and condolences on this problem!
Quick question -- which IRC channels did you go into? If I know more about that, I can help encourage better 24/7 coverage.
In the long run, it'll be helpful for Wikimedia to have volunteer
system
administrators around the world, to increase the chances that someone
is
online and available and can help you. And maybe you can become a sysadmin yourself! Wikimedia Labs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs is an
effort
to help grow the Wikimedia system administration community. Check it out. It's in closed beta right now and it is still under
construction,
but if you ask on the Talk/Discuss page for an invite, you can get
one.
-- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
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