[Wikipedia-l] Chinese 'Pedia Admin, the Lack of

[Fred Bauder]

Sounds like a nicely balanced group.

Fred

> From: "Menchi Zh-En WP" <ebeins at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:38:22 -0700
> To: wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Chinese 'Pedia Admin, the Lack of
> 
> Since the Chinese Wikipedia began over half a year ago, we have lacked any
> sort of administrator. Brion VIBBER has been kindly helping us with
> programming problems, but since he can't read Chinese characters, he is
> unable to help us do the dirty work of cleaning up after vandalistic acts.
> 
> As we currently only have just over 200 articles, there is not much to
> vandal on yet, but occasionally, repetitive vandals (mostly Anons, some
> registered) grace us with annoying visits. Moreover, 2 or 3 bothersome
> nonsensical (purposeful or experimental) "articles" occur daily, usually as
> new articles, or worse, as additions or total replacements.
> 
> As the number of the articles increase (and it is swiftly), among other
> things, more unpleasantness -- some of which we have experienced -- will
> surely arrive, unfortunately. We would like to be ready for that approaching
> time whose front. Discussions between existing contributors led to the
> recommendation of the following five candidates, who, based on their past
> actions and communications, are all deemed responsible, objective, and
> therefore qualified to be Wikipedia administrators:
> 
> * Formulax of Shanghai and Singapore (966 edits since November 2002):
> Biographies, philosophy, art history, international relations, etc.
> * Lorenzarius of Hong Kong (569 ed. since February 2002): Mainlander
> administrations (especially provincial-level), meta-documents, etc.
> * Menchi of Canada and Taiwan (472 ed. since February 2002): North American
> societies, overseas Chinese, Korean studies, etc.
> 
> And two impressively gung ho newbies:
> 
> * Samuel of Canton (656 ed. since May 2002): language, education, zoology,
> pathology, geography, mathematics, European societies, etc.
> * Shizhao of Beijing (831 ed. since May 2002): mineralogy, classical
> literature, pre-modern technology, chemistry, etc.
> 
> Together, the five above made about 60% of all existing edits on the Chinese
> Wikipedia.
> 
> The potential administrators represent a variety of interest, and not the
> bias of a particular ideology or region or ancestry:
> 
> * Two of the above contributors use traditional Chinese, three simplified.
> * Two overseas, three "internal".
> * Two are raised in Cantonese environment, two Mandarin, one Wu.
> * Four are bilingual in English, one Russian. Tertiary languages include
> French, Spanish and German.
> * Several have been active in the English Wikipedia, such as Menchi, the
> 63rd most active contributor there.
> 
> The last two contributors are admittedly new, but their extensive work
> should show their ability and personality.
> 
> None of us know each other personally, so these nominations were based
> purely on professional understanding. There are additional good writers, but
> they have not yet demonstrated an overwhelming enthusiasm or a desire to
> maintain the program and protect it from vandal destruction, so they were
> not included in the final list above.
> 
> We would like to improve this young project and help it grow. In order to do
> that, we should be able to serve the cause of Wikipedia easier and faster.
> And we believe that administratorship can allow us to achieve that goal.
> 
> -- Menchi
> 
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