Project:Administrators
The EvoWiki admins are not (or needn't be) a cabal determining the direction of the project and the site's content. The main role of admins is simply to clean up vandalism, for which they have access to a set of tools that makes this quicker and easier, as well as technical support. In editorial matters there is no automatic superiority of admins.
Admins
Moderators
- God Fearing Atheist (Talk)
- VindexUrvogel(JGK) (Talk)
- Oplopanax (Talk)
- Lpetrich (Talk)
- Thomas Kettenring (Talk)
- TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa (Talk)
More moderators may be added, you can volunteer yourself, or recomend others here, requirements are:
- a registered username
- a clean "edit history" and/or history of talk.origins/IIDB posting
Nominations
- I request to be a mod if ya need me --Oplopanax 08:55, 14 Dec 2003 (GMT) (aka nic/zosdad of t.o.)
- Nominate User:Thomas Kettenring, assuming he's willing? --Steinsky 00:51, 9 Apr 2004 (BST)
- Oh! If we need that many admins, that's OK with me. I'll try to be more peaceful than last year, so I hope that the one admin I clashed with in the past won't object... --User:Thomas Kettenring
- Nominate User:TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa (and assuming this already has TK's support). Joe D (t) 13:45, 30 Jul 2005 (BST)
- Well that's fine with me, although I'll probably only use whatever priviledges I'm given to delete pages that I would have been blanking previously. If you don't mind the fact that I care more about editing than moderating, then I guess you can sign me up. :) TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa 17:38, 31 Jul 2005 (BST)
- I joined this wiki lately. Well, mainly I'm reverting vandalism. If you trust me enough already, moderator priviledges might be handy for this (Recent changes patrol). Markus Schmaus 00:11, 10 February 2006 (GMT)
- Your account at Wikipedia looks good. [1] I'm for it.
- I nominate Apokryltaros who does the most vandal reverting at the moment. I think the tools would be helpful for him. --tk (t) 09:40, 27 February 2006 (GMT)
Admin issues
Backups
For lack of a better place at the moment, may I ask Steinsky: How is EvoWiki with backups? The project is reaching that point where it's starting to really get going, it is usually around this point that some kind of major crash occurs and much work is lost, which would of course discourage people from joining up. Perhaps there is some kind of auto-backup, or the Wiki software never crashes, but I figured I'd ask just in case. It would already be horrible to lose everything, we've created some good stuff... --oplo
- I've been taking backups every month or so, and have one from mid november on cdrw and computer at uni. I've stuck another dump at http://www.evowiki.org/backup2003-12-24.sql, but I'm at my parents' house on a 56k so I can't be bothered downloading all 25MB to check that the backup worked alright. I'll take another one in a month, when I've finnished exams. The server owner used to make sure there were regular tape backups of everything, so it's probably all safe... --Steinsky 19:19, 24 Dec 2003 (GMT)
- Thanks for the info, that's reassuring. We might consider making it a regular thing, especially if there was a way to automate the backup e.g. weekly. One would still lose alot if we lost a month. Obviously Xmas etc. will keep us all busy for the next few days so don't worry about it immediately...thanks! --oplo
Recent changes patrol
In the latest version of MediaWiki there's a new feature for admins on the recent changes page: edits which have not yet been checked by an admin for vandalism (at least, I suggest using this only for vandalism, but we could use it for fact check/peer review, but that would then make checking RC a lot more time consuming) are marked with a !. When you click on the "diff" link there is a link at the top of the page saying "Mark as patrolled" which will remove that ! from the RC page so that we don't have all the admins checking the same pages for vandalism. Joe D (t) 14:42, 28 Apr 2005 (BST)
