Wikipedia talk:United States Education Program/Courses/Wiki-Project Management (Jonathan Obar)/Group 1 Sandbox

Hi everyone - Stephen, Daniel, Matt, Dave, Bender. Tarucstephen (talk) 16:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Tool sets Pre/Post Adminship
Still waiting to hear back about tools from the 25 admins I have messaged. Only a few were willing to answer, also doing some digging myself and should have this completed by this weekend. Ltezl (talk) 22:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I got responses back regarding admin tools from quite a few people, I will copy paste them in here with appropriate links so you can copy it over to the tool set section. Ltezl (talk) 14:36, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

From User Atama My exact focus has always been a bit in flux, but I've certainly mostly done maintainance work in my time here. Some such maintainance tasks only really make sense for admins so I assume I've done more of those tasks after being made an admin (relatively speaking), but I don't think adminship has significantly changed the kind of work I'm doing here. Admin work is still mostly just maintainance, and to be made an admin in an RfA one should already be doing the same type of work before. If you're asking about MediaWiki functionality granted by Special:ListGroupRights#sysop, I guess I've mainly made use of 'block', 'browsearchive', 'delete', 'deletedhistory', 'deletedtext', 'editinterface', 'edituserjs'. Before being made an admin I've asked admins to perform those actions for me. If you want to make a more objective analysis you should probably simply analyze my use of active rights in Special:Log/Amalthea and Special:Log/Contributions. Amalthea 16:31, 10 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ltezl (talk • contribs)

From User Atama then I will go to my main user page where I’ve setup couple of templates that show me who's running for rfa because that’s one of the things I get involved with a lot is looking to see who's running for adminship. I also have a link to the admin dashboard. the admin dashboard is really useful tool. it collects a bunch of articles that have been nominated for speedy deletion. it shows people who are asking to be unblocked. it’ll show pages that have been flagged as attack pages. I’ll go through there typically and see if there is any heavy backlogs and if so ill go in there and see if I can try to resolve them and then look at a couple notices boards. like the conflict of interest notice board. the admin notice board. including the incidents notice board for admins. and look to see if there’s is unaddressed requests for help that I think are pertinent and might apply — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ltezl (talk • contribs) 22:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, I had the rollback usergroup for about nine months prior to becoming an admin, and I used it extensively to revert vandalism to various articles. I also commonly used antivandalism scripts and programs that depended on having rollback, such as igloo and huggle. After several months, I became an edit filter manager to help prevent gross abuse of Wikipedia and its editors by several banned trolls. After several more months, HJ Mitchell nominated me to be an administrator, which passed unopposed, as can be seen here. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:58, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Very easy answer to that one - before becoming an admin, I used no tools. None. Some RfAs have comments about excess of automated editing - mine had a comment about zero use of tools. Since becoming an admin, I've used Twinkle as it saves time, but still do quite a lot manually, including personally oriented messages on userpages instead of bland templates all the time. Twinkle is useful to me for routine stuff that is otherwise time-consuming, like starting an AfD. It's a tool that doesn't have a built-in judgement factor of its own. I distrust machine judgements unless there is an easy override. (And I detest those phone call sorters that never have an option for the problem I an ringing about.) OK. Next question? Peridon (talk) 08:24, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

My exact focus has always been a bit in flux, but I've certainly mostly done maintainance work in my time here. Some such maintainance tasks only really make sense for admins so I assume I've done more of those tasks after being made an admin (relatively speaking), but I don't think adminship has significantly changed the kind of work I'm doing here. Admin work is still mostly just maintainance, and to be made an admin in an RfA one should already be doing the same type of work before. If you're asking about MediaWiki functionality granted by Special:ListGroupRights, I guess I've mainly made use of 'block', 'browsearchive', 'delete', 'deletedhistory', 'deletedtext', 'editinterface', 'edituserjs'. Before being made an admin I've asked admins to perform those actions for me. If you want to make a more objective analysis you should probably simply analyze my use of active rights in Special:Log/Amalthea and Special:Log/Contributions. Amalthea 16:31, 10 April 2012 (UTC)