Talk:Developers/LQT Archive 1

Only a developer has the rights -- if not the authority -- to:
 * grant sysop rights or developer rights to a user
 * block a user account, i.e., enforce a "ban"*

I think this makes each developer a sort of Gatekeeper -- an awesome and sometimes troubling (troublesome?) office of responsibility. --Uncle Ed 17:34 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

* No longer true of Semptember 2003. Any sysop may do this.

Magnus gave me developer access to the Wikipedia SourceForge servers two years ago when I asked to become a developer. However I've never had access to the Wikipedia servers that I'm aware of. What's my status ? Am I a developer or not ? -- Derek Ross 06:17, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It would be useful if the level of access people have was added to this page. Shouldn't Jeronim, Shaihulud and Maveric149 be listed? Angela. 02:07, Mar 27, 2004 (UTC)


 * What about Ed, who, granted, was doing mostly (only?) bureaucratic functions? Pakaran 15:41, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * I seemed to have been eased into retirement. They gave me a nice pension which affords me a comfortable living; also, a gold watch which I take out and look at from time to time. ;-) Thank you, one and all, for having given me the opportunity to serve. --Ed Poor 17:58, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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History
Legend: (cur) = difference with current version, (last) = difference with preceding version, M = minor edit


 * (cur) (last) . . 08:01, 28 Mar 2004 . . 81.250.192.201
 * (cur) (last) . . 07:48, 28 Mar 2004 . . T0xic (Tim Starling is a master of PHP)
 * (cur) (last) . . 13:20, 21 Feb 2004 . . Tim Starling (+snok and gwicke)
 * (cur) (last) . . m 06:55, 18 Jan 2004 . . Ojigiri (+ja)
 * (cur) (last) . . 06:45, 1 Nov 2003 . . Tim Starling (Jason Richey -> Jasonr)
 * (cur) (last) . . m 00:48, 27 Oct 2003 . . Tim Starling (wikification)
 * (cur) (last) . . m 03:41, 26 Oct 2003 . . Tim Starling (+Neil)
 * (cur) (last) . . 03:33, 26 Oct 2003 . . Tim Starling (Jimbo's status)
 * (cur) (last) . . 03:21, 26 Oct 2003 . . Tim Starling (mostly rewritten)
 * (cur) (last) . . 15:40, 15 Oct 2003 . . Ed Poor (silly developer poetry -- the verses are silly, not the developers (mostly)
 * (cur) (last) . . 18:22, 10 Oct 2003 . . Ed Poor (re: sysop promotion & power vs. authority)
 * (cur) (last) . . 18:19, 10 Oct 2003 . . Ed Poor (+ Tim Starling + Marumari + random comments on each Developer)
 * (cur) (last) . . m 23:13, 17 Jun 2003 . . Derek Ross (typo)
 * (cur) (last) . . 22:15, 11 Jun 2003 . . LittleDan (adding Eloquence (erik) to list of developers)
 * (cur) (last) . . 04:43, 15 Apr 2003 . . Lee Daniel Crocker
 * (cur) (last) . . 23:16, 18 Feb 2003 . . Enchanter (Updating)
 * (cur) (last) . . m 10:12, 30 Nov 2002 . . Maveric149 (* Ed Poor ; there are others )
 * (cur) (last) . . 06:43, 23 Sep 2002 . . The Cunctator (initial entry)

How's this for a compromise (assuming one is needed)?

Name                 CVS   Shell   Root   CVS admin   Remote power Elisabeth Bauer       * Axel Boldt            * Camille Constans      *      * T.D. Corell           * The Cunctator         * Johan Dahlin          * Peter Danenberg       * Lee Daniel Crocker    *                      * Michael Dill          *                      * Mr E23                *      *       * Andre Engels          * Fantasy               * Jens Frank            * Guillaume Blanchard   * Jan Hidders           * Simon J Kissane       * Matthias Jordan       * Christian List        * Magnus Manske         *                      * Erik Moeller          *      *       *       * Christoph Mussenbrock * Nicholas Pisarro, Jr. * Evan Prodromou        * Nick Reinking         * Jason Richey          *      *       *                     * Derek Ross            * Valerio Santinelli    *                      * Chris Seaton          * Chuck SMITH           * Bogdan Stancescu      * Tim Starling          *      *       *       * Marian Steinbach      * Tarquin               * Timwi                 * Anders Törlind        * Luc Van Oostenryck    * Brion Vibber          *      *       *       *             * Ashar Voultoiz        * Jimmy Wales           *      *       *                     * Tomasz Wegrzanowski   *      * Gabriel Wicke         *      *                             *

Just a thought -- I'm not invested at all in this... BCorr | &#1041;&#1088;&#1072;&#1081;&#1077;&#1085; 04:52, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Look like good. A &#9774; ineko 06:16, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Or, of course, we could use the MediaWiki table syntax! Reformat the below to your heart's content... IMSoP 18:24, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

ASCII art isn't that bad, I'm not about to get into an edit war with Brion over this :) -- Tim Starling 02:21, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Developers on my own MediaWiki
I'm setting up my own wiki using MediaWiki software. Is there any way I can make myself and others developers on our wiki? -- JoeyDay 16:41, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Yes. Give them shell access to your server (only if yu're sure you trust them!) or have them contribute programming to the MediaWiki software. Or whatever else interests you - it's your wiki, your decision to make when it comes to what to call people. Jamesday 04:21, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

FoeNyx
I can't remember now why I made this edit but it was reverted. I probably meant to put the dot in the CVS box, not the Shell one, but now FoeNyx is not listed on the sourceforge page, so maybe he doesn't have that either. Anyway, I'm not sure what he has and he's not currently listed on the page. confused Angela 22:02, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I noticed the entry and asked him why he was there, because I couldn't see his name on the SF list or in zwinger's home directory. He said he didn't know and removed himself. Someone on #mediawiki (jeronim?) suggested that you might have seen a patch submission to bugzilla. -- Tim Starling 02:41, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

deletion of versions
as on #wikimedia nobody replies i put it here;

the listet versions are copyvio. please delete them:


 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2271369
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269374
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269342
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269295
 * http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Juli_%28Musikgruppe%29&oldid=2269285 ...de:Benutzer:Sicherlich

Why is Kate no longer a Developer?
Why is User:Kate no longer a Developer? I was very disappointed to see the disappearance of Kate's Tools, a site I visited daily to check my edit counts. David Cannon 11:26, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

en:Wikipedia:Changing username
Could somebody please handle requests at en:Wikipedia:Changing username?

wikisarcoidosis francais
hello, I would like to add all the languages on my mediawiki, how to make? as well as the carecteres speciaus at the foot of the page in mode edict ggauthier http://www.combbs.net/mediawiki/

Please help identify User:KingOfAllPaperboys
Developers, I don't see a notice board so I am trying this page. Please help us identify User:KingOfAllPaperboys. He got blocked the evening of the 25th for harassing User:Netoholic, but a review of his history leads me to believe that he is the sockpuppet of an administrator. The user was created in december 2004, and after about 4 edits over two months on Feb. 10th there was a burst of activity helping to fight a vandal attack, on pages he'd never visited before, and he fought it like a professional. Therefore it looks like he is the alter ego of an admin. After very little activity for another month or so, suddenly he shows up harassing User:Netoholic who has made himself unpopular recently, especially among the admins with revert wars over templates and policies. However, that is no excuse for an admin to have a sockpuppet and misbehavior. I think there should be zero tolerance for such behavior and immediate revocation of admin status. But identifying the culprit requires developer assistance. I have tried to track it down via contribution histories and have three candidates User:172, User:Snowspinner and User:Itai, who each had the motive and some significant but not conclusive gaps that coincide with KingOfAllPaperboys activity.

Please assist in identifying this abuser of the community before the IP trail grows cold. He may be sophisticated so make sure he didn't come in under a separate IP, during the 24 hours KingOfAllPaperboys was blocked.

Please let me know ASAP if I have managed to reach anybody in this manner. Otherwise, I think my best hope to would be to try Jimbo's talk page, but I don't want to bother him unnecessarily. -- thanx, User:Silverback