Wikipedia:New administrator mentorship
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Administrators have the technical ability to do a number of things that ordinary users can’t do. Administrators are granted access to technical tools that permit them to protect pages, delete pages and block users. Whilst some administrator skills can be learnt prior to a successful request for adminship, many administrators have found that they learnt more once they were actively using these administrative tools.
New administrator mentorship is a program to connect new administrators with experienced sysops, and to provide support to administrators carrying out activities that are new to them. Each administrator who uses the program will have different objectives, but they may include the following:
- A resource person to turn to when making administrative decisions in a new area (e.g., assessing consensus in complex AfD discussions)
- Advice in situations that the new administrator may not have encountered previously (e.g., determining whether certain information is a BLP violation that needs immediate action).
- A resource person to assist an administrator who wishes to move into new areas and may have questions about practices and policy implementation (e.g., complex page merges).
- A mentor to look through their logs and provide feedback on their administrative actions.
Active mentors
editAny administrator that wishes to help mentor less experienced sysops can list their name here. A brief overview of the admin areas you work in should be given too.
- Animum (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – AIV, CSD, and RFPP (not as active there as I would like to be).
- bibliomaniac15 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - CAT:CSD, WP:AIV, WP:UAA, WP:MFD, WP:RPP.
- east718 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - Anything interesting; also situations that are difficult or Sisyphean to the degree that other admins won't touch them. Let me know on my talkpage if you're interested.
- Mailer diablo (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - Anything that has got to do with deletions. History of internal processes also welcome.
- Ryan Postlethwaite (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) – Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention.
- WBOSITG (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) - mainly deletion-esque areas, although I can try to advise on other areas of the "job".
Requests for mentorship
editAny new administrator may request mentorship here. Please give a brief outline of your administrator interests, and areas which you hope to work on so you can be linked with the most appropriate mentor. To make a request, please do following the hidden template below.
- Now that I pointed here in another RfA, maybe some people will notice this page again. I am helping with WP:AIV, WP:SPEEDY and WP:RFPP mostly and I would like to be adopted by someone who is willing to allow me to pester them with questions now and then ;-) SoWhy 07:36, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
- You seem to want to work in areas similar to the ones that I work in, so would you like me to take you under my wing?! Ryan PostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 18:44, 11 October 2008 (UTC)