[Foundation-l] Emergency on Wiktionary

Wed Aug 9 08:48:03 UTC 2006

I would say that this feature should remain - they shouldn't be an
admin at all if they get blocked and start using their powers
irresponsibly. Because this kind of incident is rare and isolated, the
steward response of dropping the sysop flag worked to stop it
spreading further. IMO, this system works quite well.

On 08/08/06, Titoxd at Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> That already is true, at least one part. Admins are not allowed to protect,
> move, or delete pages if there's an outstanding block on the account, and
> they are not allowed to rollback while blocked either. However, the
> block/unblock feature was left to allow administrators to unblock themselves
> in case they found themselves on the receiving end of an AOL autoblock or
> something similar.
>
> Titoxd.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Wildrick Steele
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:39 PM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Emergency on Wiktionary
>
> On 07/08/06, Sean Whitton <sean at silentflame.com> wrote:
> >
> > According to IRC user Connel, there is a rogue admin loose on the
> > English Wiktionary and several dangerous actions have been performed
> > (main page deletion, open proxy unblocks etc.). A RfP has been up for
> > several days and the admin has not been desysopped. I don't have any
> > evidence of this right now and am trusting the user's words as a
> > steward is needed *now*.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Xy
> >
> > --
> >         -Xyrael ~ <xyr>
> >                 sean at silentflame.com | xyrael.net
> >
> >
> Evidence enough at
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=Danghero
> us&page=
>
> With this in mind, I've been thinking whether it would be wise to have some
> kind of feature that disallows admins from unblocking themselves and while
> blocked not being able to perform admin actions.
>
> Cheers,
> Wildrick
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vildricianus
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