Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Catherine Laurence
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Closed as unsuccessful. --Lymantria (talk) 05:23, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
RfP scheduled to end after 2 October 2019 14:30 (UTC)
- Catherine Laurence (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Hello, here is Catherine Laurence (formerly Wildly boy) in the application administrator. I know that the 2630 edits is a bit less for this wiki, but for the following reasons I decided to apply for an administrator again:
- Since May, GFW has continued to grow. Most Wikimedia projects are now inaccessible in mainland China. This allows wiki people from mainland China have to use open proxy to edit wikipedia and wikidata. However, it is usually not editable because it is limited by local bans and global bans. I asked them to apply for ipbe/gipbe in SRGP and WD:RFR, but most of them gave up further contributions to wikidata because they knew they would apply in English. This is undoubtedly a major loss for wikidata. I want to help them after the application is successful, giving them a local ipbe without having to apply in English.
- I have been checking recent changes and new pages since the last application failed. A lot of problems have been discovered: Quick delete pages marked as spam usually take a day to be processed. Some WD:ANs are archived without processing (eg [1]). This is a normal phenomenon for a small wiki project. But wikidata is clearly not a small wiki project. So I would like to take this opportunity to help with some requests that require administrator assistance.
The above is the reason for my application. I believe that my cross-wiki experience and my extensive rollback and speedy delete experience will help me get the job done by the administrator. Regards.--Catherine Laurence 14:30, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Votes
edit- The purposes for getting adminship are looking noble, I support the candidacy and wish you good luck! --Wolverène (talk) 01:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I have seen a lot of good work from him, and we need more Chinese administrators. His rationale for requesting adminship is valid imo. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 06:10, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Esteban16 (talk) 21:29, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Leaning support —Eihel (talk) 02:36, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Good work, particularly cross-wiki. We could use some more admin help here. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:52, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Support -- Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 03:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Support-BRP ever 10:23, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Epìdosis 11:01, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose competence and commitment to the project are doubtful.--Roy17 (talk) 13:42, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak oppose I don’t think this user will abuse the rights. The user is doing an amazing job at the Wiki and the contribution towards the Chinese community is extremely important. But at this point I don’t think it’s necessary to be an admin for being helpful towards the project. The user has never worked with properties and is not active in project chat. Have also barely welcomed any user on their talk page. I do appreciate your work on Wikidata, but I think this is a bit too early. I hope this won't discourage you and that you continue with your contributions to Wikidata (regardless the outcome). - Premeditated (talk) 14:23, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I feel that welcoming users is not just using
{{Welcome}}
on the User_talk page, but teaching them how to use wikidata. (As I did in a non-public group) . And then the reason that prompted me to rfa for the second time was that I think the administrator processing rate is too slow. For example, if I mention the speedy delete page (eg.[2]), it usually takes about a day for the administrator to process it. It's hard to believe that this wiki have more than 50 administrators who in active a day. So I hope to help deal with some of the administrator's work, at least vandalism and advertising. The second is to better engage Chinese users. I also agree with other points of view. Whether or not I will pass this time, I will correct it according to your point of view. Thank you for your valuable comments. Catherine Laurence (discussion) 14:38, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I feel that welcoming users is not just using
- Oppose. Unfortunately I don't think you have experience on Wikidata. If you were an administrator on another Wikimedia project, I could take that into account and disregard your unusually low number and reduced range of local actions here, but that's not the case either. However, I do think your contribution is positive; thanks for it and please keep going! --abián 17:56, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak oppose per Premeditated and Abián. Mahir256 (talk) 19:38, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Seems good to me. Josephine W. (talk) 06:46, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- "Only registered users with minimum 100 local non-automated edits can vote" - Premeditated (talk) 08:05, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
editOn your previous RfA some users opposed you due to your lack of experience on Wikidata. However, they agreed you do a good xwiki work. I've checked your past 1000 edits and I couldn't find any hint that this has changed. Most of your contributions are reverts and updates on items, which is not bad, but I dind't see interactions with the community (such as comments regarding any topic), which I think administrators should have. For me, being a sysop isn't just to know what to revert or when to block, but to know the community side of the project as well. I do like your concern regarding Chinese users and your provision to help, but I think you still lack experience. I don't want to cast my vote without reading your response, so I kindly ask you to reply this with arguments based on your point of view. Thank you, Esteban16 (talk) 01:13, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I didn't participate in too much discussion because I was not confident in my English ability, and I couldn't spend too much time on the Internet because of my academic reasons. Of course I also agree with your point of view so I am trying to change (although time is really difficult).
- The second one is about my personal contribution. My recent contribution is really mainly about restoring and updating projects. But in telegrame, qq, I am also working on teaching other wiki people from China how to use wikidata. Although their operations may still have errors, such as the request deletion of duplicated items, it is much better than before. But it also gives some vandals an opportunity. Because today's wikidata doesn't have any filters that protect against corruption or advertising from Chinese, it makes me have a lot of trouble checking my recent changes. So I want to apply for an administrator to use the administrator tool to better assist the Chinese community, such as the ipbe mentioned above, delete the pages they created incorrectly, and handle the operations that require administrators in chat groups such as telegrame. The aspect is to study a filter that filters Chinese damage or advertising. I believe this is a good idea for wikidata.
Regards. Catherine Laurence 14:49, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for your answer. As a non-native English speaker, I completely understand that communicating in another language can be a challenge sometimes, and we all have responsabilities in real life. But as I said above, I think it is important that administrators understand the community side of the project. I have doubts that you possess good knowledge of vandalism, spam and related stuff, and your desire to help the Chinese community is really amazing. Said that, the concern regarding the lack of interaction with the community is reduced, but still would like to see you engaged with the community; this way you get more experience. You have earned a support vote. Regards, Esteban16 (talk) 21:29, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- As far as allowing IP block requests to be in Chinese, I feel that would require a reworking of the request page to say explicitly that non-English requests for it are welcome. I think Google translate works well enough to be okay with non-English requests for that right. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 07:48, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]