Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Request for Adminship/Albedo

Administrator Candidacy Questionnaire

Why would I be a good Administrator?

I just added my name to the list for Asst. Admin for this site. As a site User, I've tried to support the Admin as best I can, editing with comments, posting links to the Guidelines on over-enthusiastic newbie's pages, stuff like that. I'm active on site most days/week. And if you could see the look on my face, you'd know I'm not over-eager for this, which is a good thing. It's always dangerous to hire people who volunteer, but I have the time and energy, so... why not?

If you care about "What has Albedo done?", here are some things I'd not blush about if someone were to mention them:

• Instituted a use for current events page, where you just read about my application.

• Complete edit of more articles than I can remember - not "rewrite" (altho' that too), but just re-organizing and formatting what was there and tying it together.

• Re-organized all the randomly titled design pages into formal "X design" article format.

• Added the Welcome template to more newcomers than I can remember.

• Added more redirects and disambigs than I care to remember (including welcome, among others).

• Just added all this info to my User page moments before Briess instituted this form. :P

Meh - In short, I'm active enough and have a decent sense of writing and organization, both for a single article and for a collection of them.

Vote me. Yay. --Albedo 10:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Supporting Evidence

Special:Contributions/Albedo & more recently: Special:Contributions/75.62.155.145

Link to any articles you are particularly proud of.

• Conceived of veins and clusters page, combining many random pages into that one article. My first solo article.
• Re-organized and partially re-wrote the various and scattered "defense" pages (Defense guide, Defense design, Military design, Trap design, and related others) into their current format. See Talk: Fortress Defensefor an idea of what it was before. This was a bitch, as it was a complete cluster before. Established editing policies in an attempt to never go there again. (Open any of those pages to edit and read <-Notes to editors->), and/or see relevant discussion pages).

• Consulting on the Talk pages, conceived and/or wrote or re-wrote the current armor, armor piece, weapon, dwarven weapon and other weapon page collection, thus removing every single redundant article on every individual weapon and piece of armor in existence. Sheesh, as if.

• Edited, formatted and organized the Color schemes page so the colors and differences could actually be seen at a glance, and the process understood (even by a newb!).

• Saw the need, created this tag and implemented its use:

Public Q&A

• Q: What sort of things would you like to do with the admin tools that you currently are unable to do. Mason11987 11:58, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

• A: A lot depends on what my tasked duties and rights are as co-Admin and what the "party line" is on improvements - the question is moot if my leash is a short one (and I'd expect it to be at first, at least). But, answering blind, I'd like to see the "build-a-diagram" process easier to use - if some internal coding could make that easier, that would be sweet. Maybe a page of standard tables, and a step-by-step tutorial "how to" for mid-level editing techniques like sortable tables & etc. I'd like to see some sort of easier tracking for IP-only posters - right now they're faceless to users, even when they're editing regularly (altho', again, that may depend on Admin policy). Maybe as part of that, I'd like "contributions" to be a link on other User pages, so navigation to that information is easier than it currently is.
  
  I'd also like to (try to) get more people involved in expressing opinions on the editorial direction and policies of this wiki - not to make it a pure democracy, but some sort of welcoming and well-advertised public forum where voices can be heard. But mostly I'd learn the tools themselves to see what is possible, both possible to improve and create anew - it's hard to know what I'd do with something I'm admittedly not very familiar with. But I didn't know jack about editing a wiki a year ago, not a single double-bracket or triple-apostrophe, nada, and I caught on pretty quickly as a User, so I have faith in myself.--Albedo 02:01, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh - I'll toss this out too - if I learned html and how to program Cisco router IOS (which I did), I can learn Wiki code. In case anyone had concerns in that direction.--Albedo 10:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Public Discussion

Discuss things here, yay

Shaun White kicked. Seriously. --Albedo 10:50, 18 February 2010 (UTC) You see that faceplant he took? And an hour later a walk-away gold? Seriously.--Albedo 10:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Votes

Support

1. Strong Support --Kwieland 18:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC), great df player, lots of experience, good editing skills, practices the be bold meme.
2. Strong Support positive contributions to the Wiki --MathFox 16:50, 21 February 2010 (UTC) Updated, shows fairness in dealing with other admin candidates --MathFox 21:33, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
3. Strong Support - Easily one of the best users we have on this wiki. He's dedicated, smart, has a clear direction for the site and has been helping since before I was around. Great choice. SirPenguin 19:51, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
4. Strong Support As soon as I joined up and started talking around on the wiki, this guy appeared repeatedly. He is intelligent, knows the game, knows the wiki, and seems to know people well too. --Kydo 05:18, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
5. Support What, you mean.... he wasn't already?Garrie 09:58, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
6. Support I think he would be a fantastic admin, and clearly has the determination to help out with everything on the wiki. Mason11987 11:58, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
7. Support There are two traits Albedo has that are not often found in the same person, both of which are crucial for an administrator to perform well. He has enough confidence in himself to take the actions he thinks are necessary and defend them. And he has enough doubt about himself to recognize and repair his own mistakes. VengefulDonut 18:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
8. Support QFT, VengefulDonut. My thoughts precisely. -Edward 21:37, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Oppose

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Neutral

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