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WP Board of Trustees etc.

Essay, sorry that you took offence to my queries about expenses for Board members (or more accurately, my misunderstanding of your response) and no, I haven't seen any changes in the description of the Board members' responsibilities etc. as the hot link at the top of the page to the candidates etc. has vanished on my computer.

And no, I'm not pushing anything (that good faith policy makes sense to me). I believe that I was explicit in expressing my concerns and I'll think that you'll agree that my query resulted in an apparent re-wording of the trustees' responsibilities to more accurately reflect reality.

I think most reasonable Wikipedians understand that the position of trustee is not e-mails and sitting in coffee shops, but after reading some of the nonsense that lands on your talk page from other users, I can understand how you might come to the conclusion that many users are inhabitants of La-La Land.

Thanks for your help on the matter. Best regards. Barry Wells 20:00, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

The page is Election candidates 2006/en. Unless you're masquerading as Daniel Mayer, Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia Foundaiton, then no, I'm sorry, you weren't responsible; I altered it when I received official word that per diems were indeed availalbe.

I think the fact that we had a 13, a 14, & a 15 year old candidate sign up demonstrates that there are plenty of editors who aren't aware of what is involved with the position. I suspect strongly that if we were to administer a "What does a trustee do?" quiz, about 90% of regular contributors would fail.

Indeed, I do have a lot of la-la-esque posts show up here, but my concerns are less about editors who are in la-la land and more about those who are good, hard working editors who aren't aware of what the trustees do, the amount of time involved, and the potential exposure involved (even if the Foundation does pay for them to attend meetings, the concern about criminal and financial liability came from the Foundation counsel, not me). Essjay (Talk) 06:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

EssjayBot III

I'd appretiate it if you'd add my talk page to its archiving tasks.Voice-of-All 01:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll have to set it all up (you're the first!) but it should be ready before too long. Essjay (Talk) 06:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Parameters...hmmm...lets see:

1)archive 5 day old stuff (maybe 7 is better, but 5 for now)

2)archive format: "Voice of All/archiveX" (my current ones have the 0 for the tens place digit, like "01", which may have to be moved to just "1", "2" and such.

3)Current number: "06" (maybe it should be moved to just "6")

4)100 Kb arch length

Thanks.Voice-of-All 08:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Username Change:Auriga M36

Thanks, Essjay.

No problem! :) Essjay (Talk) 08:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Name changes:

About the name changed can you please change mine to Demonblade? I added the request ont he trequest page too. Thanks.Zhanster 10:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

User name change

Hello, essjay,

would you be good enough to change my usename when you have a spare moment please? I won't be making any more contributions to the site after today, so no longer want my real name on the site.

The new name isn't important as I won't be using the account again, so if you could change it to, IHaveLeftTheBuilding I would be grateful.

Thank you.

--Matthew Allen 15:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Apologies if I didn't make this request in the correct place.

As the top of this talk page says, the correct place to ask for a name change is at Misplaced Pages:Changing username. Please ask there instead. Thanks, Tangotango 16:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

WP Board of Trustees etc.

A little research solves the perceived problem of good, hard-working editors not knowing what the Board does, no? But I suspect that many good, hard-working editors could care less what a WP trustee does, as they have no desire to sit on the Board.

Municipal elections (where candidates in Canada are unfettered by political party nomination races) invariably draw a cast of unprepared/ unsuitable candidates out of the woodwork, but generally, things work out for the best in the end in the vast majority of instances.

But candidates for WP's Board should also know that travel expenses/ per diem's are not paid out automatically, according to WP's by-laws. Unless they are approved by the Board on a case-by-case basis (as I read Article IV, Section 3, anyway), the trustee has to absorb/ pay the expenses. If I'm right on that, that should be known upfront as well by each candidate. Perhaps each candidate should be given an electronic package to help ensure they know what they're getting into. Hope you're enjoying your summer. They never last long enough for my liking. Barry Wells 21:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Essjaybot II on WP:MCQ

Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions could use auto-archiving. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 03:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

EssjayBot II flag

You added EssjayBot II to the list of flagged bots, but it doesn't have a flag. Maybe you forgot to flag it? —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 18:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No, it's an archive bot, so I didn't want it flagged; users should be able to see what it's doing. I added it to the section for maintenence bots without realizing that it was a sub-queue of flagged bots. It should be moved down. Essjay (Talk) 01:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I can understand that attitude for antivandal bots, but shouldn't archive bots be unobtrusive? —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 03:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Remove an edit from userpage history

Hi Essjay, I noticed you had oversight rights, and I was hoping you could remove an edit from my user page's history. The diff link is , the vandal was just having fun (I know them in real life, it was all meant to be in good faith according to them and I won't be pursuing the case - User:Sp0kk was the vandal) but in the process they revealed a lot of personal information about me, most of which could be googled but I'd rather not have sitting around in my user page's edit history. I'd appreciate if you could delete the entry. Thanks, Draicone 11:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Editcounter bug

So... who do I need to bug/bribe if I've found a bug in your editcounter? :( Titoxd 22:21, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

The "Report Problems" link on Essjay's edit counter directs a user to Essjay's email. Also, I think Essjay accepts bribes through PayPal :-) Hope that helps. -- Psy guy 23:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Not a bug, merely an inconvenience, but I've noticed that the Total edits link at the top of the page tries to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/nae - the apostrophe must be throwing something off. Thanks for the new version, though! -- nae'blis 18:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Tools

You have created some very useful tools! To create tools on http://www.tools.wikimedia.de, do you need to download some sort of software, or do you write a code that is placed on the website itself? --Gray Porpoise 18:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Monobook.js

You say that it is easy to remove the admin functions in your Monobook.js. Could you tell me how to do this? I like to keep my Monobook as small as possible, heh. Kalani 18:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Enhanced edit counter?

I find the edit counter very useful. Would it be possible to produce one operating on similar principles that graphs edits by time of day, or time and day of week?--Runcorn 22:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's on the toolserver, so it would have the same problems Interiot's edit counter has: German privacy laws. Titoxd 23:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Block review

Essjay, can you please review your block of User:JAnD. The block reason, and talk messae, is that this was an unapproved bot. I approved a trial run of this bot on WP:RFBOT on August 2. It appeared to be a useful bot. Although they do not follow the scrict naming convention for bots, they did "clearly demonstrate that it is a bot" by marking as robot, as well as to what it did. The bot operator has mentioned on WP:RFBOT if they should be renamed to a *bot name as well. Thank you, — xaosflux 23:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

You seem to be away from the project. I've gone ahead an unblocked this account so that it can continue it's trial run per WP:RFBOT. They will be requesting a username change as well. I will post this on the bot page, if anyone else objects I will reblock right away. When you return, if you want to reblock this account, I waive any wheeling complaints. Thank you, — xaosflux 00:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Archiving Misplaced Pages:Changing username

Your bot has archived some still-active change requests! 203.94.144.226 00:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

• I reverted the un-acted upon requests. Hopefully a beaurecrat (sp?) will take up the slack tonight. I don't want to ask to have Essjaybot II blocked; if it's only WP:CHU I can manually watch it for a day or two until someone gets the backlog. Thatcher131 (talk) 01:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Archiving WP:3RR

Can you set your bot to archive entries at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR which have gone two days without any changes? In my experience, if no action has been taken within that time period, it's either been settled or has migrated to a different noticeboard. Tijuana Brass 01:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Board candidate forum

Hi Essjay! Any update on the possible board candidate forum we were discussing before Wikimania? Haukur 14:56, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

board stuff

I would really like that discussion pages with candidates be on meta, rather than subquestions on their talk pages in local projects. Could you change this and open a sub page for each candidate on meta, where people can ask them questions and those interested can quickly go over answers provided rather than to have to fish them ?

Also, would it not make sense to suggest that candidates provide a bio ?

Thanks

Anthere

Locked myself out of my bot account

I've just locked myself out of my bot account, User:The Anomebot, by changing its password to something fiendishly difficult to remember -- and then promptly forgetting it. I've now indefblocked it. I'll create a new account, and re-apply for bot permissions for that account. -- The Anome 01:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Eddie Johnson (basketball)

Edward "Fast Eddie" Johnson Jr., a former NBA basketball player was arrested for pedophilia. Eddie Johnson (basketball) was NOT arrested for pedophilia. Unfortunately, the accusation has made it's way to the wrong page. The current page is correct but there are history's that have the false accusation. Per Living Bio's I have seen entries with libelous claims get permanently deleted. I am not sure if this is policy or not but it may deserve a look. I am not sure if regular admins can do this or if it's a bureaucrats job. I'd do it myself if I had the tools. --Tbeatty 03:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

What you want are people with oversight permission. Essjay is one but seems to be on a break. You can use Special:Listusers to find another; there are 25 admins with oversight permission altogether. Thatcher131 (talk) 05:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Mindspillage a la Emo.jpg listed for deletion

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Jtkiefer 3

Hope you don't mind, I posted this to the B noticeboard too. Would you care to close this early. Not just WP:SNOWBALL. For the good/dignity of the community, I'm not sure this needs to continue to unfold any further. :) Dlohcierekim 15:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Just to note, it's been closed, and there was great drama at ANI. Thatcher131 (talk) 01:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Every new member I have to know!

Could you tell me when there is a new member on Misplaced Pages? Of course, since I'm a member of Esperanza, I would want the success of this encyclopedia. Oh, please leave the message on /New members Archive in my talk page. Thanks ;)--Sean gorter

Special:Log/newusers. We seem to be getting a few thousand per day. Titoxd 08:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I think maybe he wants Essjay's bot to list all new users at the page, I dunno really... KOS | talk 09:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Throat Gaggers

Can you please help me with my new article sir? Thanks in advance.Courtney Akins 04:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)