User:Fr33kman/New Admin School

Note: This page is the outline of what will be included in the new admin school. Editors and especially admins are encouraged to lend a hand in creating material for the school and helping to edit what has already been written and suggest anything they feel should be included or excluded from the curricula of the school.

The New Admin School is an informal school that new administrators can use to learn how to be new admins at their discretion. It's purpose is to teach new admins how the tools work, what to do in certain circumstances and what not to do. The school is split into five sections; General Duties,

Blocks / Bans

Named users

Straight (sitewide) blocks

Page and userspace blocks

IP users

LTA blocks (sockpuppet identification)

Checkuser blocks

xwiki blocks (local status of global blocks)

Delete/Undelete

Quick deletions

Closing RfDs

Changing visibility

Page protections

Salting pages

Mass deletions

Locally stored image deletions

Very, very few images or other files are allowed to be uploaded to Simple English Wikipedia locally. A good example of this is the Wikipedia logo we use, which is different from project to project or spoken article audio files for articles that have recorded audio of the page. Any images or other files that do need to be stored locally can be uploaded by using the Special:Upload tool. If administrators come accross other uploaded files they can, after checking it is appropriate, delete the file using the usual delete tool.

Dealing with discussions

Closing discussions

Determining consensus

Neutrality

Page actions

Merging page histories

Changing content model

Importing pages form other projects

Communications

Sending mass messages

Not in use on Simple English Wikipedia

Creating a mass message list

Not in use on Simple English Wikipedia

Problem users

POVpushers

SPAM pushers

Edit warring

Reciprocal blocks (ONESTRIKE violations)