OSGeo:Administrators - Revision history

Arnulf at 10:42, 30 August 2012

2012-08-30T10:42:43Z

Arnulf: /* Trolls */ link corrected

2009-07-03T15:22:46Z

Trolls: link corrected

Arnulf: /* Informational Pollution */ removed typo

2009-07-03T15:18:49Z

Informational Pollution: removed typo

Arnulf: reworded a bit, added link to SAC

2007-10-19T16:49:24Z

reworded a bit, added link to SAC

Arnulf: typo

2006-03-26T21:33:30Z

typo

Wiki-WikiSysop at 18:28, 20 March 2006

2006-03-20T18:28:31Z

Arnulf at 18:27, 20 March 2006

2006-03-20T18:27:37Z

Arnulf at 18:26, 20 March 2006

2006-03-20T18:26:47Z

Arnulf: /* Truth */

2006-03-20T18:25:25Z

Truth

Arnulf at 18:25, 20 March 2006

2006-03-20T18:25:12Z

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 == Trolls ==
-"Informational Pollution" does not translate into "Stupid Edit" or "Wrong Opinion". Whenever you think someone edited something stupid, or wrong - go hack it yourself and do not bother the administrators with it. They will only react to repeated mechanical spamming and direct order from the president ([[Arnulf Christl]]). If somebody appears to put stupid comments in the Wiki it might be a [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/Troll#the_Internet_troll Troll]. Trolls are very important for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll health of a Wiki community] although sometimes they can really get on your nerves because they mess up everything. Well, they are Trolls. Nonetheless in a healthy ecosystem you need all kinds to make a world, be it informational, environmental or technical.
+"Informational Pollution" does not translate into "Stupid Edit" or "Wrong Opinion". Whenever you think someone edited something stupid, or wrong - go hack it yourself and do not bother the administrators with it. They will only react to repeated mechanical spamming and direct order from the president. If somebody appears to put stupid comments in the Wiki it might be a [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/Troll#the_Internet_troll Troll]. Trolls are very important for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll health of a Wiki community] although sometimes they can really get on your nerves because they mess up everything. Well, they are Trolls. Nonetheless in a healthy ecosystem you need all kinds to make a world, be it informational, environmental or technical.
 There is no such thing as a final truth. Not the way our minds work. All and everything that we can do is to communicate some idea in words. Compared to a heavy bludgeon this is about the most unreal thing imaginable. Unreal thoughts cannot be true or wrong then, can they? See, it should not really hurt anybody if there is something inside that you do not consider to be the truth. If you want to amend it, go hack the Wiki and explain your point of view. This is called communication, trying to understand the truth of somebody else is the one essential part, the other being the ability to explain the own point of view. Ignorance is what prevents this from happening. Ignorance can be amended, thats why we have this Wiki here.

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 == Trolls ==
-"Informational Pollution" does not translate into "Stupid Edit" or "Wrong Opinion". Whenever you think someone edited something stupid, or wrong - go hack it yourself and do not bother the administrators with it. They will only react to repeated mechanical spamming and direct order from the president ([User:Warmerda Frank Warmerdam]). If somebody appears to put stupid comments in the Wiki it might be a [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Troll Troll]. Trolls are very important for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll health of a Wiki community] although sometimes they can get really get on your nerves because they mess up everything. Well, they are Trolls. Nonetheless in a healthy ecosystem you need all kinds to make a world, be it informational, environmental or technical.
+"Informational Pollution" does not translate into "Stupid Edit" or "Wrong Opinion". Whenever you think someone edited something stupid, or wrong - go hack it yourself and do not bother the administrators with it. They will only react to repeated mechanical spamming and direct order from the president ([[Arnulf Christl]]). If somebody appears to put stupid comments in the Wiki it might be a [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/Troll#the_Internet_troll Troll]. Trolls are very important for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll health of a Wiki community] although sometimes they can really get on your nerves because they mess up everything. Well, they are Trolls. Nonetheless in a healthy ecosystem you need all kinds to make a world, be it informational, environmental or technical.
 There is no such thing as a final truth. Not the way our minds work. All and everything that we can do is to communicate some idea in words. Compared to a heavy bludgeon this is about the most unreal thing imaginable. Unreal thoughts cannot be true or wrong then, can they? See, it should not really hurt anybody if there is something inside that you do not consider to be the truth. If you want to amend it, go hack the Wiki and explain your point of view. This is called communication, trying to understand the truth of somebody else is the one essential part, the other being the ability to explain the own point of view. Ignorance is what prevents this from happening. Ignorance can be amended, thats why we have this Wiki here.

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 == Informational Pollution ==
-To prevent excessive Spam on this Wiki every new user needs to confirm that she is a human by answering to a confirmation mail sent out when creatin a new account. Make sure that you add an email address to your user information that you can confirm later. You can change that Email any time by editing your personal settings.
+To prevent excessive Spam on this Wiki every new user needs to confirm that she is a human by answering to a confirmation mail sent out when creating a new account. Make sure that you add an email address to your user information that you can confirm later. You can change that Email any time by editing your personal settings.
 Whenever a spam robot spills informational waste the WikiSysop comes into action and exerts pollution control. These methods include IP blocks, page protections, etc. Whenever you feel that the Wiki is being polluted on purpose please contact one of the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListusers&group=sysop&username= Sysops of this Wiki]

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-There is no such thing as a Project Administrator of this Wiki. This Wiki is the place for comprehensive discussion of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. Check out the http://www.osgeo.org site for stable information and individual projects and their respective Project Administrators, Committee Members, Chairs, Sofas and such. This Wiki is only administered not managed and not moderated. To keep it this way a WikiSysop is needed to make backups, maintain the software, etc. That is [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. The backup Sysop is [mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org Arnulf]. From a technical perspective they do everything to the system. They do not edit any content that way though. Whenever they tinker with content they do it the same way as everybody else, cerate an account and hit the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO:Administrators&action=edit edit] button and leave their traces in the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO%3AAdministrators&diff=2380&oldid=2379 history].
+There is no such thing as a Project Administrator of this Wiki. This Wiki is the place for comprehensive discussion of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. Check out the http://www.osgeo.org site for stable information and individual projects and their respective [[Project Steering Committees]]. This Wiki is operated by the [[SAC:Primary Administrators]]. From a technical perspective they maintain the server, software, database and they make backups.
 == Informational Pollution ==
-Yet this might change. Because it might happen that non-benevolent users or machines spam our Wiki. These polluters are by nature evil, folks also call them spam robots. Whenever a spam robot spills informational waste the WikiSysops comes into action and exerts pollution control. These methods include IP blocks, page protections, etc. Whenever you feel that the Wiki is being polluted please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin].
+To prevent excessive Spam on this Wiki every new user needs to confirm that she is a human by answering to a confirmation mail sent out when creatin a new account. Make sure that you add an email address to your user information that you can confirm later. You can change that Email any time by editing your personal settings.
 == Trolls ==
-Rest assured that "pollution" does not translate into "stupid" or "wrong". Whenever you think someone edited something stupid, or wrong - go hack it yourself and do not bother the administrators with it. They will only react to repeated mechanical spamming and direct order from the president ([User:Warmerda Frank Warmerdam]). If somebody appears to put stupid comments in the Wiki it might be a [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Troll Troll]. Trolls are very important for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll health of a Wiki community] although sometimes they can get really on your nerves because they mess up everything. Well, they are Trolls. Nonetheless in a healthy ecosystem you need all kinds to make a world, be it informational, environmental or technical.
+"Informational Pollution" does not translate into "Stupid Edit" or "Wrong Opinion". Whenever you think someone edited something stupid, or wrong - go hack it yourself and do not bother the administrators with it. They will only react to repeated mechanical spamming and direct order from the president ([User:Warmerda Frank Warmerdam]). If somebody appears to put stupid comments in the Wiki it might be a [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Troll Troll]. Trolls are very important for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll health of a Wiki community] although sometimes they can get really get on your nerves because they mess up everything. Well, they are Trolls. Nonetheless in a healthy ecosystem you need all kinds to make a world, be it informational, environmental or technical.
-There is no such thing as a final truth. Not the way our minds work. All and everything that we can do is communicate some thought in words. Compared to a heavy club this is about the most unreal thing imaginable. Unreal thoughts cannot be true or wrong then, can they? See, it should not not really hurt anybody if there is something inside that you do not consider to be the truth. If you want to amend it, go hack the Wiki and say why you think that this truth is different. This is called communication, trying to understand the truth of somebody else is the one essential part, the other being the ability to explain the own point of view. Ignorance is what prevents this from happening. Ignorance can be amended, thats why we have this Wiki here.
+There is no such thing as a final truth. Not the way our minds work. All and everything that we can do is to communicate some idea in words. Compared to a heavy bludgeon this is about the most unreal thing imaginable. Unreal thoughts cannot be true or wrong then, can they? See, it should not really hurt anybody if there is something inside that you do not consider to be the truth. If you want to amend it, go hack the Wiki and explain your point of view. This is called communication, trying to understand the truth of somebody else is the one essential part, the other being the ability to explain the own point of view. Ignorance is what prevents this from happening. Ignorance can be amended, thats why we have this Wiki here.
 == Warning ==
-In some larger Wikis administrator privileges have been misused to change content or prevent people from changing content. Both are incorrect use of this authorization and must be avenged, usually by revoking these privileges. If you think that a WikiSysop has done soomething like this please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. In the best case report directly to the [[WikiSysop]] herself because it might be that she did not mean to break anything. In the worst case report to all the user lists that you know. Rest assured that avenging is going to take place.
+In some larger Wikis administrator privileges have been misused to change content or prevent people from changing content. If you think that a WikiSysop has done something like this, report it. There are plenty of mailing lists, IRC chats and individuals who you can contact.

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−	There is no such thing as a Project ~~Administraotr~~ of this Wiki. This Wiki is the place for comprehensive discussion of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. Check out the http://www.osgeo.org site for stable information and individual projects and their respective Project Administrators, Committee Members, Chairs, Sofas and such. This Wiki is only administered not managed and not moderated. To keep it this way a WikiSysop is needed to make backups, maintain the software, etc. That is [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. The backup Sysop is [mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org Arnulf]. From a technical perspective they do everything to the system. They do not edit any content that way though. Whenever they tinker with content they do it the same way as everybody else, cerate an account and hit the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO:Administrators&action=edit edit] button and leave their traces in the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO%3AAdministrators&diff=2380&oldid=2379 history].	+	There is no such thing as a Project Administrator of this Wiki. This Wiki is the place for comprehensive discussion of the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation]. Check out the http://www.osgeo.org site for stable information and individual projects and their respective Project Administrators, Committee Members, Chairs, Sofas and such. This Wiki is only administered not managed and not moderated. To keep it this way a WikiSysop is needed to make backups, maintain the software, etc. That is [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. The backup Sysop is [mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org Arnulf]. From a technical perspective they do everything to the system. They do not edit any content that way though. Whenever they tinker with content they do it the same way as everybody else, cerate an account and hit the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO:Administrators&action=edit edit] button and leave their traces in the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO%3AAdministrators&diff=2380&oldid=2379 history].

	== Informational Pollution ==		== Informational Pollution ==

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	== Warning ==		== Warning ==
	In some larger Wikis administrator privileges have been misused to change content or prevent people from changing content. Both are incorrect use of this authorization and must be avenged, usually by revoking these privileges. If you think that a WikiSysop has done soomething like this please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. In the best case report directly to the [[WikiSysop]] herself because it might be that she did not mean to break anything. In the worst case report to all the user lists that you know. Rest assured that avenging is going to take place.		In some larger Wikis administrator privileges have been misused to change content or prevent people from changing content. Both are incorrect use of this authorization and must be avenged, usually by revoking these privileges. If you think that a WikiSysop has done soomething like this please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. In the best case report directly to the [[WikiSysop]] herself because it might be that she did not mean to break anything. In the worst case report to all the user lists that you know. Rest assured that avenging is going to take place.
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−	~~And now I am going to log in as WikiSysop and protect the page. Just so that you see how powerful we are.~~

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	== Warning ==		== Warning ==
	In some larger Wikis administrator privileges have been misused to change content or prevent people from changing content. Both are incorrect use of this authorization and must be avenged, usually by revoking these privileges. If you think that a WikiSysop has done soomething like this please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. In the best case report directly to the [[WikiSysop]] herself because it might be that she did not mean to break anything. In the worst case report to all the user lists that you know. Rest assured that avenging is going to take place.		In some larger Wikis administrator privileges have been misused to change content or prevent people from changing content. Both are incorrect use of this authorization and must be avenged, usually by revoking these privileges. If you think that a WikiSysop has done soomething like this please immediately report to [mailto:arnulf@osgeo Arnulf] or [mailto:thelen@ccgis.de Benjamin]. In the best case report directly to the [[WikiSysop]] herself because it might be that she did not mean to break anything. In the worst case report to all the user lists that you know. Rest assured that avenging is going to take place.
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		+	And now I am going to log in as WikiSysop and protect the page. Just so that you see how powerful we are.