User:The Transhumanist/Workshop/Sandbox4

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  1. Why do you want to become an administrator?
  2. Do you think like an administrator?
  3. How so?
  4. What types of things should a sysadmin (or any experienced editor, for that matter) notice or look for when arriving at a page?
  5. Look over this page (the Editor review department). What do you notice about it?
  6. In general, when an administrator (or editor) finds a problem with a page, what should he or she do about it?
  7. In what specific areas would you like to improve?
  8. What tools do you use?
  9. What (other) departments would you like to work in?
  10. What is the purpose of Wikipedia?
  11. What is the essense of Wikipedia?
  12. Do you want to become an administrator, and if so, why?
  13. What activities are you engaged in now that admin tools would help you do better?
  14. What are the most important things an administrator should keep in mind?
  15. What areas do you feel you need the most improvement in?
  16. What departments have you worked in?
  17. What would you consider your greatest strengths as a Wikipedian?
  18. What are your Wikipedia goals?
  19. What wikiskills do you have?
  20. What are your goals at Wikipedia?
  21. What is your wikiphilosophy?
  22. 'What wikiskills do you wish to acquire next?
  23. What tools do you use?
  24. How much danger is there of Wikipedia becoming the propaganda engine for corporations and governments?
  25. What can the Wikipedia community do to prevent that from ever happening?
  26. What Wikipedia tools do you use, and what methods so you use in applying them?
  27. What external tools do you use on Wikipedia, and how do you apply them? (Browser extensions, spreadsheet programs, 3rd-party editors, etc.).
  28. What is your Wikiphilosophy, and how has that helped guide you in your contributions to Wikipedia?
  29. Please describe your experience and exposure to Wikipedia policy, and your application of it.
  30. What's the link to the support page for the script on your monobook.js page?
  31. What are your Wikipedia-related goals?
  32. What are your opinions of the RfA process?
  33. Have you read all of Wikipedia's policies yet?
  34. Please describe your current administrative activities. (The term "administrative" applies to more than the chores performed by sysadmins).
  35. What do you see as Wikipedia's greatest challenges for the future, and what do you envision your role will be in helping this encyclopedia meet those challenges?
  36. Who are your main role-models on Wikipedia?
  37. What areas or aspects do you believe Wikipedia needs the most improvement in?
  38. What activities on Wikipedia have you enjoyed the most?
  39. What do you like the most about Wikipedia as an encyclopedia?
  40. What do you consider as your area of greatest wiki-expertise? What key advice do you have for others concerning that area?
  41. In what areas do you feel you are in most need of improvement?
  42. What's your biggest peeve on Wikipedia? That is, what bothers you the most about Wikipedia (or anything on it)? And what do you think should be done about it?
  43. # What's your opinion of the recent Essjay fiasco, and what do you believe should be done to avoid something like that from happening in the future?
  44. What pages in Wikipedia's help system (including pages in the Help and Wikipedia namespaces) have you found the most helpful?
  45. Which help pages have you found the most confusing, unhelpful, and in most need of help?
  46. What do you think about Larry Sanger, his role in the history of Wikipedia, and Jimbo's position with respect to LS's claims concerning Wikipedia?
  47. What in your opinion are Wikipedia's strengths?
  48. What do you believe are Wikipedia's main weaknesses?
  49. What are your strongest wiki-skills?
  50. What are your weakest wiki-skills, and the ones you wish to improve upon the most?
  51. What are the most administrator-like duties which you perform now?
  52. What wiki-skills would you like to acquire?
  53. What areas do you feel you need the most improvement?
  54. As an editor, what are your goals on Wikipedia. When all is said and done, what will you want to have contributed to Wikipedia?
  55. I'm familiar with popups. But what do the other scripts in your monobook.js do?
  56. How did you go about selecting the scripts that you placed on your monobook page?
  57. What other tools (including internal and external) do you utilize in working with/on Wikipedia?
  58. What determines what articles you work on? (How do you decide, find, look them up, etc.?)
  59. What advice would you give to a user who would like to start writing scripts, but who has no programming experience?
  60. What resources would you recommend to a user who would like to start writing scripts, but who has no programming experience?
  61. What is your wiki-philosophy?
  62. What are your wiki-aspirations?
  63. Do you want to become an admin?
  64. In what areas do you believe you need the most improvement?
  65. What is your analysis of the Editor Review department? Is it lacking something, and if so, what should be done about it?
  66. If you had complete control and authority over Wikipedia, how would you change it?
  67. Have you read all of the policies?
  68. Please describe your participation in policy discussions (at WP:VPP, on policy talk pages, etc.).
  69. Which pages listed at Help:Contents/Getting started have you not read?
  70. Which pages listed at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia have you not read?
  71. What subject area do you like the best?
  72. What is your appraisal of the encyclopedia's coverage of that subject area?
  73. What needs to be done to improve that section of Wikipedia?
  74. What essential features, in your opinion, is Wikipedia missing?
  75. What methods do you use to navigate around in Wikipedia?
  76. What is your critique of Wikipedia's category system?
  77. Do you find it difficult or cumbersome to work with categories? If so, in what way?
  78. Is there anything in particular you've been having trouble with?
  79. Is there anything you've been wondering about?
  80. Is there anything about Wikipedia that has been annoying you?
  81. About what proportion of your Wikipedia-time do you spend reading help pages?
  82. Is Wikipedia's help system well-designed?
  83. Is there anything about it that you think should be improved? If so, what?
  84. What is your favorite subject?
  85. Please take a look at the "See also" sections of the articles belonging to that subject area. How well do the see also sections link that subject together?
  86. Did you notice any problems? If so, what?
  87. What needs to be done to improve the connectivity of your favorite subject area?
  88. How many editors do you think it would take to complete the task within a reasonable time frame?
  89. How many barnstars have you given out? The Transhumanist 05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  90. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Barnstar. Are there any essential barnstars missing from Wikipedia's collection of barnstars? The Transhumanist 05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  91. What's your favorite wikignome activity? The Transhumanist 05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  92. What other Wikignome activities have you learned about? The Transhumanist 05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  93. What's your favorite thing in or about or of Wikipedia so far? The Transhumanist 05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  94. I would like to ask you where do you see yourself, say two years from now vis a vis your work in Wikipedia? Finally are you planning to be active on the main namespace or are you inclined to be more active in other areas? Dr.K. 01:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  95. What should Wikipedia be when it grows up? (Please be detailed in your answer).
  96. In what way do you feel that Wikipedia is the most lacking?
  97. What needs to be done about it? And how would you go about bring the resources to bear to fix it?
  98. What do you think Wikipedia will be like in 5 years time?
  99. What does the peerreviewer script on your monobook.js page do?
  100. Have you tried Wikipedia:Navigation popups? If so, how come you stopped using it?
  101. Have you tried Wikipedia:wikEd? What do you think of it?
  102. How many pages are in your watchlist?
  103. What methods do you use to monitor those pages? That is, how do you use your watchlist? (The steps and procedures that you follow).
  104. What other methods of monitoring do you use?


  1. In terms of either content or technical issues, in what areas of Wikipedia do you feel that you have developed a certain level of expertise?
  2. What sysop tools would you find the most useful, and what activities would you use them for?
  3. Under what circumstances would you consider blocking an established user?
  4. How important do you feel it is for an administrator to be involved in WP:space, and how do you intend to use sysop tools given that you do not appear to take part in very many XfDs, RfAs, and other so-called 'admin hotspots'?
  5. Under what circumstances should a page be protected? Are there other methods to avoid protection?
  6. In your opinion, what attributes make someone a good admin?
  7. In your view, do administrators hold a technical or political position?
  8. Three parts; a) If successful, will you consider the admin recall category? b) Take a look at Category:Rouge admins - would you see yourself there? c) What is WP:IAR and what situations do you feel its application is warranted?s
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