Wikisource:News/2008-10-01

User access

 * administrators
 * 23 editors were assigned administrator access, all unanimously except Eclecticology. Poetlister later lost his access following a crosswiki scandal concerning impersonation and abuse of multiple accounts.
 * Angr (discussion)
 * Nominated by Jayvdb and flagged on 02 October 2008.
 * Anonymous Dissident (discussion)
 * Nominated by Giggy and flagged on 18 September 2008.
 * Bookofjude (discussion)
 * Nominated by Shanel and flagged on 05 September 2008. He was originally promoted in June 2006, but quietly [ resigned] in February 2007 along with his bot after months of inactivity. He became active again soon before his second nomination.
 * Cowardly Lion (discussion)
 * Nominated by Jayvdb and flagged on 25 January 2008.
 * DarkFalls (discussion)
 * Nominated by Jayvdb and flagged on 01 April 2008.
 * Dmitrismirnov (discussion)
 * Self-nominated and promoted on 22 August 2008.
 * Eclecticology (discussion)
 * Self-nominated in October 2007 but was opposed by 40% of the participating users, who cited lack of recent experience, ignoring standards, incivility, ignorance of technical aspects, and past incidents on the multilingual Wikisource. He tried again in January 2007, and was flagged with one neutral on 17 January 2008.
 * FloNight (discussion, steward request)
 * Nominated by Jayvdb and flagged on 23 December 2007. She was [ flagged by a steward] because Zhaladshar (then the only bureacrat) was away at the time.
 * Geo Swan (discussion)
 * Nominated by Sherurcij and flagged on 11 June 2008.
 * Giggy (discussion)
 * Nominated by Jayvdb and flagged on 02 September 2008.
 * Hesperian (discussion)
 * Nominated by Jayvdb and flagged on 17 January 2008.
 * Jayvdb (discussion)
 * Self-nominated and flagged on 03 November 2007.
 * Jeepday (discussion)
 * Nominated by Jayvdb and flagged on 26 September 2008.
 * Kathleen.wright5 (discussion)
 * Self-nominated and flagged on 15 August 2008.
 * Lar (discussion)
 * Self-nominated and flagged on 19 October 2007.
 * Mattwj2002 (discussion)
 * Mtmelendez (discussion)
 * Poetlister (discussion), later desysop'd
 * Psychless (discussion)
 * Quadell (discussion)
 * ResidentScholar (discussion)
 * Sanbeg (discussion)
 * Suicidalhamster (discussion)
 * Tarmstro99 (discussion)
 * Wild Wolf (discussion)


 * bureaucrats
 * BirgitteSB (discussion)


 * bots
 * Mjbot (discussion)


 * checkusers
 * Jayvdb and Pathoschild were flagged as checkusers following a month-long discussion (discussions: Jayvdb, Pathoschild). Pathoschild had previously requested checkuser access along with Zhaladshar, but despite unanimity both had failed to reach the minimum 25 votes required by Wikimedia policy (see archived stories: "Voting begins on two for CheckUser access" and "Local CheckUser status in doubt").