ArchWiki:Maintenance Team

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ArchWiki:Requests
Help:Procedures
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The
Maintenance Team
is
ArchWiki
's official group of users whose goal includes supervising and fixing the edits that are made every day to the articles in the wiki. They also assist users, improve existing pages and aim to improve the wiki as a whole.
Who, when and how to contact
All members of the
Maintenance Team
provide ways to contact them personally if you desire so. Nevertheless, prefer using the following methods instead:
For page-specific comments, use its talk page which can be accessed from the
discussion
tab above each page.
For generic requests regarding wiki content, use
ArchWiki talk:Requests
.
To discuss style conventions used on the wiki pages, use
Help talk:Style
.
To discuss wiki content organization, or if you require assistance from the
Maintenance Team
, use
ArchWiki talk:Maintenance Team
.
For privacy requests (e.g. removal of inadvertently published personal information, wiki account deletion, etc.), either send an email from the wiki interface using
Special:EmailUser/Privacy-requests
(to allow making reasonable assumptions about the link between the username and email address) or email privacy@archlinux.org
from the email address associated with your wiki account
.
For other matters (not related to privacy) that cannot be discussed publicly, contact the ArchWiki Administrators by sending an email from wiki interface using
Special:EmailUser/WikiSysop
(to allow making reasonable assumptions about the link between the username and email address).
Casual, non-binding discussions with wiki contributors (which may include members of the
Maintenance Team
) can also be held in the
#archlinux-wiki IRC channel
.
For registration issues unrelated to the
captcha question
, email privacy@archlinux.org and provide the exact username you are trying to register or the time at which you tried to register.
Members
Maintainers belong to a particular group of wiki users with
special rights
.
Administrators
and
bureaucrats
are maintainers with higher access levels, see
ArchWiki:Access levels and roles
.
Active maintainers
Active members of the
Maintenance Team
are listed in the following table. Maintainers are periodically and automatically sorted in descending order by their number of edits in the previous 30 days.
User
Name
Extra groups
Contact
Erus_Iluvatar
(
talk
)
Vladimir LAVALLADE
administrator
See
User:Erus Iluvatar#Contact
Andrei Korshikov
(
talk
)
Andrei Korshikov
Send Email
nl6720
(
talk
)
administrator, bureaucrat
Send Email
Lahwaacz
(
talk
)
Jakub Klinkovský
administrator, bureaucrat
⟨username⟩ ⟨cat⟩ archlinux ⟨dog⟩ org
andreymal
(
talk
)
Andrey Kashlak
Send Email
NetSysFire
(
talk
)
See
user page
Inactive maintainers
The following maintainers are currently inactive (less than 10 edits in the last 30 days):
User
Name
Extra groups
Contact
Graysky
(
talk
)
gr
ays
ky@archlinu
x.us
Francoism
(
talk
)
François Menning
Send Email
Fengchao
(
talk
)
administrator
Send Email
Alad
(
talk
)
administrator, bureaucrat
Send Message
Silverhammermba
(
talk
)
Send Email
Neitsab
(
talk
)
Send Email
Indigo
(
talk
)
administrator
ialbrecht@gmx.net
Misfit138
(
talk
)
administrator_fellow
pitsker@gmail.com
Kewl
(
talk
)
Send Email
Lonaowna
(
talk
)
administrator
Send Email
CodingKoopa
(
talk
)
See
User:CodingKoopa#Contact
Edh
(
talk
)
Gordian Edenhofer
gordian.edenhofer@gmail.com
Svito
(
talk
)
Send Email
Kynikos
(
talk
)
Dario Giovannetti
administrator, bureaucrat
dario
{nospam}
gio
va@gm
ai
{nospam}
l.com
Chazza
(
talk
)
Send Email
Flyingpig
(
talk
)
Send Email
jasonwryan
(
talk
)
administrator_fellow
jasonwryan@gmail.com
Blackteahamburger
(
talk
)
blackteahamburger@outlook.com
Pypi
(
talk
)
Send Email
jstjohn
(
talk
)
Send Email
Rdeckard
(
talk
)
Send Email
Larivact
(
talk
)
Send Email
Det
(
talk
)
Send Email
Skydiver
(
talk
)
Send Email
Flu
(
talk
)
Send Email
Emiralle
(
talk
)
Send Email
Filam
(
talk
)
Send Email
AlexanderR
(
talk
)
ale
xan
herr
der.r@gm
x.com
pointone
(
talk
)
administrator_fellow
desmondgc@gmail.com
Kycko
(
talk
)
Send Email
How to join
Official maintainers are usually chosen by the administrators among the most active and collaborative users of the wiki, and personally invited to participate in the team. You can also explicitly present yourself as a candidate by contacting one of the administrators.
Common requisites for becoming a maintainer are:
Familiarity with
community
and
wiki
guidelines; willingness to collaborate and discuss with the other team members.
Some free time and the commitment to contribute regularly enough.
Patience, accuracy and tidiness.
Experience in wiki editing and good knowledge of
wiki syntax
.
Good knowledge of the structure of the ArchWiki and its
style rules
.
Sufficient knowledge of Arch Linux and the subjects treated in the articles, or willingness to do some research or discuss with the edits' authors when fixing content-related issues.
If you are interested in joining the team, you can start making yourself visible to the community by helping with the
common tasks
, in particular help out with
patrolling
among the other tasks listed in
Help:Procedures
, and contributing to the discussions that take place in the various talk pages.
New members get announced in the
ArchWiki:News
.
Once elected, members should add their username to the table above and also add a special tag in their user page:
[[ArchWiki:Maintainers|ArchWiki Maintainer]]
. Administrators should instead use:
[[ArchWiki:Administrators|ArchWiki Administrator]]
.
See also
Category:Maintenance
Special:SpecialPages
Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol