Commons:Administrators/Requests/Jon Kolbert

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 Support = 26;  Oppose = 1;  Neutral = 0 - 96% Result. Successful. odder (talk) 17:04, 30 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jon Kolbert

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Scheduled to end: 16:05, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm here to nominate Jon Kolber to be our next Commons admin. Jon is a trusted license reviewer and OTRS member and is active, additionally he speaks en and fr. I think he would do a great job here at Commons helping out with deleting copyvios, closing DRs, and other admin backlogs. If Jon would have the admin tools, it would speed up his OTRS-work and save admins valuable time because he will be able to do his own deletions. We have huge admin backlogs), and i am sure he will be helpful in reducing them. I believe he will be a good and active admin, and I hope the community agrees. --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:05, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate's acceptance: Thank you for the kind words, Steinsplitter. I'm happy to accept. Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:06, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

  • A.Savin - You do realise many editors here start off as IPs right ? ... It's highly unfair to label them a sock without even having the decency to provide any sort of evidence to back this absurd accusation up so either provide evidence (in diffs) that they're a sock or strike that part out, I would expect these sorts of comments from an ill-informed newbie ... not from a well respected admin. –Davey2010Talk 22:57, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  •  Question A check of uploads and edits gives the following stats over the lifetime of your account:
UPLOADS
+-------+--------+
| Total | Month  |
+-------+--------+
|    38 | 201611 |
|   106 | 201612 |
|    18 | 201703 |
|   122 | 201704 |
|    18 | 201705 |
|     1 | 201706 |
|     2 | 201707 |
|    29 | 201708 |
|    48 | 201709 |
|  1838 | 201710 |
+-------+--------+
EDITS
+-------+--------+
| Total | Month  |
+-------+--------+
|    57 | 201611 |
|   283 | 201612 |
|    33 | 201703 |
|   178 | 201704 |
|   306 | 201705 |
|    20 | 201706 |
|    30 | 201707 |
|   312 | 201708 |
|  1027 | 201709 |
|  6799 | 201710 |
+-------+--------+
This makes it clear that more than 80% of your contributions to Wikimedia Commons was in the last 3 weeks, with your account being almost dormant before two months ago. Could you explain this editing pattern, and explain why after getting sysop rights your edits will not drop back to the previous low levels, such as 50 edits seen throughout June and July? Thanks --Fæ (talk) 16:40, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Sure! The recent spike in uploads was due to finding a few albums from Flickr that hadn't yet been transferred. My previous uploads had been limited to a few personal photos and eligible transfers from enwiki. As for the lack of activity during June and July, I was training for a triathlon so I didn't have much spare time where I could contribute. I hope this addresses your questions. Thank you. Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:53, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the quick reply. A further check shows your application to OTRS was less than 4 weeks ago (diff). Though you have 10,000 edits on Commons, this is mostly from rapid contributions in the last few weeks. I'll abstain from voting as I don't see the calendar track record I would expect for sysop tools. --Fæ (talk) 17:06, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Correct me if I am misinterpreting later comments in this RFA, could you confirm that by "anonymous user", this means that you have no Wikimedia project accounts apart from Jon Kolbert and the associated bot account either currently or in the past? It is probably worth making this clearer as both Commons and English Wikipedia accounts were used on their first day's edits to make unusual changes for a new user. Based on your later cross-project edits, such as requesting global locks on meta against global vandals, and in around two months making over 500,000 global edits using the bot account, you are a tech-savvy user. Consequently, you may be expected to understand how to apply techy things like proxies and custom headers, and why I may have questions. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 11:56, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, I can confirm that I have not edited from any other Wikimedia accounts apart from KolbertBot. I wouldn't say I'm that tech-savvy; the pywikibot toolset has detailed instructions and users on IRC were more than willing to help me troubleshoot during the set-up process. I have not edited using a proxy, although I have used public WiFi hotspots (at a recent Wiki meetup). Jon Kolbert (talk) 12:52, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the clear confirmation. --Fæ (talk) 10:44, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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