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This page provides information on the English Wikisource's current administrators (see also multilingual admin and the software's list of admin).

Current administrators

Administrators are given access for one year per the Restricted access policy. Regular votes are held to confirm each user's status. Other languages indicate the areas in which the administrators might be able to converse with outside project members, or help provide public domain translations.

Username	Other languages	Confirmation	Other access
BirgitteSB	Spanish (intermediate)	2009-02	bureaucrat
Brion VIBBER			developer, Check user
Cowardly Lion		2009-02
Danny	Hebrew	2009-07
DarkFalls	French (basic), Italian (basic)	2009-04
Dmitrismirnov	Russian	2009-09
Eclecticology		2009-02
FloNight		2008-12
Geo Swan		2009-07
GrafZahl	German, French (basic), Latin (basic)	2009-03
Hesperian		2009-02
John Vandenberg		2008-11	Check user
Jusjih	Mandarin, traditional and simplified Chinese, French (basic)	2008-11	WMF steward
Kathleen.wright5		2009-08
Lar	German (basic)	2008-11	WMF steward
Mattwj2002		2009-07
Mtmelendez		2009-07
newmanbe	Spanish (basic), Esperanto (basic)	2009-01
Pathoschild	French	2009-04	WMF steward, Check user
Poetlister		2009-06
Politicaljunkie	Latin (basic)	2008-10
Psychless		2009-09
Quadell		2009-02
ResidentScholar	French (intermediate)	2009-03
Sanbeg		2009-04	developer
Shanel	French (basic)	2009-09	WMF steward
Sherurcij	French (basic), Arabic (learning)	2008-09
Spangineer	Spanish (advanced), Portuguese (basic)	2009-01
Suicidalhamster		2009-08
Tarmstro99		2008-12
ThomasV	French	2009-01	developer
Wild Wolf		2009-04
Yann	French, Hindi	2008-11	WMF steward
Zhaladshar	German (basic), Latin (basic)	2008-11	bureaucrat

Confirmation discussions

Restricted access depends on the continued support of the community. This may be tested by a vote of confidence, in which a simple majority (50%+1) must support the user's continued access for it to be retained. (What access a discussion concerns should be explicitly noted in the discussion's introduction.) Any user may propose a vote of confidence, but at least three established users must support the need for one before it can be called. Such a proposal is made automatically one year after the last scheduled or called proposal (concerning all restricted access). The full schedule of proposal votes is available on the administrators page.

"In the case of an unscheduled (called) proposal, the user may not use the restricted access for any non-trivial action at any time until the vote is closed. A bureaucrat will eventually archive the discussion and, assuming consensus, request removal of restricted access by a steward."

—Restricted access policy (as of 01 May 2008)

A minimum of three established users must oppose below for a confirmation vote to be called. Users are free to indicate support for the administrator, although this has no effect on the outcome. Inactive administrators will automatically lose access unless a majority support continued access.

Shanel

status	administrator since 10 June 2006 (unanimous)
activity	active (contributions, logs)
discussions	adminship (passed) confirmation 2007-07 (passed)

Support continued adminship. —{admin} Pathoschild 23:27:05, 03 August 2008 (UTC)
Support and thank you for volunteering to help. FloNight 23:53, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support; experienced user across many projects. Suicidalhamster 00:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support continued adminship; still active. —Giggy 03:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support last edit on the 24th; active enough in my book. ---- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 06:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support; — Rlevse • Talk • 11:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yann 11:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, has used the tools recently and still hasnt finished the good work :-) John Vandenberg ^(chat) 12:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Has always been there when I needed help.--Poetlister 21:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hesperian 00:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stratford490 17:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Zyephyrus 19:39, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support.—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 13:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Still plenty active. EVula // talk // 04:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What's Pathoschild without Shanel support - :D ..--Cometstyles 11:13, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
support —Dark ^talk 03:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Undoubtedly.--Cato 19:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nope Way too mean. ++Lar: t/c 03:35, 28 August 2008 (UTC) Support ++Lar: t/c 03:35, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations for adminship

Older nominations are archived.

Bookofjude

Jude voluntarily gave up his adminship in 2007, but has recently become active again. I have known Jude for a long time, and I can vouch for him as both an editor and sysop. While he has been absent for some time, he is bringing himself up to speed on all the changes and discussions that have happened, including everyone's favourite topic, copyright. I have no reason to believe that he would not continue his previous good work, and wholeheartedly support him being an admin again.--Shanel 03:28, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think I might accept. :-) Jude (talk) 03:35, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nom.--Shanel 03:28, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support It would be nice to see Due back on the wikis. So ya. ++Lar: t/c 03:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Giggy

Giggy (talk • contribs) - > 1000 edits

Constitution Act 1867 was a stunning first contrib. modelled on South Africa Act 1909, and as a result we have DarkFalls (and that has turned out alright .. so far!)

Since then Giggy has plodded along, creating Last Will and Testament of Augustus Hare and A Description of the Morning, working on the collaboration for Author:Karl Marx, adding headers[1][2], collaborating on Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King, starting and completing The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, collaborating on Author:Søren Kierkegaard, welcoming people from other projects[3] and other new users[4], answering anon users politely[5], archiving WS:PD and WS:COPYVIO, collaborating on Author:John Masefield, adding a few works by Author:John Ruskin and Author:Alfred Tennyson for some unknown reason, filling in textinfo because he is bored[6][7][8][9], reverting inappropriate edits by anons[10][11][12][13][14][15][16], alerting Danny that he is up for re-election[17], improving formatting[18], identifying copyvios and notifying the contributor[19], cleaning up after admins[20] and newcomers[21][22], creating Skinner v. Oklahoma and subpages, notifying the community of meta issues[23], inquiring about page blanking[24], creating A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, collaborating on Author:Barack Obama and contributing most of the works for related author Author:Ron Paul, adding A Letter to American Boys, doing copying and pasting for Index:Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.djvu and Index:Thus Spake Zarathustra - Thomas Common - 1917.djvu, fixing some of the pages listed on User:SQL/Namespace 0 pages that probably have reference problems, upgraded Author:Banjo Paterson to a "featured author" type page and bringing the most important work Waltzing Matilda up to grade required to be a Featured text candidate. He also proofread texts that are candidates.[25]][26][27].

And that is only about two thirds of Giggys edits here; enough to demonstrate he has a good understanding of Wikisource the project. In addition he is regularly on IRC, and is also a crat on Commons. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:41, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to accept John's wonderful nomination. Cheers. —Giggy 09:02, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom; Giggy's a fine user; no worries here (won't hold using IRC against you). I'd expand, but am off for dinner, soon; mebbe tomorrowTemplate:Blink Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:41, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Makes good use of the tools elsewhere, and seems to have an adequate understanding of how we work here. Hesperian 12:14, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Solid and hardworking user who will use the tools well. Orderinchaos 14:34, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Mtmelendez 14:46, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Solid contributions. EVula // talk // 16:11, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yann 19:55, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Giggy seems ready for adminship here. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 10:31, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - --Zyephyrus 15:48, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Many good contributions. Thanks for accepting the request to do more work. ;- ) Giggy will be able to be more helpful to the Project with the tools. FloNight 17:35, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~ Dmitrismirnov 18:59, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Yup. ++Lar: t/c 03:37, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]