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Nice idea! >Radiant< 14:07, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

You can thank Ryan Postlethwaite and Jreferee for it! :) Acalamari 23:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Agree, this is great idea! Thx Ryan, Jreferee and everone who contributed.--Hu12 (talk) 19:05, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thoughts

First of all, I think this is a great idea! I wish this had existed when I became an admin. It would have saved me some time coming up the learning curve.

Second, I would like to suggest that each page start with a pointer to the relevant policy. I have done this for blocking and protecting. The point here being that new admins should be familiar with the relevant policy but they might not be.

--Richard 06:07, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Exactly, it's all good and well know how to use the tools, but if you don't know when to use them, you get yourself into a mess. I'll look into adding a few statements from policy a bit later on. Ryan Postlethwaite 10:29, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Cool idea for the admins! Why not try to incorporate more admin-like things such as reverts as well? ('Course I'm not an admin, so what do I know? :) ) Icestorm815 04:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. I added a link for a Rollback and Undo course at Wikipedia:New admin school. I'll see if I can write it up in the next day or two. Jreferee 21:16, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name change

How about "How not to delete the Main Page and Block yourself"? :) Dfrg.msc 07:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Viewing deleted images

Is there a way to preview a deleted image prior to restoring? → AA (talk) — 15:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Yup there is, like any normal page, click "3 deleted edits" - scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see two sections: Page history is the text of the page e.g. the rationales e.t.c. and file history is the history of all the images that have been there. Click on any of the file histories and you will see the image that has been there at that time. Ryan Postlethwaite 15:15, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I added instructions at Wikipedia:New_admin_school/Viewing_deleted_pages#View a deleted image. -- Jreferee t/c 21:15, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kudos

Thanks so much for setting this up! Barring a drastic change in my RfA, it looks like I may be going through the paces here in a few days. I'm really grateful I don't have to start cold as an admin using the buttons for the first time in real situations. I probably wouldn't delete the main page but I suspect there's still some practical learning I need to do before I'm a fit mopjockey. Cheers, Pigmanwhat?/trail 21:50, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A suggestion

Maybe a course on "viewing deleted contributions" in "viewing deleted pages." And also, maybe a few images to help. --EoL talk 01:59, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I added a new section "View deleted contributions of an editor" to Wikipedia:New_admin_school/Viewing_deleted_pages. I also added a few more images for practice. Feel free to swith them out in favor of more "interesting" images that may help keep the student's attention. -- Jreferee t/c 15:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Instruction creep

This school only is about which buttons to push. It is not meant to go into when to push the buttons. There is a link at the top of each course that leads to when to push the buttons. Please keep that in mind when revising the courses. Thanks. -- Jreferee t/c 15:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] To become an adminstrator

What is the school usually about. I'm interest on become and admin one day so I can block users, delete pages, and contribs, protect and semi-protect pages. Where in Southern California to attend school? I'm form South Orange County, California.--Freewayguy (Meet) 19:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Comment - from the reading that I've done, you need to submit a "Request for Adminship" or be nominated by someone else. You can read more about the process here - Request for Adminship. This "New Admin school" page is an set of instructions and procedures to assist new admins with normal processes. Unless I'm very mistaken, there isn't any formal school that you would actually attend. The RfA article will give you some additional references, like Administrators' reading list, Administrators' how-to guide, and Guide to requests for adminship. Best of luck. Regards. --Daddy.twins (talk) 21:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
  • You could also check out the Admin Coaching page and request a coach to help you learn what the role involves. nancy (talk) 12:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Standardizing the organization of admin instructions

I have proposed a standardization of the admin instructions pages. Feel free to join the discussion. This would not affect the new admin school directly in any way, but since you are all dealing with making life easier for new admins I thought you might be interested in giving your 2 cents. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 13:08, 21 May 2008 (UTC)