[Lnc-business] LPedia

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Hi Starchild, we allow people to use psuedonyms on LPedia and any admin
decision is appealable to the Committee and each of their identities are
known and each committee member that chose to has their contact information
on the LP page.  And not all admins are admins in the way you might think,
but do merely backend work.  In reality, I am the one patrolling the edits
right now alone as their is a lot of backend technical work to do which is
not my skillset.

I have asked each admin to voluntarily put their contact information on
their user page, and I think each of them have.

On the front page it says to get in touch with the page management at
lpedia at lp.org which is a permanent email address no matter who is on the
committee.

LPediaAdmin is a manual bot as it were (we use a program called
AutoWikiBrowser to do category cleanups and it uses LPediaAdmin).

It took a bit of code-monkeying to get the list hot-linked you requested as
that is not something (believe or not) that MediaWiki is designed to do.
Each program has it quirks.  In the Policies section there is also clear
contact information.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Starchild <starchild at lp.org> wrote:

>
> Right on, Caryn Ann, thanks for the prompt fix and letting us know. A
> positive change!
>
> Still a bit more room for sunshine there however. While the page
> http://lpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&group=sysop lists
> 13 administrators, if I read correctly two of them are apparently bots
> (meaning that there are actually only 11 administrators?) Of those 11, only
> two, yourself and Ken Moellman, are clearly identified by name (is there a
> person who goes by Joe Libertarian?  :-). I also happen to recognize "JWD3"
> as Joe Dehn of California, but most people won't know that, and I have no
> idea who the rest of the folks listed there are. A list of names and phone
> numbers or at least email addresses accompanying the list of admin handles
> and talk page links would be excellent.
>
> When approaching a committee, website, or other official Libertarian Party
> entity, I believe it should always be easy for visitors to be able to see
> who the decision-makers are and how to get in touch with them.
>
> Love & Liberty,
>
>                                     ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                         RealReform at earthlink.net
>                                 (415) 625-FREE
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2017, at 6:45 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
>
> At the last meeting Starchild asked for the list of the admins to be a hot
> link in the header.  That has been done.
>
> --
> *In Liberty,*
> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> <http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee
>
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> *And oppose the use of force*
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