My request for adminship has gone through successfully, unsurprisingly. It had been looking like it was going to for several days, and it has. Interestingly, I have brought the total number of administrators to one thousand, and the (former) Wikimedia board member Angela Beesley decided to close the nomination and promote me - something she has not done since last November. It was a little scary when I loaded another page and a load of extra buttons appeared all over it, but I’m coping so far. I’ve cleared a bit of a backlog, and have done a few minor tasks, including blocking a user. This was for an inappropriate username, and it was indefinite… not nice for a first block. I’ll keep you posted.

In the mean time, here is the work experience diary at long last (or, the parts of it that are unposted):

Day 3 - Discussed Microsoft. Installed all Express Editions. Spent day battling Oracle and learning ASP.net

Day 4 - Learnt more aspx and started to construct report interface, helped heavily by my contact. Got a free sandwich.

Day 5 - Was not allowed to eat free sandwich. Worked more on base code for reporting module. Made .sql files.

Day 6 - Discovered that control was not compatible with my software. Worked on output of mailqueue.

Day 7 - Lost all mail queue work. [P/W steal] Put queries into files. Teacher came and was pleased with progress.

Day 8 - Reconstructed mail form and had a team meeting using telecommunication equipment.

Day 9 - Attempted to implement OpenSearch after writing a control to display the most popular communities.

Day 10 - Spent morning doing paperwork. Tekan out for pub lunch. Ran queries on database into xls.

As you can see, I didn’t have much room to write in.