Meta:Requests for permissions

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PaperClip (Wiki creator)
User: PaperClip ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: Wiki creator Reason: Hello everybody my is I am PaperClip and would like to have wiki creator rights. I can help process wiki requests faster, making it more better involvement to users and I do have user rights experience on Miraheze wikis. That's the reason why I wan't to have Wiki creator rights.

Additional comments: Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.

Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Comments/Questions
 * 1) without anything to comment on. :)  dross  (t • c • g) 06:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 2)  Hispano76 (talk) 01:23, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Owen (sysop)
User: Owen ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: sysop Reason: As you may or may not know, with the the creation of Miraheze Limited, Labster has recently transferred our financial assets to Miraheze Limited. The board has decided that Owen (John's cousin and board member) is the treasurer of Miraheze Limited and as such will be taking care of the finances from now on. Before, Labster was given sysop rights on Meta in order to be able to edit the Finance page which is a sensitive page that should only be edited by trusted people. As such, to be able to fulfill his new role Owen would now also need this right. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 15:42, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Additional comments: Nominated by Reception123. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 15:42, 22 December 2019 (UTC) Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Comments/Questions


 * As nominator, clear need for the role. Reception123 (talk) ('C' ) 15:43, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Needed to continue the transparency. Paladox (talk) 15:49, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't think there any reason to oppose or abstain this. 16:14, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Trustworthy, polite, will help in his role. Owen is probably sick of me questioning everything the board do within an inch of its life if I can so he can’t mess much up. :) ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  19:31, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you kidding me right now? Frankly, the constant battery of bureaucracy and double-standards of the staff team lately is way out of order. It has been made clear many times before that Meta is intended for the Miraheze community as a whole, and should not be overrun by staff. Owen has no clear need for admin tools, and neither did Labster. Assigning these rights based simply on the principle of being staff is frankly offensive. What other options were considered? I mean,  exists for a reason (but that's not even mentioning the ridiculous mass protection here on Miraheze). As Miraheze is allowed to move to a new phase, let's leave all this staff bureaucracy in the past, and allow Meta to be community driven.  dross  (t • c • g) 23:45, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This may be until a new user permission is created, in the meantime.. Hispano76 (talk) 01:26, 23 December 2019 (UTC)


 * There's no doubt about it. Hispano76 (talk) 01:26, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * If the sole purpose of giving him the permission is to allow him to edit protected pages, we can simply create a new usergroup instead. Also, being trustworthy as the member of the board doesn't necessarily mean that he is trustworthy as a wiki editor. IMO, he doesn't seem to be very experienced in wiki editing, and thus do not think giving the whole sysop permissions is a good idea. As for Labster, Special:ManageWiki/permissions wasn't available back then. The situation has changed ever since.-- 03:48, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have read the other comments and I agree that the bureaucracy around here and on the Wikipedias is very ridiculous at times. Though in this case I would rather that Owen has sysop as long as he only uses it for Finance. That is because the alternative is more bureaucracy, to create another group just for one user to edit a page. While I agree that this is not great, it is easier this way in my view. Or, would there be a technical way of allowing only one user to edit a page? If such technical way exists I am in favour of that and consider this vote as an oppose. --DeeM28 (talk) 09:55, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Revocation of Labster (sysop)
User: Labster ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: sysop Reason: First of all, as always I want to make clear that when requesting revocation I do not want to discourage any user from participating and voluteering but I don't like people having rights and not using them or not having a need. I am not sure why it was not done concurrently with the nomination of Owen as administrator, but since Labster no longer has the need to edit the Finance page which is given as the reason for him being made administrator (before there was voting) I think that the original purpose for his adminship no longer exists and therefore it should be removed. Of course if adminship is still desired Labster should open a new vote, but the original mandate has been exhausted and there was never a mandate from the users for the position. --DeeM28 (talk) 09:55, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Additional comments: Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Comments/Questions


 * No longer needed for editing Finance which was the original reason for appointment. --DeeM28 (talk) 09:19, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Labster has done a fair share of sysop work with his tools. It would also disrupt the precedent we've already set here on Meta. Frankly, if we're to examine anybody's sysop rights, we should be looking at revi, NDKilla, and SPF. We need to decide if sysop tools should be held onto for merit and edits, or just admin actions. Can't have it both ways. dross  (t • c • g) 06:33, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I've been active for last 6 months (per Requests for Comment/Meta administrator and bureaucrat policies and Special:Log/Revi - Nov and Dec actions (excluding wiki creation) are admin actions). &mdash; revi  12:09, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't have any intent to accuse inactivity. While well within policy, I mostly just threw out a few that I saw didn't have heavy activity in the past couple weeks. dross  (t • c • g) 00:28, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The last actions on some pages/user(s) could be treated as potential abuse or COI actions, but as the issue seems to be discussed and resolved, I don't think there's an immediate need to revoke his permissions. If similar actions happen again, however, we might want to discuss this topic seriously.-- 12:17, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * She know what should do! I think that can be use in immediatelly situation. Cmg (talk) 16:33, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Rights are no longer needed, if not for the recent use of rights to gain an advantage in a dispute, would qualify for inactivity. Plus the rights weren’t give through community consensus. John (talk) 04:48, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Cmg (Wiki creator)

 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
 * Successful. John (talk) 13:47, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

User: Cmg ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: Wiki creator Reason: Hi! I'm CMG, I interest in help create wiki request. Before I ever manage wiki in my local server, so I don't early newbie. I like a team and cooperatif. Maybe in freetime I can help in phabricator. Thanks for read myrequest

Additional comments:

Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Comments/Questions
 * You don't look like an English native. Could you tell me what your native tongue is (since we do need more wiki creators who can deal with non-English requests)?-- 04:21, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, Yes I'm not well in english, but I little learn. I native in Indonesia, Malaysia, Javanese and know some dialect from Indonesia. This is aim to make request, maybe I can be learn more with you and team. :-) Cmg (talk) 07:37, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I'd like to you, as you seem to be able to read/understand English to some extent (which IMO is at an acceptable level for handling most of the English requests), and use languages that other wiki creators do not understand.-- 11:23, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I look forward to seeing you around Meta more! dross  (t • c • g) 22:29, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Also looking forward to having you work with us. I know your English isn't the best, but I know you can help us out with some languages we don't know. Good luck to you. Hypercane  (  talk ) 02:49, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Asapo (talk) 08:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Would you agree to only handle requests in languages you know how to speak? --DeeM28 (talk) 18:12, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * DeeM28 what's the reason? However, it may not always be possible to handle requests in a particular language because other wiki creators will handle them sooner if the creator is absent. Hispano76 (talk) 18:37, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes I agree, but I can help handle in other language Cmg (talk) 13:42, 6 January 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section

ChipWolf (Wiki creator)
User: ChipWolf ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log ) Group: Wiki creator Reason: Nominating myself for wiki creator to assist with the backlog. I'm comfortable with MediaWiki in both development and production environments; I've edited Wikipedia for over 4 years and now seek to build some wikifarm clout. ~  Chip 🐺 09:31, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Additional comments:

Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * Comments/Questions
 * 1)  ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  09:36, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) I do not know this user who is merely 13 days old here on Miraheze, and am not very sure about giving him/her advanced permissions at so early a stage as this. All right, s/he might be well known on WMF projects, but that is that, and I personally even think that giving him/her autopatrolled was too early as well (since I saw him/her importing this Huggle thing, which is probably unnecessary for Miraheze as of yet).-- 11:14, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * They’d actually requested Huggle and we’re given the rights to import it. They’re quite active on discord. ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  13:17, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, I understood about Huggle. Still, I think s/he should be known more to the on-wiki community.-- 17:50, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) I think for wiki creators it is mostly important that they are trusted with the role and in my view this user seems trustworthy. --DeeM28 (talk) 18:12, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) No good reason to oppose, though I would typically prefer to see more global activity from creators, even as simple as having visited many wikis.  dross  (t • c • g) 01:59, 9 January 2020 (UTC)