Meta:Requests for permissions

Muhammad Alfarezal (Wiki creator)

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 * As for your RfGR, your reason is copied word for word from this previous thread. This amounts to plagiarism and is inappropriate for a permissions request. Closing rather than reverting due to existing vote. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 05:35, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Group: Wiki creator Reason: I am going to try this, I understand the policies/per content policy and know that there are hours of requests being stale for hours. Most of my requests are well understood. but, I know how Meta operates and can contribute a lot more as a wiki creator to help users get their wiki's made faster. Muhammad Alfarezal (talk) 08:48, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Discussion
Other users feel free to support/oppose/abstain from this RfP but please state your reasoning below.
 * 1)  I have two main reasons for opposing this request. First of all even though this is not strictly a requirement for wiki creator I am concerned that your level of English is not sufficient in order to effectively function as wiki creator as I do not even fully understand your rationale for requesting wiki creator (for example -"my requests are well understood"). Second of all  my main issue is the fact that have not been very active at all and most of your edits are either to your own sandbox or edits that do not necessarily improve Meta which makes it is difficult to determine whether you would be an appropriate choice for this role. I would recommend that you wait until requesting again. --DeeM28 (talk) 17:42, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


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Agent Isai (Administrator)

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 * Having unanimous support (11/0/0), this request is ✅. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 05:12, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Group: Administrator Reason: I am requesting the administrator right as I wish to help out more locally and would be able to do so better with the tools in the administrator toolset. At this present moment, I am a local wiki creator, patroller, rollbacker, translation administrator, and interface administrator. Globally, I am also an Interwiki administrator. I am active in all roles as can be evidenced by logs.

As a regular contributor to Meta, I frequently embark on rewrites of pages to expand them from stub status or to make them easier to read and more intuitive for our newer users with over 3,000 total edits here on Meta. Some examples of pages I’ve rewritten or expanded are Help center, Wikimedia Foundation, Extensions, Skins, ManageWiki, MediaWiki, Contributing and many others. As any Meta, Discord or IRC regular can attest, I am always online and always reachable via public means such as our Discord server and IRC. As a wiki creator, I am one of the most active with over 2000 actioned requests and over 1000 created wikis since I became a wiki creator.

I am requesting administrator so that I can further help the community and improve Meta. There are some pages that are rightfully protected at a sysop level such as Requests, FAQ, Security and others which could use an expansion to make them more intuitive for our newer users and I would like to embark on that task. It might be unduly burdensome to request that our often busy sysops unprotect a page and then reprotect it after edits are finished or to copy over drafts for pages and such so I believe it would benefit me to be able to edit these pages in order to expand these and make them easier to understand. Another tool which I believe would be of great use is  which may be useful when moving pages, especially when moving pages with lots of subpages. I have run into some issues where I have moved pages with lots of subpages (an example would be Community Wishlist 2021) and have inadvertently caused dozens of useless redirects or move a page and then have to wait for an administrator to delete an old redirect that had no use.

Equally,  would be of great use. I often times find myself having to fix existing, highly used Meta templates which were wrongly copy and pasted without importing all of it’s dependencies and thus cause some inadvertent issues on some high traffic pages. For example, I have had to manually import templates such as such as Template:BCP47 and many highly useful documentation pages or style subpages in order to fix some broken templates like Ambox and all of it’s derivatives. This is not the best approach as I am unable to import the history too which is recommended to import and I have to add a notice in my initial edit summary that a page was imported from an external wiki. It would be beneficial to have the ability to import the history for proper attribution and to fix many templates which were mainly copy and pasted from other wikis and have no attribution at all which is definitely a copyright violation so as to not overwhelm the current administrators with these tasks. I would also attend to normal administrator duties such as clerking the nominations for deletion and Administrators’ noticeboard. I have pages such as the AN on my watchlist and as a regular patroller of the Meta IRC feed, I am always up to date and informed on current activities happening on Meta and would be able to action requests in a timely manner and resolve any issues that may face the local community.

As a local administrator, I would also be able to to action and deter any attempts at spam and vandalism against Meta. While Meta has historically been a small project, as we grow, so do the number of long term abusers and vandals that attack Meta (which is to be expected as Miraheze grows and nears 7000 wikis). While historically the spam and vandalism has been low, there are moments where it does increase. A few weeks ago, we had 3 long term abusers active at the same time on Meta which is a new record. These LTAs disrupt the project by making bad use of the wiki request queue and making many spam pages that sometimes overwhelm whichever sysop is online to handle it (that is, if there is an active administrator online). It’s understandable that sometimes our administrators are busy as they juggle their day to day activities and volunteering through their multiple hats so I believe having another user who is active to assist in administrative duties would be very beneficial to the project. I speak on a regular basis to many local administrators and global officials so I know we’re all sometimes busy and that’s perfectly understandable. As an administrator, I would be able to temporarily protect targets for vandalism, delete any spam pages that were created and block any disruptive users or long term abusers in the meanwhile while global functionaries look into it along with being able to set up some AbuseFilters which would help deter any spam temporarily or in the long run. As an active user too, I would certainly help relieve some backlogs that are created. I will admit, Meta does enjoy of 7 administrators but out of all of these, a good portion is unfortunately unable to devote time to Meta due to other obligations and aren’t regularly around or are around but sometimes only to handle one thing every month or so. There are moments in which we have no administrators around to action some simple tasks which has caused some users to wonder if we need more active administrators so I believe that the addition of an active administrator to the administrators group here on Meta would be beneficial to the project. I look forward to any questions and I thank you for your consideration.

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


 * 1)  Trusted, member of the SRE team. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 18:18, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  I have no doubt that being a Meta Administrator is going to be much easier for you. Go for it dude. --DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 21:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 3)  Having considered the rationale provided I have decided to support this request. I have had a look at Agent Isai's contributions to Meta and I think that they demonstrate that not only is he very active but he also regularly does changes in order to improve Meta and is very helpful generally. As for the necessity of new administrators I would not go as far as to say there is a pressing need but since the previous time I have voted in such a request the number of administrators has decreased and it seems to me that the activity of the administrators has also somewhat decreased, so in this case I would think another addition could be good for the project. As a final point I hope that if this request is successful (or even if not) Agent Isai will help with more reforms on Meta to allow it to reach its potential because it currently seems underutilized. --DeeM28 (talk) 07:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 4) Support – no concerns. Startus (talk) 12:10, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 5)  I believe considering all he's done to help users...it would be wise of me to support the request. Good luck!  Hypercane  (  talk ) 12:41, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 6) Long text though, but Agent has a  from me --   Joseph  TB  CT  CA   16:21, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 7)  Definitely!  16:22, 6 May 2022 (UTC) ］ |
 * 8)  As per the above. -- Cheers, Justin Aves (talk • contribs • global • rights) 19:13, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 9)  with the hope that my reputation propels my support, as I am too lazy to type out the numerous reasons I think this bit is appropriate. I have precisely zero concerns, and the utmost faith that this user will execute his responsibilities with grace, precision, humility, and trust.  dross  (t • c • g) 07:27, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 10)  HeartsDo (Talk / Global / Wiki Creator) 07:43, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 11)  He has been very helpful and is good at providing support on Miraheze Bawitdaba (talk) 15:49, 10 May 2022 (UTC)


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