User:Zppix/Miraheze

After 6 years of volunteering with Miraheze, the board has decided to cease operations, while I do plan to ride this out until the very end, I wanted to write a formal statement.

6 years ago, I came to Miraheze when it was very much still a project in its beginnings, I very quickly became a wikicreator, which at the time were solely appointed by System Administrators to people whom they felt were trustworthy as it was alot more heavily involved of a process back then, I also brought in ZppixBot, an information bot for Miraheze’s IRC channels (which later became known as FOSSBots), I then later created Proxybot which used to automatically blocked open proxies and/or VPNs globally, it used to have a hardcoded global userrgroup for itself. I soon after became a Global Sysop, which I held for several years, during my time as Global Sysop, I joined the SRE team as a mw-admin, and later a puppet-user, with my main focus being SSL/DNS, with Jobrunners being my other focus. Later on, a huge argument occurred between various at the time, Stewards, and members of SRE, which resulted in my resignation from SRE, looking back this argument should of been the wakeup call that things needed to be changed. Following that, I no longer was the project lead for what at the time was known as MirahezeBots (was ZppixBot, now known as FOSSBots), I remained in my role as Global Sysop despite my resignation from SRE, and held that for some time, before ultimately being removed from the position. Throughout this entire time I was still holding Wiki Creator, and Meta Sysop rights. Over time Miraheze’s community has changed and we are even more diving head first into unchartered waters. At this point on Discord, the jokingly named “the cabal” channel was in existence, where members of the channel would often discuss various topics, sometimes relating to Miraheze, but mostly was a place for long-time members of Miraheze to vent and rant about anything regardless if it was ontopic or not. Regardless, one day, contents and messages of the channel are leaked and leads to very heated arguments, and reactions. A valuable area for long-time members of the community had been leaked and thus was shortly shut down, which was a huge blow to morale has we no longer had a place where we could just be ourselves, which isnt unlike a water cooler at a regular job. This is where alot of trust and faith with various people was broken, and resulting in a few resignations at the time. This situation should of served as another wake up call that urgent changes needed to be made to ensure Miraheze could sustain itself, this of course did not result in any much needed changes. Fast forwarding to the last couple weeks, when Board member, and T&S Director made a decision to ban a former Steward globally citing ToU as the reason, without consulting other members of the T&S team, or the board. This resulting in mass resignations, and very heated discussions throughout the community, and eventually led to the end of Miraheze as of 6/15/23. Zppix (Meta &#124; talk to me) 00:27, 16 June 2023 (UTC)