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MrJaroslavik's Request for global sysop

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 * Successful. John (talk) 16:18, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

User: MrJaroslavik ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log )

Reasoning for request
So... How start? Hello, here is MrJaroslavik, from Czech Republic... After much deliberation, I decided to request the global sysop rights. Yes, I know it's a little early, I wanted to apply in 1-3 months, but for a few reasons I request now. Yes, I'm in the same timezone as most of users (CEST) I think I know how recognize vandalism/trolling/spamming and other bad things. I have experience with vandalism handling on WMF projects as global rollbacker. I have read and understand policies, of course. Thank you for considering this request and all your votes! Any questions? Ask me.--MrJaroslavik (talk) 19:28, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * We have about 4 000 wikis and only 4 stewards and 2 GSs (with Zppix)
 * Miraheze need more active global users and more GSs and stewards as well.
 * I would like to help with the handling request and reports (SN, #cvt channel, etc.) - I have enabled notifications on Miraheze discord server and i getting notifications about recent changes on Miraheze Meta as well (thanks to @Reception123)

Additional comments given by user (if any)
If this my application will not be successful, but someone else applies for global rights, it will be success for me.--MrJaroslavik (talk) 19:28, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Questions for candidate

 * 1)  What administrative tasks would you be most likely to do across all wikis, and why is this important enough to deserve global sysop rights? --TFFfan (talk) 14:51, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The most important task of a global sysop/steward is to respond quickly to urgent requests > (b)locks. Knowledge of abuse filters and the ability to search spam-logs/abuse are also required by me. Any more questions? :)--MrJaroslavik (talk) 15:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Nope. And you have my full support!
 * 1)  Would you be able to streamline communication and help on IRC? Sometimes I have questions/help needed and go there, and I would like to see some more activity (no offense to any currently working members on IRC, good job to you guys). Fredmodulars (talk) 20:06, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello, I am not an IRC user, but I am active on IRC using a relay from Discord-IRC, see Discord for more info. If the user needs help, he can write there, or ping me.--MrJaroslavik (talk) 20:15, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 1)  What would you do if you are unsure whether a user should be locked and if the situation is more complicated than simple vandalism? Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 06:36, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello thanks for the question. Generally, when I'm not sure, I ask others (mainly on discord via irc-relay) as you may have noticed. Another question might be "what if no one is around?" - according to the situation. If account vandalized still for example on one wiki, should be blocked there until opinions by others CVT members. If account vandalized but not at this time, no urgent action needed. If it is not urgent, it can be handed over to stewards (i mean should be forwarded to stewards). I apologize for the vague answer, but is not possible answer to your questions easily, some cases are very specific. Can you give me about 2 examples? That could be more telling. Thank you!--MrJaroslavik (talk) 07:09, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Your answer is fine, I didn't need it to be too specific. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 10:22, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Support

 * 1)  Why not? Also, LGTM. Friendly + knows more than one language + knowledgeable + experienced = global mop.  In consideration of the subsequent comments, particularly Amanda Catherine and Universal Omega below, I am clarifying my support level only slightly. I'm still supporting because the user is friendly, knows multiple languages, and has demonstrated experience with cross-wiki counter-vandalism as a global rollbacker on Wikimedia projects, but am just a bit concerned they may be spreading themselves too thin (as local administrator and a Global Sysop). In short, I'd prefer to see MrJaroslavik as either an administrator on Meta or a Global Sysop, which would be enough to move me back to full, if not strong, support.  Amended 22 July 2020. Dmehus (talk) 19:33, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 2)  I think its a bit early to request this and I am not sure how much Miraheze counter-vandalism experience this user has. I give my weak support because this user is friendly and very active and can back up their claims with their Wikimedia countervandalism experience so they do not deserve an oppose. DeeM28 (talk) 11:07, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 3)  per above  18:46, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 4)  I do think it's a bit early to request this status, but I will show support as I have experienced only good things from this user. WickyHoney (talk) 18:57, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 5)  We have very few global sysops. We need more of these, and  is the a great choice for global sysop. I have seen him around, he has contributed significantly to the project, and I don't see why he should not be a global sysop. I also see him frequently, and he could check and respond to issues or concernes at the admin noticeboard, and would also help lock abusive users. I also want to say to him, keep up the good work, and possibly request stewardship in about a year. --TFFfan (talk) 15:24, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 6)  - No need to explain PowerDagger15 (talk) 01:00, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 7)  I think it is a little bit to early for this, but from what I have seen this user is helpful.  23:55, 22 July 2020 (UTC) ］ |
 * 8)  I believe this user is capable of being a global administrator. He seems knowledgable and active, as well as kind too from my perspective.

Abstain

 * 1)  While I do think that the candidate is helpful around Meta, I feel that they are jumping into things a little too quickly. They requested Meta administrator much earlier than most users would that I know of, and now they are requesting global sysop, again much quicker than most users. As such, I do not feel comfortable supporting at this time, but there are no red flags that I know of that would cause me to oppose. So I land here. Amanda Catherine (talk) 13:25, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 2)  I agree with Amanda's point of view here, which is why I'll also abstain.  Hypercane  (  talk ) 08:31, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 3)  I also agree with Amanda and Hypercane. I think they step up too soon. But there's not enough bad things to make me oppose.  11:48, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) Im not very familar with this user, and I think it may be too soon. Zppix (Meta &#124; CVT Member &#124; talk to me) 16:19, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) he requested right' not too long ago So i am going to be opposing for Now Keep up the good work Though And then in about 3 months you got my support (: --Cocopuff2018  18:15, 16 July 2020 (UTC)


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AtticComedian's Request for

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 * ❌ No reason given. Also blocked on two wikis for toxicity.--MrJaroslavik (talk) 06:15, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

User: AtticComedian ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log )

Oppose

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Dmehus's Request for Interwiki administrator

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 * Sucessful. John (talk) 17:13, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

User: Dmehus ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log )

Reasoning for request
I am a wiki creator here on Meta, who has been successful, together with my fellow wiki creator colleagues, at ensuring all valid wiki requests are created either the same day or by the next day (which was a personal stated goal in my successful wiki creator nomination), and an active community volunteer who helps out on Discord and here on Meta daily through the noticeboards, talk pages, and elsewhere with answering users' questions and responding to requests. When there is a request to a link to a local wiki's local interwiki table, usually at the community noticeboard, it is also my goal that such requests be completed by the end of the calendar day on which it was requested, just as we are now seeing all valid wiki requests created within the same timeframe. We currently only have six members of the interwiki administrators global group, three of whom are either largely or somewhat inactive and the other three who are either active or semi-active. Excluding those who are either largely or somewhat inactive, this means we have less than one interwiki administrator for every 1,000 wikis. In addition to actioning such requests in a timely fashion, I would also like to make local wiki bureaucrats aware that it is possible for them to select (through a local appointment or election process) a local interwiki administrator, a process which is ultimately effected by a steward.

Secondarily, on that point about locally selected interwiki administrators, over the medium- and long-term, I intend to do outreach to our most active and largest content wikis, to make their local bureaucrats aware of the advantages of using interwiki links versus external links (i.e., in templates). This would be part of a larger outreach strategy I'm planning that, together, should help to boost overall community participation on Meta and a general feeling of increased community cohesion.

In terms of assessment process for deciding whether or not to add a site to the interwiki table, I would assess who owns the site, who is hosting the site, whether and if the site has a valid SSL website security certificate, and various other factors, such as general common sense.

With that, I welcome any questions the community may have and look forward to your support. Dmehus (talk) 17:43, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Prerequisites
✅ - 2,016 global edits
 * Have at least 1000 total global edits on Miraheze (on more than one wiki) (Note: These edits may not consist of directly copy/pasting content from other wikis, they must be edits done by the user)

✅ - Two months ✅ - Very active on the Meta noticeboards, companion talk pages, and Discord, answering questions from new or existing users, and responding to requests.
 * As at the date of this nomination
 * Have had their Miraheze account for at least 2 months
 * Be involved in some way in community matters (in discussions on Community Noticeboard, etc.)


 * n.b. Meta is one of my two home wikis, and I will always be very active here

Support

 * 1) Not only he is pretty active in Meta and Discord, but he's also a very nice guy.  CircleyDoesExtracter  ( Circley Talk  |  Global   |  Email the Cloud ) 18:00, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 2)  Eager to help, knows what he's doing, asks if he needs help, polite, definitely active.  ~ RhinosF1 - (chat)· acc· c -  18:05, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) Why the hell not? Zppix (Meta &#124; CVT Member &#124; talk to me) 18:07, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 4) . I mean, Doug, you are probably one of the best contributors here on miraheze. You help other users, and you helped me. There is absolutely no reason for you to not have this right. --TFFfan (talk) 19:45, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 5) Hispano76 (talk) 20:09, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 6) He is always positively helping people.--松•Matsu (talk) 06:22, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 7) Sure! Why not?  13:07, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 8) Very helpful and friendly user!  14:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC) ］ |
 * 9)  He is helpful I appreciate all the stuff he does and all the help he provides. He has my full support. (:  --Cocopuff2018  16:06, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 10) Very helpful, friendly and has a large knowledge of how Miraheze (and MW) works --Lakelimbo (talk) 22:20, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 11)  Why not ? There is very helpful and active on Miraheze ! HeartsDo (Talk || Global || Wiki Creator) 16:10, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 12) He definitely is active and experienced enough to get the user group. I support.  Hypercane  (  talk ) 18:07, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Oppose

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Universal Omega's Request for Interwiki administrator
User: Universal Omega ( contributions &bull; CA &bull; blocks log &bull; rights log &bull; global rights log )

Reasoning for request
I am pleased to be able to nominate as an additional global interwiki administrator, principally, because, as noted below, he has also taken to being active on Meta, doing a lot of patrolling, answering users' questions on the community noticeboard, creating wikis with the guidance provided by me and other wiki creators, and enhancing Meta's content pages. Additionally, he is also helpful and active with answering users' questions on Discord, especially when it comes to CSS styling and MediaWiki skin questions. Even though my interwiki administrator request closed yesterday, we do still have only seven (7) global interwiki administrators, for which only roughly 5 (including me) are either very active, active, or somewhat active. With nearly 4,000 wikis, we could do well to have at least a couple more. Universal Omega was very intrigued with my plan to do outreach to our busiest and most active wikis, making them aware of the advantages of using interwiki links instead of external links and also that they can hold hold a local election or appointment process for one or more local interwiki administrators, consistent with both their local and Miraheze global policies. With the upcoming outreach and reworked way of handling interwiki requests, I fully expect to see an uptick in interwiki addition requests, thereby adding to the need for more interwiki administrators. Secondarily, Universal Omega comes to us from Fandom, in which he has also migrated several wikis from Fandom to here, so this simplifies him having to request local interwiki administrator granting by stewards, after having held local election or appointment processes, on multiple wikis.

Nominated by: Dmehus (talk) 16:31, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Nomination accepted by: Universal Omega (talk) 16:38, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Nominated candidate's acceptance statement: I would would to start by thanking for the nomination. I would like the opportunity to help Miraheze in even more ways then I already am, which is why I am accepting this nomination. Me being an interwiki admin provides me with a unique ability to help Miraheze with interwiki requests, as I already do with wiki requests. I thank you for consideration!

Prerequisites
✅ - 4,442 global edits
 * Have at least 1000 total global edits on Miraheze (on more than one wiki) (Note: These edits may not consist of directly copy/pasting content from other wikis, they must be edits done by the user)

✅ - Four months ✅ - Active with patrolling on Meta, enhancing content pages, answering questions on the noticeboards, and helping users on Discord
 * n.b. Many of these edits, would've been related to the importing of files and such from his Fandom wikis, but with more than 100 edits on Meta, it is certainly reasonable to expect there were at least 900 additional, manual edits done by the user
 * As at the date of this nomination
 * Have had their Miraheze account for at least 2 months
 * Be involved in some way in community matters (in discussions on Community Noticeboard, etc.)

Additional comments given by user (if any)

 * Note: Please kindly refrain from voting until the candidate has accepted this nomination and added their own comments. Thank you.

Support

 * 1)  As nominator, to which I'd add that Universal Omega is friendly, engaging, helpful, and, crucially, very receptive to feedback and constructive criticism as part of his personal training and learning process. I've seen this first-hand as his unofficial wiki creator mentor. No concerns. Dmehus (talk) 16:49, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 2)  per Dmehus --Lakelimbo (talk) 05:45, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 3)  Nimrod (talk) 07:07, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 4)  Nice user overall.  CircleyDoesExtracter  ( Circley Talk  |  Global   |  Email the Cloud ) 14:47, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 5)  I believe he is quite suitable for the role. As such, I support this.  Hypercane  (  talk ) 21:16, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1)  First off, I feel it's too early and, 2nd, I would like to see him make more edits on more wikis before requesting this rank. Most of his edits come from one individual wiki and to get this rank the user should edit on more then just a few wikis. --Cocopuff2018  05:12, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * 2)  I do not like opposing users that seem friendly and helpful which is the case for the user, but I can not support this request for the only reason that only 248 edits are actually made outside of their own wiki which to me is a bit cheating the system of 1000 edits. As soon as there would be 1000 edits outside of their own wiki I would support this user. "Have at least 1000 total global edits on Miraheze (on more than one wiki)". I do not want this to discourage you though, you are doing a good job and I would switch to support until the requirement is met! DeeM28 (talk) 07:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you for the vote. While I will 100% accept it, and understand it, I would like to still comment on it. I do not personally feel as though I do not meet the criteria. I do have 1000 global edits, and while it may be true that quite a bit are on my own wikis, the requirement is not 1000 edits on multiple wikis equivalating to multiple thousands of edits. The requirement is meant to show that the user has global activity, and from my activity on meta, and others where users do request help sometimes, simply helping them there, I do feel I meet that criteria. Thank you! 08:06, 25 August 2020 (UTC) ］ |
 * I said before I do not exactly have a problem with supporting you as the interewiki administrator role is concise but for me the policy means you need more edits. I put the "procedural vote" mention because if maybe, I misunderstood this policy then my vote cannot count. My vote should only be taken into account by a steward if the way that I interpreted the interwiki administrator policy is also right. If I did not interpret it right maybe my vote can be "Weak support". I hope the steward that closes this can make the policy clear for me. DeeM28 (talk) 11:10, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I believe your vote and argument are valid, but I don't think it's a "procedural" !vote. My understanding is the requirement is for only 1,000 global edits on at least two Miraheze wikis. There's no specific quantity on how many of those 1,000 contributions cannot be simply imports or copying and pasting of pages/templates from other wikis, but that's certainly a valid argument one can assess, as you've done. It then comes down a nosecount and a weighing of the arguments presented. A portion of those 1,000 contributions could be copying and pasting or import contributions, but I believe at least the majority of them should manual edits (including WikiGnome and copyediting-type edits). As I stated in my nomination of Universal Omega, though I suspect a lot of the ~4,400 or so global edits were imports, uploads, and copying and pasting-type edits, I believe there's sufficiently enough to have the majority of the 1,000 edit requirement be manual edits (including on his own DC Multiverse Wiki). Hope that clarifies. Dmehus (talk) 14:12, 26 August 2020 (UTC)