Requests for Comment
Requests for Comment
Requests for Comments are an easy way to gather community feedback and to form community consensus on certain proposals, ideas, and issues. Requests for Comments can be used for a variety of purposes where the community should be consulted. Please read the Requests for Comment Policy before participating or initiating a Request for Comment.
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RfC creation instructions
Following are some of the instruction to open a request for comment. Before following these steps you are strongly recommended to create a draft proposal and invite users for feedback.
- To create a new RfC type the name of the RfC in the below box and click "New Proposal". Describe the RfC in detail.
- After your have finished writing the RfC, add it in the open requests section of this page.
- Update Meta:RecentChanges/Community with the link to newly created RfC.
Open requests
Draft requests
None currently.
Closed requests
2023
Requests with successful proposals
Unsuccessful requests
- Creation of global page deletion requests page for Global Administrators
- Do not grant oversight rights when MediaWiki 1.39.1 is released
- Give Global Sysops interwiki rights
2022
Requests with successful proposals
- Minor Content Policy amendments
- Lower requirements for global Interwiki administrator
- CVT intervention
- Community portals on new wikis
- Close the other reception wikis
- Content Policy reform
- Global rollbackers
- Global bans
- Local (Meta) Meta bans RfC
- Global renamers
- Miscellaneous RfGR and WC rules
- Global ban for ApexAgunomu
- Local (Meta) Endorsement of Meta conventions
- Local (Meta) Amending the Meta administrator revocation criteria
- Changes to Requests for Comment
Unsuccessful requests
- Shut down the Horrible Music Wiki
- Involved discussion closure
- Move GlobalUserPages To Meta
- Local (Meta) Topic ban Qualtipedia
- Wikis with a fork of Wikimedia
- ApexAgunomu global ban appeal
- Allowing content forks in certain situations
- Allowing blog posts to be made here
- Alternatives For Current Loginwiki
- Replace reCAPTCHA with another CAPTCHA 2
- Global ban for Matttest
- Request for Oversight Authority
- The comments sever(s) for users who are in Chinese Mainland
- Miraheze official QQ groups or channel
- Changes to the Dormancy Policy (3)
- Local (Meta) User rights changes
- Miraheze Data - a common structured data repository for Miraheze
- Replace reCAPTCHA with another CAPTCHA
- Affiliate with Grifkuba
- Noticeboard for local blocks/global locks/incidents
- Allow users to get admin when adopting a wiki
- Global ban for Blubabluba9990 (2)
2021
- Local (Meta) Local IP Block Exemption
- Creating a blocking policy for all wikis
- Changes to the Dormancy Policy (2)
- Central notice changes
- Changing the Powered by Miraheze footer button
- Improvements for notification of global discussions
- Landing page redesign
- Community Directors (Amendments)
- Dormancy policy exception for larger wikis
- Restore old CAPTCHA
- Window between wiki requests
- Community Disputed Wiki Closures
- Global ban for Blubabluba9990
- Adding Reception Wikis as a separate wiki category
- IRC/Replacement of default chat platform in WebChat extension (IRC participants only)
- Abolishing the Dormancy Policy
- Local (Meta) Icons and wordmarks
- The future of Miraheze-run IRC channels (IRC participants only)
- Allow global sysops to globally rename users
- Abolish the Code of Conduct Commission
- Discord RfC 2
2020
- Ban Foe Requests
- Topic ban Reception wikis
- Local (Meta) Autopatroller group split
- Global Rollback group
- Require that RfCs undergo a public comment period
- Code of Conduct Commission reform
- Local (Meta) Use of the interface administrator group on Meta
- Prohibit hate-based wikis
- Local (Login Wiki) Opt in Miraheze Login to Global Sysop administration
- CVT reform
- Examknow appeal
- NordVPN
- Harassment Guidelines
- Community Ban for PlavorSeol
- Local (Meta) User close policy
2019
- The Definition of Harassment and Related Terms
- Community Directors
- Followup to the Examknow RfC
- Changes in some restricted settings
- Examknow
- A request to add more admins and stewards
- Amendment of Stewards policy and Proposing yearly steward elections
- Changes to the Dormancy Policy
- Eligibility criteria to apply for CVT and Steward
- Local (Meta) Meta administrator and bureaucrat policies
- Interwiki-admin changes
- Changes to the Content Policy
- Local (Meta) Blocking policy
- CVT policy
- Username policy (2)
- RfC/U process
- No open proxies policy
- Discord RfC 1
2018
- Amanda ban appeal
- Interwiki links editing
- Globally mutual interwiki links among all Miraheze wikis
- Miraheze Commons - a common image repository for Miraheze
- A request to enable Semantic MediaWiki on Miraheze
- Future of Wikicreators
2017
- A request to establish the communities view on stewards and how they should be managed.
- Create policies to manage unlicensed files that come from the community.
- Achieve consensus regarding potential local use of OS and CU tools.
- The effect of Steward and Sysadmin global rights on local communities.
- Make a policy regarding local use of CU/OS tools
- Community-imposed ban on a single user
- Include a top-level category link in the sidebar
- Global on-wiki chat software
- Policy regarding open proxies and conditions on user accounts
- Reverse community on User:Lawrence-Prairies
- Change to Steward Policies
- Policy to document ALL existing policies on Meta
- Allow exception to LP ban
- Code of Conduct
- Changes to CVT group
- Review exception to LP ban and reban them
- Username policy
- Amendment of Code of Conduct, September 2017
- CVT changes