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 instructions to open a Request for Comment (RfC). 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 you have finished writing the RfC, add it to the open requests section of this page.
- Update Meta:RecentChanges/Community with the link to newly created RfC.
Open requests
- Meta usergroups reform
- Future of Miraheze
- Changes to Requests for Comment Policy
- Add Caveat to Duplicate Wiki Policy
Draft requests
Closed requests
2023
Requests with successful proposals
- Changes to wiki creators (2)
- OAuth policy
- Code of Conduct reform
- Local (Meta) User close policy amendments
- Wiki governance and local elections
- Premium offerings
- Amendments to Canvassing Policy
- Global ban for Naleksuh
Unsuccessful requests
- Changes to the Dormancy Policy (4)
- Premium offerings (in-house proposal)
- Merge the generalized encyclopedias together
- Endorsing TestWiki as an official project
- Use of Wikipedia policy on Miraheze
- 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
- Allow certain reception wiki types to be created
- Electing IRC Group Contacts
- Close the Fire Emblem: The Tabletop RPG wiki and merge into The Fire Emblem Wiki
- Changes to wiki creators
- Add image dump requests section to Stewards’ noticeboard
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
Requests with successful proposals
- Local (Meta) Local IP Block Exemption
- Changes to the Dormancy Policy (2)
- Changing the Powered by Miraheze footer button
- Improvements for notification of global discussions
- Landing page redesign
- Community Directors (Amendments)
- (IRC participants only) Replacement of default chat platform in WebChat extension
- Local (Meta) Icons and wordmarks
- (IRC participants only) The future of Miraheze-run IRC channels
- Abolish the Code of Conduct Commission
- (Discord participants only) Discord RfC 2
Unsuccessful requests
- Creating a blocking policy for all wikis
- Central notice changes
- Dormancy policy exception for wikis larger than 1,000 articles and 10,000 edits
- Restore old CAPTCHA
- Window between wiki requests
- Community Disputed Wiki Closures
- Global ban for Blubabluba9990
- Adding Reception Wikis as a separate wiki category
- Abolishing the Dormancy Policy
- Allow global sysops to globally rename users
2020
Requests with successful proposals
- Local (Meta) Autopatroller group split
- Code of Conduct Commission reform
- Prohibit hate-based wikis
- CVT reform
- Harassment Guidelines
- Community Ban for PlavorSeol
- Local (Meta) User close policy
Unsuccessful requests
- Ban Foe Requests
- Topic ban Reception wikis
- Local (Meta) Use of the interface administrator group on Meta
- Global rollback group
- Require that RfCs undergo a public comment period
- Local (Login Wiki) Opt in Miraheze Login to Global Sysop administration
- Examknow appeal
- NordVPN
2019
Requests with successful proposals
- Community Directors
- Examknow
- Changes to the Dormancy Policy
- Local (Meta) Meta administrator and bureaucrat policies
- Interwiki-admin changes
- CVT policy
- Username policy (2)
- RfC/U process
- No open proxies policy
- Discord RfC 1
Unsuccessful requests
- The Definition of Harassment and Related Terms
- Followup to the Examknow RfC
- Changes in some restricted settings
- A request to add more admins and stewards
- Amendment of Stewards policy and Proposing yearly steward elections
- Eligibility criteria to apply for CVT and Steward
- Changes to the Content Policy
- Local (Meta) Blocking policy
2018
Requests with successful proposals
- Miraheze Commons - a common image repository for Miraheze
- Interwiki links editing
- Amanda ban appeal (unsuccessful)
- Future of Wikicreators
Unsuccessful requests
2017
Requests with successful proposals
- Amendment of Code of Conduct, September 2017
- Review exception to LP ban and reban them
- Allow exception to LP ban
- Changes to CVT group
- Code of Conduct
- User accounts and addresses
- Community imposed ban on Lawrence-Prairies
- Stewards
Unsuccessful requests
- CVT changes
- Username policy
- Local (Meta) Policy to document ALL existing policies on Meta
- Change to Steward Policies
- Reverse community ban on User:Lawrence-Prairies
- Global on-wiki chat software
- Include a top-level category link in the sidebar
- CU and OS local policy
- Global user rights
- CheckUser and Oversight
- Local (Meta) Create policies to manage unlicensed files that come from the community