A few comments:
Limiting staff rights to being on an as-needed basis makes good sense to
me. There have a few incidents where staff have taken actions that they
shouldn't. Limiting the scope of staff rights helps to contain the
potential problems.
I'm sure that rights management becomes a more an
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Fæ wrote:
> For anyone unaware, in 2014 I created a bot task to maintain a page on
> Meta[1] showing the special Wikimedia Projects rights being allocated
> to WMF employees and contractors, without following normal community
> processes. The bot mirrors data from
All WMF staff accounts are now required to have "WMF" in their username, so
it's pretty obvious which accounts have rights for work purposes. Given
this, is that list of advanced permissions still necessary?
Disclosure: I personally think it would be easier for all WMF staff to be
put into one or
For anyone unaware, in 2014 I created a bot task to maintain a page on
Meta[1] showing the special Wikimedia Projects rights being allocated
to WMF employees and contractors, without following normal community
processes. The bot mirrors data from a Google Spreadsheet maintained
by the WMF. Back in
