Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

2015-08-11 Thread John Lewis
disputes. Superprotect in my opinion if used correctly is an essential tool which can prevent legal and technical issues that can in theory cause wide disruption. John -- John Lewis ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement

2015-08-31 Thread John Lewis
self! And congratulations to Maggie - while she is not Philippe, she definitely will do her best to be the new Philippe. Regards, John Lewis ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

2015-09-24 Thread John Lewis
I believe they already filled the position as they hired Karen about a week ago (after the announcement). ca. Staff and contractors page and IRC office hour. John Lewis On Friday, 25 September 2015, Pine W wrote: > Speaking of Trust and Safety, is there going to be a back-filled position &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-19 Thread John Lewis
month. In addition it has been opt-in on production for a week or two already. This is purely an easy way for people to test as the other way was, sort of annoying :) John Lewis -- John Lewis ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata IRC office hour

2014-05-19 Thread John Lewis
The log is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-05-19 Thank you to all who attended :) John Lewis ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-10 Thread John Lewis
I don't see any office action at all here. All I see is an administrator acting per what a WMF staffer has said. The code added as explained on the page; disables the feature fully and does not allow any opt ins. John Lewis On Thursday, 10 July 2014, MZMcBride wrote: > Erik Moell

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-10 Thread John Lewis
I am aware they are the same. John Lewis On Thursday, 10 July 2014, MZMcBride wrote: > John Lewis wrote: > >I don't see any office action at all here. All I see is an administrator > >acting per what a WMF staffer has said. > > Sorry, I have no idea what you're

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-10 Thread John Lewis
1.1% consensus for disabling the extension in a whole. I will not ramble on any more. I just ask the community to stop bitching at the WMF and accept their decision. Until then - I fully support Erik super protecting every single js and CSS page on every wiki as most Sysop I feel are techni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Odder on moderation?!

2014-08-12 Thread John Lewis
I'm an administrator for a few lists and personally I feel you are being far far too generic in saying lists are not managed correctly. A process is not broken here just a users understanding. Document don't argue regarding processes. ___ Wikimedia-l mai