[Wikitech-ambassadors] Invitation to participate in an RFC on Meta

Hello, Hoping that it is an okay use of this mailing list, I would like to invite you to participate in m:Requests for comment/Creating abusefilter-manager global group Best, Huji

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Interface Administrator rollout

Deryck Chan, 30/08/2018 16:30: without any prior notice on their user talk page nor any known process on how to regain that right. This is more of a problem on wikis without bureaucrats, or with limited 'crat bandwidth. I agree that such wikis may deserve additional help, including direct

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Interface Administrator rollout

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:33 PM Deryck Chan wrote: > Well, the Interface Administrator right got rolled out and thousands of > admins lost their rights to edit the MediaWiki namespace (…) > Administrators can still edit most pages in the MediaWiki namespace. They only can not edit pages

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Interface Administrator rollout

Deryck, I understand your concern, but just for the record, this **was** announced on the wikis, and in the case of English Wikipedia, discussions about how to handle this were going on for about a month (*Wikipedia talk:Interface administrators* was created on July 30th). As a matter of fact,

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Interface Administrator rollout

Well, the Interface Administrator right got rolled out and thousands of admins lost their rights to edit the MediaWiki namespace overnight, without any prior notice on their user talk page nor any known process on how to regain that right. This has completely wreaked havoc on the English