https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67209

--- Comment #25 from Rainer Rillke @commons.wikimedia <[email protected]> ---
+1 to this change from my side.

> It is not completely nonsense; it is following a process which has been used 
> for several years at the Foundation.
Maybe, if you ignore all the points listed below and brought up by other
editors and MediaWiki developers here. To be frank, I am puzzled that even
odder aka. Tomasz W. Kozlowski wants to see consensus proven. Any particular
reason why, odder? As a commons 'crat, you know we had RfCs like [2] and they
passed without a lot of attraction/ discussion.

I. The extension was installed without community consensus. At least I never
noticed any invitation to an RfC for enabling it. [1] Please prove it was
really wanted by the community. If you can't I request the extension is removed
from Commons immediately just for bureaucratic reasons. Bug 67211 for that.
Sorry but you forced me to be pointy.

II. Administrators must be able to administrate their wiki. This does not need
consensus - and there is consensus that deletion, protection and revision
deletion should be manageable by administrators has been provided often enough.
Just because another extension is messing with the user rights, it is no reason
to impose restrictions. I will start an explicit RfC that new extensions have
to be passed by the community before they can be installed. That should
lock-out such kind of issues for the future.

III. We are volunteers. Don't make us unhappy for bureaucratic reasons.

IV. Why did I have to write all this stuff again here? There is absolutely no
learning. I feel more and more tired. Polemik heute geschenkt.

V. "Community consensus" to restrict GWToolset rights (as too powerful to
admins) was a bureaucrat-party on the bureaucrat's noticeboard. Why was this
accepted? How can community consensus be established by a certain user group? I
don't think so. But, well I didn't complain until now.


[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&search=GWToolset+prefix%3ACommons%3ARequests+for+comment&fulltext=Search&ns4=1&profile=advanced
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Assign_translationadmin-right_to_admins

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