On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:33 PM Deryck Chan <[email protected]> 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 containing JS or CSS code. > This has completely wreaked havoc on the English Wikipedia, to say the > least. If this was rolled out in a way such that existing admins could've > applied to get the Interface Administrator flag before the right to edit > interface messages was stripped from the Sysop group, this mess could've > been avoided. > Honestly this seems like a problem with English Wikipedia's processes. The change was announced beforehand and there was a transitional period. To add to Huji's example, on Polish Wikipedia we also had no problem defining a process to grant the new right and granting it to 9 people well ahead of the deadline. -- Matma Rex
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