Project:Requests/User rights/Jeff G.

User:Jeff G. edit

Requested user-rights: Administrator.

Hi. I would like Administrator rights here (to assist with m:Meta:MetaProject to transfer content to MediaWiki.org and mop up various messes), or at least Editor (Reviewer). I am: Jeff G., an Autopatroller, Reviewer, and Rollbacker on English Wikipedia; an Image-reviewer, Autopatroller, Rollbacker, and File mover on Wikimedia Commons; an Autopatroller on Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki; a Rollbacker on Simple English Wikipedia; a Steward, Bureaucrat, Sysop (TEST), Rollbacker, TW Confirmed user, and TW Editor on TestWiki; a Bureaucrat and Administrator on Wikimedia's Pending Changes prototype wiki, on TechWiki, on WiccaPedia, on AppleWiki, on the Admin Tools Wiki, and on The Test Wiki; an Administrator on TechEssentials, on the Wiki of WondUR, the James of UR Wiki, on RationalWiki (as a Sysop), on Test Wikipedia, on the English Wikimedia Labs Wiki, on the Wikimedia Labs Flagged Revisions Test Wiki, and on the Wikimedia Labs LiquidThreads Test Wiki; a Translator on Translatewiki.net; and a Betatester on Wikia Community Central. I am also active on WMF Bugzilla. My account is active on 708 WMF project sites (via SUL). You can find confirmation here and there.   — Jeff G. ツ 05:13, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, historical discussions and random "proposals" that nobody but original posters know about aren't really useful. Next, there are lots of extensions, many of them are for ancient versions of MW, lots have glaring vulnerabilities. How useful are the former? Are you ready to review every extension you import for vulnerabilities to filter out the latter? We have lots of crappy extensions listed here, and the more we have, the more will be used as examples for writing moar crappy extensions. I've rejected or nominated for deletion some obviously unsuitable pages, but hte effort to review all of them would be HUGE. Max Semenik 17:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There should be some mechanism (perhaps a new set of categories) to mark the historical discussions, proposals, and extension pages as historical and/or as dangerous. That would provide direction to users happening upon such pages. There is a reason behind each and every categorization in m:Category:Pages to be exported to MediaWiki.org - perhaps a new m:Meta:Requests for export to MediaWiki.org process modeled on m:Meta:Requests for deletion would be helpful for centralizing discussion of such pages for which that categorization is questioned.   — Jeff G. ツ 16:48, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Putting aside "to assist with m:Meta:MetaProject to transfer content to MediaWiki.org" (the only reason addressed above), would you please consider the "[to] mop up various messes" reason? Thank you.   — Jeff G. ツ 22:52, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Spam and other types of vandalism, items tagged for deletion, etc.   — Jeff G. ツ 01:26, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Per IRC discussions with others:  N Not done the sysop rights, Haven't really shown a need for them at this stage.   Done the editor right. Peachey88 00:02, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]