Project:Requests/User rights/Ocaasi

User:Ocaasi

Requested user-rights: Administrator.

I'm Ocassi, an English Wikipedia editor and administrator, and I have been involved seriously with Wikimedia since about 2008. I have about 25,000 edits mostly to English Wikipedia. Among my main projects are creating help guides, assisting new editors through OTRS, and creating/overseeing partnerships with organizations (like The Wikipedia Library). My particular reason for administrator rights is to explore the new Guided Tours functionality to further a project on new editor orientation called The Wikipedia Adventure. I'd like to be able to create my own tours and experiment with those features to see how they could be used or integrated into a teaching game for new editors. I'm not a developer or coder generally, so I would be very hesitant to play work outside of this specific area. I do think I Guided Tours are accessible however for my level of expertise. Thanks! Ocaasi (talk) 18:37, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Weak oppose - MediaWiki.org is not supposed to be a place for people to play around with features. --Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:56, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

This is for explicit instructional purposes centered around an organized project on English Wikipedia. I just meant I'm not going to muck around outside of Guided Tours, as I have no expertise in MediaWiki generally. Ocaasi (talk) 21:43, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Is there a specific reason why you cannot use testwiki or test2wiki?--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:30, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

To my understanding, at least according to the WMF Editor Engagement Experiments team (E3), creating new tours is only possible on MediaWiki, and with administrator rights. That's what it says here and also here. Ocaasi (talk) 01:34, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

I think that is MediaWiki Namespace, not MediaWiki wiki. and Extension:GuidedTour is not installed in MediaWiki wiki--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 02:24, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

And it is installed in both of the test wiki's testwiki:Special:Version test2wiki:Special:Version, --Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 02:34, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

That would explain a major misunderstanding on my part. If all that is so I will kindly retract my request for administrator rights. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Ocaasi (talk) 03:43, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Then N Not done (non-bureaucrat closure).--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:58, 9 February 2013 (UTC)