Project:Requests/User rights/SG (WMF)

User:SG (WMF) edit

Requested user-rights: Administrator.

SG (WMF) (talk • contribs • logs • rights • SUL utility)

I gave Shahyar Ghobadpour administrator rights because he needs them for his work on Flow.--Jorm (WMF) (talk) 22:21, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please expand on "needs". Peachey88 (talk) 02:28, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jorm (WMF): See above, apparently there's still an open question. Vogone talk 13:44, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He's the front end developer for flow. As such, he has to build and test interfaces. Interfaces that change depending on if the user is an administrator or not. He is also an employee, and we tend to give sysop to foundation staff as a rule when requested. Is this satisfactory?--Jorm (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MW Wiki is not a test wiki for that type of stuff, See test,test2 or betalabs. And I thought we had gone past handing out to sysop rights to just anyone these days unless they actually proposed a reason and it was deemed "decent". Peachey88 (talk) 09:01, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Policy has been, and I quote,

Any new flagging to +sysop should have an associated subpage here, except for staff and well-established volunteer developers, where a developer is someone who has had changes accepted to the MediaWiki core or a MediaWiki extension where the total number of changed lines in the relevant whitespace-insensitive diffs exceeds 100...don't ask for administrator without giving a concrete reason (unless you're a developer)."

TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 08:28, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]