User:jldupont: I'd like to be part of the bureaucrat group please.
With one or two exceptions that snuck in somehow (at least one because the devs were too lazy to do the work ;) ), all the bureaucrats here are long-time developers of MediaWiki: at least a year of development of the core software used on Wikipedia, with substantial participation in the development community (including commits, offering support, discussions on #mediawiki and wikitech-l, etc.). If you do not meet those criteria, it's best not to ask for bureaucrat. So I'm going to have to say rejected until you can give a better explanation of why this is needed. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 14:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to be able to protect and manage some of the pages (e.g. Template:Pear) that contain my extensions published here, that's all. If you have another group more suitable for what I am trying to achieve, that's fine by me. Jean-Lou Dupont15:58, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You do seem to have written a large number of extensions. You might be eligible for sysop. What kind of management do you need to be able to protect, delete, etc. for? (I'm not too eager on promoting people to protect pages. We had too many protected pages until I cleaned a whole bunch out a couple of days ago.) —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 21:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I understand you reluctance re:page protection. Maybe I should just keep monitoring the pages I contribute too instead of going for page protection. The trouble is that it takes loads of time... and I am already receiving lots of private communications (on MediaWiki.org and through my personal site) in my extensions as it is... I am just trying to lessen the load that's all, considering that, as good example, tampering with Template:Pear affects 10's of other pages and the only one that understands fully (at least at this point in time) the ramifications is me.Jean-Lou Dupont12:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is true that my main goal is to go about managing (e.g. rollback) the pages about the extensions I contribute; but as far the page protection goes, my sole intention was to do so with Template:Pear. Note that I sometimes flag spam and irrelevant content with the appropriate template in which case I could deleted those out right. Maybe you guys are right: I should just stick with the user privileges and manage the pages as all the other contributors... it's not like I am getting paid or anything ;-) I just feel that, for example, messing up with Template:Pear has knock-on on many (hopefully) valuable extensions I contribute to the community. So I am fine with a decision going either way. Cheers. Jean-Lou Dupont12:33, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'll archive on or after May 2 as not done, unless anyone objects. I've already stated I'm only a bureaucrat here to assist with the renaming efforts. Kylu20:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
