Project:Requests for permissions/MyWikis-JeffreyWang

User: MyWikis-JeffreyWang

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Requested user-rights: Administrator.

I am a member of the MediaWiki developer community. In recent years, I have found myself increasingly involved in the MediaWiki Stakeholders community, especially as an organizer of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (formerly known as EMWCon).

As part of my work in the MediaWiki space, I have worked on extensions such as Extension:JWTAuth (which is in Wikimedia source control) and I work on Canasta, which is a Docker-based MediaWiki distribution.

MWCons in recent years have been organized by the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group. The conferences are therefore integrally tied to MediaWiki.org. As a conference organizer, I would like to be able to add the news blurb whenever a new one is happening; this change has been made in recent years by others, but the organizers usually have to wait for someone with sysop privileges to help us add it. Additionally, it has been helpful for an administrator to modify the sitenotice to display the livestream link whenever MWCon is happening live. Becoming an administrator would streamline this further, as the other organizers are typically busier than me during the conference and I'd like to give them a break. 😊

I am applying because the RfP page implies developers should be the ones who have admin rights on this wiki.

I will invite other admins to help vouch for me in case I am still a bit of a stranger to the other MW.o editors.

(P.S. As a side note, I would have liked to move the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 2024 page to "MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2024" as per the consensus from the conference organizers, but I do not have the ability to do that unless I am a translation administrator. I'd really rather not request more rights that I don't usually need, but I must wonder why regular sysops do not have that user right?)

  Done per above. Editing protected pages for the sake of established MediaWiki community activities like MWStake-related things is definitely a good reason to ask for adminship. However, it doesn't hurt to ask a second opinion when using admin rights for actions which may be seen as related to MyWikis business. Nemo 07:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thank you very much! Agreed with you completely. I was perfectly content being a regular editor for a long time, but found myself requesting these rights solely to facilitate MWStake business. I’ll recuse myself for anything related to MyWikis. —MyWikis-JeffreyWang (talk) 13:32, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]