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Seeking victims volunteers to serve as scrutineers

We have ArbCom elections coming up soon and could use 3 brave volunteers to serve as scrutineers.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 20:00, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello there, I'm willing to help out. (I have no COI with enwiki) EPIC (talk) 20:01, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm ready to help. Mykola 18:08, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

me too Johannnes89 (talk) 10:15, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you EPIC, Mykola7, and Johannnes89 —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 14:38, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Help with admin policy change

There has been a consensus on ORWP about admin roles and I'm seeking help from bureaucrats to action.

Summary of consensus:

1. An admin is expected to make at least 50 administrative edits in a year.
2. Current admins without 50 administrative edits in the last three years will be removed from their roles, allowing active and experienced Wikipedians to become admins. If a former admin starts active editing contributing to (at least 10) admin tasks then they can reapply to become an admin again.
3. Experienced editors who have not been admins and have been in assisting admin tasks can apply to become new admins.

This consensus will affect two current admins: User:Ansumang and User:Odisha1. On behalf of the community I'll request for removal of their sysop roles. Thanks! Psubhashish (talk) 02:45, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

@Psubhashish Odisha1 already got their admin permissions removed three years ago [1] due to inactivity. Please request removal of admin permissions for Ansumang at SRP#Removal of access, linking your new inactivity policy (and this discussion if you want). Johannnes89 (talk) 19:03, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks much. Done. Psubhashish (talk) 19:33, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

@Psubhashish: I removed the rights, removed the wiki from the AAR set [2] and updated Admin activity review/Local inactivity policies accordingly [3]. Let me know if I interpreted the policy incorrectly. Also, for transparency, could you perhaps document the inactivity policy somewhere, perhaps at or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ପରିଚାଳକ? EPIC (talk) 20:01, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, @EPIC. I've updated w:or:ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:ପରିଚାଳକ with the details from the consensus. I also noticed that a request for stepping down from adminship shared by another admin (Soumendrak) is still pending. I've updated the same at Permissions#Removal_of_access. Psubhashish (talk) 20:20, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

RFC Notice: Requests for comment/Extract global bot policy to own page

Many parts of Bot policy are written 16 years ago (see here), have little modifications, and no longer in line with current practice. The only thing useful as a policy is the global bot part. So I propose to extract these parts to a new page and then obsolete the current Bot policy. GZWDer (talk) 14:11, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

• A RFC is open at Requests for comment/Extract global bot policy to own page, please comment there. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:07, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Special:PasswordPolicies for stewards

While browsing that page for other reasons, I discovered S are subject to same rule as an ordinary users, unlike the hardened rules for CU/OS/WMF-OIT/WMF-T&S/Crat/etc etc you name it.

I assume this was because SE requires admin privileges which in turn enforces hardened rules (and loginwiki CU forces them to the hardened rule), I think there is some benefit to using hardened rules for S role by default, unless global group has a special flag enforcing the hardened rule. Thoughts? — regards, Revi 20:44, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't think this is displayed anywhere on-wiki, but the privileged password policy is applied on the steward global group as configured here and here. Taavi (talk!) 21:00, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Seems like that page is showing the rules for "local groups", while certain global groups (such as stewards) already have enhanced rules. While our stewards are local stewards here on metawiki for technical reasons, they are also global users. Someone could put in a feature request to spin up Special:GlobalPasswordPolicies if they wanted to. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:39, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Is there a page that displays all steward activity?

Just wondering 'cuz I wanna forecast the upcoming election. Another Wiki User the 3rd (talk) 19:35, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

No, as "all" is a very broad term! However, there are statistics on many local wiki actions here: Stewards/statistics. There are many off-wiki activities that occur on other platforms such as phabricator, VRT, and UTRS. Additionally, there are actions that take place on project wikis. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:56, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Another Wiki User the 3rd (talk) 20:24, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:27, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

hakıszıca trwikide engellenme

merhabalar değerli yöneticiler trwikide haksız bir şekilde @Mustafa MVC adlı şahşiyetin kuklası denilerek engellendim yapılan denetçi incelemesi şaibeli taraflı bir şekilde yapıldığını düşünüyorum kullandığım ağ şirket ağı ve gizlidir baskası tarafından kullanılabilen nırmal ağ değildir lütfen bu durumu çözmenizi talep ediyorum ben denetleyen yerel wiki denetçisi @Vincent Vega dır bahsi geçen kulllanıcıda burada yorum yababilir kendsine mesaj olarak kendside yazmışdır ve denetçi kaçma girişimde bulunarak saklanma peşinde olduğunu düşünüyorum bu engelleme yanlış ve hatalıdır engelimin kaldırılmasını talep ediyorum Ehlal (talk) 12:58, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Merhaba @Ehlal bu yaşananlardan dolayı üzgün olduğumu belirtmek isterim. Her ne kadar elimde olmayan bir durum olsa da kendimi suçlu görüyorum. Bu duruma karşı yapabileceğimiz görünen en mantıklı yol kimlik bilgilerimizi VTR ile paylaşmak. Kişisel bilgilerini gizli kalmak kaydıyla VTR ile paylaşmayı kabul edersen bunu bende yapacağım. Benimle mustafamvcwiki@gmail.com adresi üzerinden iletişime geçersen sevinirim. Mustafa MVC (talk) 14:43, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

I need to make a note in English because the translation may not work well enough. This thread is about an erroneous sockpuppetry block on the Turkish Wikipedia. Since our message pages on trwiki are closed and Vincent Vega, the moderator who applied the block, has not reconsidered, I offered to share our credentials with Wikimedia on condition of anonymity. (Ehlal was accused of being my sockpuppet and blocked.)

I have no experience of how to share my credentials confidentially. Anyone who is not helpful in this matter, please help. Mustafa MVC (talk) 15:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Kaçma girişimi... Enteresan ve komik... Denetçi olarak tespit ettiğim ve diğer ek yetkililerce kontrol edilmiş bu engel için lütfen beni daha fazla meşgul etmeyiniz. Vincent Vega ^msg? 06:55, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

merhaba @Vincent Vega benim bu kullanıcıyla ip adresim çakışması imkansızdır çünkü kullandığım ağ gizli bir blok şirket ağıdır ve herkese özeldir yani yaptığınız denetleme hatalıdır bunu kabul edin ve lütfen engelimi kaldırın denetlemenize hatalı olduğu aşikar ozaman bana denetleme verilerni kanıtlayın eğer bu kullanıcıyla çakışıyorsam ben burayı terk ederim am hakkımı kimseye yedirmem meşgul etmeyiniz değişinden kaçma girişiminiz olduğu belli oluyorburadan hatalarınızı kabul etmek de bir görevdir Ehlal (talk) 09:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

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Closing, nothing for the stewards to do here. Trwiki is a self-managing wiki capable of handling their own issues, and any block appeal should be locally handled. If you find the block unjustified or do not have a way to appeal your block locally, you can consider opening an RfC, but unless there is an emergency stewards will not act if there are local users who are able to do so. EPIC (talk) 09:44, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. EPIC (talk) 09:44, 3 December 2024 (UTC)