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=== Global sysop for [[User:Foo|Foo]] ===
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Hello. My name is Oleg, I'm requesting to grant me global sysop rights. My home project is Russian Wikipedia, but since the beginning of 2010s, I've also been helping the Wikipedia editions in the languages of the peoples of Russia. I am sysop in Wikimedia RU site, in the Lezgi and Bashkir Wikipedias (Interface admin in the last two). I also active in the Commons, Russian Wikinews, Meta, translating the Wikimania site.
Last year, during Wikimania in Cape Town, I talked about the opportunity to nominate myself as a global administrator, and received support from many people, including the steward and the global sysop. I would like to concentrate my activity around Wikipedia editions in the languages of Russia, but I am open to other projects. I'm already engaged in supporting these projects as a member of the Wikimedia RU.
As for technical moments... Yes, I enabled 2FA. As I wrote above, I am the Interface admin in two projects. I have experience in creating of websites, including wikis (for example, I created the Russian-language web-encyclopedia of Uruguayan football). I hope for your support.
Upd. I was asked to write about my main achievements in the Wikimedia movement.
Second user by the activity in the history of the section. Introduced a number of rules, gadgets, templates, held two article contests with the support of the "Lezgi Luvar Foundation" and the "Wikimedia RU".
Buryat Wikipedia was under the threat of closure. For several months, I searched native speakers on the different forums. I deleted the garbage content, saved Buryat Wikipedia from the threat of being seized by vandals. And I voluntarily refused the status of administrator when the native speaker came to the section. He still project sysop. Can I consider my activity successful? Yes.
Of course, I also helped participants from other Wikipedia editions. It's hard to remember everything.
Offline activity
I participated in Wikimanias 2017, 2018, Wikimedia Summit 2019 and will participate in Wikimania 2019. Here is my Report on Wikimania 2018. And here is Video-greetings of Wikimedians of Russian Federation to Wikimania Cape Town participants that I produced.
As an employee of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, I conducted several seminars with students on Wikipedia editing and using of wiki-projects/wiki-engine in their future career.
About 30 articles were published in the Russian media (as well as on the websites of universities in the cities of Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan, Makhachkala, Moscow), with materials about my wiki-activity or articles with my opinion as an expert.
Since 2017, I am the member of the Wikimedia RU.
Not ending before 29 June 2019 14:39 UTC
Support. Soul Train is a major supporter of wikis in small languages, especially minorized languages of Russia, and I trust him to use the permissions in these wikis responsibly and helpfully. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:43, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Comment Hmm. Global sysop is limited flag: GS not might change user rights, not might doing any actions if wiki out of scope. Maybe is better receive local flags?—Iluvatar (talk) 15:04, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
I don't think it is right to receive sysop status in ~30 sections (10% of the total number of Wikipedia editions). If we talk about the search of new participants, I cannot know in which WP edition there will be success and where urgent technical assistance may be needed.--Soul Train (talk) 15:20, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Support Highly appreciate Soul Train's effort and contribution to Wikipedia, he is a passionate memeber of the global wiki community, committed to the idea of boundless access to knowledge. I'm sure his appointment will be in favour of Wiki. User from Dag (talk) 15:06, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
What wikis do you want to use global sysop rights on? It seems to me like you're focusing on a small amount of specific projects, so it may be better to request rights locally. Vermont (talk) 15:14, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Russia have ~30 Wikipedia editions (excluding Russian Wikipedia, of course), 14 another projects, and dozens projects at the Wikimedia Incubator. Well, I think its not very good idea to be administrator in 45 projects, including ~29 Wikipedias :) And "I am open to other projects".--Soul Train (talk) 15:31, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Oppose if the nominee wants to use the permissions for non-technical/trivial reasons. Given recent efforts to combat NNPOV in small communities, I have concerns with giving these permissions to a person that had a history of pushing his POV with sysop tools in small wikis and seems to harbour the same views to this day. stjn[ru] 15:29, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
We have a community that has decided to use exactly this map. As for political views, for example, here I did not change anything, even if it hurts me :). We have excellent relations with the author, despite his great love for Ukraine. Here is template that I created. As you see, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kosovo - all included in the list of "states with limited recognition" («Инкарвал гьукуматар»). South Ossetia - «инкарвал гьукумат я» ("state with limited recognition"), further in the text - recognition by 5 UN states, and the point of view of Georgia. I'm not native speaker, but as I can, I include exactly this info when I created the stub. Same situation with Abkhazia, but, as I understood, this info was later deleted from the article by another admin because of bad gramatics. These are two examples of regions that Russia unconditionally considers to be independent states. But it does not prevent me from being neutral.--Soul Train (talk) 15:57, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Well, and we have the movement in which neutral point of view must be upheld. You, on the other hand, returned the template to non-neutral state and protected it to sysop-level protection indefinitely (did you mistake me for a vandal then?). In fact, if we go to similar contentious topics, one biased article created by you was instantly indefinitely protected from anonymous edits, in other one you have reverted an NPOV-based edit by an anonymous editor and protected the article indefinitely. This is a clear pattern that should disqualify you from holding any sensitive permissions in wikis with Russia-based community, at least until you stop considering this a normal way of running a wiki. stjn[ru] 16:33, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
I was wrong with the case of Crimea, thank for your attention. I switched the protection to autoconfirmed level now. It is very sad that I made a mistake with the protection to the level of administrator, because we have the native speaker of Ukrainian (and also citizen of this country), who could develop this article as he done it with Kiev (user Mugerganets). As for Sevastopol, it was protected to autoconfirmed level. Every autoconfirmed user could edit it (including you and Mugerganets), but do nothing. You can blame as editor, but its my point of view. Articles about Crimea and Sevastopol also protected in Russian Wikipedia, in English Wikipedia and so on. I repeat, Crimea protection to sysop level was my mistake. But not the fact of protection itself. And another state. I am 2nd most active user of Lezgi Wikipedia. This project can be considered my main project along with Russian Wikipedia. Do you really think that I want to receive the status of a global administrator only in order to run and hang up maps of Russia with Crimea in all editions? Or do you just want to hurt me because of the inconsistencies of political views and conflicts in the Russian Wikipedia? Come on, together we restored order in the Chechen Wikipedia, and you know perfectly well that I like to help the sections of Wikipedia in the languages of the peoples of Russia. And I am guided only by the opinion of the community. Where are the community members (native speakers) who were unhappy with my actions at the Lezgin Wikipedia? Or did I do something wrong in the Bashkir Wikipedia?--Soul Train (talk) 17:22, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Support Their personal views do not matter as long as they do not use their administrator capabilities to enforce them. They're an admin on multiple projects, and considering the amount of wikis they help out on that are GS wikis, I don't see an issue in granting this userright. Thank you, Vermont (talk) 16:12, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
If they haven’t used their administrator capabilities to enforce their personal views, I wouldn’t have commented. stjn[ru] 16:33, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Oppose as it seems evident that Soul Train has used administrator permissions to enforce their political views in the past, and even recently. As such, it is not wise to grant global sysop permissions to them, as they would be able to use those rights to enforce their standpoint on wikis where people are less likely to notice. I am conflicted on this, as there is evidence for both sides, but someone who protects a page creation that definitively states Crimea is part of Russia (one example of a few issues linked above) is not someone I can support for global sysop, lest they do that in more places. Thank you, Vermont (talk) 16:42, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Did I remove edits which describe the whole situation with the Crimea in the article about Ukraine? No. Did I removed from the preamble the phrase "Чилерин майдан — 603 628 (Крым кваз) / 576 683 (Крым авачир) км²" (Territory is 603.628 sq km (with Crimea) / 576.683 sq km (without Crimea))? No. So what? May be we should delete all the articles with the links to National Geographic for their mapping statements (According to National Geographic's long-standing cartographic policy, while a map "strives to be apolitical," the Society's policy "is one of portraying the world from a de facto point of view; that is, to portray to the best of our judgment the current reality.") [1]?--Soul Train (talk) 17:50, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Does this article mention that Sevastopol is part of a contested region, and not just part of the Russian Federation? Vermont (talk) 20:54, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Every native speaker could edit the article. I remind that I am also an administrator on the Bashkir Wikipedia. And this article was written in a different way. I wrote the stub at Lezgi WP as I can, nobody wanted to develop it, unfortunately. On the example of Ukraine, I have already shown that I tolerate to other points of view.--Soul Train (talk) 22:09, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
The article on ba-wikipedia is significantly more neutral, in that it actually recognizes that Sevastopol is claimed both by the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The article you wrote, which you recently protected from editing, does not. Vermont (talk) 22:44, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Nobody protected this article from editing. It was protected to autoconfirmed users, not to sysops. Almost every registered user can edit it. Same protection exists in the Russian, German, English, Italian (...) WP editions. In the Ukrainian WP we see the same protection, but with the version without disputed status - the city indicated only as Ukrainian (ignoring the actual and de facto state of things). User Stjn came up with a non-existent problem.--Soul Train (talk) 23:47, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
You didn't answer my earlier question. Does the Sevastopol article on lezwiki that you made and fully protected (which you claim in the last message you didn't) immediately after creation (and left protected until last October, when you changed it to autoconfirmed) mention that Sevastopol is not an undisputed territory of the Russian Federation, and is contested? If the Ukrainian Wikipedia says it's undisputed and under the control of Ukraine, that's a NPOV problem that should be addressed. It is not a justification by which you can enforce your POV with administrator tools on other projects. Thank you, Vermont (talk) 01:18, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
We are talking about some episodes that were almost 4.5 years ago - it was another life for me. And we talking about the project where almost all active contributors at the same time are sysops. Please, do not equalise Lezgi WP with English or Russian ones. If this protecting was a problem for some community member (I suppose, only for one of them), he could write about it on TP, in VK, Facebook, call me or send me sms or message in WhatsApp. Community decision is important thing to me. This is my last comment about Crimea and those "horror story" with protection.--Soul Train (talk) 02:30, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Oppose. Not a particularly bad editor but Stjn and Vermont make some very compelling points. Hiàn (talk) 16:50, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Strong support I support Soul Train because he is very experienced, he helped to develop Wikipedia as Bashkir and Lezgin Wikipedia. I don't see any problem, he can help the other future projects.--Reda Kerbouche (talk) 17:35, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Strong support Oleg is an active Wikipedian and Wikimedian, who makes a huge contribution to the development of Wikimedia projects on different languages. Until today, I have not seen serious problems in his work, all the more I have not seen that he would deal with political topics and speculate on the basis of political view. And finally, there is always the opportunity to correct their mistakes, if of course they are. Best, --Mehman97 17:50, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Oppose over the POV concerns. --Rschen7754 17:54, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Support: At the recent meeting of the Wikimedia RU, we discussed the inadmissibility of using wiki projects in political interests and moral code of conduct for members of Wikimedia RU. Soul Train warmly supported these principles of Wikimedia and agreed with this. I think all doubts should disappear: if violations appear, the sysop flag will be immediately removed. Everyone understands this, right? w:en:Wikipedia:Assume good faith. And Soul Train's contribution to the Wikimedia movement is very serious and active. For example, Soul Train participates in the organization of the new global contest Wiki Loves the Caucasus. — Niklitov (talk) 18:57, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
The problem is that it is hard to monitor the use of the GS tool over 500-600 projects. --Rschen7754 19:01, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
I can not find a problem about User:Soul Train: his sysop flags are saved in other wiki projects. — Niklitov (talk) 19:30, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Comment In the event this passes, I stress to Soul Train that Global Sysop permissions are only to be used for antivandalism and routine maintenance. This means you cannot protect articles you've written (or any unless it's being vandalized), block editors who are not vandalizing, use the tools to enforce a version of an article, or anything that is not strictly antivandalism or routine maintenance. Vermont (talk) 20:39, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Yes, of course.--Soul Train (talk) 21:56, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Support An active Wikimedian and Wikipedian in different projects and different laguages. Carlos yo (talk) 00:01, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
CommentGlobal sysopsery is not about being an editorial participant, that would be normal community participation. We simply fill-in, in the absence of admins, predominantly anti-spam, anti-vandalism, and some speedy deletions. Very occasionally we may implement a community consensus deletion, though they are not often. Be well aware of any biases that may creep in and steer well away, that would be where you would leave or refer to another. — billinghurstsDrewth 02:05, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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Requests for 2 Factor Auth tester permissions[edit]
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Hello! I would like to be granted 2FA access in order to increase my account security and since it is also linked to a sensitive application (due to private data and more), English Wikipedia Account Creation Assistance Tool. I have read and fully understood Help:2FA and the potential risks if instructions are not followed. Thanks in advance, Kostas20142 (talk) 12:42, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
@Kostas20142: - How will be one able to access ACC private data, even if one breaches your account? IIRC, ACC interface (like OTRS) requires seperate log-in and isn't linked with SUL by OAUTH. Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 16:29, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
@Winged Blades of Godric: I am not requesting it solely for this but for account security in general. Coming to your question, the application is in linked applications and has occasionally prompted me to wikipedia login when accessing it. (as a security precaution I am de-authorizing the application when I am logging off from both accounts). Kostas20142 (talk) 16:40, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, I have nothing against your request. It links to check the blocked-status and rights (from what I see) but I don't see how anyone who has succesflly breached your wiki-account but does not know ACC credentials would be able to read private data. Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 16:44, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
@Winged Blades of Godric: He cannot. Only if he actually breaches the ACC and the wiki account can. This is quite extreme actually as a scenario but want to be sure. But I wouldn't really like to see anyone using pagemover or accountcreator rights either in case of a potential breach, both would be bad. (Although I am using a strong password in both accounts). --Kostas20142 (talk) 16:48, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
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Support. Soul Train is a major supporter of wikis in small languages, especially minorized languages of Russia, and I trust him to use the permissions in these wikis responsibly and helpfully. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:43, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Comment Hmm. Global sysop is limited flag: GS not might change user rights, not might doing any actions if wiki out of scope. Maybe is better receive local flags?—Iluvatar (talk) 15:04, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Oppose if the nominee wants to use the permissions for non-technical/trivial reasons. Given recent efforts to combat NNPOV in small communities, I have concerns with giving these permissions to a person that had a history of pushing his POV with sysop tools in small wikis and seems to harbour the same views to this day. stjn[ru] 15:29, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Support. 
Comment Hmm. Global sysop is limited flag: GS not might change user rights, not might doing any actions if wiki out of 
Oppose if the nominee wants to use the permissions for non-technical/trivial reasons. Given 
Strong support I support Soul Train because he is very experienced, he helped to develop Wikipedia as Bashkir and Lezgin Wikipedia. I don't see any problem, he can help the other future projects.--Reda Kerbouche (talk) 17:35, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Strong support I support 
Done 
Done Ruslik (talk) 20:18, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
