WMF Advanced Permissions
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| Username | Received | Usecase | Rights |
|---|---|---|---|
| I JethroBT (WMF) | 2018-05-01 | In the immediate term, this is to take care moving pages in the Grants: namespace. Many of these pages are translated. For ongoing work, Inspire Campaigns typically require translation preparation and fine-tuning (i.e. participants request or point out errors in translation mid-campaign). | M:Translation Admin |
| JTrost (WMF) | 2018-05-01 | Trilogy contractor, required for work on fundraising banners. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Harej (WMF) | 2018-04-09 | I am working with the New Readers program on a new version of FormWizard that will make it easier for people to file for rapid grants, especially on mobile. I am spending a few hours/week on it since it could potentially help with Toolhub-related workflows. | M:Sysop |
| I JethroBT (WMF) | 2018-04-09 | Chris will be working with a contractor to guide them through FormWizard and implement these changes. Some of this work will involve the creation of test pages which he would like to be able to delete on Meta without having to repeatedly request speedy deletion to Meta admins. | M:Sysop |
| I JethroBT (WMF) | 2018-04-09 | Sending messages related to Inspire campaigns to idea creators to let them know about an update regarding grant eligibility. Granted without expiry as this is a commonly-requested right for his work in a support role for grant officers. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| I JethroBT (WMF) | 2018-04-09 | Admins rights on Wikidata - Chris is currently working with John Cummings to develop a FormWizard interface on Wikidata for this project. In order to do this, he needs to be able to modify two javascript pages in the MediaWiki namespace that allow FormWizard to operate. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| MusikAnimal (WMF) | 2018-04-01 | These rights will assist me in deploying the Page Assessments to several wikis. For this, we need to update some protected templates. For every wiki, I'm asking a local template editor handle it, but I'd like to be able to intervene if something goes wrong (repeated mistakes may cause a high number of jobs to fired, and possibly causing database issues). | G:Interface Editor |
| DAlangi (WMF) | 2018-03-21 | He is working on improving the Wikimedia Resource Center on Meta, and needs to be able to edit the gadget, as well as other work on Reports. | M:Translation Admin |
| DAlangi (WMF) | 2018-03-07 | He is working on improving the Wikimedia Resource Center on Meta, and needs to be able to edit the gadget, as well as other work on Reports. | M:Sysop |
| TSkaff (WMF) | 2018-02-12 | I work on the online fundraising team and sometimes assist Jessica Robell in various capacities relating to translation. | M:Translation Admin |
| Ed Erhart (WMF) | 2018-02-07 | Following the policy, I'm requesting the upload wizard campaign user right ("upwizcampeditors") on Wikimedia Commons on an ongoing basis. The digital media team has done some experimenting recently with using social media to encourage photo uploads, the most recent of which has been focused on pigeons.
I believe that being able to create upload campaigns for these periodic initiatives will make it easier for people to upload their content while also lessening any potential burden on volunteers. Creating a campaign has, in fact, been suggested for both of our previous campaigns in discussions on Commons' Village Pump. (1, 2) |
Other/Special (See use case) |
| CParle (WMF) | 2017-11-15 | Testing file upload process; testwiki does not currently allow this for new users. Reviewer right is not available to grant | Other/Special (See use case) |
| NKohli (WMF) | 2017-11-15 | G:Interface Editor | |
| DMaza (WMF) | 2017-09-26 | Developer working on checkuser and abuse filter improvements | G:Staff |
| CSteigenberger (WMF) | 2017-09-13 | I'd like to request translationadmin rights for Christel on my team. She is assisting with translation markup on some of our team pages, and those of the AHT team to help with German-language outreach. She will need the rights in the future as well for team duties. | M:Translation Admin |
| MWang (WMF) | 2017-08-31 | I’m seeking rights to view the text of deleted revisions on all wikis for my [Aaron H.] collaborator Morten Warncke-Wang in order to extract data used to train ORES models and to do other research. Morten has a formal relationship with me and the Research dept. at the Wikimedia Foundation. The access duration would be tied to Morten's current MOU/NDA with the Wikimedia Foundation. The deleted text will be extracted on a stat* machines within our analytics cluster, and we’ll probably train models and perform analyses on the same machine, so the text won’t be copied anywhere else. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| Awight (WMF) | 2017-08-28 | I’m seeking rights to view the text of deleted revisions on all wikis, in order to extract data used to train ORES models. Currently, AHalfaker is the only member of our team with this access, and I’d like to be able to take on some of that workload in his place. The access duration would be indefinite, since this is a task we have to perform regularly. The deleted text will be extracted on a stat* machine, and we’ll probably train the model on the same machine, so the text won’t be copied anywhere else. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| VColeman (WMF) | 2017-08-18 | No use case provided. | G:Staff |
| AVasanth (WMF) | 2017-08-09 | Since we have a global audience that would benefit from different language versions of pages like guides, newsletters and processes, and there are coordinators who are willing to do the translations, the only thing in between us is we can't get the pages marked for translations, not in time. Also, the queue for translation is quite long, it prevents us from effectively reaching out and being of use to our potential audience. | M:Translation Admin |
| CSteigenberger (WMF) | 2017-07-14 | Christel serves as a responder to the emergency@ list, which includes needing to view deleted revisions, access the checkuser and oversight tools, etc. She also serves in the larger Support & Safety team which assists in carrying out legal process or takedowns. | G:Staff |
| DBarratt (WMF) | 2017-07-12 | Rights required to test internal tools which are used to process deletions and other functions accross all wikis (DMCAs, Child Protection, etc.) Approved by both manager and head of Support and Safety | G:Staff |
| TBolliger (WMF) | 2017-07-12 | Rights required to test internal tools which are used to process deletions and other functions accross all wikis (DMCAs, Child Protection, etc.) Approved by both manager and head of Support and Safety | G:Staff |
| SandraF (WMF) | 2017-07-10 | Rights requested for ongoing work: Translateadmin on Meta, Commons, MediaWiki and Wikidata, plus MassMessage on Meta. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| MTensen (WMF) | 2017-06-09 | Mandy Tensen is a banner designer that I'm [Sam Patton] managing. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| NahidSultan (WMF) | 2017-05-26 | Nahid has taken over the weekly summary of sources tasks from Satdeep who is in the US academically for a considerable amount of time. I would be grateful if you could add translation adminship to his WMF account which would speed up getting those summaries to the communities considerably. | M:Translation Admin |
| JSutherland (WMF) | 2017-05-22 | Requesting translation admin rights on mediawiki wiki to help mark some pages related to Code of Conduct for translation. (Note, this request was also granted by Joe in the absense of James A) | Other/Special (See use case) |
| Npangarkar (WMF) | 2017-05-05 | Work with CentralNotice banners (UX engineering) | M:Central Notice Admin |
| RSchoenbaechler (WMF) | 2017-05-05 | Work with CentralNotice banners (fundraising contractor) | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Neil P. Quinn-WMF | 2017-05-01 | I'll be preparing a lot of public documentation for the New Editor Experiences research trips and supervising its translation into Korean and Czech, so it would really help to be a translation admin. | M:Translation Admin |
| Polimerek (WMF) | 2017-04-26 | Please grant Polimerek's WMF account temporary translation admin rights on Meta until the end of his contract on June 2nd as we prepare cycle 2 translations, etc. | M:Translation Admin |
| SPoore (WMF) | 2017-04-13 | Sydney serves as a responder to the emergency@ list, which includes needing to view deleted revisions, access the checkuser and oversight tools, etc. She also serves in the larger Support & Safety team which assists in carrying out legal process or takedowns. | G:Staff |
| NSaad (WMF) | 2017-01-31 | I am responsible for the Education Newsletter, the distribution of which requires these rights. I'm happy to provide any other required information. I will need the rights indefinitely. | M:Mass Message Sender |
| Tgr (WMF) | 2017-01-30 | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129058#2980861 | M:Translation Admin |
| AWang (WMF) | 2017-01-19 | I would like to request translation admin rights to be able to mark grant pages for translation. This is an ongoing project. | M:Translation Admin |
| EGalvez (WMF) | 2017-01-03 | I would like to request massmessage user rights to distribute CE Insights survey on Meta. My username is "User:EGalvez (WMF)". I need these rights until the end of January. I've had some training from Benoit on the process (as well as how to test) for multi-language mass messages and hoping to get some help from Nick should any issues come up. | M:Mass Message Sender |
| Seddon (WMF) | 2016-10-25 | Also could I please request translation admin rights for the next 6 months. This relates to me supporting the Structured Data on Commons project in a liason role. (Note: Later extended indefinitely to assist with CentralNotice work) | M:Translation Admin |
| Astinson (WMF) | 2016-10-25 | Could I get translate admin for Commons? I need it for: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Overview | Other/Special (See use case) |
| Seddon (WMF) | 2016-10-25 | As part of my role with central notice I would like to request admin rights on commons indefinitely. [Note: we actually granted Global Interface Editor following discussions] | G:Interface Editor |
| MCruz (WMF) | 2016-09-29 | I would like to request Admin rights for me and Jake on Meta Wikimedia. We need these rights to be able to implement and, later on, edit, the Guided Tours extension on the project, which we will use for the Wikimedia Resource Center. | M:Sysop |
| Ocaasi (WMF) | 2016-09-29 | I would like to request Admin rights for me and Jake on Meta Wikimedia. We need these rights to be able to implement and, later on, edit, the Guided Tours extension on the project, which we will use for the Wikimedia Resource Center. | M:Sysop |
| Johan_(WMF) | 2016-08-12 | Johan is emailing a collection of users affected by a technical change to abuse filters and needs To assist in this he's been granted accountcreator (which only gives 'noratelimits') on meta. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| NTymkiv (WMF) | 2016-07-12 | I would like to request an admin flag on wikimediafoundation.org to help with cleaning there (for example, with Category:Deletion requests etc). Apparently you do not grant adminship to volunteers, so I am requesting it for my official account as a Board member. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| Delphine (WMF) | 2016-07-01 | My work on meta has increased a lot in the past few days, and will surely increase even more. Which leads to moving pages around, deleting old redirects and obsolete templates etc. I therefore write to ask to have admin rights on meta, so that I don't leave a mess behind me when I'm crazily editing away portal pages for the FDC (and whatnots). I was an admin on meta with my volunteer account for... 10 years I suppose (User:notafish), I am still an admin on Commons and while I have to read all the translations pages thoroughly to understand how that really works, I believe I have a bit of experience. | M:Sysop |
| ERoss (WMF) | 2016-07-01 | The OfficeIT staff requires access to the the global lock tool and the ability to override the global blacklist in order to create WMF staff accounts (which are blacklisted) and to lock accounts once a staff member or contractor ends their relationship with the WMF. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| BBogaert (WMF) | 2016-07-01 | The OfficeIT staff requires access to the the global lock tool and the ability to override the global blacklist in order to create WMF staff accounts (which are blacklisted) and to lock accounts once a staff member or contractor ends their relationship with the WMF. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| EBarrios (WMF) | 2016-07-01 | The OfficeIT staff requires access to the the global lock tool and the ability to override the global blacklist in order to create WMF staff accounts (which are blacklisted) and to lock accounts once a staff member or contractor ends their relationship with the WMF. | Other/Special (See use case) |
| ESanders (WMF) | 2016-06-20 | Hey - I need to get global CSS/JS admin rights, I quite often need to fix common.css/js files which are breaking VisualEditor. | G:Interface Editor |
| JVargas (WMF) | 2016-06-14 | Jorge is helping to manage the WMF Partnerships team's meta pages and in that work is greatly helped by the ability to mark the pages up for translation himself to ensure they stay up to date and useful. | M:Translation Admin |
| Mvolz (WMF) | 2016-05-25 | I need full edit permissions on all language wikis for the Template namespace. I need to edit template data in these templates in order to properly configure citoid on these wikis. Here is the phabricator task to do so: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114515 Often these are editable but on some language wikis they are locked for editing.
I've been getting a colleague to do some on wiki edits for me and he finally got fed up and suggested I get my own permissions :). It would be also great if I had the ability to edit MediaWiki namespace on all language wikis. This is to configure this message and this message only on all wikis: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json |
G:Interface Editor |
| JSutherland (WMF) | 2016-05-25 | As part of the Support & Safety team this user gains these rights to allow them to carry out Office Actions, deal with emergency situations or maintain staff accounts (such as granting staff rights, locking staff accounts or renaming staff accounts) from meta where they can be centrally logged. | M:WMF Support and Safety |
| Jalexander-WMF | 2016-05-25 | As part of the Support & Safety team this user gains these rights to allow them to carry out Office Actions, deal with emergency situations or maintain staff accounts (such as granting staff rights, locking staff accounts or renaming staff accounts) from meta where they can be centrally logged. | M:WMF Support and Safety |
| Kbrown (WMF) | 2016-05-25 | As part of the Support & Safety team this user gains these rights to allow them to carry out Office Actions, deal with emergency situations or maintain staff accounts (such as granting staff rights, locking staff accounts or renaming staff accounts) from meta where they can be centrally logged. | M:WMF Support and Safety |
| Mdennis (WMF) | 2016-05-25 | As part of the Support & Safety team this user gains these rights to allow them to carry out Office Actions, deal with emergency situations or maintain staff accounts (such as granting staff rights, locking staff accounts or renaming staff accounts) from meta where they can be centrally logged. | M:WMF Support and Safety |
| PEarley (WMF) | 2016-05-25 | As part of the Support & Safety team this user gains these rights to allow them to carry out Office Actions, deal with emergency situations or maintain staff accounts (such as granting staff rights, locking staff accounts or renaming staff accounts) from meta where they can be centrally logged. | M:WMF Support and Safety |
| WMFOffice | 2016-05-25 | The WMF Office account gains these rights on meta in order to carry out official WMF Office Actions (usually actions involving WMF Global Bans) in a central location instead of spread out across all the wikis where they are less likely to be noticed and available for oversight. | M:WMF Support and Safety |
| JSutherland (WMF) | 2016-05-18 | Joe serves as a responder to the emergency@ list, which includes needing to view deleted revisions, access the checkuser and oversight tools, etc. He also serves in the larger Support & Safety team which assists in carrying out legal process or takedowns. | G:Staff |
| CCogdill (WMF) | 2016-05-18 | As a member of the fundraising creative team (especially as the only one on the US west coast) Caitlin is occasionally called upon to start of end campaigns for testing or emergencies. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| DStrine (WMF) | 2016-04-15 | As part of the fundraising tech team David needs access to the central notice system to assist in troubleshooting and bugfixing. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Ocaasi (WMF) | 2015-12-10 | As part of his work with the Wikipedia Library in multiple languages Jake needs the ability to mass message the branches, affiliates and volunteers who participate. | M:Mass Message Sender |
| Dario (WMF) | 2015-11-23 | In his work for the Analytics team Dario is helping to run mini surveys usign the QuickSurvey's extension. This currently requires the ability to create and edit the MediaWiki namespace and until the extension is expanded to have it's own message interface he needs the ability to do this. | G:Interface Editor |
| LZia (WMF) | 2015-11-23 | In her work for the Analytics team Leila is helping to run mini surveys usign the QuickSurvey's extension. This currently requires the ability to create and edit the MediaWiki namespace and until the extension is expanded to have it's own message interface she needs the ability to do this. | G:Interface Editor |
| AGomez (WMF) | 2015-11-20 | In her work as product manager for the Fundraising and Reading team Anne is helping to run mini surveys usign the QuickSurvey's extension. This currently requires the ability to create and edit the MediaWiki namespace and until the extension is expanded to have it's own message interface she needs the ability to do this. | G:Interface Editor |
| EMcnaughton (WMF) | 2015-11-19 | As part of the fundraising tech team Eileen needs access to the central notice system to assist in troubleshooting and bugfixing. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| DKozlowski (WMF) | 2015-10-21 | As part of the fundraising tech team Dylan needs access to the central notice system to assist in troubleshooting and bugfixing. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Seddon (WMF) | 2015-10-05 | As a member of the fundriasing team who helps to create banners Joseph needs the ability to access that tool for his work. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Roan Kattouw (WMF) | 2015-10-01 | As a member of the FLOW/editing team Roan needs the ability to help create flow boards on request for wikis that need it | G:Flow Create |
| Quiddity (WMF) | 2015-10-01 | As a member of the FLOW/editing team Nick needs the ability to help create flow boards on request for wikis that need it | G:Flow Create |
| Trizek (WMF) | 2015-10-01 | As a member of the FLOW/editing team Benoit needs the ability to help create flow boards on request for wikis that need it | G:Flow Create |
| Kbrown (WMF) | 2015-09-14 | Karen serves as a responder to the emergency@ list, which includes needing to view deleted revisions, access the checkuser and oversight tools, etc. She also serves in the larger Support & Safety team which assists in carrying out legal process or takedowns. | G:Staff |
| GVarnum-WMF | 2015-09-07 | As part of his contract work setting up the wiki version of the Transparency report and the new access policy rollout Greg needs to be able to delete pages and edit fully protected ones. | M:Sysop |
| Kalliope (WMF) | 2015-04-29 | Kalliope is a member of the community advocacy team and responds to emergency@. For this, she needs the full staff package. | G:Staff |
| DannyH (WMF) | 2015-03-19 | We're starting to enable Flow on more pages on various language WPs, and there are some current requests on French, Catalan, Portuguese and Punjabi. The team just created Special:EnableFlow, which creates new Flow boards on pages that don't exist. Currently only people with Staff and Flow bots rights can use the tool. | G:Staff |
| WMF Trademark Abuse | 2014-12-01 | This role account is created to accept email, through the Special:EmailUser function, from the trademark abuse report form. The account is not intended to edit and has been locked from doing so. | G:Official Role Account |
| Jrogers (WMF) | 2014-11-26 | As a member of the legal team Jacob researches and responds to legal threats and other concerns that come into our legal email systems. As part of this he needs to be able to access the deleted and personal information that is often in question. | G:Staff |
| SPatton (WMF) | 2014-11-20 | As a contractor for the fundraising department Sam needs central notice access to assist with the set up and management of central notice banners for fundraising. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| AGomez (WMF) | 2014-11-15 | As a project manager in the fundraising department Anne needs central notice access to assist with the set up and management of central notice banners for fundraising. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| EWilfong (WMF) | 2014-10-08 | As a contractor for the fundraising department Eric needs central notice access to assist with the set up and management of central notice banners for fundraising. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| RStearns (WMF) | 2014-10-08 | As a contractor for the fundraising department Randy needs central notice access to assist with the set up and management of central notice banners for fundraising. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| EEggleston (WMF) | 2014-09-12 | As a member of the fundraising tech team Elliott needs the access to facilitate bug troubleshootting and deployment | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Nlaxstrom-WMF | 2014-09-05 | As an engineer in the language engineering group Niklas occasionally needs to edit the mediawiki namespace to fix or troubleshoot internationalization or message bugs. | G:Interface Editor |
| Dario (WMF) | 2014-08-29 | In his work in research Dario writes the research reports and newsletter and frequently needs to import work already done on enWiki. | M:InterWiki Importer |
| Tgr (WMF) | 2014-08-09 | In his work as a developer Gergo needs full access to all mediawiki pages (especially regarding javascript) for troubleshooting and bug fixing | G:Staff |
| Khorn (WMF) | 2014-08-04 | As the fundraiser tech lead, I need to be able to make changes to banners and other fundraising-related templates and pages | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Katherine (WMF) | 2014-05-16 | In her work as Chief Communications Officer Katherine needs to be able to access sensitive information (deleted revisions, cu data etc) to assist in the evaluation of PR and communations issues. | G:Staff |
| EGalvez (WMF) | 2014-05-02 | I work in the Learning & Evaluation team with Jaime Anstee. I've been working a lot on meta to build up tools/resources for evaluation and spaces for the community to talk about evaluation. One of the things I've run into is the translation templates and making sure things are marked for translation when they are ready. I have learned a lot about them, but I can't seem to use them fully without have access to being able to modify pages. This is especially important because I am using a lot of templates. | M:Translation Admin |
| PEarley (WMF) | 2014-04-24 | Among other tasks, As part of his work Patrick serves on the emergency@ team, which requires full access to Checkuser, suppression, and the broad range of staff tools. | G:Staff |
| Heather (WMF) | 2014-02-12 | As part of her job Heather sets up and administrates multiple translated pages throughout meta. | M:Translation Admin |
| JRobell (WMF) | 2013-12-05 | Needs to create banners in support of the fundraiser. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Deskana (WMF) | 2013-12-02 | In his job as a Product Manager for the Product department Dan needs access to product supported tools (including oversight, checkuser and oauth) to analyze real world bugs or site breaking errors. | G:Staff |
| Halfak (WMF) | 2013-09-05 | There are a variety of situations where Aaron needs programmatic or direct human-readable access to the information that would normally be available to sysops or Stewards on the wikis, as well as interface editing rights. These include manual and automatic analysis of user test groups and the creation and debugging of gadgets and Guided Tours. | G:Interface Editor |
| Jmorgan (WMF) | 2013-08-22 | Jonathan needs admin rights to assist in the development and maintenance of the Grants team bot and pages | M:Sysop |
| JEissfeldt (WMF) | 2013-06-26 | needs access to MW namespace and Community Advocacy tools. | G:Staff |
| Elitre (WMF) | 2013-06-25 | Erika needs global interface editor in the context of her job for official watchlist notices, to protect high traffic help pages and edit said protected pages. | G:Interface Editor |
| Pcoombe (WMF) | 2013-06-11 | This is so that I can create and manage CentralNotice campaigns, banners and translations for fundraising purposes in my role as Fundraising Production Coordinator. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Heather (WMF) | 2013-06-03 | As part of her job Heather setting up and designing FDC and Grant pages on Meta she needs the ability to do clean up and efficiency actions available only to admins. | M:Sysop |
| Jalexander-WMF | 2013-02-02 | James serves as a responder to the emergency@ list, which includes needing to view deleted revisions, access the checkuser and oversight tools, etc. | G:Staff |
| Mark Bergsma (WMF) | 2013-02-02 | As senior operations engineer, he needs staff rights for emergency troubleshooting and maintenance purposes. | G:Staff |
| Mdennis (WMF) | 2013-02-02 | Among other tasks, Maggie serves on the emergency@ team, which requires full access to Checkuser, oversight, and the broad range of tools. | G:Staff |
| Reedy (WMF) | 2013-02-02 | Reedy is required as part of his role to do global maintenance work across any and all of the WMF wikis. This means that he needs the full set of rights. | G:Staff |
| Slaporte (WMF) | 2013-02-02 | Stephen is a member of our legal team who supports the emergency@ team as needed and must be able to see any content for possible legal questions. | G:Staff |
| Tim Starling (WMF) | 2013-02-02 | In his Engineering role Tim needs to be able to test and edit almost any area of the wiki infrastructure in an emergency and with short notice. | G:Staff |
| WMF Legal | 2013-02-02 | Role account for WMF legal actions | G:Staff |
| WMFOffice | 2013-02-02 | Role account for WMF Office actions | G:Staff |
| Roan Kattouw (WMF) | 2013-02-02 | In his work as a developer Roan needs to tweak and fix protected pages on many wikis to assist in troubleshooting issues, fix bugs and emergency issues and assist communit developers and admins. | G:Interface Editor |
| AGlenn (WMF) | 2013-02-02 | Administrative Approval Group (initial batch of staff rights) | G:Staff |
| Tbayer (WMF) | 2013-02-01 | My name is Tilman Bayer, and I work on the Communications team, with a focus on the area of Movement Communications. As part of my job, I frequently need to use the extended user rights of my staff account on Meta-Wiki, e.g. to manage translations in the Translate Extension, send translation notifications, post and manage movement-wide announcements using the CentralNotice extension, and import pages. Based on my language and community knowledge, I have also been granted global staff rights in order to be able to occasionally help the LCA team with timely requests - specifically those sent to the emergency@ contact point and referring to German-language wikis - where Oversight and/or Checkuser rights are needed to evaluate information that had to be hidden from public view (example from a past such request: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=110069584&oldid=110069555 ). Finally, in certain cases where article disputes come under media attention and involve deleted content, the ability to view such content as non-public background information can greatly enhance our team's ability to navigate press requests. | G:Staff |
| Jlohr (WMF) | 2013-01-24 | As part of my job, I am expected to be able to update staff pages and WMF pages regarding staff policies. Because this is stored in the "MediaWiki" namespace on each individual wiki, I need the global ability to edit pages in the MediaWiki namespace. This ability is limited to the "staff" user right. Additionally, I am expected to stand in for Gayle as needed for advice on emergency@ responses and need to be able to see edits and users involved. | G:Staff |
| MeganHernandez (WMF) | 2013-01-24 | I work on the WMF fundraising team as Head of Annual Fundraiser. As part of my job, I am expected to create and manage banners and central notice campaigns. | M:Central Notice Admin |
| Jon (WMF) | 2012-10-31 | As a software developer within the WMF Mobile team Jon does work on css and js for the mobile site. He often needs to make small tweaks to ensure that site wide code continues to work on mobile or to help community members when they are having issues making unique mobile changes. | G:Interface Editor |
| MaxSem (WMF) | "I'll need global permissions to edit protected pages and interface messages to help local sysops during the rollout of our new extension, FeaturedFeeds." It has been successfully rolled out, however as a user with deployment right, I still need to edit system messages from time to time, sometimes even urgently. | G:Sysadmin | |
| Awjrichards (WMF) | It is not very common, but there have been times when I've had to edit things in the Mediawiki namespace (CSS/JS/messages) on a number of our projects. So if I do need staff rights for that, I need to keep them.
Aside from that, I'm not sure what else I do that I would need them for - I primarily just edit regular article and talk pages across our wikis. It's possible I've taken advantage of my staff rights for other job-related duties that I wasn't aware I needed staff rights for, but I'm not sure what they are - and I'm sure those rights aren't exercised very often. It's also possible that those activities were unique to my previous roles on the fundraising team. |
G:Sysadmin | |
| Jdforrester (WMF) | As part of my "Admin tools" work, I need to be able to view/edit/see the logs of (a) AbuseFilters on meta and (b) the new global AbuseFilters once they're there too.
Right now I believe (a) is only given to meta +sysops, +Stewards and +Sysadmins; (b) is only given to +sysadmins for now and will be given to +Stewards in a few days/weeks once we're sure it works. However, as I'm in none of these groups I can't test that the features work and help work out what's gone wrong if the tool breaks, which is a bit of a pain. Some options:
NOTE: +SYSADMIN WAS GRANTED |
G:Sysadmin | |
| Reedy (WMF) | Reedy is required as part of his role to do global maintenance work across any and all of the WMF wikis. This means that he needs global editinterface and other rights available in the sysadmin group of rights. | G:Sysadmin | |
| Ryan Kaldari (WMF) | As a senior developer Ryan needs rights for troubleshooting and testing purposes | G:Sysadmin | |
| Guillaume (WMF) | As part of his job Guillaume is frequently asked to use the extended user rights of his staff account on Meta-Wiki and cross project , e.g. to manage translations in the Translate Extension, send translation notifications, post and manage movement-wide announcements using the CentralNotice extension or other systems, and import pages. Based on his language and community knowledge, he also uses
global staff rights in order to occasionally help the LCA team with timely requests - specifically those sent to the emergency@ contact point and referring to French-language wikis - where Oversight and/or Checkuser rights are needed to evaluate information that had to be hidden from public view. |
G:Staff | |
| WMF Legal | On occasion the WMF Legal team needs to make official actions or statements which are best done on behalf of the entire team rather then an individuals specific account especially for consistency or longevity reasons. This role account is set up and authorized to do so. All actions, and those who performed them, are tracked internally | G:Official Role Account | |
| WMFOffice | On occasion official WMF Actions are better done from a joint account on behalf of the entire Wikimedia Foundation rather then under the account of an individual staff member especially for consistency or longevity reasons. This role account is set up and authorized to do so. All actions, and those who performed them, are tracked internally | G:Official Role Account | |
| ABaso (WMF) | (Not applied by Support and Safety) | G:Sysadmin | |
| AGlenn (WMF) | (Not applied by Support and Safety) | G:Sysadmin | |
| Aaron Shulz (WMF) | (Not applied by Support and Safety) | G:Sysadmin | |
| Bartosz Dziewoński (WMF) | (Not applied by Support and Safety) | G:Sysadmin | |
| Jon (WMF) | (Not applied by Support and Safety) | G:Sysadmin | |
| Roan Kattouw (WMF) | (Not applied by Support and Safety) | G:Sysadmin | |
| Tim Starling (WMF) | (Not applied by Support and Safety) | G:Sysadmin |
