Steward requests/Global permissions
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Global rollback and global interface editor requests require no fewer than 5 days of discussion while abuse filter helper and maintainer requests require no fewer than 7 days. Global renamer and global sysop requests require no fewer than 2 weeks of discussion. For requests that are unlikely to pass under any circumstances, they may be closed by a steward without further discussion (after a reasonable amount of input).
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Requests for global rollback permissions
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Global rollback for MrJaroslavik
- Global user: MrJaroslavik (edits (alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
- Not ending before 12 November 2019 18:08 UTC
Hi everyone!
I' m currently rollbacker and patroller on cswiki, rollbacker and pending changes reviewer on enwiki and autopatroller on few projects. I started cross-wiki patrol through SWViewer. Throughout the process I have gained experience in removing vandalism made in various languages (even if I don't speak them). I would like to get global rollback to facilitate my work against vandalism. These rights would be useful for example to suppress abuse filters, which sometimes forbids me from editing. I would also definitely use the right markbotedit
(for example, if multiple pages are vandalized at the same time). If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks! -MrJaroslavik (talk) 18:08, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support Active in SMWT. Masum Reza☎ 04:58, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support good work.--Turkmen talk 08:11, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Weak support: I expect more experience for gr, but good to go. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:06, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Weak support: he works crosswiki works since a month crosswiki--WikiBayer 👤💬 09:57, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Neutral per CptViraj and WikiBayer. 大诺史 (Talk/留言/토론/Discussion) 12:53, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Weak oppose Thanks for the application, but I feel that your current application is still not the time, please continue to work hard! Catherine Laurence discussion 13:01, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Looks fine to me. --Stïnger (会話) 13:13, 8 November 2019 (UTC).
- Support --Novak Watchmen (talk) 18:15, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
Global rollback for J ansari
- Global user: J ansari (edits (alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
- Not ending before 14 November 2019 19:03 UTC
Hello, I'm J ansari , I was an admin on hi.Wikivoyage and hi.wikitionery, currently I am Rollbacker and reviewer on Hindi wiki and autopatroller on several wiki projects, member of SWMT and every day active in the fighting cross-wiki spam/vandalism. I have experience reverting vandalism using rollback button and RTRC, swviewer, Irc, tool in the wikis where I already have it. I usually patrol In recent change and sometimes to remove vandalism I have to undo multiple changes made by the same user, so rollback would greatly help in this and overall, which will also save time as well as increase my ability to do more for the project. Thank you! -J. Ansari Talk 15:25, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support User is trustworthy for this role. -- CptViraj (📧) 16:37, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support trusted.--Turkmen talk 16:54, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support --Novak Watchmen (talk) 18:16, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support -MrJaroslavik (talk) 18:18, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support --Streetdeck (Talk) 11:25, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- Question: You stated "I was an admin" on two projects. Can you clarify why you are no longer an admin on these projects? Thanks for taking the time to answer :) ~riley (talk) 03:39, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- @~riley: Both projects no need local admin then (Even projects have no much users activities) because global admin working well and accordingly so I did not apply to re adminship if projects need to admin. I may apply again it. If you need more clarification ask feel free, Thanks for your comment -J. Ansari Talk 05:24, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- @J ansari: Could you elaborate more on why you were desysoped on those projects? Masum Reza☎ 09:24, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Masumrezarock100: My adminship time was only three months on both projects. after the expired I did not apply to re adminship because no needed or no reason, thank you! -J. Ansari Talk 09:56, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Requests for global sysop permissions
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Requests for global rename permissions
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Global rename for Turkmen
- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Turkmen (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Not ending before 12 November 2019 20:11 UTC
Hello. I'm a global rollbacker and a global sysop. Furthermore, I'm a local sysop on multiple projects. I'am familiar with the global rename policy. I can speak and understand multiple Turkic languages. Thus, I believe that I can help as a global renamer. Also, I can help in reducing the queues in large projects and Meta-Wiki. Thank you!--Turkmen talk 20:11, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support Trusted. --Streetdeck (Talk) 04:20, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support -MrJaroslavik (talk) 13:48, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support --Novak Watchmen (talk) 14:27, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support --janbery (talk) 14:03, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support -J. Ansari Talk 16:43, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support - trusted editor - Taketa (talk) 10:04, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
- You're an administrator on five content projects, four of which you don't edit frequently anymore, and a global sysop/global rollbacker. At what point are you spreading yourself too thin? Vermont (talk) 10:42, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hello dear @Vermont:. You gave a reasonable question. Yes, my activity went downwards since September 10. This is related to my education in the university. I will repair my activity on November 4. But please check out my acitivity from June to September of this year. You also witnessed my activity during that time period. I would not apply for this right if I was going to be an inactive user. Thanks!--Turkmen talk 17:17, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
- Has enough experience. I think Turkmen will be a good renamer. --Stïnger (会話) 13:14, 8 November 2019 (UTC).
- Support I think Turkmen have all the necessary skills for this. Experienced and trusted editor/user. --Mehman 97 18:35, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support I can't see this becoming an issue, and it would certainly be helpful to have more renamers familiar with Turkic languages. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 22:38, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support. —Sgd. Hasley 11:40, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- Question: Suppose there was an experienced user who has decided to vanish and is renamed to some random name so will I be able to change my name to the name that they used earlier? Also what if an experienced user retired long ago (suppose 8-10 years) and now I would like to be renamed to that user's name and the user doesn't mind then will I be able to do so? To be honest I myself have no answers to these questions, I am just curious what happens in these situations.--BRP ever 12:04, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hello dear @BRPever:. This is an interesting question. I think, if the user is willing, you can change the username. Also, what kind of a problem can you face when you apply for a username, which has a holder that has been inactive for 8-10 years? I've witnessed this myself. You can check out this link. Thank you!--Turkmen talk 16:57, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support thank you for helping. --Sotiale (talk) 13:06, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Requests for global IP block exemption
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Global IP block exempt for IP Range of WikiLoop Battlefield
- Global user: [[User:all logged in users with m:WikiLoop Battlefield webapp|all logged in users with m:WikiLoop Battlefield webapp]] ([[luxo:all logged in users with m:WikiLoop Battlefield webapp|edits]] ([[:xtools:globalcontribs/all logged in users with m:WikiLoop Battlefield webapp|alt]]) • [[Special:CentralAuth/all logged in users with m:WikiLoop Battlefield webapp|CA]] • [{{fullurl:Special:GlobalGroupMembership/all logged in users with m:WikiLoop Battlefield webapp}}?user-reason=per+%5B%5Bm%3ASpecial%3ARedirect%2Fpage%2F135805%7Crequest%5D%5D global groups] • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
Statement
I am a developer, and we are building a counter-vandalism tool called WikiLoop Battlefield, and here is its source code. We recently start to roll out Oauth login and in-place revert feature. When we move our test from localhost to our dev and canary(staging) environment, we noticed that we received the following error.
{ "error": { "code": "globalblocking-ipblocked-range", "info": "'''Your IP address is in a range which has been blocked on all wikis.''' The block was made by [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Kolbert Jon Kolbert] (meta.wikimedia.org). The reason given is ''[[NOP|Open Proxy]]: Webhost: Contact [[m:Special:Contact/stewards|stewards]] if you are affected ''. * Start of block: 2019-07-23T12:01:56 * Expiration of block: 2021-01-23T11:01:56 You can contact [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Kolbert Jon Kolbert] to discuss the block. You cannot use the \"Email this user\" feature unless a valid email address is specified in your [[Special:Preferences|account preferences]] and you have not been blocked from using it. Your current IP address is 3.86.232.24, and the blocked range is 3.86.0.0/16. Please include all above details in any queries you make.", "*": "See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes." }, "servedby": "mw1346" }
We host our server on Heroku, does it mean that the IP address of heroku is being blocked globally for MediaWiki API? Can we apply to be whitelisted for our legit use-case?
Thank you!
Responsess
- @Xinbenlv: Heroku is a shared host, and Wikimedia discourages hosting service in third-party shared hosts (it may host VPN or reverse proxy, which can hide users' IP address). You should either:
- Move the project to Toolforge (recommended) or Cloud VPS
- Create a edit service in Toolforge similar to toollabs:widar, and invoke the service (you must use GET or JSONP, Cloud does not support POST from third-party service) in the project (not recommended, this may have security issues)
--GZWDer (talk) 18:41, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- @GZWDer: thank you.
- First sorry I just noticed I didn't use the template (which doesn't apply to IP range extemption for al IPs), I updated it.
- Second, here we are building an app that requires a user to login with Oauth. We only conduct edit on-behalf of loged-in users and their username will show up.
- 3rdly, with respect to your suggestion, We've considered porting the project to Toolforge but we are waiting for the Toolforge to support modern Kubernates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214513.
- It is not particularly feasible for all users to rely on IP addresses because as many of people who submit for permissions here, IP addresses are only largely available in USA and a few developed countries who took part in early Internet infrastructure development discussions. Many other countries they have to rely on NAT that shares limited IP addresses. Our app hope to expand to all language locales to help users with counter-vandalism efforts. If we block IP addresses, it will reduce the access of these users from Non-USA/developed countries who would like to help.
- In summary, can we apply for unblocking any IP addresses if we have allowed users to identify themselves with login? Thank you!
Xinbenlv (talk) 21:21, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- all, I don't know who to send this argument to... Xinbenlv (talk) 10:36, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
- I start a discussion en:User:Xinbenlv/Propose:Allow_Login_Users_By_Default_When_IP_Range_Blocked
- There is a block configurations to let logged in users edit while on blocked IP: However we usually do not allow it on NOP blocks. We cannot let anyone using your tool be exempt from the block, this is a software restrictions. There's just no way to do that. And since we are not going to unblock AWS — thus Heroku — I think your only bet is to follow GZWDer's advice. — regards, Revi 07:54, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- @-revi:, @GZWDer: thanks for answering. How about the following solutions sound to admins?
- if we use certain way to crypt-sign a request from our app's server, can you grant app-specific exception for this use-case? (rather than unblocking all IP-addresses but unblockgin all users who have signed in and use our app)?
- if we managed to find a fixed IP address, can you unblock individual IP address of the one that we use for our webapp?
- Xinbenlv (talk) 22:37, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
- @-revi:, @GZWDer: thanks for answering. How about the following solutions sound to admins?
- #1: There's no such feature(tm) to do so. #2: I think I can do that, with two conditions: You notify us when you stop your project (thus releasing the IP to the shared pool) and you absolutely always require authentication. — regards, Revi 04:40, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
- @-revi: thank you! Yes. We are likely to use at most 3 IP addresses at this moment:
- 35.222.141.110 for dev
- 34.67.56.51 for canary (staging)
- 34.69.252.115 for prod
- and I agree to both terms: we will absolutely require authentication(in fact you can just allow only login users to edit from these IP addresses) and we will notify you when we stop project and release the IP to the shared pool. (once the Toolforge support mount on Root or custom domain, or we are approved for WMF Cloud VPS)
- Xinbenlv (talk) 06:13, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
- Note individual IPs can not be globally whitelisted (phab:T42439). They can only be whitelisted locally.--GZWDer (talk) 19:58, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
- @GZWDer:, thank you!
- Do I understand it correctly that both the global and local needs to unblock the IP for any IP address to be used? While I will work on applying for individual local wiki's IP whitelist approve, can I ask why individual IPs can not be globally whitelisted? In particular, is it a policy or a technical reason?
- If it's a policy, I'd argument by fixing the static IP, it's no longer an Open Proxy since being reserved and occupied by an application, a random internet user cannot use it. Given that we promise that we only authenticate users, it's a fixed set of users (only registered Wikipedian users) rather than open to public.
- If it's a technical issue, I'd argument previously we are blocking IP range IP1 to IP3, now if we have a static IP2 to unblock, you can block [IP1, IP2), (IP2, IP3]
- Dear global admins, what do you think? Thank you!
- Xinbenlv (talk) 21:35, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
- Please let me know if there are other information you would love me to provide accompanying this application Xinbenlv (talk) 22:49, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- It's a technical reason. We simply cannot globally whitelist individual IP addresses, even if we wanted to. Trijnsteltalk 23:06, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Trijnstel: thank you for your answer. Can you help me understand how that is not technically possible? I suggested that you can unblock [IP1, IP2), (IP2, IP3] instead of the range [IP1,IP3]? Or what are alternatives if you could kindly suggest? Xinbenlv (talk) 02:54, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- It's a technical reason. We simply cannot globally whitelist individual IP addresses, even if we wanted to. Trijnsteltalk 23:06, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- @-revi: thank you! Yes. We are likely to use at most 3 IP addresses at this moment:
Global IP block exempt for NEHAOUA
- Global user: NEHAOUA (edits (alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
The IP in Algeria is dynamic and change constantly and I use a multiple access nodes and the IP is blocked, thanks, --NEHAOUA (talk) 16:10, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Done (+)--Alaa :)..! 17:45, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Global IP block exempt for Nurseways
- Global user: Nurseways (edits (alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
Hi, I only connect to the internet through a VPN due to freedom of speech limitations in my country. For instance, see this recent news article from MSN Brazil (content from Deutsch Welle Brazil) about the current far-right government trying to censor a Wikipedia article and seeking legal prosecution of an editor:
I can supply other examples if needed. The IP I am editing from is my personal VPN, not an open proxy - I am the sole person with access to this IP. I received an error message regarding an IP block when I tried to create an account at the Brazilian Wikipedia directing me to contact user Jon Kolbert who directed me to make a request for an IP Block exemption here. May I use Wikipedia with this VPN? I do not need an exemption for any other IP, thanks --Nurseways (talk) 12:15, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
Global IP block exempt for Celestmist
Hello again, You kindly gave me this a couple of weeks ago, but when I try to edit, with a VPN of course, I get a message that I have been blocked from editing: reason "webhostblock".Celestmist (talk) 10:56, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Celestmist Global IP block exemption permissions only help bypassing IPs which are globally blocked only. If there's a local IP block, GIPBE will not help you bypass that. You'll need to ask for local ipblock-exempt permission on that wiki.—MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:46, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
In case it might help you diagnose the problem I logged in to my user on the same device, same VPN and same network here in Turkey (where we are blocked from editing normally as you know) about a minute later and had no problem making the same edit, on the same article on English Wikipedia. So perhaps the problem is due to a difference between our user-ids.Chidgk1 (talk) 13:27, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Ah thanks I checked my user-id and I see I also have ipblock exempt on English Wikipedia. If Celestmist is confused I will explain when we meet in person next week.Chidgk1 (talk) 14:46, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
Global IP block exempt for Uzielbot
- Global user: Uzielbot (edits (alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: I am using this bot account to upload data to Wikidata using script. I am having issues running the script on my own machine due to connectivity issues etc. and tried to get this to work on Digital Ocean droplet, just to find out their IP range is blocked. Will be glad to remove the global block for my bot account, in order to use Digital Ocean servers for bot activity.Uziel302 (talk) 13:17, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
<Add an explanation here>, thanks, --Uziel302 (talk) 13:17, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Requests for 2 Factor Auth tester permissions
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2FA Tester for DrVes
- Global user: DrVes (edits (alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
I would like to increase the security of my account by enabling 2FA, thanks, --DrVes (talk) 19:07, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Have you read Help:Two-factor_authentication?--Shanmugamp7 (talk) 12:08, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
Requests for other global permissions
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IP BLOCK
Bonjour, pourquoi ne puis-je plus modifier les articles de Wikipedia ? --Caspien06 (talk) 17:42, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
- Analysant la situation je m'aperçois que j'utilise Avast Security line qui génère des IP aléatoires. Je viens de le débloquer temporairement et je constate que le phénomène de blocage par Wikipédia disparaît. Qu'en pensez-vous ?--Caspien06 (talk) 08:45, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Caspien06: S.V.P. faire un requête pour IPBE ici. Tu es bloqué parce que tu utilises un proxy pour éditer. Jon Kolbert (talk) 09:38, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
Global abuse filter helper for Nullzero
- Global user: Nullzero (edits (alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)
I just started working on a research project regarding correctness of abuse filters and the abuse filter language. My research has already discovered bugs in public filters and the filter language in the past week (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14).
Being granted the role of global abuse filter helper would allow me to contribute and progress my research further. In particular:
- Fixing a bug or adding a feature could alter the semantics of existing filters in Wikimedia projects, including private filters to which I currently have no access. For that reason, the abusefilter-view-private right would be very helpful for me to make sure that any changes to the language will not break existing filters.
- Similarly, with the abusefilter-view-private right, I would be able to point out bugs in the private filters in addition to the public ones.
- Both abusefilter-view-private and abusefilter-log-private would allow me to obtain more data points to develop the research tool.
It is my hope that by the end of the project, I will produce an open-source tool to automate the (currently manual) bug finding process, and potentially integrate it back to the abuse filter extension.
Incidentally, I have been a sysop at Thai Wikipedia for 6 years, and contributed to various MediaWiki projects, including the abuse filter extension, several years ago.
Thanks, --Nullzero (talk) 00:58, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support I can vouch for the excellent job @Nullzero is doing for the AF parser. --Daimona Eaytoy (talk) 11:14, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support Seems good candidate for the right. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 14:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support --Novak Watchmen (talk) 16:57, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support clear use case --DannyS712 (talk) 17:04, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support Why not? Masum Reza☎ 02:18, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support Keep it up! --Streetdeck (Talk) 11:53, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support Clear need and lot of experience with the extension.– Ammarpad (talk) 14:15, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support per discussion.--Turkmen talk 06:56, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support Clear need, plus I trust Daimona's judgement here. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 04:49, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support Trusted by contribution on thwp and sister projects.--Geonuch (talk) 14:00, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- Support per above -MrJaroslavik (talk) 16:40, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
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