Test Wiki:Community portal

The community portal is Test Wiki's village pump and noticeboards, two-in-one.
Archives: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12

Proposal: Abolish the non-steward suppressor right

This was already partly discussed in the Test Wiki Discord server, and I'm ultimately bringing it up here as a proposal for the community to comment on.

Simply, I'd like to propose abolishing non-steward suppressors on this wiki. We currently have two such users, me being one of them, but ultimately at this time, there is really not much need. There are mainly two factors to this, which I will be listing here.

1. The amount of suppressions, and especially suppression requests, are already low to this date. Except for two suppressions this month (one performed by me and the other by a steward), the last 50 suppressions date back to July last year, most of which were either reverted, performed as tests or performed for old edits/log entries.
2. The community is too small, and not large enough to justify having independent suppressors or checkusers. On a wiki as small as this one, it is likely best to center the suppression task to the stewards, both since they already are experienced with CU/OS and personal information, and considering that they have already been the ones mainly handling suppressions on this wiki either way. This would also be a benefit for the security aspects as well, even if compromises are indeed rare here.

Potentially, the community could consider to instead elect new stewards with the inactivity of Dmehus and decreased activity of Justa and MacFan, but in the current state, there isn't really a need nor a community large enough to justify having NSS at this time, and I therefore propose to instead center this task to the stewards. EPIC (talk) 13:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

•  Support - as proposer. EPIC (talk) 13:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

  Just for the record I would also be fine with Drummingman's suggestion to let current NSS keep the rights. EPIC (talk) 05:55, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

 Support ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:38, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

 Support VancityRothaug (talk + contribs) 08:00, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

 Support -C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 02:32, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

 Support - However, my opinion is that the current two NSSs may retain their rights until they become stewards or resign, and that no new NSSs will be appointed. Drummingman (talk) 19:05, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

 Support Per Drummingman AlPaD (talk) 08:55, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

 Support Drummingman’s alteration to the proposal. X (talk + contribs) 10:08, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Nomination of User:EPIC for Stewardship

As with the NSS removal, this was already partly discussed in the Test Wiki Discord server and I would like to officially create this nomination here on the community portal. I am hereby nominating EPIC for a stewardship here on Test Wiki. I believe that they have shown extreme dedication to all the hats they hold both on Test Wiki and other, notable wikis and that they would be a perfect fit to help oversee the administration of Test Wiki, alongside with the other 3 stewards. As many of you may know, EPIC is also a steward on Wikimedia which I find to be a great achievement, further improving his experience. Please let me know if you have any other questions in the discussion below. VancityRothaug (talk + contribs) 08:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

I stated it in the Discord server as well so I will partly repeat that here; I'm willing to serve if the community and current stewards are in favor of it, since I could bring some further useful experience and extra help especially now that Dmehus is not currently active and two of the other stewards have decreased activity. One of the stewards have expressed their endorsement beforehand, so I'm ultimately accepting. I shouldn't have a big issue with keeping up my activity either, though I'll otherwise resign if I end up not meeting my expected activity levels.

Noting for transparency that I'm currently a steward for the Wikimedia projects as well as a sysop on the Swedish Wikipedia and Meta (and a CheckUser on the latter). EPIC (talk) 08:30, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Support

1.  Support as nominator. VancityRothaug (talk + contribs) 08:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
2.  Strong support Irrespective of the NSS removal proposal, EPIC is a clearly suitable candidate, and will definitely help this wiki. Highly trustworthy. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:16, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
3.  Support sure, good luck! BZPN (talk) 19:26, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
4.  Support Good luck! Sav • ( Edits | Talk ) 19:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
5.  Support Keep up the good work. -C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 02:35, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
6.  Support Bosco (talk) 08:51, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
7.  Support LisafBia (talk) 09:11, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
8.  Strong support Very trusted user and Steward on 2 wikifarms AlPaD (talk) 08:48, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

IA changes

Hello.

In response to my request for Interface Administrator rights, I have been asked (by @Justarandomamerican) to provide a list of at least three planned changes for review by other Interface Administrators. Below are the changes I intend to implement:

1. In MediaWiki:Gadget-UserInfo.js, I plan to fix the electionadmin display so that it includes a link to TW:EADMIN. Additionally, the links in the script currently redirect to the title in the user's language instead of the correct translation of the page. I will fix this issue.
2. The Twinkle gadget does not function at all. I intend to replace its content to load via mw.loader.load.
3. I would like to convert my script for finding unused pages and files into a gadget.
4. I plan to update my MassRollback gadget to a newer version.
5. Similar to Twinkle, I would also like to replace the content of MediaWiki:Gadget-RedWarn.js to load via mw.loader.load, as it does not currently work properly.

I welcome any feedback or additional suggestions from the community. Best regards, BZPN (talk) 19:57, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

LGTM. Per my comments on Discord, I don’t have any concerns regarding your knowledge or skill with IA tools, simply curious why you were socking on Miraheze. X (talk + contribs) 21:25, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

I believe stewards should grant you IA on a temporary basis at least. You clearly understand what you're doing, though the socking on Miraheze is a red flag. However, I don't think you'll cause immediate disruption to this project. The AP (talk) 01:54, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done. Thank you for volunteering. You now have rights to edit all JS and CSS pages on the wiki. Please ensure to review your code before making an edit, especially when making edits to skin or common pages. Justarandomamerican (talk) 12:39, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you :). I'll get to work soon. Best regards, BZPN (talk) 13:56, 3 April 2025 (UTC)