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Bug 14461 - Disallow Meta bureaucrats to administer global accounts
Disallow Meta bureaucrats to administer global accounts
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
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: Normal normal with 10 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-06-07 12:29 UTC by Effeietsanders
Modified: 2008-07-06 19:13 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Effeietsanders 2008-06-07 12:29:17 UTC
In Bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13810 the meta bureaucrats were given after a very short discussion in the meta Babel the rights to administer wikimedia wide the global accounts. After some discussion on the stewards-l, this seems not appropriate, not desirable since:
* Bureaucrats on meta have no special election besides the one for admin.
* Meta admins are elected to perform *local* duties, not crosswiki duties. 
* The unmerging of accounts is not appropriately logged

Until there is real community consensus (not only Babel community) this change should probably be undone.
Comment 1 spacebirdy 2008-06-07 12:34:59 UTC
P.S. there already have been incidents when crats deleted global accounts although there had been a warning on the request page not to do so until bug 14330 is solved (and the affected users _had_ automatic created accounts).
Account deletions (in contrary to article deletions) can't be undone but can cause real trouble for the affected users. Thanks.
Comment 2 Victor Vasiliev 2008-06-07 12:58:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> P.S. there already have been incidents when crats deleted global accounts
> although there had been a warning on the request page not to do so until bug
> 14330 is solved (and the affected users _had_ automatic created accounts).
> Account deletions (in contrary to article deletions) can't be undone but can
> cause real trouble for the affected users. Thanks.
> 

It can be undone by users. It couldn't because of software bugs, and that wasn't fault of bureaucrats. Some stewards also ignored a red notice and deleted global accounts affected by bug 14330. So that doesn't make a difference between bureaucrats and stewards
Comment 3 Victor Vasiliev 2008-06-07 13:01:06 UTC
I'd suggest people to move discussion back to meta pages and don't bring our flame to Bugzilla.
Comment 4 Larry Pieniazek 2008-06-07 13:27:29 UTC
Meta admins do in fact administer things that are global... the interwiki map (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map) and the global blacklist, just to name two.

Nevertheless, although I hold local meta 'cratship, (gotten by election, prior to the policy change granting it to all admins on request after a waiting period) I agree that this change has not worked out for the best and ought to be undone.  I believe per common practice, voting here won't convince the devs, a consensus will need to be shown. However it's not clear to me whether it is a local (meta) community consensus, or a consensus among stewards, or some other consensus, that is needed. Many stewards, including myself, feel this does need undoing.

VasilievVV, perhaps you could include a pointer to where you think discussion should be carried out.
Comment 5 Victor Vasiliev 2008-06-07 13:45:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> VasilievVV, perhaps you could include a pointer to where you think discussion
> should be carried out.
> 

I opened discussion at the babel. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Promoting_Meta_bureaucrats_access_to_Special:CentralAuth . I'll prmote it using mailing lists and site notice 
Comment 6 Effeietsanders 2008-06-10 11:37:17 UTC
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Promoting_Meta_bureaucrats_access_to_Special:CentralAuth -- consensus seems to be clearly to remove this access again. Thanks. 
Comment 7 Effeietsanders 2008-07-06 11:49:09 UTC
It has almost been a month since there is very clear community consensus. Could the change please be reverted to comply with the clear community consensus? Thanks a lot! 
Comment 8 Larry Pieniazek 2008-07-06 12:25:29 UTC
Consensus does seem quite clear. Is there anything that some developer is waiting on to flip this off again? Presumably it's a very simple change (guess, so maybe not)... the consensus is overwhelming, in my view, and a large number of people have participated (by meta standards) so I'm assuming there is a technical reason, or it just hasn't been gotten to? I think I speak for many (the bug has 17 votes as well) when I say I'd appreciate it if this were addressed as soon as is practical and convenient.
Comment 9 Brion Vibber 2008-07-06 19:13:35 UTC
Presumably nobody got around to it, as there doesn't seem to be any functional utility to restricting administration of something that requires a fair amount of administration.

Done.

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