Last modified: 2013-11-12 17:32:07 UTC
Per the RfC listed in the URL field, the following changes are to be made to the Wikidata user right configurations; * 'patrol' and 'autopatrol' permissions are to be given to the autoconfirmed user group. * The autopatrolled group should be removed as it is now a duplicate of (auto)confirmed. * 'suppressredirect' and 'markbotedits' should be granted to the rollback group.
Change 92070 had a related patch set uploaded by Vogone: Various changes to wikidatawiki's user rights configuration https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92070
When merged, autopatrollers also need to be removed. As opposed to do this on wiki through a bot or so, could this be done through the database instead? Thanks.
I'm not familiar enough with Wikidata to gauge how strong that consensus is for its community - it seems there is very little participation in the RfC. Do you have other policy discussions that were implemented in the past I can look at to compare?
Two RfCs below are more or less the average am mount of participants we get. 10 - 20 is the average, more if we are lucky on some occurrences, granted more than 20 is when global users get involved. This on is probably the lower end of the scale however. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Enable_flood_flag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Restrict_creation_of_properties_to_some_users
Given the relatively small active community and level of participation; I'd rather have the RfC run the whole 30 days to give a chance for stragglers to comment. At the end of that period, it'd be okay to deploy even if there is comparatively little participation.
(after comment conflict with Marc) Well, such minor changes usually don't attract many participants in a discussion, especially in a community which is far smaller than on for example the English language Wikipedia. At least it was advertised (mailing list, weekly summary, RFC overview page) so that everyone who had objections to the changes had the chance to participate. I think all others who saw it but didn't comment just didn't care.
I'd rather delay deployment by a couple of weeks than risk causing needless drama. The changes are not urgent enough to rush the process, and having the RfC run to completion solidifies things.
Okay then.
Re-closed. Same except 'markbotedits' is no longer a right to be added to rollbackers.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92070/ was updated.
Change 92070 merged by coren: Various changes to wikidatawiki's user rights configuration https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92070
Deployed to production.
