On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:33 PM Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, the Interface Administrator right got rolled out
and thousands of
admins lost their rights to edit the MediaWiki namespace (…)
Administrators can still edit most pages in the MediaWiki namespace. They
only can not edit pages containing JS or CSS code.
This has completely wreaked havoc on the English
Wikipedia, to say the
least. If this was rolled out in a way such that existing admins could've
applied to get the Interface Administrator flag before the right to edit
interface messages was stripped from the Sysop group, this mess could've
been avoided.
Honestly this seems like a problem with English Wikipedia's processes. The
change was announced beforehand and there was a transitional period. To add
to Huji's example, on Polish Wikipedia we also had no problem defining a
process to grant the new right and granting it to 9 people well ahead of
the deadline.
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Matma Rex