The revert on gerrit does not mean actual revert - it means 'revert is proposed'.
-Yena Hong (Revi)
-- Sent from Android --Wasn't this patch was reverted ?Anyway it is a patch within MediaWiki software, which may be useful with some wikis outside Wikimedia. It i not a patch meant to be used on Wikimedia projects without discussions ab out how "superadmins" will be designated and without a policy about their nomination and permitted actions.The patch is initially WITHOUT any user allowed (not even any existing default admin groups). I think that if it is integrated in Wikiemdia projects, they will include some existing administrator groups but there will be a need for discussing which groups to include in them; my opinionis that if they are implemented, all their actions will need to be coordinated by a common action approved by at least two or three admins in this group, which are also admins on distinct wikimedia projects; to avoid superabuse.But without a policy, no one can be nominated for now (and I don't think that even the WMF staff should be member of this group, unless they are nominated by the community).I don't see why you take this decision so fast when this has not even been deployed and this patch was even reverted !There are tons of options in MediaWiki that are not used in Wikimedia projects but meant for other wikis (including wikis for closed proprietary projects).2014-08-10 17:43 GMT+02:00 Tomasz W. Kozłowski <twkozlowski@gmail.com>:Hello translators,
it is with great regret that I am forced to suspend my activity on
Tech News with immediate effect.
After <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/> was merged and
deployed to the Wikimedia cluster earlier today, implementing a new
protection level which prevents volunteer Wikimedians from editing
certain wiki pages, I can no longer in good conscience support the
Wikimedia Foundation.
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/> is a change that I find
completely unacceptable. It is a change that stands in direct
contradiction to the wonderful cooperation between the Foundation and
the volunteer community that's been Tech News.
It has been a great pleasure working with you on Tech News for the
past year, but after this disgusting usurpation of power and sickening
cheek towards the community, I am forced to suspend my involvement
with Tech News.
>From now on, I will neither work on the English version of Tech News,
nor translate future issues into Polish.
If you agree with my feelings towards this change, please consider
suspending your translations of Tech News as well as other volunteer
translations you are doing for the Foundation (especially if they are
fundraising translations).
I am planning to suspend my involvement with Tech News until
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/> is reverted but until
that day comes, I cannot volunteer my time and effort for the
Foundation any further.
The current issue of Tech News will be published by Guillaume
tomorrow, as usual. I have no information about the future issues, but
perhaps Tech News can continue without me.
Thank you for your time, and the best of luck to you all.
Tomasz
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