On 10 July 2018 at 12:06, Bodhisattwa Mandal bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com wrote:
- Not all communities have been informed about this future change (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Distribution_list/Technical_Village_Pumps_ distribution_list )
The plan appears to be to do this, maybe it just hasn't happened yet: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Creation_of_separate_user_group_for_edi...
2) The comments in the meta talk page suggests that there is no intention
to get opinions from editor community members. Everything seems to be pre-decided by the developer community and we dont have other options but to accept the proposal without proper discussion. ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Creation_of_separate_user_group_for_ editing_sitewide_CSS/JS )
It's a software security decision so editor community acceptance of this change is optional, but there is an attempt to get the opinions of editor community members (if there wasn't there wouldn't even be a page on meta about this). These rights should never have been bundled with sysop rights, they are incredibly dangerous and more on the level of bureaucrat/steward than anything else in the sysop rights list.
3) Many admins from smaller wikis have expressed their concerns that this
decision will severely affect the workflow of those wikis, but none of these concerns are addressed.
I don't see how. The current local group the rights are granted by is bureaucrat-grantable, and the new local group the rights will be granted by will be bureaucrat-grantable.
- Many editors have expressed concern over just 2 week short notice period
for this transition. But that concern is also not addressed.
If we were to say that stewards would be allowed to assign the rights to any existing local admin (without extra discussion) on the conditions that: 1) they were an admin at the time of the group losing its rights and have not lost any local rights since 2) there have been no local bureaucrats active on the wiki since the change. I think this would be fine.