Usecases are appearing, thanks to whomever is intervening, though in a narrow column so hard to read.
Now I can read it, I see that it is out of date. As a test sample, I JethroBT (WMF) was granted m:admin rights in June, these expired by August 2016 and were eventually removed by a volunteer steward in October 2016. Though I JethroBT is an admin on meta right now, this was via a separate use case dated "42676", which I presume is November. Could the spreadsheet be properly reviewed and updated please, including reformatting the date field so it's easy to understand?
Pine - yes this process of "WMF Advanced Permissions" includes admin rights for any WMF website and so by-passes the community procedures.
Fae
On 14 February 2017 at 17:48, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm curious about what is meant by "advanced permissions" here. If that refers to translation administrator permissions, I have fewer concerns about that than I would about admin or CU/OS permissions.
In general, I'm wary of WMF encroachment on Meta. Placing resources on Meta that the community will use is fine and good, but WMF taking unilateral actions that circumvent community processes may be inappropriate. For that reason, I would like to see most requests for WMF accounts to get permissions of admin or higher for community wikis go through the same community vetting process as community members do.
Pine
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
The WMF grants special rights to employees on a case-by-case basis, by-passing the normal community driven process to grant admin, developer and other rights. A few years ago the WMF officially committed to making this process transparent, and maintains a public Google Spreadsheet [1] so that anyone can check exactly when rights are granted, why they are given and when they are withdrawn. Previously these were mirrored on-wiki but this process broke due to Google changing its proprietary spreadsheet code.
Checking the latest version of the Google spreadsheet, the use cases have been hidden, so non-employees no longer can read the reasons why special rights have been granted. Can a WMF representative please explain why, or restore the use cases to public view?
Thanks, Fae -- faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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