Hello,
I was admin on the English and French WikiTravel sites. Is it possible to become admin admin on the English and French WikiVoyage sites? I am admin on Wikimedia Commons. I am Yann everywhere.
Best regards,
Yann
Hi Yann,
Yes, if you opted-in to having your data shared, your rights will be transfered as well.
Chris On Nov 8, 2012 4:04 AM, "Yann Forget" yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I was admin on the English and French WikiTravel sites. Is it possible to become admin admin on the English and French WikiVoyage sites? I am admin on Wikimedia Commons. I am Yann everywhere.
Best regards,
Yann
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On Nov 8, 2012 4:04 AM, "Yann Forget" <yannfo@gmail.com mailto:yannfo@gmail.com> wrote:
I was admin on the English and French WikiTravel sites. Is it possible to become admin admin on the English and French WikiVoyage sites? I am admin on Wikimedia Commons. I am Yann everywhere.
On 08/11/12 10:29, Chris Steipp wrote:
Hi Yann,
Yes, if you opted-in to having your data shared, your rights will be transfered as well.
Chris
Not quite... the opt-in was for moving the userlist from the German-hosted *.wikivoyage.org to the WMF-hosted *.wikivoyage.org only.
Getting from WT to WV in the first place is a different issue.
http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/WMF_Migration/New_policies/Cross-identific...
Obviously IB is not going to co-operate in any way with matching accounts, so the most common approach has been for individual editors to indicate on their old WT userpages (if they can still log in and edit there) their userid's on other sites - and then immediately self-revert the information. At that point it's in the edit history so they can go to a bureaucrat on the new project and say "I'm so-and-so, it says so in the edit history (here) on the old site" and request whatever status they had before the move. As far as I know, IB has deliberately broken "e-mail this user" to prevent it from being used to identify a user there as the same as a user here.
No idea if there is any restriction on a WT user page saying "BTW, I'm (so-and-so) on commons:" (not mentioning WT at all) and then claiming Special:MergeAccount on commons as soon as WV is back up and running. There's also the question of what to do if IB has blocked some of our key contributors from editing at all over there - some other means is needed in these cases to prove ownership of an identity and the associated CC-BY-SA contributions.
Actually, I already linked to my Wikipedia account nearly 9 years ago. ;o) http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=User:Yann&action=history Also I would like that my contributions to WT, which are being copied to WikiVoyage to be attributed to my Wikimedia account.
Yann
2012/11/8 carlb carlb613@hotmail.com:
On Nov 8, 2012 4:04 AM, "Yann Forget" yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
I was admin on the English and French WikiTravel sites. Is it possible to become admin admin on the English and French WikiVoyage sites? I am admin on Wikimedia Commons. I am Yann everywhere.
On 08/11/12 10:29, Chris Steipp wrote:
Hi Yann,
Yes, if you opted-in to having your data shared, your rights will be transfered as well.
Chris
Not quite... the opt-in was for moving the userlist from the German-hosted *.wikivoyage.org to the WMF-hosted *.wikivoyage.org only.
Getting from WT to WV in the first place is a different issue.
http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/WMF_Migration/New_policies/Cross-identific...
Obviously IB is not going to co-operate in any way with matching accounts, so the most common approach has been for individual editors to indicate on their old WT userpages (if they can still log in and edit there) their userid's on other sites - and then immediately self-revert the information. At that point it's in the edit history so they can go to a bureaucrat on the new project and say "I'm so-and-so, it says so in the edit history (here) on the old site" and request whatever status they had before the move. As far as I know, IB has deliberately broken "e-mail this user" to prevent it from being used to identify a user there as the same as a user here.
No idea if there is any restriction on a WT user page saying "BTW, I'm (so-and-so) on commons:" (not mentioning WT at all) and then claiming Special:MergeAccount on commons as soon as WV is back up and running. There's also the question of what to do if IB has blocked some of our key contributors from editing at all over there - some other means is needed in these cases to prove ownership of an identity and the associated CC-BY-SA contributions.
Yann Forget, 08/11/2012 20:49:
Actually, I already linked to my Wikipedia account nearly 9 years ago. ;o) http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=User:Yann&action=history Also I would like that my contributions to WT, which are being copied to WikiVoyage to be attributed to my Wikimedia account.
This is not covered yet by the migration policy, but it's functionally the same situation as that of wikivoyage admins although not handled by WMF directly: looks like something that stewards could easily handle on request.
Nemo
Indeed, I misread Yann's email, and thought he was a Wikivoyage admin. Wikitravel admins would need to go through the normal community process if they want to become an admin on the WMF sites. Wikivoyage admins are being transferred across, if they opted-in to the data transfer. Sorry for the confusion!
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM, carlb carlb613@hotmail.com wrote:
Not quite... the opt-in was for moving the userlist from the German-hosted *.wikivoyage.org to the WMF-hosted *.wikivoyage.org only.
And as was just pointed out, Wikitravel admins will probably get an expedited process to adminship, we're just not automatically converting them over as part of the WMF migration. Sorry for the confusion!
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
Indeed, I misread Yann's email, and thought he was a Wikivoyage admin. Wikitravel admins would need to go through the normal community process if they want to become an admin on the WMF sites. Wikivoyage admins are being transferred across, if they opted-in to the data transfer. Sorry for the confusion!
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM, carlb carlb613@hotmail.com wrote:
Not quite... the opt-in was for moving the userlist from the German-hosted *.wikivoyage.org to the WMF-hosted *.wikivoyage.org only.
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