User talk:BryanDavis/Archives/2017

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Administrator rights

I don't feel a need to «talk about need for full admin rights». I assume however you know what's the gain in moving me from one group to the other, otherwise you would not have done so, and it would have been nice to write in my user talk page what permissions you sought to remove. Special:ListGroupRights is not especially enlightening (speaking of which, a different setup of the groups could be appropriate for clarity; if there's only a difference of 10 permissions, just remove those from the sysop group and move them to a super-sysop group, or something). Nemo 14:28, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

@Nemo_bis: Sorry, no offense was intended. The reason for the change is described in task T158315. Fundamentally, having the ability to edit the MediaWiki: namespace on wikitech is considered a very sensitive user right, and I decided to remove first and ask later. --BryanDavis (talk) 16:23, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok. I replied there. It would be useful to write down somewhere what's so special about the MediaWiki namespace on this wiki (as opposed to other Wikimedia wikis) and also what the current setup of "sysop" and "contentadmin" groups is good for. Nemo 23:37, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Access request for Tool Labs to support non-WMF wikis

Could you please process this access request for Tool Labs? I think it's outside of (Tool) Labs's primary scope; there have been exceptions to that in the past, but I don't want to decide that on my own. --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 18:16, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Tim Landscheidt. I have left a message on the user's talk page. --BryanDavis (talk) 19:23, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

New

Hello, sorry for bothering, but can you review my request? Alaa (talk) 16:07, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

@Alaa: Done --BryanDavis (talk) 18:02, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Access Request

Sorry for bothering, but can you review my access request?

I am a intern at the Wikimedia Taiwan, we are running a project about a third part wiki that uses Taiwan aboriginal languages to write encyclopedia articles, and we need a bot to rapidly export Taiwan aboriginal language articles from Wikimedia Incubator and import them to that wiki, there is more details in the request page.Thank you!--R96340 (talk) 06:05, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

No access to add URI - Diffusion

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T172413

Hello,

I followed your explanation, but when I click on "Add URI" I get an "Access Denied: R2119" message.

This is regarding the tool "signature-manquante-bot", diffusion-rep.

Can you help me with it?

--Brclz (talk) 15:14, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

@Brclz: What URI did you try to use for your mirror origin? --BryanDavis (talk) 15:40, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

I can't even add one, the error shows when I go on the page to add some (here, can't even see this page). URI to watch and update from would be https://github.com/ValentinBrclz/WP-OubliSignature-Bot.git (still experimenting to see if this would fit my needs). --Brclz (talk) 15:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

@Brclz: The access policy for the repository shows that only the Repository-Admins group can manage the repo. This is either because you had not linked your Phabricator account with your LDAP account before you created the repository or there is some regression bug in repository creation. I can fix the repo permissions for you by adding your Phabricator account to the ACL, but to do that you will need to connect your accounts using https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/profile/settings/accounts. We should probably move this discussion to a Phabricator task as well to make it easier to track and to leave a better record for people how have similar issues in the future. --BryanDavis (talk) 16:00, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

=> task T172413 :-) Thx for the help so far --Brclz (talk) 16:33, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Shell Access Request

Hello. I'm not sure where I should put the request for shell access, so I ended up here in the idea that you might be able to help. My old account "User:Simeondahl" is not getting used anymore as of right now since I renamed myself as "SimmeD". Is it possible that you can add "Shell user" back on this new account and remove it from it from the old? --SimmeD (talk) 16:08, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

@SimmeD: "Shell user" is something that is automatically granted when a user becomes a member of a Cloud VPS project like Toolforge or Beta Cluster. See Help:Getting_Started for more information. --BryanDavis (talk) 04:23, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Enjoy! Alangi derick (talk) 18:50, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Some JS deletions, please

Hello and happy new year if we don't talk before the event. I wonder if you could please have the .js pages User:Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)/common.js and User:Thiemo Kreuz/common.js deleted? They're listed as double redirects and I can fix them as content administrators can't edit those user subpages. Thank you. --MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:19, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Link fix:

• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thiemo_M%C3%A4ttig_(WMDE)/common.js&redirect=no
• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thiemo_Kreuz/common.js&redirect=no

--MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:20, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio: Done --BryanDavis (talk) 17:14, 30 December 2017 (UTC)