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*[[/Configuration]] - some variables are set because this is a fishbowl, others are specifically set for this wiki.
*[[/Configuration]] - some variables are set because this is a fishbowl, others are specifically set for this wiki.
*[[mw:Manual:$wgBlockDisablesLogin|$wgBlockDisablesLogin]] should be disabled (but I'm not sure why it's enabled here in the first place).
*[[mw:Manual:$wgBlockDisablesLogin|$wgBlockDisablesLogin]] should be disabled (but I'm not sure why it's enabled here in the first place).
** That's because that's how we secure the old accounts - blocking accounts of ex-staff means they can't login so can't edit. -- THO
*: That's because that's how we secure the old accounts - blocking accounts of ex-staff means they can't login so can't edit. -- THO
*** Right, but normal accounts on a normal Wikimedia wiki can't edit after being blocked. What's the concern here? These users maliciously editing their user talk page?<p>Generally, the practice of blocking accounts (for most reasons, including no longer working for the Wikimedia Foundation) is going to stop, I think, as we move to an open wiki model. In fact, we may need to do some unblocking. I don't think it makes much sense to keep blocking accounts when we're gradually shifting in the other direction. As I understand it. --MZ
*:: Right, but normal accounts on a normal Wikimedia wiki can't edit after being blocked. What's the concern here? These users maliciously editing their user talk page?<p>Generally, the practice of blocking accounts (for most reasons, including no longer working for the Wikimedia Foundation) is going to stop, I think, as we move to an open wiki model. In fact, we may need to do some unblocking. I don't think it makes much sense to keep blocking accounts when we're gradually shifting in the other direction. As I understand it. --MZ
*:It was probably overzealously copied from the configuration of private wikis, where you do want to prevent blocked people from logging in, so they can't read the content of that wiki any more. I agree it's unneeded here. [[User:Guillom|guillom]] ([[User talk:Guillom|talk]]) 14:53, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
* Notify Casey, Alex, Sj, guillom, and some others at some point
* Notify Casey, Alex, Sj, guillom, and some others at some point

Revision as of 14:53, 29 January 2013

The time is now.

  • /Raw HTML - List of pages with <html> on them, many can be replaced with wikimarkup or deleted
  • /Editinterface - List of users who are not sysops and have edited the MediaWiki namespace.
    • For this, we should probably just make a list of users who should be admins here. Exclude staff, stewards, and inactive users and that should create a list of people to make an admin here before removing the "editinterface" user right from the "user" user group. I don't think a separate user group called "editinterface" is a good idea.
  • /Uploads - There are filetypes allowed on wmf.org, but not on commons. As of the last dump, there are 71 files of those types.
    • Yeah, probably makes sense to restrict uploads in the short-term. In the longer term, some of those files could probably be moved more internally (to the office wiki). Or some can probably be deleted. Note: all those file types don't exist here, I think. As I recall, there's a single setting of allowed file types for fishbowl/private wikis. So depending on what's actually enabled here for upload or reupload when this wiki no longer becomes a fishbowl, uploads may be mostly fine (less of a concern, at least). Maybe.
  • /Configuration - some variables are set because this is a fishbowl, others are specifically set for this wiki.
  • $wgBlockDisablesLogin should be disabled (but I'm not sure why it's enabled here in the first place).
    That's because that's how we secure the old accounts - blocking accounts of ex-staff means they can't login so can't edit. -- THO
    Right, but normal accounts on a normal Wikimedia wiki can't edit after being blocked. What's the concern here? These users maliciously editing their user talk page?

    Generally, the practice of blocking accounts (for most reasons, including no longer working for the Wikimedia Foundation) is going to stop, I think, as we move to an open wiki model. In fact, we may need to do some unblocking. I don't think it makes much sense to keep blocking accounts when we're gradually shifting in the other direction. As I understand it. --MZ

    It was probably overzealously copied from the configuration of private wikis, where you do want to prevent blocked people from logging in, so they can't read the content of that wiki any more. I agree it's unneeded here. guillom (talk) 14:53, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Notify Casey, Alex, Sj, guillom, and some others at some point