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Add template administrator right to English Wikiquote
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I would like the 'template editor' right from Wikipedia to also be added to Wikiquote, however it would be called 'template administrator' instead. I would also like that anyone with this right could self-revoke it at any time without the need of a bureaucrat or steward.

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Please provide a community consensus for this change.

Please provide a community consensus for this change.

@Zabe Here

In the future, please always follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes when requesting site configuration changes for a Wikimedia website. Thanks. Please do not set Due Dates for no reason if you don't plan to write a patch yourself. Thanks.

Aklapper renamed this task from Add template editor right to wikiquote to Add template editor right to English Wikiquote.Jul 17 2022, 4:03 PM
Aklapper removed Due Date.

In the future, please always follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes when requesting site configuration changes for a Wikimedia website. Thanks. Please do not set Due Dates for no reason if you don't plan to write a patch yourself. Thanks.

@Aklapper Am I allowed to write patches if I do not know PHP?

If anybody would like to create a software patch to resolve this request, please see Developer access and the Gerrit tutorial. The file to change for this request is InitialiseSettings.php. Please do note that providing help with Git/Gerrit is out of scope for Phabricator tasks. Thanks.

@Aklapper Is there any way for a user to choose the name of the right they want to be called? (e.g. some might want to go by "template administrator", while other may want to go by "template editor")

Ambiguous names are super confusing and that's what's an on-wiki discussion is for.

Ilovemydoodle2 renamed this task from Add template editor right to English Wikiquote to Add template administrator right to English Wikiquote.Jul 17 2022, 5:24 PM

Eh, a discussion which is less than a week old (and has only really seen support since the 14th) feels a little on the light side — it's probably worth leaving it a few more days at least

There's 12 sites already implemented such restriction level with name templateeditor, so it would be great to keep such canonical name as group name. The name of this group may be customized in MediaWiki:Group-templateeditor on-wiki, however.

Stang changed the subtype of this task from "Feature Request" to "Task".Jul 17 2022, 8:37 PM
Stang changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jul 27 2022, 12:27 AM
Stang moved this task from Unsorted to Single wikis on the Community-consensus-needed board.
Ilovemydoodle2 changed the task status from Stalled to Open.EditedJul 27 2022, 9:35 PM

There is consensus. Four actual users support. There are only two that oppose:

  1. One of them has never edited here and there vote was removed.
  2. Is very new here and only joined a few days ago.

While the rest have been here for much longer.

On-wiki discussion explained why this adds lots of additional on-wiki work (unclear who to perform that) which voters may not have realized when voting

Stang closed this task as Declined.EditedSep 16 2022, 11:30 PM

Proposer has been locked among all Wikimedia projects and no one wish to push forward this configuration change request, so boldly close it as declined.