vorticity Wrote:Yes how dare we have public discussions about the proper use of admin authority. His explanation checks out to me as correct, but unwise. Anyway, I'm acting on my own authority to approve my own suggestion of two weeks. I figure this is a good split-the difference between Rob's suggestion and yesterday!Rob's suggestion. And because it still doesn't strike me as that much of a punishment. Also because it's super easy to remember that April = restore admin. I'm a simple person, really.
In other news, Userai-Guard is back for real. I've rewritten the stack below Dai-Guard, so that I'm handling the API requests directly. This works around the failures of MediaWiki::API entirely. And it's much faster, because I can fetch an entire category's page texts in one request. So if you have complex editing jobs or sets too large for MassEditRegex, you can ask me to do it. I'll publish the source code soon enough, you know, once all of the modules aren't all in one file.
I have mirror imaged this policy on the ATT Wikia fork.
Also, I purposely did not ask for my mod bit back before because I wanted this crisis to be resolved first without me being forced to take any sides as an admin (on ATT Miraheze, where I feared I would be unable to remain impartial if so), and now that it's over, I would like to ask for my mod hat back, with the consent of the other admins, pursuant to whatever judgment, restrictions, or conditions they may have for me getting it back.
Also, I purposely did not ask for my mod bit back before because I wanted this crisis to be resolved first without me being forced to take any sides as an admin (on ATT Miraheze, where I feared I would be unable to remain impartial if so), and now that it's over, I would like to ask for my mod hat back, with the consent of the other admins, pursuant to whatever judgment, restrictions, or conditions they may have for me getting it back.