Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Amire80

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

✓ Done flag granted by Ruslik0 --Vogone (talk) 13:22, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Amire80[edit]

Vote
RfP scheduled to end at 2 December 2012 18:36 (UTC)

My name is Amir E. Aharoni. I need the administrator permission to be able to edit the interface messages in the MediaWiki space, to make sure that all messages, styles, scripts and templates are working well in right-to-left languages and that all the messages are up to date. On such a multilingual site this is very important. I was involved in the early testing and development of internationalization features of Wikidata-related software. I am an administrator on Meta, in the Hebrew and English Wikipedias and in the Hebrew Wikisource, a bureaucrat in translatewiki.net and one of the developers of MediaWiki, the Translate extension and other extensions and features related to language support. --Amir E. Aharoni (Amire80; talk) 18:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Votes[edit]

  1. I usually do not support candidates without a considerable contribution to the project, but here we have essentially a developer, so that I support Amir.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:52, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Weak support Vogone (talk) 23:39, 25 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Neutral he may be needing the tools, but I think one should have a bit more experience on this wiki. Lukas²³ talk in German Contribs 00:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Oppose, another candidate who seems to just list off their adminships elsewhere without any experience here. If they were involved in the areas they specified, then I'd support, except their contributions show no need for the tools. Sorry, Ajraddatz (Talk) 22:15, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  5.  Oppose See nearly no experience with this particular project. —Theopolisme 22:43, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Neutral -- Trusted user, but about 79 contributions in main project for now! Wagino 20100516 (talk) 02:21, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  7.  Support - I think you could be a great asset for this wiki specially on making sure the scripts, messages and templates are working for the right-to-left languages. Regards.--Lam-ang (talk) 15:32, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  8.  Support Trusted user--Shanmugamp7 (talk) 10:06, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  9.  Support --Z 17:05, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  10.  Support --MB-one (talk) 19:47, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  11.  Weak oppose - needs to do at least one data entry.--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:56, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    1. Like this: Q219200? :) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:21, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, but you still have few edits here. My oppose remains a weak one still.--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:24, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  12.  Oppose --LadyInGrey (talk) 14:59, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  13.  Strong support Every project needs people like Amir and he has a special knowledge we can take advantage of. Bináris (talk) 13:11, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  14.  Support per Bináris--Stevenliuyi (talk) 14:51, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support: Well, I don't like the support template. And I think a user with tech contribs is more important than a bot-like-user that edit the Q#, as we already have bots for importation. JC1 15:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  16.  Support ok. IW 15:13, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  17.  Support Need for MediaWiki space.--CENNOXX (talk) 18:19, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  18.  Neutral TBH, I am not quite convinced.--Snaevar (talk) 22:49, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  19.  Neutral With all due respect, I do not believe that you have an immediate need for the tools; yes, Wikidata needs better interface messages as such a new pilot project, but surely this will be dealt with eventually. In addition, there's a general lack of "content" work; though it's not obligatory, it makes me wonder, "will this really be a lasting commitment?" Hurricanefan24 (talk) 00:32, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  20.  Support --Eric-92 (talk) 04:47, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  21.  Support The user is trusted, but crucially, unlike a number of current admins who were elected on reputation or popularity alone, this candidate gave a very specific explanation of how Wikidata might benefit from granting the tools. I would however add what that I will oppose reconfirmation unless work is done for which the tools are actually needed (a caveat that applies to all current admins). —WFC— 10:19, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  22.  Support The user is well know from Wikipedia and the Foundation as someone who promotes multiple languages across all Wikimedia projects and actually develops software for Wikimedia's benefit (not just in the language area). His reasons for requesting adminship are entirely reasonable, and judging by what this user has done in other projects, I have no reason to doubt that he will indeed do what he says with the admin tools. Regarding the low edit count/seniority (assuming that's even important on a project like Wikidata), Amire80 has been active in development and testing of the project, and therefore his low edit count belies his real and sizable experience with Wikidata. —Ynhockey (talk) 21:47, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  23.  Support, I don't see any reason to oppose. --Stryn (talk) 08:08, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  24.  Support --Frankou (talk) 09:33, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

  • Opposers, please read Amir's words again: I need the administrator permission to be able to edit the interface messages in the MediaWiki space, to make sure that all messages, styles, scripts and templates are working well in right-to-left languages and that all the messages are up to date. These things do not need a tremendous experience with editing the main namespace and of course he cannot edit MediaWiki namespace before becoming an admin. I think anyone with all these bits and memberships should be trusted in this newborn community as he proved already much more than he could prove with 1000 edits in main namespace here. It would be a shame on us to reject the technical help of people like Amir just because of the lack of Q#... edits. It's funny that we have MediaWiki messages created by Amir in Meta and imported here from Meta but he can not edit the same messages here. Please consider. Bináris (talk) 14:32, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Can I make the point that Hebrew Wikipedia is scheduled to be the second wiki we deploy on [1]. The sort of work Amire is volunteering to do is therefore precisely the sort of thing we should ideally be polishing off before going live on a Wikipedia, particularly given that the work will also benefit projects such as Arabic and Persian Wikipedia when we go to full rollout. —WFC— 10:33, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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