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Wikilevels
I have moved ownership of Wikilevels from the current wiki manager to User:TCN7JM. Per discussion with the user they are interested in the site and since the current manager did not do anything with the wiki, TCN7JM will make a good person to manage the wiki. If people want a brief background on the user and why I did this without seeing them contribute here first, it is because I work with the user on Wikidata (A Wikimedia Foundation project) where TCN7JM is the holder of sysop rights therefore shows competency.

Any objections are free to be discussed below but I will continue with this and I would prefer it not be reverted without discussing with me. I also discussed it with the creator of the wiki's logo who has no concerns with TCN7JM managing the wiki in its current state. John (talk) 23:32, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Tanner
I have removed Tanner's global Sysop due to him leaving TestWiki totally. This should not be controversial since he has not continued to edit nor contact has been made expressing interest in keeping it. As for David, regular (practically daily) contact shows he is still interested but is un available to do much but has the interest and will keep the right for when he returns.

As a note, Tanner gained the rights through a single stewards decision while David gained them from a stewards decision before Addshore joined us. John (talk) 21:03, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Arcane
I've granted Arcane a local sysop flag. I've done this based on his assistance thus far with Orain and his knowledge of MediaWiki. I see no issues in his behavior and believe he'll be an asset. D u s t i *Let's talk!* 03:40, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Interaction ban request - AugurNZ and Zhuyifei1999
I would like to request an enforced interaction ban between myself (AugurNZ) and the user known as Zhuyifei1999. There may not be established policy for such a ban here at Orain at present, but I would respectfully ask that such a policy be enacted forthwith in response to this request.

For an example of the form such a policy might take, please see the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP) Interaction Ban policy page, and their archived discussion about the issue.

Evidence: Please see the Community Portal discussion and the following IRC chat log from tonight (23-Aug-2013 NZT)... [19:15] AugurNZ: answerd [19:16] AugurNZ: ping [19:16]  just reading it now [19:17] AugurNZ: If you want to know whether I'm actually on IRC or not, just ctcp me [19:18]  I'm not getting into it with you any further, zhuyifei1999. I'm not really all that bothered whether or not you like my contributions. [19:18] I don't [19:18]  fine [19:19] zhuyifei1999!*@* added to ignore list. ...both of which indicate that an interaction ban would be appropriate in these circumstances. This is not something that I take lightly, and I am aware of the gravity of making such a request. Augur NZ &#x2710; &#x2315; 07:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

 Zhuyifei1999 has been blocked for one week due to the harassment both on wiki and the continued harassment on IRC after a warning. D u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 07:58, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you Dusti, but I still feel that there is a need for this interaction ban. As far as I know I have done nothing to provoke personal attacks against me. Also for consideration I submit my contributions to the WikiIndex site as this was raised in Zhuyifei1999's comment in the CP discussion. Note that my profile page there was created at 10:47 on 22-Aug-2013 (NZT), which was before the first offensive post from Zhuyifei1999 was made here at 11:39 (NZT) on the Meta.Orain Community Portal. I had seen  edit appear in the RC here at Orain, and followed the link to WikiIndex. Impressed by what I saw there, I registered an account and proceeded to create my common user profile components in preparation to start contributing there. When I saw the commotion that was going on back here at Orain between myself and Zhuyifei1999, I swiftly blanked my pages at WikiIndex and removed the account entry from my KeePass, so I can no longer log in on that site under that username.
 * BTW, I should have mentioned that the IRC log posted above was from #orain on Freenode. <font color="#000" face="Times">Augur <font color="#33f" family="Arial">NZ <font color="#000" size="4">&#x2710; <font size="4" color="#000">&#x2315; 08:53, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

- AugurNZ and Zhuyifei1999 are hereby instructed to cease communication via this interaction ban. This ban encompasses both Orain and all projects hosted by Orain, as well as any room associated with Orain on IRC. Should either user initiate contact with the other violating this Interaction Ban - the user may be blocked initially for up to 1 month, then with new violation a block increasing in duration to a maximum of 1 year. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 16:19, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * We really shouldn't be needing to do these but I guess it seems fine for enforcement. John (talk) 17:49, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with John. This shouldn't have to happen, but since it did, I support the IBAN, albeit I like both editors, so this is beyond unfortunate. Sorry.  Coach  Wikipedia  ( T  •  C  •  G  •  E ) 18:46, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Seeing as there's no real reason to decline this - I'm ✅ this - effective the end of Zhuyifei's block. <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 19:51, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. <font color="#000" face="Times">Augur <font color="#33f" family="Arial">NZ <font color="#000" size="4">&#x2710; <font size="4" color="#000">&#x2315; 20:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Global Importer
Due to my recent change limiting importupload, I have created a global importer group for users who have experience with importing and are skilled with doing related duties such as history merges. The rights have been added as they are per recommendation of Eikes. For information, Eikes (not his Wikimedia username) has experience on Wikimedia wikis with import rights and related responsibilities such as histmerges. This is why I therefore listened to his advice on rights and assigned him the rights to begin with. If a fellow steward disagrees with a right in the group, please communicate with me first before removing it unless it is apparent that it is or can be very easily abused. Also note, my focus for the group is users in or limited to those who need to use it globally or have great experience with it. In addition, I wish for the group to remain fully globally though wikis may opt out of it as needed. Thanks, John (talk) 22:36, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Ombudsman Group Creation
I just wanted to let everyone know that I've gone ahead and created the ombudsman group with the following permissions: Those were just some basic permissions that they should have (in my opinion), if you feel there should be others, feel free to add them and post here. I might consider removing abusefilter-log-private after more discussion. This group is active on all wikis. -- Joe G. (Talk) 18:20, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * abusefilter-log-private
 * checkuser-log
 * suppressionlog
 * Hi Joe, thanks for creating the group. I also added,  ,   and   for read-only purposes, so that the Ombudsman can review what was actually deleted/suppressed. Kudu (talk) 19:57, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, I wasn't sure if that was necessary for them to view page text and such. -- Joe G. (Talk) 21:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

I have two accounts on the Orain wiki farm
I have GethN7 (the account I used to set up All The Tropes), and the other account is Arcane. I use the name GethN7 on Wikia and on ATT. Arcane is my name on most other wikis (Arcane21 on Wikimedia projects).

I have the accounts for different reasons since I'm known by different names on different wikis. "Arcane" is my local admin account here on Orain Meta and is strictly for Orain Meta related purposes. GethN7 is strictly for running the All The Tropes wiki, a name I chose since it's what I am known as on Wikia.

I have tried not to use either account for illicit purposes and while I did not intend deliberate deception, I did not want to reveal my alternate accounts since I use them for different purposes. However, since I accidentally outed myself on the Orain IRC channel, I have decided, in the interests of transparency, to make clear my two accounts and my intentions for both.

If I have caused any confusion or I should have admitted this information earlier, I apologize for any confusion or problems this may have caused.

Regardless, I am proud to be member of Orain, and I promise neither of these accounts will be used in a manner detrimental to this service. GethN7 (talk) 20:40, 7 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the clarification, I would like to take this opportunity to note that an email has also been sent to the steward team regarding this topic and confirming that these two users are really the same. Thank you, -- Joe G. (Talk) 20:43, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi GethN7, could you please confirm this by editing under your Arcane account? Kudu (talk) 15:06, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I left an edit on my Arcane account as GethN7 confirming it is an alternate account, with an edit reasons stating I did so by your request. GethN7 (talk) 19:29, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. Please note that alternate accounts should normally be identified on both user pages, or, at the very least, known to the stewards. Kudu (talk) 17:36, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Dormant Wikis
Hi guys,

Today, I am going through and tagging wikis per the Dormant wikis policy for locking sometime in the future. Stewards should check this list periodically to see if the wikis listed have past the acceptable lock date and take action if they are still inactive.

Wikis to be locked on 24 November 13:
 * micronationswiki (micronations.orain.org) (notified on 09 November 2013)

Thank you, -- Joe G. (Talk) 20:38, 9 November 2013 (UTC)