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Justarandomamerican (Steward)
Hello! I'm Justarandomamerican, and I am filing a request for stewardship, because the board has abolished the staff role, and for staff members to keep their permissions, they must stand for election. I've been here since 2024, when the farm was founded. I hope the community trusts me. Thank you for your time! Justarandomamerican (talk) 21:10, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- This candidate has signed an NDA with the WikiOasis Foundation, as is required for stewardship. Justarandomamerican (talk) 01:23, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Questions
In the interests of making this more of an interesting process than a formality, I have a few questions which more or less mirror to all candidates. Some I admit are bundled questions, feel free to answer to the extent applicable.
- Based on your request, what do you currently do that requires Steward capabilities?
- Do you believe you have made mistakes in your official capacity on this platform so far? If so, what did you do to improve from those mistakes? You could elaborate on just one if you like, or a couple.
- What is your vision of what a steward is, and what they do for the community?
- Two users appear in the CheckUser interface who both appear to be using Tor who are regular editors on a large wiki, which is also being attacked seemingly out of nowhere by an assailant who is using Tor and free VPNs. Is this a slam dunk connection, if your review of edits suggest their editing styles are similar (but no major stylistic tells)? Why/why not, and if not, what's the next step to find out?
- How would you close a vote proposing a change in which seven people essentially say support and maybe a few words, nothing really in depth, and three people have articulated major concerns with the proposal at the level of detail of these questions? Would that process change if it was only one oppose like this to seven support, and if that oppose appeared just before you were going to close the RfC?
Thank you, --raidarr (📡) 22:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
A few questions targeted towards individual candidates across the process:
- How do you see your history as president of the WikiOasis Foundation fits into this role, and the trust that the community will be placing in you that may not yet have been rebuilt?
- What do you think that you would bring to the steward team that other candidates may not?
- Can you discuss what your reasoning behind this was, as there were local administrators at the time who could've handled this apparent one off incident?
- How do you feel that team discussion fits into the handling of appeals by banned and locked users, do you think that an appeal should be solely handled by one person without discussion?
Best, --zippybonzo (c • ca) 00:14, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
- Support, has a clue, not a jerk --zippybonzo (c • ca) 01:14, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support SleepingElephant2145 (talk) 01:20, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- I have noticed Justarandomamerican around testwiki.wiki (where they serve as system admin/steward) and can Support this request. Tester (ᴛ•ᴄ) 01:40, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support ~ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- No brainer Support. Globe (talk) 01:53, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Ex-Board Member and is trusted within the WikiOasis Volunteers. No brainer Support. Fearless (talk) 10:22, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support --PinkPugPrincess (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support AlPaD (talk) 14:52, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support No Concerns --Cocopuff2018 (talk) 16:36, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Steward for Zippy
Zippy (talk • contribs • logs) • Hiya, I don't think I really need to offer much in the way of introduction, as you most likely know me already, I've served the platform since October 2024 in tech, and have helped out in global enforcement since day 1 as well. As the result of a recent board motion, stewards will now be community elected (yay), so I am putting myself forward for your consideration. Please feel free to follow up with questions below (preferably related to steward work as opposed to tech, but I'll answer tech questions too), and I look forward to hopefully serving you. --zippybonzo (c • ca) 01:08, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- This candidate has signed an NDA with the WikiOasis Foundation, as is required for stewardship. Justarandomamerican (talk) 01:23, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Questions
In the interests of making this more of an interesting process than a formality, I have a few questions which more or less mirror to all candidates. Some I admit are bundled questions, feel free to answer to the extent applicable.
- Do you believe you have made mistakes in your official capacity on this platform so far? If so, what did you do to improve from those mistakes? You could elaborate on just one if you like, or a couple.
- What is your vision of what a steward is, and what they do for the community?
- Two users are connecting from T-Mobile USA with IPs that are absolutely all over the place. One uses an android and windows 10 and the other regularly connects from a different browser on windows 10. One has been there a long time and the other 'user' is a string of alt accounts that spam gibberish. Is this a slam dunk connection, if your review of edits suggest 'maybe'? Why/why not, and if not, what's the next step to find out? Am I missing an important detail that would make the connection (or not) more clear?
- How would you consider a request for permissions which has six supports, three oppose, and three abstains, assuming there was no dealbreaker in argument or an unaddressed concern by the requestor? Would your approach change if there was a minor question left unanswered?
Thank you, --raidarr (📡) 22:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Many many mistakes, an abridged list is:
- My approach to deployment of codebase changes was scrappy until very recently, causing regular downtimes because I typed the wrong thing, it's changed now in that they are tested on staging first which is a completely separate server (apart from database due to time constraints of setting up a fully separate environment and beta cluster)
- My approach to the behaviours of an LTA (you'll know who I mean), and my relation to the activities other team members who crossed a line, which I shouldn't have had the level of involvement and awareness that I did
- My attitudes to others have sometimes been less than acceptable, I have lost my temper at times and made comments that in hindsight I was less than proud of
- The growth of tech was handled by both me and others on the board at the time poorly, onboarding close to half a dozen people with no clear goals in sight leading to me still doing all the work because even of the willing volunteers none knew how to do shit
- The expansion of the feature set of TSPortal was way more than it needed to be, in an attempt to somewhat mirror what miraheze does despite the need not really being there for what it could do
- At the scale WO runs at, it's not very impressive compared to keeping the lights on, but essentially as privileged helpers, who can resolve some frontend issues, along with filling in for local authority when needed to handle vandalism or abuse issues, and to an extent governance if such an issue were to arise
- I wouldn't link them particularly closely, if they geolocated closely or had editing patterns/timings similar then it could be a possibility, but I wouldn't consider it to be a possibility generally as it's too vague to be able to consider them anything beyond a tenuous link
- I'd review mostly based on my own judgement of the arguments presented within the discussion, along with my assessment of the candidate, potentially involving other stewards if necessary in a way that may add value — if a question was left unanswered, would depend on whether the question could've led to some argument being significantly weaker/stronger, but it probably wouldn't make a significant difference, and it would be based on my assessment of the discussion and candidate
- Many many mistakes, an abridged list is:
- --zippybonzo (c • ca) 23:31, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
- Support, I've worked with Zippy for a long time, and I definitely have confidence in his abilities. Justarandomamerican (talk) 01:10, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support SleepingElephant2145 (talk) 01:20, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support given their awesome contributions in the tech side of things. Tester (ᴛ•ᴄ) 01:41, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support ~ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- We’ve had our fair share of disagreements, but Zippy’s heart is in the right place and he wants the best for WO. Support. Globe (talk) 01:52, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Zippy was - and still is - the sole Team Leader for day to day tech operations on WikiOasis, he has even spent money on servers for WikiOasis expecting nothing to be returned. No reason not to Support really. Fearless (talk) 10:24, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support --PinkPugPrincess (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support AlPaD (talk) 14:53, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support although me and zippy have our differences, he has put out alot of effort into WO +1
Tali64³ (Steward)
I am running for Steward because I believe strongly in WikiOasis' goal to provide free and libre wiki hosting and will support it for as long as I feasibly can. Tali64³ (talk) 01:14, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- This candidate has signed an NDA with the WikiOasis Foundation, as is required for stewardship. Justarandomamerican (talk) 01:23, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Questions
In the interests of making this more of an interesting process than a formality, I have a few questions which more or less mirror to all candidates. Some I admit are bundled questions, feel free to answer to the extent applicable.
- Based on your request, what do you currently do that requires Steward capabilities?
- Do you believe you have made mistakes in your official capacity on this platform so far? If so, what did you do to improve from those mistakes? You could elaborate on just one if you like, or a couple.
- What is your vision of what a steward is, and what they do for the community?
- Two users appear in the CheckUser interface with an identical user agent and IPs that are different but both fall within a 192.94.21.0/24 range. Is this a slam dunk connection, if your review of edits suggest 'maybe'? Why/why not, and if not, what's the next step to find out?
- An RfC proposing a major change languishes after a few weeks with two strong supports and one abstain. Lets say for the sake of something to work with that it introduces changes to the Content Policy and there's nothing about it that would inherently deserve a veto. How would you approach this RfC?
Thank you, --raidarr (📡) 22:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Wiki requests and managing abuse filters are the two key responsibilities that Stewards handle - handling CheckUser requests is a close third.
- My mistakes don't really involve my use of the Steward toolset, but rather my overzealous approach to threats of legal complaints (which is mostly a Safety thing). I admittedly haven't improved on that yet, but I would think carefully and determine if there is merit to the complaints and if they can be resolved without involving the Foundation in the courts, and not let emotion cloud my judgement in the future.
- A Steward represents the community aspect of policy legislation and enforcement, as opposed to the Board which handles legal policy and Safety which enforces that policy.
- Given the fact that the IP range belongs to a university, the user agent + behavioral evidence is more important than usual. If the accounts are likely to belong to the same person, that would be grounds for a lock. If there is reasonable doubt, err towards the side of caution and wait for concrete proof of multi-account abuse.
- There would be a quorum of votes required to pass an RfC - that number will obviously shrink and grow as time goes on. If the quorum happens to be 3 votes minimum, the RfC would have to be closed as successful if it does not contradict Board policy.
- Tali64³ (talk) 23:02, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
A few questions targeted towards individual candidates across the process:
- Do you see your ability to handle complex situations under pressure as that which would be expected of a steward?
Best, --zippybonzo (c • ca) 00:14, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
- Support, has a clue, not a jerk --zippybonzo (c • ca) 01:13, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Definite Support, Tali is great! Justarandomamerican (talk) 01:18, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose SleepingElephant2145 (talk) 01:20, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support Trusted, awesome dude! Crystalite13 (talk) 01:32, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support I've noticed their contributions around SkyWiki and on here as well. Tester (ᴛ•ᴄ) 01:43, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support ~ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- No brainer Support. Globe (talk) 01:51, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Gotta agree with Globe here. No brainer Support, known in the Miraheze Volunteering community and he currently holds the hat Global Administrator and deals with Vandalism on his own time. Fearless (talk) 10:26, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support --PinkPugPrincess (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strong support ⯎ asteralee ⯎ 14:47, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support AlPaD (talk) 14:54, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support --Cocopuff2018 (talk) 23:39, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Globe (steward)
Hi there! My name is Globe, and I am also a founding member of WikiOasis making this RfS as part of the recent board decision to transition to a community governance model. I currently serve as the director of operations for WO and the Vice President of the WO Foundation board of directors. I would love to continue in my role as a steward to keep up my work in managing LTAs and abuse globally, in addition to handling some wiki requests. I have signed the required NDA for this position and am eager to answer any questions you may have. Happy editing! :) Globe (talk) 01:46, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- This candidate has signed an NDA with the WikiOasis Foundation, as is required for stewardship. Justarandomamerican (talk) 01:47, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Questions
In the interests of making this more of an interesting process than a formality, I have a few questions which more or less mirror to all candidates. Some I admit are bundled questions, feel free to answer to the extent applicable.
- Do you believe you have made mistakes in your official capacity on this platform so far? If so, what did you do to improve from those mistakes? You could elaborate on just one if you like, or a couple.
- What is your vision of what a steward is, and what they do for the community?
- Two users based in China appear in the CheckUser interface with a user agent that indicates Google Chrome on an android device (no apparent difference) and identical IPs from a common VPN. Is this a slam dunk connection, if your review of edits suggest 'maybe'? Why/why not, and if not, what's the next step to find out?
- A user requested a wiki say a year ago, made a very large number of edits for say six months, and for the last six months has completely disappeared. A new user comes in and successfully manages to be appointed bureaucrat by a peer. This user also makes many contributions but is running things very differently then how they were originally. A few weeks later the original bureaucrat returns and is absolutely irate about the new guy. The two have a massive pissing match and block each other which goes as well as you expect and it comes to your table. What is your approach to this situation?
- What were the merits of appointing Crystalite as a Global Sysop initially? Was it a team decision? If applicable, should such decisions be a team decision, excluding the scenario where it becomes election only?
Thank you, --raidarr (📡) 22:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
A few questions targeted towards individual candidates across the process:
- What is your view on the boundary between the board and the community, and where the line is drawn between what the board and what the community govern?
- What do you think that you would bring to the steward team that other candidates may not?
- Where do you think the line between what is considered a T&S issue compared to one that can be handled by global enforcement?
- When do you think it is appropriate to leave local administration to handle an issue as opposed to you doing so as a steward?
- Mirroring the above, what was your thought process between the appointment of Crystalite with little to no internal discussion?
Best, --zippybonzo (c • ca) 00:14, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
- Support, definitely. Justarandomamerican (talk) 01:47, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support ~ Dream Indigo ✩ 01:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support SleepingElephant2145 (talk) 03:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support --PinkPugPrincess (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support --zippybonzo (c • ca) 13:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strong support ⯎ asteralee ⯎ 14:49, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Strongest support AlPaD (talk) 14:55, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support +1 --Cocopuff2018 (talk) 16:35, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Crystalite13 (Global Sysop)
Hello! My name is Crystalite and I am running for Global Sysop (a position I was appointed to today) because the aforementioned staff role abolishment. I joined recently but am experienced in the wiki community, being very active around Miraheze. When elected properly, I plan to help out with Meta clean up, vandalism, and wiki requests. Thanks for listening to me! Crystalite13 (talk) 02:00, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Questions
In the interests of making this more of an interesting process than a formality, I have a few questions which more or less mirror to all candidates. Some I admit are bundled questions, feel free to answer to the extent applicable.
- Based on your request, I have a two part question; what do you consider the skills you bring to the role, and what do you think you need assistance learning?
- As a very new candidate and figure to the platform, what would you say to concerns about electing/promoting a user with under 100 global edits to a mid-senior CVT role?
- What is your vision of what a global sysop is, and what they do for the community?
- Suppose you have the following actions to use. Lock (reasons spam, vandalism, abuse of multiple accounts, long term abuse or username policy violation), issue a warning, and consult with peers if you do not have a clear answer or feel it is out of your scope. Which would you consider appropriate for these examples? You can write in something different if you believe it would be appropriate.
- a. An account that fills their userpage with text describing automotive services, and a day later edits links to an automotive website on their meta userpage. New account, no other messages, say within a day to a week.
- b. An account that fills their userpage with text describing their background as a wiki editor who really likes cars, and they link to a personal blog about cars at the same time. New account, no other messages, say within a day to a week.
- c. A newly registered account by the name "Hentai".
- d. A newly registered account with a userpage stating they are 12 years old.
- e. Two users engaging in a bitter argument with insults on a wiki with admins who are recently active, assuming you have no other context to go on at this time.
- f. Three accounts are created with incrementing usernames (idk, Awesome1, Awesome2, Awesome3...) and the first one has made several edits giving advice that isn't quite right.
- g. You are browsing a random wiki and come across a user who recently blanked large sections of several page for no apparent reason. The pages still have stuff on them, but they are now stubs. An admin last edited about three days ago.
Thank you, --raidarr (📡) 22:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
A few questions targeted towards individual candidates across the process:
- What are your thoughts on your appointment to the role prior to this election? Do you feel that it was right for you to accept such an appointment without community involvement?
- What do you see yourself doing on the day-to-day, which areas would you most likely want to work within?
- Where do you see the overlap between stewards and global sysops, and where do you see the line between what should be handled by a global sysop and what would be best handled by a steward?
- How do you see local administration fitting into the role of global sysops and stewards?
Best, --zippybonzo (c • ca) 00:14, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
- Support. Good luck! Globe (talk) 02:10, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support Not sure if I can fully support, given that you basically speedran the right, but I trust you. Justarandomamerican (talk) 02:24, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support SleepingElephant2145 (talk) 03:06, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Abstain I cannot support you as I really don't see you much in WikiOasis, even tho we have interacted lots in the Miraheze Discord Server, I don't think it is fair to base someone's capabilities on another platform irrelevant to WikiOasis. Fearless (talk) 10:28, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support, per fearless, I've seen some of your work on miraheze and it seems good, but I won't base my opinion on purely your work on another platform. --zippybonzo (c • ca) 13:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support Per above AlPaD (talk) 14:56, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Abstain per above --Cocopuff2018 (talk) 16:37, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Fearless (Steward)
Hi, some of you may know me in the Discord Server as I had been moderating it. Today I'm running for Steward due to Zippy's suggestion as I have already signed an NDA with the Foundation and having 1 Steward as backup is good in case of heavy loads as we have recently accepted the Italian Brainrot Wiki into WikiOasis. While I am quite vastly inexperienced (even tho I'm a little bit active at Miraheze), I would like to have an opportunity to be able to learn from having this position, I plan to help out with CU investigations and dealing with other tasks that other Global Roles like Global Sysops cannot. While I am inexperienced, I do know my way around (somewhat) and know obvious signs of abuse.
I'll also answer any questions that you may have as well. I hope you'll vote for me as with others as well, thank you for your consideration! Fearless (talk) 10:12, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- This candidate has signed an NDA with the WikiOasis Foundation, as is required for stewardship. Justarandomamerican (talk) 12:15, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Questions
In the interests of making this more of an interesting process than a formality, I have a few questions which more or less mirror to all candidates.
- Based on your request, how much do you know about the CheckUser and Investigate interface?
- Do you believe you have made mistakes in your official capacity on this platform so far? If so, what did you do to improve from those mistakes? You could elaborate on just one if you like, or a couple.
- What is your vision of what a steward is, and what they do for the community?
- Two users appear in the CheckUser interface. Both are Google Chrome user agents and both have many IPs that appear within a residential /64 ipv6 range. Is this a slam dunk connection, if your review of edits suggest 'maybe'? Why/why not, and if not, what's the next step to find out?
- If you have takes on some of the CU-related questions for the other candidates feel free to chew on them if you like also, relative to your professed interest in investigations.
- A user requested a wiki say a year ago, made a very large number of edits for say six months, and for the last six months has completely disappeared. A new user comes in and successfully manages to be appointed bureaucrat by a peer. This user also makes many contributions but is running things very differently then how they were originally. A few weeks later the original bureaucrat returns and is absolutely irate about the new guy. The two have a massive pissing match and block each other which goes as well as you expect and it comes to your table. What is your approach to this situation?
Thank you, --raidarr (📡) 22:45, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
A few questions targeted towards individual candidates across the process:
- Do you believe you may be better suited for a different global role (probably patroller), given your limited experience in such a position?
- What is your opinion on how to handle sensitive checkuser and suppression data?
Best, --zippybonzo (c • ca) 00:14, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
- Support, while you're definitely not the most experienced, your heart is in the right place, and I'd love to see you become more involved in the project helping with global enforcement and other activities, even if it involves some learning during the beginning --zippybonzo (c • ca) 13:50, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Weak support per ZB. Justarandomamerican (talk) 13:54, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Weak oppose. While you've no doubt been very helpful in monitoring our Discord community, and that is much appreciated, I don't really have any way to know how you'll handle the tools of stewardship. Your first meta edit was today, which isn't 100% a dealbreaker with experience on other projects, but that wasn't mentioned in the request. I would personally encourage you to start out at a lower-level role to help build MediaWiki knowledge. A role like meta admin or wiki creator might suit your strengths better? Anyways, best of luck and thank you for running! Globe (talk) 14:01, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- I'll consider making an Request for Wiki Creator assuming such role currently exists or gets re-made if this request does not get approved, thanks for your consideration. Fearless (talk) 14:43, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Support AlPaD (talk) 14:57, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose per above --Cocopuff2018 (talk) 16:40, 17 April 2026 (UTC)