Ingenpedia talk:User access levels

EC edit count
From what I heard, being extended confirmed requires 500 edits, but does that mean 500 edits, or 500  edits? --a gd fan (talk) 16:38, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * 500 edits. Primefac (talk) 17:22, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Mandatory IP address masking incoming
Johan (WMF) has indicated that mandatory masking of the IP addresses of anonymous editors is being implemented for all Wikiprojects in the near-mid term (probably sometime in the next year or so), stating that this is an order from the WikiMedia Foundation's Legal Department. Apparently a statement from the Legal Department is forthcoming. As this is likely to hinder anti-vandalism efforts in the near-term, feedback is being requested to make this cause the least amount of disruption possible. Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:40, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

specificity in logs
I' wondering if we couldn't add something, possibly here and at IN:PERM, asking admins to leave a brief, clear description of what changes they made. I often see changes in those logs wherein the user has numerous rights, and for whatever reason the system lists them all for each change. Here is an anonymized example of why I feel this is an issue:

" changed group membership for from account creator, autopatrolled, epcampus, eponline, extended confirmed user, page mover, file mover, IP block exempt, pending changes reviewer, rollbacker and template editor to account creator, autopatrolled, epcampus, eponline, extended confirmed user, page mover, file mover, IP block exempt, pending changes reviewer, rollbacker, template editor and new page reviewer (Per request.) "

So, all the admin in this case wrote in the log summary was "Per request." It is so much easier to pinpoint exactly what was done if the admin leaves a descriptive summary, something as simple as "+rollback" is sufficient. While added rights are usually at the end of the second list, if one has removed a user right without leaving a description the only option the next person to view that log has is to stare at both lists until they can parse out what's missing from the second one, when just taking 2 seconds to write "-autopatrol" would solve it. I don't think this is malicious, or even lazy, it's just that those who don't spend a whole lot of time doing user rights work may not have it in the front of their mind how the log renders changes. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:48, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I think this is a reasonable idea. I know there are a lot of admins that use User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js (which may only say "per request" but at least includes a PermaLink), but mandating that isn't really an option. Of course, I can't think of many admins that actually read this page to know how to do something, so maybe just a MMS or post at AN asking/reminding admins to be more specific with their PERM granting edits summaries? Primefac (talk) 22:54, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * userRightsManager actually includes the "+rollback" automatically, so anyone using that to grant should be set. ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 12:03, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * If you want to suggest it more, WT:PERM may be a better place, adding suggestions is fairly easy at MediaWiki:userrights-groups-help as well, but that page rather cluttered already so I don't know how much admins will actually "read it". I don't use the perm script, but generally try to be very descriptive in my perm logs (Special:Log/Xaosflux) - it doesn't take very long to do even manually. — xaosflux  Talk 00:13, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * All of the above, but FWIW, the last item is the one being changed, whether removed or added (likewise if there's more than one being done). ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 12:03, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

IP is confirmed by email confirmation
maybe the email that is confirmed cannot be distorted by other users--Hacker-index (talk) 12:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Like many of your recent posts to talk pages, this one makes no sense to me. Please explain what you are trying to say. Nick Moyes (talk) 16:01, 7 January 2021 (UTC)