See Jeroen De Dauw, the developer of the extension, about the configuration modifications.

Hi,

Before to investigate further the matter, I would like a comment explaining why so few people participated in a 1 month process.

The RfC gets 12 support votes and 3 oppose (one it's for wikiversity, one it should be on Outreach and a last objection, also found in a support vote extension design is poor, comments not mitigated in the support votes).

This seems rather low for a large wiki.

Could you explain us why a proposal with so few support is a valid local consensus?

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The basic answer, I think, is that most people don't have strong feelings one way or the other. The RfC was listed as an RfC and on the CENT noticeboard for a month, announced at the technical, policy and proposal village pumps as well as other relevant places, and noted in a few editions of the Signpost. However, because it will be largely irrelevant to users who aren't working with or tracking the work of classes, many people apparently didn't feel like joining the discussion.

The extension was actually previously enabled for a very short time, but it had to be turned off and redesigned because of a bug that made it conflict with mainspace content. To make sure the Wikipedia Education Program was not forcing it on the community against widespread objection, and to see how editors wanted it configured in terms of user rights, we decided to run an RfC before turning it on again.

I'd replace "turned off and redesigned" with "turned off and tweaked". There was no redesign :)

also found in a support vote extension design is poor, comments not mitigated in the support votes

Is this the objection I replied to on the talk page and got no further answers from the objecting person?

@Jeroen, tweaked, yes!

And that's indeed the objection you were discussing on the talk page. The discussion has (in my opinion) some good ideas for possible design adjustments to make in the future, but it doesn't really affect the basic function of the extension in the meantime.

I think we have enough clarification to go on.

Jeroen De Dauw, would you prefer to prepare the config change or than I prepare a draft and ask you a review?

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Dereckson: I'll try to get to it today.

How are things going at Wolfplex btw? :)

Thanks Jeroen. Since the person with that last oppose has objected to me closing the RfC, we're going to have an uninvolved editor do a formal close. That shouldn't change anything, since the results are pretty straightforward and from a WMF perspective, we're ready to turn it on and work with the community from there... the RfC makes it clear that there's not widespread objection.

But just to be safe, please don't turn it on before the RfC gets a formal close from someone else. I'll remove 'shell' for the time being. (If that's not the right procedure, please revert.)

• Bug 40506 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Sorry, did not get to it yesterday, but had a look now.

The proposed configuration seems to be identical to the current configuration if the epstaff group is removed. Sage, is that correct?

The epstaff group should be removed, but also, admins have all the rights that are currently with the epstaff group: creating, editing and deleting any pages, adding and removing users to roles in specific courses, and adding users to the other usergroups. The ep-coordinator group should have all these same rights.

There is also some renaming: ep-coordinator, ep-online, ep-campus, and ep-instructor are the names, so that it's not specific to Wikipedia Ambassador titles.

The RfC has been formally closed now by an uninvolved admin, so we can turn this on as soon as it's technically ready.

Great - thanks for the clarification, I will modify the settings later today or tomorrow :)

Right configuration changes are in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/25693/

Sage, can you check I did not miss anything?

Well, the updated config was merged two days back. Think we need someone assigned to getting this deployed to not have it sit here needlessly.