User:Raidarr

Hi there. I'm an observer and provisional Steward for WikiTide.

Provisional steward?
I am acting as a Steward with authorization from the core team (as of appointment: CosmicAlpha, Agent, Reception, and NotAracham) in order to perform the following tasks:
 * Administer WikiTide meta, help it set up, and develop policies
 * Be able to address general concerns and route issues to the right people (ie, technical issues requiring Agent or CosmicAlpha)
 * Possibly assist in delegating tasks if they help get things set up

I said I would not take a position here, and that has changed. I do not intend to take a permanent position here for the same reasons but for old time's sakes I am helping set up the platform to give it a better chance of steady growth. This period does not have a clear time limit but I envision it being the next month or so, at which point I hope to defer to long-term members and community elected functionaries.

All this means that I am a point of contact for now representing WikiTide.


 * User:Raidarr/Agenda - The living document for what I'm doing/intend to do currently on WikiTide.

The Miraheze question(s) and WikiTide
The internet is not a vacuum, I am open to questions/discussions even for things from Miraheze. It would be prudent of me to put out a few things, reference as convenient:
 * I was already going out the door on Miraheze due to the stacking of many concerns. The exit was inelegant but I would have been leaving sooner or later. I will not be taking a formal position here see above. I hold the T&S ban as technically valid but the process as sloppy. It was not worth appealing to me and I was disinterested in the rabbit hole of vague mandatory training. I don't hold a grudge but I won't be back there. Further, I do not want people to argue or 'fight' on my behalf. I don't wish to make the affair bigger than need be but I can clear up uncertainties via talk page if needed.
 * I am neutral regarding this project, I have read surrounding context and I find this platform rather hasty. I'm not sure it has what it takes to divorce from the organizational concerns of Miraheze. Until it better defines itself I would recommend sticking with Miraheze if you have stakes there, but keeping your options open and being ready + able to port your community if need be. Free lunches: either they're not free or you take them when and however you can get them. I will say, you will probably find quicker service and development at the steward/technical level from here at this time. See above on that again.
 * Most of the interesting stuff in forming the platform is on Discord right now. If you're interested in how things are forming but don't want to use Discord I suggest opening a discussion boldly and forcing some on-wiki discussion to take place. I'm willing to relay the gist of whatever's going on with Discord here if solicited. If you're interested in the important context of what happened on Miraheze Discord (it's not everything but a bit of relevance did happen there), wmcloud mirrors the gist in the #miraheze and #miraheze-offtopic channels. Related entries are near the bottom of channel logs, simply look for dumps with unusual file sizes...