Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140502175349/@comment-34115-20140503093820

Speysider wrote: If staff are regularly rejecting requests that the community wants There are certain things that they won't do without opinions from a bureaucrat: enabling chat and the newer forums is something that can be done by any sysop, so only requires community consensus. Got any examples or references to what requests they've been rejecting? If there are valid requests they've been turning down I'd like to try convince them listen to the community if bureaucrat is not absolutely necessary. And in the future please do tell me if something like this happens, if I'm needed for a request I'd like to know about it so that at the very least I can make them accept the request or figure out the real reason it would be rejected.

The last request I had to make to the staff for the wiki was back in August of last year (2013) and all requests before that were in 2012 or earlier (and IIRC half these requests actually involved supporting the community with some of my underlying knowledge about MediaWiki to know what was even possible). So either bureaucrat requests to staff aren't needed very often or no one is bothering to tell me when staff are rejecting requests saying that I should be making them.