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This page hosts requests for membership in an existing global group and for requesting Global (un)blocks, locks and hidings. Proposals for new groups should be made on Meta:Babel.

To make a request, read the relevant policy (global rollback, global bot, global blocking) and make a request below. Explain why membership is needed for that group, and detail prior experience or qualifications and for requesting a global block, please indicate why a global block is necessary and for how long.

Any active Wikimedia editor may participate in the discussion, though only stewards may use {{yes}} or {{no}} templates.

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Requests for global (un)block

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if you don't follow the instructions. Please also review Global blocking Instructions for making a request Before requesting, make sure that: You know the IP address(es) you wish to have globally blocked or unblocked. For blocks, the global blocking criteria are met. For unblocks, your request addresses the original reason for blocking the IP, if any. When requesting that your IP be unblocked, note that stewards need to know your IP address to even consider a request. To find your IP, please visit http://www.whatismyip.com/ You are not required to disclose your IP in public - you may make requests privately to any steward on IRC or by email.

Seansoo/Seansoo2/Seansoo3/Seansoo4

Due to this wonderful video, I was reminded by the fact that in 2007, en:Ichirou Mizuki was mass-translation-spammed across 90 Wikipedia projects. I've got a full list that consist of projects where Seansoo (or a sock account) created the page, and then nearly every subsequent edit to the page was by an interwiki bot (or local users cleaning it up a bit). I still need to find the page to organize a clean up (and possible deletion) of this article on the 88 projects where it was not authored by Seansoo through machine translation, but in the meantime he needs to be globally blocked. I've been informed, though, that he has not unified his accounts and because he is Indonesian his ISP has dynamic IP allocation.

As far as I am aware, he has been indefinitely blocked at his home wiki (id.wiki) and all I have seen him do on any of his accounts is directly copy articles myself and other users have worked on word for word and then directly translate it (with the formatting) for use on the Indonesian Wikipedia. He is currently editing under Seansoo3 on all projects, but has edited ko.wiki with Seansoo as late as June.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 05:00, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Request from Hope(N Forever)

Help! My global account has been blocked at the English Wikipedia, and I cannot even edit my own Talk page using my account! I have been a victim of misidentification of IP addresses for a long time, and I cannot explain it. I've been mistakenly blocked from editing in the past due to other people's offenses. This needs to stop once and for all! Hope(N Forever) 14:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Are you sure that you haven't been blocked from the English Wikipedia for vandalism or something else like that? If you were blocked locally on the English Wikipedia, there isn't much one can do here, but it could just be that your IP was hardblocked, which makes it so that you can't edit using your IP. Check the block log on the English Wikipedia and see if either one of the above is true. Razorflame 06:01, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello Hope. Your account is not blocked, but you may be experiencing an autoblock— that means that someone was recently blocked, and the wiki mistakenly suspects you are the same person (because your IP address is the same). When you try to edit your talk page, do you get a message that says "You are currently unable to edit pages on Wikipedia"? —Pathoschild 06:15:35, 02 October 2009 (UTC)

Requests for global (un)lock and (un)hiding

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if your request doesn't include the necessary information. Instructions for making a request Before requesting that a global account be (un)locked, please be sure that: You have evidence of cross-wiki disruption from the account(s). You can show that it is not feasible to use local-only blocks or other measures like page protection to combat the disruption. You have considered making the request in [irc:irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-stewards IRC], especially for account names which will be hidden, or for urgent requests. To make a request for an account to be locked or unlocked Copy the template below to the bottom of this section and explain why the account(s) should be locked/unlocked. ====Global lock/unlock for [[user:Foo|Foo]]==== *{{LockHide|Foo}} *{{LockHide|Bar|wikt:fr:}} (if you know the home wiki) *{{LockHide|Username|hidename=yes}} (if the username should not be shown here) ...

none currently.

Requests for global IP block exemption

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if you don't follow the instructions, and not doing so would reflect poorly on your suitability. Please also review Global IP block exemption Instructions for making a request Before requesting global IP block exemption, make sure that: You have a global account; You are logged in on this wiki, and the account is part of your global account; To request global IP block exemption Copy the template below to the bottom of this section and explain why you need the access and why you're suitable. If needed, link to relevant discussions. ====Global IP block exempt for [[user:Foo|Foo]]==== {{sr-request |status = <!--don't change this line--> |domain = global<!--don't change this line--> |user name = |discussion= }} <Add an explanation here>, thanks, --~~~~ The request will be approved if consensus to do so exists after a short period of consideration (typically 5 days). This is not a vote, and all input is welcome. Stewards will determine whether consensus exists; when doing so it is likely that the weight given to the input of those involved in cross-wiki work will be most influential.

Global IP block exempt for Jotterbot

Status:    In progress

• Global user: Jotterbot (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

I bought a vps service with a static IP recently and I am using it to run my bot. Unfortunately, that IP range is blocked in en, it and nl wikis (currently that I have found out. there may be more) for cross wiki vandalism and open proxies. Since I cannot request to unblock the range blcok, I would like to request for an Ipblock-exempt for my bot, since I badly need this to run my bot. Please help. thanks, --Jyothis 06:42, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, global IP block exemption is for users affected by global blocks. You can ask to have ipblock-exemption on enwiki and nlwiki.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 15:58, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Mike, As I learn, that IP range is notorious for the open proxies, and that is the reason why it was blocked. It is not uncommon for other wikis to follow that, since it is a common threat. However, if you are telling me that I can start requesting for Ip block exempt in each wikis, i doubt if it is practical. I do not wish to run a bot for 3 days to find out where else I am listed in the block list. If you could look up and tell me where all my bot's IP is blocked, that would be helpful for me to start reuesting in each wikis. Thanks. --Jyothis 05:20, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Not a steward but: The problem is that a global IP exemption doesn't actually get around those local blocks :( it only gets you around Global blocks. So even if you get the exemption here you will have the problem on the locally blocked wikis. If your asking for someone to look up the bots you use you shouldn't need it, an IP block exemption gets you around them all (without the admin having to know the actual IP) Jamesofur 05:24, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Requests for global rollback permissions

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if you don't follow the instructions, and not doing so would reflect poorly on your suitability. Please also review Global rollback Instructions for making a request Before requesting, make sure that: You have a global account; You are logged in on this wiki, and the account is part of your global account; To make a request Copy the template below to the bottom of this section and explain of why you need the access and why you're suitable. ====Global rollback for [[user:Foo|Foo]]==== {{sr-request |status = <!-- don't change this line --> |domain = global <!-- don't change this line --> |user name = }} The request will be approved if consensus to do so exists after a short period of consideration (typically 5 days). This is not a vote, and all input is welcome. Stewards will determine whether consensus exists; when doing so it is likely that the weight given to the input of those involved in cross-wiki work will be most influential.

Global rollback for Jamesofur

Status:    Done

• Global user: Jamesofur (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

I currently have local rollback on 6 projects and have been actively doing swmt work (as well as vandalism patrol on non small English wiki's) for about 6-7 weeks and would love the added abilities Global Rollback gives to be able to do so quicker and more efficiently especially for mass vandalism attacks. I generally idle on IRC and am often most active at times where there is little additional help available (especially late at night american Eastern time, which yes is my time). I don't see GR as a huge deal so if people would rather I wait a bit longer I don't mind :) Jamesofur 04:03, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I know James from several Wikimedia projects that we both participate in and trust his decisions fully. I believe that granting him this extra right would be very helpful in his SWMT work. – Katerenka (talk • contribs) 04:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

• Endorse Sufficiently active and clueful. Deserves GR. Pmlineditor ∞ 07:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
• I trust you with this tools. You will be a good addition and help. Barras 08:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
• James' does a lot of anti-vandalism in cvn channels, no problem with him. Nifky? 04:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
• Endorse Razorflame 04:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
• Endorse. Noting problematic with this request. NonvocalScream 04:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
• Endorse per above -- Mercy (☎|✍) 06:52, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
• Another pile-on non-steward endorsement. Trustworthy and active user; no reason as far as I'm concerned to reject this request. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:36, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Done per the above & observing their good work on several projects.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 02:55, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Global rollback for Techman224

Status:    In progress

• Global user: Techman224 (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

I've been working at SWMT now for some time (excluding breaks) and this is my second request for Global rollback. As you can see in my global edits, I've been reverting vandalism on several small wikis, and have local rollback on four wikis. The last time I requested global rollback the concern was that I didn't have enough experience and not enough time yet on cross-wiki reverting, but ever since I've started, I've been using undo and there have been cases where the vandal has made more then one edit and having to go through the history, selecting the revision, and saving that version, which was a manual process. Global Rollback would help make the process faster. If you still think I don't have enough experience, I will not take it against you, since it's not a big deal anyways. Techman224^Talk 00:04, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Global rollback for PauloHelene

Status:    In progress

• Global user: PauloHelene (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

• I would like to recover articles which have been earased only because it is incomplete.

So, I would like to have roll back rights

I'm sorry, but Global Rollback is only given to people who help on vandalism Wikimedia-wide. Looking at your edits, it seems you only have worked on 6 wikis. Please join SWMT and help revert vandalism using undo for a while before requesting Global Rollback. Techman224^Talk 01:47, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Requests for global editinterface permissions

Global editinterface for Beau

Status:    In progress

• Global user: Beau (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

I would like to request global editinterface rights for one day. I want to update gadgets for Polish projects, where I don't have sysop rights (pl.wikibooks, pl.wikiquote, pl.wikinews). I want to link gadgets copied from Wikipedia to original sources, which are actively maintaned. Sample edit. Thanks. Beau (talk) 13:47, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Editinterface rights granted, please let us know when you are done. LeinaD (t) 13:57, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Done. You can remove me from that group. Beau (talk) 15:06, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

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