Request for an account on the Foundation wiki

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This page is for requesting the creation of a user account on the Wikimedia Foundation's website (not on any other wiki).

1. To ensure that users are already familiar with the policies of at least one Wikimedia project, only administrators either current or former, foundation committee members or local chapter members may apply for an account. If you are not already an administrator, please see the request for adminship page on your local wiki (this should be linked from Wikimedia projects). Creation of an account is not automatic and is subject to approval by the Board of Trustees.

2. To ensure that requests are not forged, only registered users on meta can submit requests. Please keep this page on your watchlist and check back on your request; you may be asked for more information before a request is accepted or rejected. If you do not respond, your request may be removed.

3. After seeing your request fulfilled, please archive your section. Thanks!

Please provide:

• your username. For example, Username, [[:xx:project:namespace:User name]]
  • Link it to a Wikimedia project where you are an admin (see Help:Interwiki linking). If you are not an admin on any project, you must give the committee(s) or local chapters of which you are a member.
• a valid email address (Not Special:Emailuser)
• the reason(s) you need an account
• your dated signature

Please note, you do not need an account on the Foundation wiki to help with translations. All translation is being done here on meta. Users that are not already involved in translating may be rejected due to lack of involvement. See Translation requests for further information.

Thank you for your interest!

New requests

Latest request are expected on the top. Please make a new (sub)section for your request.

User:Pedist

• email:encyclopedist AT gmail DOT com
• I am an administrator in Chinese wikipedia, and the President of Wikimedia Hong Kong. I would like to have an account on Foundation wiki for the purpose of update and correct the information, for example local chapters, community and fundraising. Thank You.--pedist 17:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

  His credentials as an admin check out and it appears he would bring a useful skill of a Far East language that I suspect is lacking from other users who have access. I would say a tentative support. MBisanz ^talk 21:45, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

  Support entirely - don't all chapter presidents already have access to that wiki? Or is that Internal Wiki? Thunderhead 22:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

  Neither. :-) Technically (according to the rules that are probably not followed anymore :P), only a few people from chapters (by default including presidents) are supposed to be on internal wiki. However, all chapter presidents are of course welcome to an account on Foundation wiki if they request it. Cbrown1023 talk 22:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Nemo_bis

• email: nemowiki AT gmail DOT com
• I am sysop on it.wikiquote, and Wikimedia Italia board member and treasurer; I have an account on Internal. I would like to have an account on Foundation wiki to update pages in italian (italian users on that wiki are not very active) and translate some pages: e.g., I'm translating the Donor Privacy Policy. Thanks, Nemo 22:22, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

You are entitled to an account through your internal/board membership. However, please draft your translations on Meta-Wiki first, so that other users can edit them and they can be copyedited. (Meta-Wiki is the workspace for translation.) Cbrown1023 talk 22:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

See also

General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map

Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help

Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation