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His own request. --[[User:Marine-Blue|Marine-Blue]] <small>[</small> [[User_talk:Marine-Blue|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Marine-Blue|contribs]] <small>]</small> 11:41, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
He requested removal of his sysop and bureaucrat access. --[[User:Marine-Blue|Marine-Blue]] <small>[</small> [[User_talk:Marine-Blue|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Marine-Blue|contribs]] <small>]</small> 12:17, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


=== Miscellaneous requests ===
=== Miscellaneous requests ===

Revision as of 12:17, 1 June 2010

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This page is for requests to have stewards grant or revoke administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights on Wikimedia projects which do not have a local permissions procedure.

Old sections are archived. The list of archives is below.

  • Requests for bot flags are handled at SRB, and requests for global permissions are handled at SRGP.
  • If you are requesting adminship or bureaucratship, and your wiki has a local bureaucrat, submit your request to that user or to the relevant local request page (index).
  • For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel. In emergencies, type !steward in the channel to get the attention of stewards. Otherwise, you can type @steward for non-urgent help.

Other than requests to remove your own access or emergencies, please only make requests here after gaining the on-wiki approval of your local community.

Quick navigation: Administrator | Interface administrator | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Miscellaneous | Global permissions

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Cross-wiki requests
Meta-Wiki requests

Using this page

1. Place the following code at the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== Username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!-- don't change this line -->
 |domain    = <!-- such as en.wikibooks -->
 |user name = 
 |discussion= 
}}
(your remarks) ~~~~

2. Fill in the values:

  • domain: the wiki's URL domain (like "ex.wikipedia" or "meta.wikimedia").
  • user name: the name of the user whose rights are to be changed (like "Exampleuser"). In case you're requesting access for multiple bots, leave this field blank and give a list of these bots in your remarks
  • discussion: a link to the local vote or discussion about the rights change (for example, "[[ex:Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#ExampleUser]]"). This should normally be for at least one week, but no more than three weeks (if so, you'll need to restart the process).

3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

Confirmation of signing confidentiality agreement

Certain permissions (notably CheckUser and Oversight) additionally require users to sign a confidentiality agreement. Users requesting these permissions must make a request below, and must also sign the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation. The request is placed on hold temporarily, until the receipt has been formally confirmed by the Office.

Requests

COPY THE FOLLOWING CODE to the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== user name@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    =
 |user name =
 |discussion= 
}}

Administrator access

See administrator for information about the position. Requests for removal of access belong in another section. Admins doing cross-wiki work may wish to see IRC/wikimedia-admin for information about joining #wikimedia-admin.

If you are requesting administrator status to translate the wiki interface, this should be done at the BetaWiki project instead (see mw:localisation). You can ask questions in the IRC channel or on the mailing list.

If you are requesting adminship to handle one-time vandalism incidents or clearing a deletion backlog, please see Vandalism reports and Steward requests/Speedy deletions.

Stewards
Currently-active temporary permissions are listed at /Approved temporary; copy granted requests to the appropriate section there, stating the date of removal in the section header and at the bottom of the request. Please invite new sysops to the admin IRC channel.
Archiving
Requests only need remain listed below for a few days, and may afterward be removed as long as they have been copied to the subpage. Users who archive requests on that page, please check if the request was correctly added to the temporary subpage before removing it from this page.

For permanent sysopship please provide a link to the local community approval. For temporary sysopship please state for how long and for which tasks you need it, and link to a local announcement.

ThurnerRupert@bm.wikipedia.org

Status:    In progress

Would like to edit css, like http://bm.wikipedia.org//w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css, and there is only one admin, who recommends taking this way, see http://bm.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussion_utilisateur:ThurnerRupert ThurnerRupert 23:54, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please add link to community discussion page about granting you admin status. --Daniel Mayer (mav) 01:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat access

See bureaucrat for information about the position. In principle, requests for temporary bureaucrat access are not granted.
General note
There is an ongoing discussion regarding the minimum number of votes and overall participation to promote users to bureaucrat at Talk:Bureaucrat#Minimum_number_of_votes. Users are encouraged to assist in the development of a policy that allows stewards to not decide on whether a promotion is valid or not. Thank you.
Status:    In progress

please promote http://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Guaka so we are in a better position to make the wiki more active, also to be seen in relation with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants/wm_ch/wikipedia_bamako --ThurnerRupert 23:54, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Iltever@krcwiki

Status:    In progress

I am very active in the Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia and will continue so. Unfortunately, there are not many users in our Wikipedia. But we will continue to work. If I get a bureaucrat access, then our Wikipedia will become an independent and will not disturb anyone else. I hope for your understanding. Thank you. --Iltever 12:44, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We tend to like to see a wiki have two bcrats. You are currently the only admin. I think Stewards can easily continue to deal with rights on the krc wiki for the time being. --Daniel Mayer (mav) 12:51, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I totally disagree with Daniel. When a community asks for a bureaucrat they gain independence. It is good when stewards are not needed. Iltever has shown repeatedly to be a champion for his community, he has the trust of his community and this is more relevant then a fuzzy preference for two bureaucrats. GerardM 14:34, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In the project should be more active users (and admins). If there is only one user, who is the admin and bureaucrat, it threatens to take over the project. I would suggest mark request as refused, the same as other similar requests. LeinaD (t) 14:44, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
According to Ethnologue, there are around ~100,000 of speakers of Karachay-Balkar language (yes, numbers are confusing, but the most precise one says somewhat more than 100,000). Counting that Internet access in Karachay-Balkar region is significantly lower than in, let's say, Lusatia (where Sorbian languages are spoken), we can't expect more than 10 active users for a long time. Thus, I would give to Iltever bureaucrat permissions. If something goes wrong, we can remove his permissions. The only requirement should be a clear explanation at Administrators page on krc.wp (in Karachay-Balkar, Russian and English) that any user can come here and report abuse of admin and bureaucrat permissions (in Russian or English). Before giving those permissions, I would like to hear other stewards that they feel convinced :) --Millosh 00:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There are more than 300 thousand (Russian Census 2002) Karachay-Balkars just in Russia, and 97% of them use the language. :)
However, you're right, unfortunately we can't expect many active users for a long time. Of course I'll perform your requirement, and thank you for your confidence. :) --Iltever 01:54, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I want to give one more note: With admins who are able to give bot flags, bureaucratship in such circumstances wouldn't be necessary. However, this is not yet solved and we [stewards] should solve this issue in the future. --Millosh 07:55, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just to say that Iltever made requested page krc:Википедия:Администраторла and I may confirm that Russian and English version are the same (which matters, as the most of Karachay-Balkar speakers also speak Russian). I would ask Mav and Leinad to reconsider their positions :) --Millosh 05:36, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Iltever is doing great job at krc.wiki. The bureaucrat access will help him much as he will no longer need to go to meta for every minor task like bot flag or similar, the task always painful for us, non-natives in English. There is no much danger of his „overtaking“ the project, since he has proved to be a very adequate wikipedician with strong concerns about neutrality and quality. He does much not only in the Wikipedia itself but also in popularising it and generally the use of Karachay-Balkar in written form on the web; he also helps with useful advice and his newly acquired experience to other smaller wikipedias within the Russian language region (notably for me, to os.wiki). Amikeco 06:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to see what other stewards think, since what I said is still my understanding of our best practice. I'm willing to be convinced that this is a special case. --Daniel Mayer (mav) 01:18, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CheckUser access

To request CheckUser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information. This is the place to request CheckUser access. Note that temporary CheckUser access is not permitted and the temporary status is only used by Stewards.

Stewards
When someone asks for CheckUser status, please check the current policy before giving the status. There is an email template to request identification from the new CU. Do not grant CU access unless the user is identified to the Foundation. Breaching these rules may be cause for removing your steward access. When you give someone CheckUser, please list them on CheckUser, ask them to subscribe to checkuser-l, email checkuser-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org so the listadmins know the person is allowed on the mailing list, and make sure they contact an op for access to #wikimedia-checkuser.

Oversight access

To request to have content oversighted, ask in #wikimedia-stewards, or email oversight-l@lists.wikimedia.org for requests regarding English Wikipedia. This is the place to request Oversight access. Note that temporary Oversight access is not permitted and the temporary status is only used by Stewards.

Stewards
Do not grant Oversight access unless the user is identified to the foundation, which will be announced on the Identification noticeboard. When you give someone oversight access, list them on Oversight.

Ningauble@en.wikiquote

Status:    In progress

I am an administrator at en.wikiquote. I do not have and am not requesting the oversight flag, but this seemed the best place to call attention to a potentially serious rights problem:
Features that are normally reserved for oversighters (show/hide) are inexplicably showing up when I use log and history pages at en.wikiquote this morning (but not when I am logged out). Would someone please investigate right away to find out whether access to these restricted tools is being handed out willy-nilly, perhaps due to some sort of software glitch or corruption. Thanks. ~ Ningauble 15:19, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is the same for all of us I think ... --Herby talk thyme 15:23, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
All of whom? Does everybody who logs in have access to oversight!? ~ Ningauble 15:26, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No. RevisionDelete (like oversight, but without access to oversight-level suppression or suppressed material) has been enabled for admins site-wide. A technical description can be found here. You don't have access to suppressed material, or the ability to suppress material from administrators. PeterSymonds 15:28, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
(ec) Looks like admins - as a regular user on en wp I don't get it. I guess if you want to hide any mistakes you happen to have made now may be a good time...:) Or it is simply a form of oversight intended for admins (admins can reverse the changes of other admins by the look of it). --Herby talk thyme 15:31, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
See bug 18780 and the help page Peter linked to for more information. Cbrown1023 talk 15:32, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, this seems reasonable. But could somebody post an informative notice to whatever passes for an "Administrator's Noticeboard" in the affected wikis? Many thanks. ~ Ningauble 15:44, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway... Thanks for cluing me in about the situation. Sorry if this was a bit off topic here, but I didn't know where else to ask, at least not where there would be such a quick response. I shared the news with other admins at Wikiquote, with some useful links. This request can be closed. ~ Ningauble 17:09, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Another admin, who seems to be an oversight ;) I hope reported bugzilla:23584 resolve the problem :) LeinaD (t) 18:57, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of access

If you're requesting the removal of your own status, make sure you're logged in to a global account. If you have multiple flags, specify which you want removed. Stewards may delay your request a short time to ensure you have time to rethink your request; the rights will not be restored by stewards once they are removed.

To request the removal of another user's status, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. All discussion must take place on your local wiki. When there is community consensus that the user's access should be removed, a trusted person from that wiki should provide a link here to the discussion, a brief explanation of the reason for the request, and summarize the results of discussion. In either case, copy and paste the following text into the correct section (see instructions above). Please post requests at the bottom of the section. 


==== username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    = 
 |user name =  
 |discussion= <!-- local confirmation link / local policy link -->
}}
Your remarks, etc. --~~~~

Clytie@vi.wikisource

Status:    In progress

More than a year without editing, and do not perform maintenance tasks minhhuy*= 11:06, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you give us a link to the discussion of the removal of Clytie's access?--Shanel 06:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tietew@ja.wikipedia

Status:    Not done

He/She has not edited for three months. According to desysop policy of ja.wikipedia, I request to remove his/her sysop access. Thank you. --Hisagi 15:07, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He/She edited now. However, He/She did not edit three months and 13 hours. I do a wish of judgment. Thank you--Hideokun 19:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I raised objection against desysop at the discussion page above. So I hope to suspend this request, if possible. --cpro 02:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold - per request --03:04, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

have edit. Not done--Shizhao 07:26, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Useight@en.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Please remove both my administrator and bureaucrat flags, per my request. Thanks. Useight 04:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thank you!--Nick1915 - all you want 10:22, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Xosé@gl.wikipedia

Status:    Done
Done.--Jusjih 00:34, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Taichi@lad.wikipedia

Status:    In progress
Do you want only your sysop rights removed, or both your sysop and bureaucrat rights removed?--Shanel 06:11, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anka Friedrich@dewiki, Gustavf@dewiki, Hans Koberger@dewiki, Hubertl@dewiki

Status:    Done
Status:    Done
Status:    Done
Status:    Done
Done all four.
Please leave a message on their user pages, both for notifying and a special "thank you" for their service.
--M/ 10:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Jón... Just for the record, Gustavf is *still* member of the arbcom for another year. So, rights will be reinstalled by local crats. *sigh* --თოგო (D) 11:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, I'm also sorry, I really didn't notice the graph. --M/ 11:04, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Our crats need to get some work too, from time to time. :p --თოგო (D) 11:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Work done. Raymond 11:14, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
All users have been informed, sorry for the mistake with Gustavf! Jón 11:21, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Electric goat@jawiktionary

Status:    In progress

He requested removal of his sysop and bureaucrat access. --Marine-Blue [ talk contribs ] 12:17, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous requests

Requests that don't fit in other sections belong here. Import rights can be granted by stewards only, not bureaucrats, so the automatic list of local bureaucrats is irrelevant for this. Please gather community consensus before placing a link to the discussion here.

Note that the following types of requests belong on separate pages:

Devunt@testwiki

Status:    On hold

--Devunt 05:42, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You want to test, but for how long? What is povwatch permisson?--Jusjih 01:34, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Infinite. When I finish test, i'll request removal. and testwiki doc. --Devunt 08:50, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It says "This is a defunct flag, formerly used to identify users testing the Povwatch extension. The permission currently does nothing, as the extension is not installed."... J.delanoygabsadds 17:33, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
But can you give me permission?. even if povwatch is defunct flag. --Devunt 13:02, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you want it if it does nothing? J.delanoygabsadds 01:29, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think it will be active again. :) --Devunt 15:13, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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