Meta:Bureaucrats

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Bureaucrat policies and information

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This page provides information on Meta-Wiki bureaucrats, and lays out relevant policies.

Bureaucrats are Meta-Wiki users with the technical ability to:

promote and demote other users to administrator or bureaucrat status;
grant and revoke an account's bot status; and
rename user accounts.

They are bound by policy and consensus to grant administrator or bureaucrat access only when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, usually after a successful request at Meta:Requests for adminship. Admins who have been active for at least the past 3 months may request for Bureaucrat status here. Bureaucrats are expected to exercise judgement in changing user names, and ensure that the bot policies are followed when granting bot status to a user. They are expected to be capable judges of consensus, and are expected to explain the reasoning for their actions on request and in a civil manner.

Bureaucrats do not have the ability to grant further levels of access (they cannot promote to oversight or checkuser). These capabilities are held only by stewards, a small multilingual group that serves all Wikimedia projects. Stewards are elected annually; for more information, see Requests for permissions.

[edit] Requirements

An admin can request Bureaucrat status on Meta if they

Are active on Meta with over 150 edits/log actions (after getting adminship and not including own userspace) in the last six months.
User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after he/she nominates themselves at Meta:RfA.
No objections are raised in 24 hours after he/she nominates themselves at Meta:Requests for adminship. If objections are raised, a short discussion should ensue, at which point after 48 hours a bureaucrat should close it and analyse whether consensus believes the concerns are valid or not. If the concerns are considered valid by consensus, he/she must nominate themselves via a one-week RfB process identical to RfA and pass to become a bureaucrat.
A bureaucrat who makes less than 20 non-bureaucrat-related edits/log actions (ie. no edits outside of closing RfA's/thanking users, changing usernames/notifying users, etc.) in six months will automatically lose their bureaucrat access. It can be regained through the above method. They will not lose their administrator access.