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This page is for requests to have stewards grant or revoke administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights on Wikimedia wikis which do not have a local permissions procedure. Please check the sidebar to the right to see whether your request belongs better elsewhere. Specifically, bot requests, requests for CheckUser information and global rights requests belong on their respective pages.

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).

Interface translations are done at translatewiki. Please do not request administrator access for that purpose; your request will be declined.

For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel (web client). In emergencies only, type !steward in the channel to inform stewards that you need help. Otherwise, you can use @steward to gain attention if the channel is quiet.

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 | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Miscellaneous | Global permissions | Unexpired temporary access
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[edit] Using this page

  1. Place the following code at the bottom of the appropriate section below: 
    ==== User name@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    =
 |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]]").
  3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

[edit] Confirmation of identity

Certain permissions (notably CheckUser and Oversight) additionally require users to confirm their identity. Users requesting these permissions must make a request below, and must also submit the relevant identification to the Foundation. The request is placed on hold temporarily, until the receipt has been formally confirmed by the office.

[edit] Requests

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

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

[edit] 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 translatewiki.net 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; please use {{Systmp}} for temporary permission. 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.

[edit] MikeLynch@sa.wiktionary

Status:    Done

Sorry for putting this out so late after the expiry date. For some reason I thought I'd already requested it here, but it wasn't so. Lynch7 19:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Done Granted for 3 months to expire on 2012-06-17. Please remember to translate the interface at translatewiki.net only and preferably upload images to Wikimedia Commons. To prolong your adminship, please come back a few days before the status expires or hold a local election if the community grows. Thanks. I see that the request for extension was filed on the local wiki a while ago and you simply forgot to notify it here. As no objections were registered by the local community, I've given you back the +sysop flag, set to expire in 3 months from now. Snowolf How can I help? 06:42, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] E THP‎@gag.wikipedia

Status:    on hold

Hello.I want Management tools to for activity in the wiki (gag).gag:wiki is the user deficit.ABSENCE manager is hard activity .E THP (talk) 18:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

On hold until 20 March. Ruslik (talk) 18:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks.--E THP (talk) 20:14, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Can I have my access management.Wiki gag needs an active manager.Lack of management tools with hard work.--E THP (talk) 13:14, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
As Ruslik say you have to wait another two days. -- Tegel (Talk) 15:06, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
OK.Thanks.E THP (talk) 16:11, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Zylbath@got.wikipedia

Status:    On hold

I ask you to expand my admin status on the gothic wikipedia so that I can still care about it. Thank you very much. Zylbath (talk) 20:58, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold until March 25. -- Tegel (Talk) 21:04, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] 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.

[edit] MacedonianBoy@mk.wikisource

Status:    On hold
The voting for my request ended. The active users voted, there are not more than four totally. We do not have bureaucrat at all, and we need one (the first one) for the bots, user rights etc. I need a steward to give me the user rights.--MacedonianBoy (talk) 21:31, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold I think that given the present number of admins (1) versus the length of time the project has been open requires that some discussion happen here at meta first. I for one don't see a need for a local crat. There is also much debate still ongoing about requirements for crats on small wikis. fr33kman 22:45, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

The "debate" is not really going on at the moment, but reading the discussions around it, I think it can be safely said that for a project with 1 sysop, where 2 users vote in the crat election, a bureaucrat request should not be granted. --MF-W 23:11, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
In that case, we should redirect the users that need bureaucrats' assistance to meta? We have 16 active users, of which at least 5 often contribute. Even though the number of users is small, this wiki project has made a good progress, having in mind the number of articles now and 1.5 or 2 years ago. It would be very practical if we have at least one bureaucrat in order not to refer to the stewards all the time (to be honest, I rarely check this project, I am more focused on Wikipedia and Wikisource in MK). Best--MacedonianBoy (talk) 23:29, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Yes, local requests can be filed at SRP. Bureaucrat requests don't really need you to "check" meta often. You can just file a request and it will get done. fr33kman 23:36, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but I did not understand what are you referring at? Locally there was a voting, if you mean about the process. Or about some user's request of bureaucrats' assistance? What are the criteria for bureaucrats? I see that the Finnish have chosen a bureaucrat with only 6 votes and not more that 10.000 articles (the same thing is for few other smaller projects, like Bosnian, Icelandic, Indonesian etc). Best--MacedonianBoy (talk) 23:38, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
2 votes are not enough in my option for the 'crat right to be granted. Even simply permanent sysop would likely not be granted with this kind of voting. Snowolf How can I help? 18:45, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Yes, I know. Those users that visit Wikisource and saw the announcement voted. There are not many active users there.--MacedonianBoy (talk) 19:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] 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-at-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-privacy and #wikimedia-checkuser.

[edit] Oversight access

To request to have content oversighted, ask in #wikimedia-stewards, or email oversight-l-at-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.

[edit] 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.

However, as the bureaucrats of a few wikis may remove users from the administrator or bureaucrat group, please see also a separate list of these specific wikis.

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

[edit] Agamitsudo@fr.wikipedia

Status:    on hold

Hi,
Please, suppress my Wikipedia fr administrator status, as soon as you can. Thanks for that.
Regards, --Agamitsudo (talk) 16:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold till tomorrow.Bencmq (talk) 18:13, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Harej@commons.wikimedia

Status:    Done

I am tendering my resignation as Wikimedia Commons administrator, effective immediately. I am not active enough, nor am I familiar enough with the workings of Wikimedia Commons, that I could be called upon as an administrator of sufficient competence. Commons also scares me in general. harej (talk) 22:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Done Done Thank you for your service as an admin --Jyothis (talk) 23:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Caiser@eswiki

Status:    Done

This user is inactive for two years and according to the policy, its sysop and bureaucrat flags must be removed. Thank you. BetoCG (talk) 20:55, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Done. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:56, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] 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:

[edit] User 32X@commons

Status:    In progress

I'm asking for the importupload right (XML import; called import right by some tools) on Wikimedia Commons where I'm an admin since 2008. I was asked to separate some double-uploads (one file name, different files). Usually this is not a problem because every upload generates a new revision of the description page (usualy just a one-by-one copy of the last one), but some upload tools work differently. The Wiki loves Monuments upload tool does not create a new revision if an existing file is overwritten, which leaves two (or more) files but only one fitting revision of the description page. An easy work-around would be a second revision from myself but that would result into a file uploaded by one user while the earliest version of description page came from another user days or even months later. (This would raise questions regarding the validity of the given license.) My current work-around is to export the version history from commons, import it to de.wikipedia by using my XML-import right there, than transwiki-importing it back to commons and move it to the destination (namespace issues due to different language settings). This works but it is way to messy to do it more than a couple of times. --32X (talk) 22:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Is there some local discussion relating to this on Commons? MBisanz talk 22:34, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Can U name an example? Maybe their is a shorter way to do so ...
Btw. why do have admins the import right but not the importupload right? Why do only the import group have the importupload right? And yet there are no users flagged with the import group ... a×pdeHello! 11:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Because importupload right is insecure. Ruslik (talk) 11:31, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
There is no previous discussion because I was using the tools I had:
File:Cottbus August-Bebel-Straße 85.jpg and File:Cottbus August-Bebel-Straße 85 (front).jpg originate both from File:Bebel str.JPG (The log gives some clues about what I was doing. The file has recently been uploaded and the name wasn't very descriptive, so there's no redirect.)
ID 68354529 is an exact duplicate of ID 66962344, this duplicate was created by exporting it, XML-importing it to de.WP and transwikiimporting it to commons. --32X (talk) 12:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Ok, if I got that right, you're talking about the separation of two versions of a file looking too different? I already did this several times, but I never needed to ex- or import anything! I just deleted the complete file, restored one version, moved this version to some other name and restored the rest. Worked out perfectly for me ... a×pdeHello! 13:00, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
P.S.: Please name an example not yet done! a×pdeHello! 13:01, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I don't know what's the best approach here (an informed discussion should probably happen on Commons first), but note that what described is a bug. The easiest thing to do is probably to stop such imports, which are usually unnecessary. Nemo 14:22, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
File:275. Christuskirche.jpg has two different files but only one fitting revision in the version history. --32X (talk) 14:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I don't know why you're splitting such files although they're simple reuploads, but you should really discuss this locally. There's no cogent reason not to use the "easy workaround", and personally I consider it better; or even better, just upload the file you recover under a new title mentioning the original one, it's straightforward application of the license. By the way, suppressing redirects is a very bad idea, you should hope that Brion doesn't discover you. Nemo 15:00, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
People see two different photos and want to have two different file names. That's it. The log entry is related to the file name, it doesn't help anything for separating files. The revisions of the file description page are the important ressources, that are needed here. MediaWiki will only restore a file if there's at least one description page revision.
Just reuploading a file is exactly the thing I want to avoid, because it is a weak point in the processing chain. One user is the uploader but another one is the author. Guess who'll be credited by third party users. If a user decides to change his name by asking for renaming the account, there's no problem with the splitted file because it is hard connected to him. Believe me, there are enough reasons just to duplicate the missing file description than to reupload the whole file. --32X (talk) 22:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] See also

Requests for: permissions (global) — bot status — CheckUser information (local) — deletion (speedy deletions: local | multilingual) — translation — logos — URL blacklisting — username changes (local) — SUL problem solving — new languages — adminship on Meta — comments — interwiki map — an account on WMF wiki — help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat

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