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This page holds approved requests for temporary permissions until they expire. Please add new requests on the request page and not here. Stewards: please do not archive these requests until all temporary rights have been removed. Please move them to the latest archive (linked in the request page's header) after processing. The requests are ordered by the date of removal. Please state the date in bold text at the bottom of the section for ease of processing.

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Contents 1 Expiring: 24 Nov 2009 1.1 小躍@hakwiki 2 Expiring: 25 Nov 2009 2.1 Seagull.Stefanos@el.wikiquote 3 Expiring: 01 Dec 2009 3.1 Demmy@yowikipedia 4 Expiring 3 December 2009 4.1 Bianchi-Bihan@brwiktionary 5 Expiring: 15 December 2009 5.1 Stephen G. Brown and Seb az86556 @nvwiki 6 Expiring: 20 December 2009 6.1 Ooswesthoesbes@liwikisource 7 Expiring: 23 Dec 2009 7.1 Moon@kwwiki 8 Expiring: 24 Dec 2009 8.1 Hariva@fawiktionary 9 Expiring: 25 Dec 2009 9.1 jayantanth@bnwikibooks 10 Expiring: 9 Jan 2010 10.1 JerryofWong@zhwikisource for import 11 Expiring: 10 Jan 2010 11.1 Aliter@fywiktionary 12 Expiring: 12 Jan 2010 12.1 Masterches@htwiki 13 Expiring: 20 Jan 2010 13.1 Eminn@azwikisource 14 Expiring: 25 Jan 2010 14.1 Mopza@th.wikisource 15 Expiring: 13 Feb 2010 15.1 User:Ciphers@arwiki for import 16 Expiring: 22 Feb 2010 16.1 Hercule@ace.wikipedia 17 Expiring: 1 March 2010 17.1 putnik@ruwikinews 18 Expiring: 3 March 2010 18.1 Jagwar@mgwiki 18.2 Hanberke@tk.wikipedia 18.3 Jagwar@mgwiki 18.4 Iniquity@rubooks 19 Expiring: 16 March 2010 19.1 Lucyin@wawiktionary 20 Expiring: 18 March 2010 20.1 Teak@hywikisource 21 Expiring: 26 March 2010 21.1 Malafaya@vo.wiktionary 22 Expiring: 9 April 2010 22.1 Xqt@pdcwiki 23 Expiring: 15 May 2010 23.1 Amdf@mhr.wikipedia 24 Expiring: 8 November 2010 24.1 Borislav@bg.wikinews

[edit] Expiring: 24 Nov 2009

[edit] 小躍@hakwiki

I want to make Wikipedia's contributions in the hakka wiki.don't encounter any destruction.--林躍錩 08:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Still voting, see hak:Wikipedia:Kón-lî-yèn/Chhiáng-khiù/User:小躍—Bencmq 14:25, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello, You can contribute there without sysop status, or please explain what would You need sysop status for? One vote is not enough for permanent status btw. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 21:27, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

If I work as time the Administrator, Can the management edition, the protection, delete the page and restore the page, And manages all users.--林躍錩 23:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done for 3 months to expire on 2009-11-24 as your wiki is too small to warrant you permanent adminship. Please ask locally again if you want renewal. Thanks.--Jusjih 19:08, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 25 Nov 2009

[edit] Seagull.Stefanos@el.wikiquote

On March 27th you gave me admin permission for three months, which are almost to expire. For this reason I'm asking you either to renew my temporary permission or to give me permanent adminship, as (probably!) no one else has express the will to help Greek Wikiquotes. I'm planning to make some more changes & addings in the project, during the next (summer/holiday) months... Thanks in advance! Thank you! Seagull.Stefanos 07:12, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

 Done - OK, let's renew this for next 5 months. Expires November 25 2009. --FiliP ██ 08:55, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 01 Dec 2009

[edit] Demmy@yowikipedia

Please kindly extend my temporary adminship to yo.wikipedia which expires tomorrow. Thank you. Demmy 07:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 01-09-2009 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Extended for more 3 months, expires 01-12-2009. Please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks. Alex Pereira ^falaê 13:00, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring 3 December 2009

[edit] Bianchi-Bihan@brwiktionary

On behalf of this user, I'm asking for temporary adminship for him. This user is currently and for some time the sole active user on this wiki, and he acts responsibly. Current sysop is inactive for some months, and made just 3 edits in the last year. Rubbish is building up and there's no one to delete unwanted pages. I asked his permission to propose his name for temp adminship (see discussion link). Thanks, Malafaya 09:47, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello Malafaya, I don't see a problem here, only please also make a local announcement (Village pump, Mainpage talkpage, or similar), so possible readers or other users could object, thanks. Fulup is not really active but he just deleted something 3 days ago, I prefer to see the local announcement to not hear things like "we did not know about this and were overruled by evil meta" etc. thanks for Your understanding, after this is open for some days I don't see any problem granting him adminship for 3 months and he can prolong it unbureaucratic then. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 12:25, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi again, Spacebirdy. You're right and I'm sorry. I should have done that before asking here.

I posted an announcement in their Village Pump. Check second link above, in the "Discussion" item. Thanks again, Malafaya 13:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 03-12-2009 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 15 December 2009

[edit] Stephen G. Brown and Seb az86556 @nvwiki

I wish to request adminship for nv:Choinish'įįhí:Seb az86556 on the Navajo Wikipedia. We have been working hard to get the Navajo Wikipedia up and running and have made a lot of headway. However, at least one of us needs to have admin powers there. Stephen G. Brown 09:59, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Would appreciate the support. Only two admins listed, none of whom are active. I do have an account on transwiki, but the implementation of local messages cannot be changed w/o adminship Seb az86556 10:59, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't see any problem here in granting You both tempadminship for three months (can be prolonged easily afterwards or made permanent if there is a local voting). Please make a local announcement that You want adminship there to allow local users to comment that (and link it here). Thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14:35, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. (Navajo & (English)). Very few active usersat the moment. How long the usual wait-time? Thanks. Seb az86556 01:59, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

About a week, to allow others to react, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 05:30, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, since nobody replied in a week, I'm afraid we can't grant you permanent sysopship. But, since nobody objected either, I don't see any problem with temporary rights -  Done for a month, to expire 15 October 2009. — Dan | talk 15:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I am a permanent administrator on that site, and I would support him having permanent adminship also. Incidentally, if you do decide to grant him permanent adminship, you can remove mine too. I forgot I was an admin there. :-) --Deskana 02:53, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I've just noticed that Spacebirdy promised three months' temp adminship rather than one. So I'll go ahead and change the expiry date to 15 December 2009 for both of these users, and I'll remove Deskana's flag. Stephen and Seb, when your three months are up, feel free to come back here and request another three months, or if there are more users regularly editing by that time you can put another notice on the village pump and we can see about permanent adminship. (Section copied to /Approved temporary.) — Dan | talk 04:42, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 20 December 2009

[edit] Ooswesthoesbes@liwikisource

Again I request (temporary) sysop access at li.wikisource to move and delete some categories. There is no local community. --OosWesThoesBes 08:26, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Done, status granted for 3 months (not for 6 months, because you wasn't really active as sysop after your last request), expires: 20-12-2009. Regards, LeinaD (t) 09:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 23 Dec 2009

[edit] Moon@kwwiki

I'll give you another three months (expiration: 23 December 2009), but perhaps in that time you could look into setting up a request for permanent rights? There seem to be a number of somewhat active users available to weigh in. — Dan | talk 19:39, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

So this obviously can be closed as  Done, right? --თოგო ^(D) 10:50, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 24 Dec 2009

[edit] Hariva@fawiktionary

Done, status granted for 3 months, expires: 24-12-2009. LeinaD (t) 17:52, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 25 Dec 2009

[edit] jayantanth@bnwikibooks

I am sysop in Bengali Wikipedia. Joy I wish to request adminship for bn.wikibooks.org. At this time there are no admin. see talk page of ragib bhai was a temporary admin in 1996. I have to maintain bn.wikibooks Jayantanth 21:39, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

We cannot grant any permanent permission without reaching local consensus, however you can ask a temporary sysopship, but, before that, you have to inform the community with a local announcement following feedbacks (and post here the link). Thanks!--Nick1915 - ^{all you want} 21:51, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

temporary sysopship is well and good for me. But at present there are no community in Bengali wikibook. And what to do now.local announcement. Actually I have seen many Bengali wikibook content, which is not as per policy. As like

• [6]
• [7]
• [8]

above there links is a personal story.They should be speedy delete.Jayantanth 05:34, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Be patient, in a few days if there are no strong objections, you'll get your temporary sysopship. As for the links you give, if another bengali speaker corroborates, we can delete them now, or you can in a few days assuming no one objects to temporary sysopship for you. ++Lar: t/c 15:53, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 25-12-2009--Nick1915 - ^{all you want} 18:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 9 Jan 2010

[edit] JerryofWong@zhwikisource for import

The above user wants import flag. After local discussion since 2009-09-23, only I entered a supporting with no one else saying anything as the community there is not so big. Grant the flag?--Jusjih 02:51, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

What is the purpose of import flag? There is no active community, so I would suggest granting temporary right. Other opinions? LeinaD (t) 23:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree :)--Nick1915 - ^{all you want} 07:55, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

The user wants to import things to make new pages faster. If you do not support permanent right, I agree temporary one, then see if renewal is fine, as I avoid granting this due to steward policy about the conflict of interest.--Jusjih 00:50, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Seems reasonable enough of a request, how long is needed? ++Lar: t/c 03:24, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

I've granted JerryofWong import flag for 3 months, expires: 9-01-2010. Please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows. LeinaD (t) 14:31, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 10 Jan 2010

[edit] Aliter@fywiktionary

fy:wikt:Meidogger:Aliter

 Done - granted temporary for 6 months (per discussion and previous requests and few other users). Expires 10 January 2010. ++Lar: t/c 05:17, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 12 Jan 2010

[edit] Masterches@htwiki

I tend to decline this. You have not been active on the wiki in the past 3 months. And please inform the community before you request temp sysopship. The page you linked only contains your request from June 2009. --თოგო ^(D) 10:44, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

i follow the contributions made on the wiki and bring enhancements each time it is possible-you can look at my homepage to see the work that has been done; i should log in before each contributions of mine in order to have higher statistics ...

many things have been done to maintain contributions on the wiki but the community is still poor; there are a small increasing on anonymous contributions but the take-off is not spectacular yet.

Please remember to sign your posts with "~~~~", it sets a good example as you grow your community. I agree with Thogo that you should be a visible contributor to the wiki you want a temporary adminship on... Perhaps it's as simple as remembering to log in so we can see your work. Perhaps come back in a few weeks? ++Lar: t/c 01:07, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

i don't know why coming back in a few weeks, my contributions are on my homepage (homepage), on my discussion panel (ht:Diskisyon_Itilizatè:Masterches), on the log there ([9]); i'm not an inexperienced user ...it's my fourth application for this post and the reasons invoqued each time for not having a longer adminship are "community is too small to give you more than 6 or 3 months"; do explain me what the problem is now... Masterches 10:35, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Because when we go to your contribs on htwiki we see only 5 edits since June. That's not very many. If you aren't working there much or at all, do you need a temp sysopship there? I'd be inclined to say no. But you also said you were contributing but forgot to log in.... so, try to remember to log in and come back in a few weeks so we can see what you do there, that's my thinking. Other stewards may have a different view. ++Lar: t/c

 Done to expire on 2010-01-12. Please use edit summaries more often as well.--Jusjih 02:57, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 20 Jan 2010

[edit] Eminn@azwikisource

For records i have granted user:Eminn temp 3 month adminship on azwikisource . This would be expired on 2009/10/08 Mardetanha ^talk 19:52, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Status removed. LeinaD (t) 14:49, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Flag was regranting will be removed at 2010/01/20 --Mardetanha ^talk 17:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 25 Jan 2010

[edit] Mopza@th.wikisource

Please grant me temporary import + sysop status on Thai Wikisource for 3 Months. Thank you! --Ken-Z! Talk 04:58, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Please make a local announcement, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 10:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

 sysop-status, expires: 25-01-2010 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks

For the import status, please request transwiki for the wiki You wish to import from at bugzilla:, then You can access it from the drop down at s:th:special:import as sysop. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 08:27, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 13 Feb 2010

[edit] User:Ciphers@arwiki for import

Hi, i would like to request the importer rights on arabic wikipedia for my account for trial. I may change these rights to my bot account later in case the trial worked as expected. link to the local request is here, sorry it is in Arabic. thanks! --Ciphers 11:10, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

On hold as you just added this on 2009-11-05.--Jusjih 02:55, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. --Ciphers 03:37, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

 Done to expire on 2010-02-13 as I see only one other user commenting on your request.--Jusjih 01:16, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 22 Feb 2010

[edit] Hercule@ace.wikipedia

There are few votes, but the pool is open since 2 weeks, and the 2 sysops have supported it. Regards Hercule 09:16, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

This page don't exist. Please, show us a valid link. Thanks. Alex Pereira ^falaê 11:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

The page is here.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 17:25, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

This just seems weird - the community is fine with having an admin who does not speak the language? Odd. --Daniel Mayer (mav) 03:09, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, they agree with it. Is it forbidden ?

I'm sysop and crat on wuu.wikipedia while I don't speak Wu, and there is also an admin/crat on wo.wikipedia who don't speak Wolof.

--Hercule 09:28, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

It's not unheard of... there are a fair number of other examples out there I believe. ++Lar: t/c 02:15, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Given the small community should this be temp access?  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 16:26, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes with very limited active users.  Done to expire on 2010-02-22.--Jusjih 21:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 1 March 2010

[edit] putnik@ruwikinews

— putnik 14:30, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Request refused - not enough voters. Candidate should be supported by local community (at least 3 users), but not only by one person two persons. LeinaD (t) 15:00, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Done. Request for permanent access has been changed into temporary access on 6 months. Expires 1 March 2010. LeinaD (t) 22:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 3 March 2010

[edit] Jagwar@mgwiki

Hello,

I would like to renew my mandate of temporary sysop on mgwikipedia. Because I have to correct some mediawiki messages. I will also have to reorganize the sitenotice but I can't because I'm no longer admin.

That's why I request for temporary adminship.

Thanks in advance, Jagwar ^{交談 homewiki} 09:12, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 03 March 2010 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks --თოგო ^(D) 11:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hanberke@tk.wikipedia

• i am inclined to prolong for another 3 months at a time. by the way, do you have any plan what to do about the "empty pages" created among these? very best, oscar 10:03, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 12-03-2010 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 18:22, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Jagwar@mgwiki

Hello,

I would like to renew my mandate of temporary sysop on mgwikipedia. Because I have to correct some mediawiki messages. I will also have to reorganize the sitenotice but I can't because I'm no longer admin.

That's why I request for temporary adminship.

Thanks in advance, Jagwar ^{交談 homewiki} 09:12, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 03 March 2010 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks --თოგო ^(D) 11:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Jagwar ^{交談 homewiki} 08:59, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Iniquity@rubooks

Good afternoon. I have requests for adminship in Russian Wikibooks. But it has not got bureaucrats and so big local community. And I would like You help. - Iniquity 18:47, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Please, send a avaliable link about your votation/discussion. Thanks. Alex Pereira ^falaê 19:05, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Is ready. Sorry. - Iniquity 19:19, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

One question: Why the long time to do this request? Last edit in that page was wrote in 27 may 2009... Alex Pereira ^falaê 19:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Around 6 months. - Iniquity 19:35, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done. Alex Pereira ^falaê 19:48, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 16 March 2010

[edit] Lucyin@wawiktionary

I wish to continue my work as administrator on Walloon Wictionary I started in January. There is now a small community to support my work. So I hope to get the statute for a longer period.

--Lucyin 03:16, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 16-03-2010 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 08:03, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 18 March 2010

[edit] Teak@hywikisource

Thank you! ― Teak 20:46, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Done, status granted for 6 months, expires: 18-03-2010. Regards, LeinaD (t) 21:17, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 26 March 2010

[edit] Malafaya@vo.wiktionary

My temporary adminship just expired. I would like to renew it for another period of time. Thank you! Malafaya 14:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

 Done, expires: 26-03-2010 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks (I'd recommend to keep the voting open until next time, maybe enough visitors will have given their opinion until then). Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 21:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

I just wrote a notice there to the fact that the voting is still ongoing. Let's seem if someone else participates. Thanks, Malafaya 23:45, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 9 April 2010

[edit] Xqt@pdcwiki

Thank you! Xqt 07:48, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Status granted. Alex Pereira ^falaê 11:26, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! --Marbot 12:08, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

There's just one vote. We can't give out permanent sysop with just one supporting vote. It'd propose to give him temp sysop for three months. Kind regards, —DerHexer (Talk) 12:26, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Support. Alex Pereira ^falaê 17:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I think Alex's judgement and decision was and is correct. The community, which is indeed not very large at pdcwiki, had three weeks to comment or oppose (announcement was made on main page). Sadly the only vote was from me, the current admin. However a re-election is compulsory on this wiki. Please have a look at the preconditions for adminstatus, too. Thus I do not see any problems. Taking also into consideration that stewards have the power to stop misuse right away at any time it occurs, makes the risk of misuse even smaller. Apart from that, I think that it is better to have two admins on this wiki than just one. A compromise I see at this stage is that he gets temporary adminstatus for three months which is then automatically transferred into permanent adminstatus thereafter. Best regards --Marbot 18:05, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

No, sorry, I disagree. Sysops should be elected by more than one user. There are dozens of other wikis with just one sysop. Xqt could start another regular election in three month. Kind regards, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree with DerHexer. After three months, make a new election. Best regards. Alex Pereira ^falaê 18:17, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I respect your decision. --Marbot 18:30, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I requeste to prolong his temporary adminship by three months. He has done a great job so far! Thank you --Marbot 19:23, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

See also here. Also announced on Main Page. Thank you. --Marbot 09:17, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

OK, prolonged for another 3 months – until October 1, 2009. --FiliP ██ 10:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I request to prolong my adminship because since two months I am the only active sysop at his site. [12] --Xqt 08:55, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello Xqt, I don't see a problem here, only please also make a local announcement (Village pump, Mainpage talkpage, or similar), so possible readers or other users could object and open new reuqest on SRP. Regards, LeinaD (t) 14:44, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi Leinard, thanks for your message. I did this at w:pdc:Wikipedia:Gmeeschafts-Portal #Xqt as admin some days ago. Would this be enought or should I start a new threat? --Xqt 15:57, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

OK, prolonged for another 6 months, expires: 9-04-2010. Regards, LeinaD (t) 16:18, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 15 May 2010

[edit] Amdf@mhr.wikipedia

My sysop access will expire 15-11-2009, please prolong it. амдф 15:36, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Please make a local announcement so if others object they can say so. - Andre Engels 23:37, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Done. амдф 19:50, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

I support. Azimbaj 11:51, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Prolonged for another 6 months, expires: 15-05-2010. Regards, LeinaD (t) 12:09, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

As requested on RfP, per local voting at mhr:Wikipedia:Сайтвиктарыше, I've removed the flag. --M/ 16:44, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Expiring: 8 November 2010

[edit] Borislav@bg.wikinews

Excuse me for reviving this discussion so soon after it was archived, but I feel that certain details were not well explained which led to some haste and waste. Since I am also in touch with these details, I'd like to mend the matters and explain again why is this request for an exception of the general rules.

The Bulgarian contributing community is relatively small, not enough human resources to cover all sister projects and most of the people who voluntarily contribute to Wikimedia are those who contribute to Wikipedia. Another reason, especially concerning BG Wikinews, may be that, to the best of my knowledge, we don't have in Bulgaria a news media that originally releases news under free license, so we don't have such a free data source, while using non-free media (paraphrasing texts, access to images) consumes more efforts than those available.

Now, one of our wikipedians Grigor Gatchev (Григор Гачев, check SUL, a local user, bot operator, holder of several own wikis, programmer and active promoter of free software) used his personal contacts and managed to convince one relatively small but flexible Bulgarian news media to release some of its content under CC-BY. He also programmed a special bot to wikify and import this content on a daily basis, roughly 20-30 articles per day. Which already comprises a big resource, at least big for our humble standards; and freely licensed, which is no less victory :)

So, he will need bot status. But before he leaves the bot running, he will need to first make some tests which require the flag be changed on, off, on, off... (due to some already encountered problems with captcha and other fine tunings). Which means either constantly bugging stewards with such requests (which would take much more time, efforts) or the other option is that we have a local bureaucrat on BG Wikinews, and so far there is only one admin, Borislav, the person who once requested the opening of all BG projects and has been given either bureaucrat or admin rights in all of them (check his SUL and user rights). This is why Grigor used the phrase "natural choice" in his first request.

Our point is that presently there is nothing in BG Wikinews, around which a community may be built, while Grigor's efforts to run the news bot may very soon break the vicious circle and bring readers, and of course editors. An explanation was given that the wiki must have at least 5 admins in order to apply for crat, but with a *currently* active and interested community tending to zero this simply cannot happen in reasonable time.

So a community may start forming, only when there is *something* around which they may gather, a resource, which has lacked for about 6 years, and only now we have the chance to have it. Once we have the content, admins and crats will be very soon really needed to clean after the (inevitable) vandals, to help operating the bot (giving and removing the flag when needed) and do maintenance which is not accessible to regular editors. One admin will not be able to do all the job, while the lack of a crat to facilitate the bot operator's job will hinder its initial fine-tuning which may affect the quality of the bot job. It is not a good idea to make the project's progress constantly dependent on stewards for decisions of purely operational nature.

In other words, it is really an exceptional request that we'd like to be granted more trust than the usual procedure provides, but the idea and the expected result is really promising and the people involved (Borislav and Grigor, after writing you - me too :-) ) are not going to abuse this trust, as we haven't done it so far in all other sister projects where we actively contribute. Thank you in advance. →Spiritia 20:01, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

 Done I've spoken independently to Spiritia. Given the user involved and the nature of the request, as the local project is intending on granting and removing the bot flag, and that I'm convinced that doing this supports the growth of the nascent Bulgarian Wikinews project. bastique ^demandez! 20:05, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Does that communication address the reasons it wasn't done originally?  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 20:11, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it addresses the fact that the reason it wasn't done before was per policy, and that I've granted it as an exception to the policy, in my position, because I'm convinced it will foster the growth of the project. I've also acknowledged that it was declined before per policy, as was appropriate. bastique ^demandez! 20:16, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

OK, you granted him bureaucrat flag (I'm bit confused), but who will control what happens on bg.wikinews? If this is an exception, it should be somehow controlled. In my opinion permanent bureaucrat should be turned into temporary access - on one year period with possibility of prolongation. It's too small project for permanent bureaucrat. LeinaD (t) 11:06, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

who will control what happens on bg.wikinews? -- what this has to do with bureaucrat privileges? --Петър Петров 10:46, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Granting administrator access by bureaucrat have to base on decision of community, but bg.wikinews is a very small community, so it should be controlled. LeinaD (t) 14:48, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

In view of the fact that bureaucrat right has been granted as an exception to the policy, it must be on special condition: temporary access. Bureaucrat right has been turned into temporary access, expires: 8-11-2010. Please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows. Note for stewards: Before prolonging please check bureaucrat's activity. LeinaD (t) 16:48, 8 November 2009 (UTC)