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Stewards are users with complete access to the wiki interface on all Wikimedia wikis, including the ability to change any and all user rights and groups. They are tasked with technical implementation of community consensus, and dealing with emergencies (for example, cross-wiki vandalism). Stewards are empowered to act as a member of any permissions group on any project with no active member of that permissions group. For example: wikis without administrators may call upon stewards to fulfill that role; stewards will act as bureaucrats as needed on wikis without bureaucrats.

To get emergency help or ask a question, join the IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards^connect; say !steward in this channel to notify stewards of an emergency. For regular request, see the list of request pages in the box at right. To contact a steward directly, use that steward's talk page. Requests can also be sent to the steward OTRS queue at stewardswikimedia.org.

Stewards generally do not perform actions on wikis where local users are available to perform them, except in emergency or cross-wiki cases. This position was originally created to dissociate rights management from software development and systems administration.

Stewards do have a rough equivalent to being global sysops - they can block and unblock users on any Wikimedia wiki, even without assigning themselves the local sysop permission.

New stewards are regulary (once to twice a year) elected by the global Wikimedia community. Their total number is not limited. Elections are organized by existing stewards with input from the Wikimedia Foundation's Director, Community Advocacy, and run for roughly three weeks. Successful candidates must have a support-to-oppose ratio of at least 80% with at least 30 supporting editors.

Current stewards are also confirmed during the elections through an open call for community feedback and commentary, followed by discussion and consensus-building among the stewards. A team of stewards closes the elections and confirmation discussions. Further documentation may be found in the steward policies, election process, and handbook.

List of stewards

Last updated: 2012-04-29

+/-	Name	IRC nick	Languages spoken	Active from
1	Andre Engels	Andre_Engels	en, nl, de-3, fr-2, most other Germanic/Romanic languages-1	2007-12-21
2	Avraham	Avraham	en, he-2	2010-03-08
3	Axpde	axpde	de, en-4, nl-1, fr-1, it-1, es-1	2011-10-07
4	Barras	Barras	de, en-4, fr-1	2011-02-28
5	Bencmq	Bencmq	zh, en-3	2011-10-07
6	Bennylin	bennylin	id, ms-5, en-4, jv-3, map-bms-2, zh-2, able to read (-1 or -2) some Indonesian local languages	2011-10-07
7	Billinghurst	sDrewth	en	2012-02-28
8	Bsadowski1	Bsadowski1	en	2011-02-28
9	Darkoneko	DarkoNeko	fr, en-3	2006-12-22
10	DerHexer	DerHexer	de, en-3, grc-3, la-2, es-2	2007-12-21
11	Dungodung	dungodung	sr, en, hr, bs, de-1, mk-1	2007-12-21
12	Elfix	Elfix	fr, en-3	2012-02-28
13	Fr33kman	fr33kman	en, ja-2, nl-1, fr-1	2011-02-28
14	J.delanoy	jdelanoy	en, es-2	2010-03-08
15	Jusjih	Jusjih	zh-tw, zh-CN-3, en-3, fr-1, ja-0 (may read kanji), ko-0 (may read hanja)	2007-12-21
16	Jyothis	Jyothis	ml, hi-1, en-3	2010-03-08
17	Laaknor	Laaknor	nb, en-3, nn-2, da-1, sv-1	2009-02-28
18	Leinad	Leinad	pl, en-2	2009-02-28
19	Luckas Blade	Luckas_Blade	pt, en-3, es-3	2012-02-28
20	M7	M7	en, it, de-1, es-1, fr-1	2006-12-22
21	Magister Mathematicae (formerly known as Drini)	drini	en, es, ca-1, it-1	2006-12-22
22	MarcoAurelio (formerly known as Dferg)	MarcoAurelio	es, en-2, fr-2 (and other romanic languages at -1/2 level)	2010-04-08
23	Mardetanha	Mardetanha	az, fa, en-3, tr-2, ar-1, bqi-1, glk-1, mzn-1, tk-1	2009-02-28
24	Matanya	matanya	en, he	2011-02-28
25	MBisanz	MBisanz	en, es-1	2012-02-28
26	Mav	mav	en, es-2	2004-04-20
27	Melos	Melos	it, en-3, scn-4, es-1, la-1	2010-03-08
28	Mentifisto	Mentifisto	mt, en-4, it-2	2011-02-28
29	Millosh	millosh	sr (hr, bs, sh), en-3, be-1, bg-2, cu-2, mk-2, ru-2, sl-2, ry-1, uk-1	2007-12-21
30	Pathoschild	Pathoschild	en, fr-3	2006-12-22
31	PeterSymonds	PeterSymonds	en, de-1	2011-02-28
32	Pundit	pundit_wiki	pl, en-4, de-1, ru-1	2012-02-28
33	Quentinv57	Quentinv57	fr, en-3, de-1, lb-1	2011-10-07
34	Ruslik0	rr0	ru, en-3	2011-02-28
35	Shizhao	Shizhao	zh, en-1, ru-1	2005-05-31
36	Snowolf	QueenOfFrance	en, it	2012-02-28
37	Tegel	Tegel	sv, en-3, da-1 (đọc), no-1 (đọc)	2012-02-28
38	Teles	Teles	pt, en-3, es-2	2012-02-28
40	Trijnstel	Trijnstel	nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1	2011-10-07
41	Vituzzu	Vito	it, scn, en-2, fr-2, la-1, es-1, pt-1	2011-10-07
42	Wikitanvir	Tanvir	bn, en-3, as-2, bpy-1	2011-10-07
43	Wpedzich	Wpedzich	en, pl, de-2	2011-02-28

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See also

• Stewards: global permission • global groups (toolserver) • member list • group changelog
• Special global permissions
• Current stewards by number of rights changes / actions / total
• Former stewards
• Documentation for stewards
• Stewards' noticeboard
• Stewards/confirm
• Steward policies
• Steward elections: 2004, 2005, early 2006, late 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, early 2011, late 2011, 2012.
• Discussion: Talk:Stewards/elections 2004 and Talk:Stewards

Steward logs on Meta

• Global account log
• Global block log
• Global rights changes
• Local rights changes
• Global changes performed out of meta-wiki.