Meta:Bureaucrats

The following page documents an official Meta-Wiki policy. This page has been elaborated and approved by the community and its compliance is mandatory for all users. It must not be modified without prior community approval.

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Bureaucrat policies and information

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 6 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.

Requirements

An admin can request Bureaucrat status on Meta if they

1. Are active on Meta with over 150 edits/log actions (after getting adminship and not including own userspace) in the last six months.
2. User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after he/she nominates themselves at Meta:RfA.
3. 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 an uninvolved bureaucrat will 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.

See also

• Special:Log/rights - log of promotions
• Special:Log/renameuser - log of username changes
• Stewards
• Developers
• Special:Listusers/bureaucrat - list of all users who have bureaucrat permissions
• Meta:Administrators