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=== Current requests for permissions ===
== Current requests for permissions ==
* Hello, I'm requesting a sysop status for [[is:user:biekko|myself]] the [http://is.wikipedia.org Icelandc Wikipedia], it is only recently started and without any sysops yet, there is some cleaning work that needs to be done and pages to be deleted. Thanks ---[[User:Biekko|Biekko]] 13:52, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
* Hello, I'm requesting a sysop status for [[is:user:biekko|myself]] the [http://is.wikipedia.org Icelandc Wikipedia], it is only recently started and without any sysops yet, there is some cleaning work that needs to be done and pages to be deleted. Thanks ---[[User:Biekko|Biekko]] 13:52, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:There are quite a few active users on the Icelandic Wikipedia. Perhaps it would be best to set up a "requests for adminship" page and get approval from the other editors there first. [[User:Angela|Angela]] 21:14, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:There are quite a few active users on the Icelandic Wikipedia. Perhaps it would be best to set up a "requests for adminship" page and get approval from the other editors there first. [[User:Angela|Angela]] 21:14, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
::I shall do just that. --[[User:Biekko|Biekko]] 22:50, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
::I shall do just that. --[[User:Biekko|Biekko]] 22:50, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

== Requests for Bot status ==
== Requests for Bot status ==


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For requests that require direct action (for example if a sysop is needed for combatting ongoing large-scale vandalism), one can use the IRC channel #mediawiki or #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net (users angela, anthere or engels).
For requests that require direct action (for example if a sysop is needed for combatting ongoing large-scale vandalism), one can use the IRC channel #mediawiki or #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net (users angela, anthere or engels).


=== Temporary situations ===
== Temporary situations ==


[[User:Secretlondon|Secretlondon]] is temporarily an administrator on [[:uz:]] to delete vandalised pages until uz have admins of their own. [[User:Angela|Angela]] 20:34, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[[User:Secretlondon|Secretlondon]] is temporarily an administrator on [[:uz:]] to delete vandalised pages until uz have admins of their own. [[User:Angela|Angela]] 20:34, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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== Recently completed requests ==
== Recently completed requests ==

* In a discussion on the Slovenian Wikipedia, it just happens to be mentioned that there was no sysop there. Since I found that rather remarkable for such a large Wikipedia, I have thereupon proposed to make XJamrastafire, Peterlin and Romanm into sysops, all three being active for several months, and together being responsible for almost the whole sl: Wikipedia. I have gotten a positive reaction from XJam, now waiting for the other two before going into action. - [[User:Andre Engels|Andre Engels]] 00:20, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
** Getting positive reactions from both, I have made all three sysop. I also turned XJamRastafire into a Bureaucrat, so the language should be able to regulate itself from now on. - [[User:Andre Engels|Andre Engels]] 14:59, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)


* I've used [[:bg:По�,реби�,ел:Bgbot|a bot on bg:]] for a couple of tasks: addition of a MediaWiki custom message, table syntax conversion, interwiki update. And I want to request a bot mark for this user: [[:bg:User:Bgbot]]. I've already done this on [[Other language issues#Bots|Other language issues]] but I guess that wasn't the right place. <br>I want also to run the [[:en:User:Bgbot|bot on en:]] in order to add a bulgarian interwiki on the year pages (1800-2009). It will wait at least 60 seconds between edits. I intend to use the bot on en: and other wikies only to add a bg: interwiki. --[[User:Borislav|Borislav]] 13:47, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
* I've used [[:bg:По�,реби�,ел:Bgbot|a bot on bg:]] for a couple of tasks: addition of a MediaWiki custom message, table syntax conversion, interwiki update. And I want to request a bot mark for this user: [[:bg:User:Bgbot]]. I've already done this on [[Other language issues#Bots|Other language issues]] but I guess that wasn't the right place. <br>I want also to run the [[:en:User:Bgbot|bot on en:]] in order to add a bulgarian interwiki on the year pages (1800-2009). It will wait at least 60 seconds between edits. I intend to use the bot on en: and other wikies only to add a bg: interwiki. --[[User:Borislav|Borislav]] 13:47, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Revision as of 14:59, 20 April 2004

This is a central page to request permissions (sysop status, bureaucrat status, bot status) on one of the Wikimedia projects, where no local means exist to do so yet.


For requests that require direct action (for example if a sysop is needed for combatting ongoing large-scale vandalism), one can use the IRC channel #mediawiki or #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net (users angela, anthere or engels).

Requests for adminship or bureaucratship

If your Wikipedia has a request for adminship page and a bureaucrat (a bureaucrat is able to make people sysop on the local wiki), please use your local page. If not, use this page.


When you make your request, please mention your language code, and do consider making a admin page on your wiki if it does not exist yet. The admin page

  • should list admins and bureaucrat on your wiki,
  • have a link to that page
  • when your wiki gets bigger, the conditions to fill to be sysop and the discussions (approval or disapproval) about a new candidate.


Links to local request pages

bg - da - de - eo - el - en - es - eu - fi - fr - he - ia - id - ja - lt - ms - nl - pl - [[:ru:�'икипедия:Administrators|ru]] - simple - sl - sv - tr - ur - uz - zh - textbook - wiktionary - Wikisource

Current requests for permissions

  • Hello, I'm requesting a sysop status for myself the Icelandc Wikipedia, it is only recently started and without any sysops yet, there is some cleaning work that needs to be done and pages to be deleted. Thanks ---Biekko 13:52, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
There are quite a few active users on the Icelandic Wikipedia. Perhaps it would be best to set up a "requests for adminship" page and get approval from the other editors there first. Angela 21:14, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I shall do just that. --Biekko 22:50, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Requests for Bot status

To register a bot, please mention its name and the wiki local wiki on which it will work here.

Warning : for some big wikipedias, such as en:, you will need to specifically request an authorization over there. See en:Wikipedia talk:Bots for approval by a sysop.

Current requests

Urgent situations

For requests that require direct action (for example if a sysop is needed for combatting ongoing large-scale vandalism), one can use the IRC channel #mediawiki or #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net (users angela, anthere or engels).

Temporary situations

Secretlondon is temporarily an administrator on uz: to delete vandalised pages until uz have admins of their own. Angela 20:34, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Jamesday is temporarily an administrator on qu: to clear up some vandalism. Angela 22:10, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Recently completed requests

  • In a discussion on the Slovenian Wikipedia, it just happens to be mentioned that there was no sysop there. Since I found that rather remarkable for such a large Wikipedia, I have thereupon proposed to make XJamrastafire, Peterlin and Romanm into sysops, all three being active for several months, and together being responsible for almost the whole sl: Wikipedia. I have gotten a positive reaction from XJam, now waiting for the other two before going into action. - Andre Engels 00:20, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Getting positive reactions from both, I have made all three sysop. I also turned XJamRastafire into a Bureaucrat, so the language should be able to regulate itself from now on. - Andre Engels 14:59, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I've used [[:bg:По�,реби�,ел:Bgbot|a bot on bg:]] for a couple of tasks: addition of a MediaWiki custom message, table syntax conversion, interwiki update. And I want to request a bot mark for this user: bg:User:Bgbot. I've already done this on Other language issues but I guess that wasn't the right place.
    I want also to run the bot on en: in order to add a bulgarian interwiki on the year pages (1800-2009). It will wait at least 60 seconds between edits. I intend to use the bot on en: and other wikies only to add a bg: interwiki. --Borislav 13:47, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I have turned Bgbot into a bot on bg:. Regarding the en: user I am not so sure, I would like to leave that to one of my colleagues who knows more about the procedures for this on en:. - Andre Engels 16:09, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Also marked as a bot on en now following discussion at en:wikipedia talk:bots. Angela 21:23, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Why? --Elian 16:59, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I don't need admin rights because I want to work on only a limited set of articles from now on. And I am not interested in Wikipedia as a project and all the meta stuff anymore. That's incompatible with being an admin, I suppose. Whatever, I don't want to discuss my decision. Thanks for asking anyway.--El 19:41, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
OK DONE. -- Looxix 21:08, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Request to become bureaucrat at gl: [agremon] (It's no one, only users with sysop status)
    • A check on the gl: wikipedia showed implicit agreement from JorgeGG; furthermore agremon is by far the most active user. Granted this request. - Andre Engels 13:07, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

We had two new admins on it that got already enough votes months ago, but no one gave them the right to be admin. I gave it now to them but I started also a vote for another person on it to be Burocrat, so that in the future no steward is needed for new admins on it. Hope it is right, what I did (otherwise let me know!), it is the first time I "made an admin" :-) Fantasy 22:23, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Please, turn both users Robo5 and Zwobot on bg: into bots. --Borislav 05:21, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Done. Angela 08:02, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User روزبه at fa (that is me) asks to be granted bureaucrat status to give some powers to others so he won't remain the only sysop to blame on the Persian Wikipedia. This is to share the evil power! Roozbeh 15:12, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Please can you let us know what your user ID is. Thanks. Angela 17:36, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
You can see your ID number on top of your preferences page. - Andre Engels 07:42, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The ID is "4". Roozbeh 10:22, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Does not seem to be working. What am I doing wrong? (User rights for "#4@fa" could not be set. (Did you enter the name correctly?)) - Andre Engels 17:11, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I had the same problem on fi: yesterday. I've left a message for Tim about it. Angela 18:06, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I think, it's done now (I give me bureaucrat status on fa, then set روزبه bureaucrat from there). Can someone understanding farsi confirm it? -- Looxix 18:39, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The bug with setting permissions using IDs is apparently fixed now. Angela 08:02, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)


I have made Timwi a sysop on zh: to help combatting a rather aggressive vandal. If no action has been taken, he can be de-sysoped again soon, if so wanted. - Andre Engels 16:09, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC) Same for Suisui. Rather persistent vandal. - Andre Engels 18:10, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

De-sysopped. - Andre Engels 07:42, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User Mero at mg. I'd like to work on this a little more in depth. My User ID there is 3. --Mero 07:09, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Although Mero has been on mg: only a few days, I have decided positively on this request because:
1. He is the _only_ active contributor on mg:
2. He is a valuated Wikipedian elsewhere, being a sysop on en: and simple:
Andre Engels 07:23, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User J.Pitkä at fi has been voted to have sysop rights. We don't yet have bureaucrats, so I ask here. -- TJ 17:15, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

My ID number is 231. Sorry for any inconvinience. J.Pitka 19:11, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Should be done now. Angela 19:48, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
By mistake, I give also the bureaucrat status at J.Pitka. It's corrected now but not visible on the bureacrtlog on fi. Sorry for any confusion that may arise. -- Looxix 20:34, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Seth Ilys asked for his temporary adminship on zh to be removed, and Jorge requested his sysopship be reinstated following his request for it to be removed last week. Angela 17:40, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User Jorge at pt requested unsysoping for himself for wikistress. I did so. Anthere 15:19, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Give the bot status to fr:MedBot. -- Looxix 23:27, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Request to become a bureaucrat at TR: volkan

Done. Angela 11:28, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I am looking for adminship on the Lithuanian Wikipedia. There are many things to translate and update and I am willing to do so. Knutux 14:48, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • I have asked Dirgela to say whether he supports this as he is the most active user on lt: and Knutux has only been here a week. Angela 15:20, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
      • Even as Knutux has been at lt:wiki only for a week I support his request as in this time he has made a big contribution and none of his contributions seem to be against wikipedia rules, NPOV or anything else. Lithuanian wikipedia is growing steady and it surely needs an admin. Dirgela
        • As lt had no bureaucrat, I have made Knutux one, so that he can handle future requests for adminship on lt. Angela 07:02, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I would like to become a sysop for the Greek el.wikipedia.org.el:User:ank
    • Supported by Gkastel
      • Ank should be an admin on el now. If not, then please let me know. --mav 03:20, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Hello. I am looking for the interlinguian Wikipedia (Interlinguian Wikipedia) adminship. There are just 3 (2 active) sysops, so i think, it would need more. My knowledge of 5 other languages and of (more then one year now) Wikipedia (i'm already admin in de:) will be, I think, very helpful. Fire
    • Juste pour noter le nom, il pourrait y avoir un requete pour McDutchie sur la wiki interlangua. Anthere 17:21, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
      • Fire should be an admin on ia.wikipedia now. --mav 03:45, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
        • It was nice of Mav to grant adminship to Fire, but as an admin in ia.wiki perhaps this could have been discussed with the already working sysops, nothing agains User:Fire, but he doesn't even spell the name of the language correctly, it would be good to see him actually write some articles in Interlingua. Of course, as a polyglot I'm sure with some practice he'll do just fine, and BTW I'd requested bureaucrat status at the email list but haven't heard back since... what gives ;-) --User:ILVI
          • I made you bureaucrat as well, so Fire does not feel alone. I rejoin you on your feeling that once a pedia has 4 sysops, it is probably big enough to decide itself who should be or not be bureaucrat. And it is important that at least one person is, so that you can take care of your own business. Now, you are two, you do not need us anymore :-) Have fun ! Anthere
  • tokipona: : Please add admin status for me. --Sonjaaa 07:44, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • It looks like Tim has already made you one there. Angela 22:44, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • I am looking for adminship on the Urdu Wikipedia. Currently there are no admins there who know Urdu and can work on the wikipedia. Aalahazrat 2018, 05 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • done, please create a page to list admin, put your name on, and link at the top of this page. It would be helpful to contact you in case of further requests Thanks and welcome :-) (your language is unfortunately only ??? to me. My browser does not know the caracters) Anthere 17:23, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Request to become bureaucrat at KU: Erdal Ronahi 20:53, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC) (I am the only admin there so far.)
    • Erdal should now be a bureaucrat at KU. --mav 03:29, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • [[:ja:利�"��...:Michey.M]] wants to resign. Tomos
    • Michey.M should be just a regular user now. --mav
  • Sysop Yosri should become a bureaucrat on the Malay wikipedia. We're starting to grow enough to add new sysops! -- Kowey 12:25, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Done. Angela 15:07, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

History

  1. In the beginning, people would apply for sysop power by asking Brion.
  2. Then someone came up with the idea of creating bureaucrat power so that certain sysops could create other sysops. The (short-lived) idea was that requests for adminship would be handled here by the group of bureaucrats.
  3. A final simplification/correction/clarification of the idea was that bureaucrat powers were meant to be local to individual wikis, thus reducing the amount of meta-noise, but somebody has to create the first bureaucrat, so ask here!

See also