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This page hosts requests for global permissions. To make a request, read the relevant policy (global rollback , global sysop , global rename , …) and make a request below. Explain why membership is needed for that group, and detail prior experience or qualifications.

This is not a vote and any active Wikimedia editor may participate in the discussion.

Global rollback and global interface editor requests require no fewer than 5 days of discussion while abuse filter helper and maintainer requests require no fewer than 7 days. Global renamer and global sysop requests require no fewer than 2 weeks of discussion. For requests that are unlikely to pass under any circumstances, they may be closed by a steward without further discussion (after a reasonable amount of input).

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Requests for global rollback permissions

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if you don't follow the instructions, and not doing so would reflect poorly on your suitability. Please also review the Global rollback policy. Instructions for making a request Before requesting, make sure that: You have sufficient activity to meet the requirements to be allocated the global rollback flag To make a request Copy the template below to the bottom of this section and explain of why you need the access and why you're suitable. === Global rollback for {{subst:u|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}}} === {{sr-request |status = <!-- don't change this line --> |domain = global <!-- don't change this line --> |user name = {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} <!-- don't change this line unless you're nominating another user --> }} ::''Not ending before {{subst:#time:j F Y H:i|+5 days}} UTC'' The request will be approved if consensus to do so exists after a period of consideration of no less than 5 days (with rare exceptions , no matter how obvious the result may seem). This is not a vote, and all input is welcome. Stewards will determine whether consensus exists; when doing so it is likely that the weight given to the input of those involved in cross-wiki work will be most influential.

Requests for global sysop permissions

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if you don't follow the instructions, and not doing so would reflect poorly on your suitability. Please also review the Global sysops policy. Stewards When you give someone global sysop rights, please list them on Users with global sysop access and ask them to subscribe to the global sysops mailing list. Instructions for making a request Before requesting, make sure that: You have a global account ; You are logged in on this wiki, and the account is part of your global account; To make a request Copy the template below to the bottom of this section and explain of why you need the access and why you're suitable. If you previously requested that right, please add a link to the previous discussion(s). === Global sysop for {{subst:u|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}}} === {{sr-request |status = <!-- don't change this line --> |domain = global <!-- don't change this line --> |user name = {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} <!-- don't change this line unless you're nominating another user --> }} :''Not ending before {{subst:#time:j F Y H:i|+2 week}} UTC'' The request will be approved if consensus to do so exists after a period of consideration of no less than two weeks (no exceptions are allowed no matter how obvious the result may seem). This is not a vote, and all input is welcome. Stewards will determine whether consensus exists; when doing so it is likely that the weight given to the input of those involved in cross-wiki work will be most influential. Please note: Since 2019 all global sysops are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled.

Requests for global IP block exemption

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if you don't follow the instructions. Please review Global IP block exemption. You may request Global IP block exemption via stewardswikimedia.org if you can not edit this page. Please note: Global IP block exemption does NOT make one immune to locally-created blocks of any sort, only global blocks. Instructions for making a request Before requesting global IP block exemption, make sure that: You have a global account ; You are logged in on this wiki, and the account is part of your global account; To request global IP block exemption Copy the template below to the bottom of this section and explain why you need the access and why you're suitable. If needed, link to relevant discussions. === Global IP block exempt for {{subst:u|{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}}} === {{sr-request |status = <!--don't change this line--> |domain = global<!--don't change this line--> |user name = {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} }} <Add an explanation here>, thanks, --~~~~ The request will be approved if there is demonstrated need for the permission, such as bypassing a global block from someone who is not the intended target.

Requests for global rename permissions

Steward requests/Global permissions/Global renamers

Global rename for Avocato

The following request is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Status:    Not done

• Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Avocato (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)

Not ending before 19 June 2018 17:39 UTC

Hello. I'm an admin, bureaucrat, and checkuser from ar.wiki. I was a global renamer previously in 1 October 2014, but the permission has been removed in 5 February 2018 because of my absence recently, but now I have enough time to be here again. Regards. --Avocato (talk) 17:39, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

• neutral close to oppose, because Avocato inactive in ar.wiki since the beginning of 2017 (ar.wiki is the main wiki for Avocato, and he made only 57 edits on 2017, and 67 edits on 2018), and his last edit in Meta on October 2016, so Avocato please increase your activity for acceptable limit then I'll support your request. Best --Alaa :)..! 01:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose per A’laa, except I’ll actually oppose. We need active users with this permission. Would support in a few months if active again. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:34, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
• @علاء and TonyBallioni: I wouldn't ask for the permission if I haven't already put a schedule for increasing my contributions next months.--Avocato (talk) 19:00, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

I think, you should increase your activity in advanced rights you have, then ask for other advanced rights! not vice versa! --Alaa :)..! 22:48, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

• Neutral Per علاء. —AlvaroMolina (✉ - ✔) 17:42, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose too much inactivity. --Cameron11598 (talk) 23:00, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
• Neutral close to support I think based on trust the user can be given the flag since they're currently serving as bureaucrat and checkuser, but looking at severe lack of activity (<150 edits in 2 years) there's no need to assign whatever flag on virtually dormant account. Please use the flags you have now and ask for more when you're really active. I added close to support because I think this flag should have been bundled in bureaucrat group ab initio. –Ammarpad (talk) 13:41, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose per above. Concerns with inactivity. -FASTILY 04:02, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
• Neutral Per activity concerns, although they are trusted user and had the right in past, I will support in future. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:22, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Not done, no consensus. Stryn (talk) 09:10, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Global rename for ZI Jony

Status:    In progress

• Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: ZI Jony (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)

Not ending before 26 June 2018 19:02 UTC

Hello, I would like to request global renamer rights to help peoples to rename their username globally. Regards, ZI Jony (talk) 19:02, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

•  Oppose less than 3000 edits, also less of experience (around 2500 edits on 2018) and there's a lot of warnings in your enwiki talk page (Most important that your rollback flag removed due to improper rollback)! --Alaa :)..! 20:16, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Applying for every right you can think of in such a short period of time is considered hat collecting and is extremely frowned upon. The multiple open requests at c:Commons:Requests for rights as well the issues at enwiki present numerous problems for me. --Majora (talk) 20:42, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose: Inexperienced. –Ammarpad (talk) 01:57, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose lacks the sort of experience required for this role. – Ajraddatz (talk) 02:03, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose no meta experience, relatively new at homewiki, really no xwiki experience. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:27, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose per above. Concerns with experience -FASTILY 04:02, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per experience issues, never saw them clerking at their home Wikipedia's username change venue. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 04:25, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose TonyBallioni (talk) 05:50, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose per above.--Faisal ^talk 09:21, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Above. —AlvaroMolina (✉ - ✔) 22:52, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose No involvement with the username change process on either Meta or at the English Wikipedia (which is your home wiki), and as such, no demonstration of knowledge or understanding of the process. No evident need for this user permission. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:48, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose: Not trusted for any additional rights. Sænmōsà 08:22, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Majora. I closed ZI Jony's request for Commons rollback and noted the withdrawal of rollback on ENWP. Instead of requesting so many permissions, please focus on gaining experience in ordinary "bread-and-butter" editing on your home wiki (which is English Wikipedia, not Meta-wiki) e.g. reviewing drafts, writing articles, uploading policy-compliant files, reversing vandalism, using the Undo function a lot more, participating in deletion discussions etc. It is important to realise that there is a lot more to wikis than holding advanced permissions. Without ordinary editing taking place, advanced permissions are pretty much meaningless. That said, there is more to Wikimedia than just English Wikipedia (although it is important). Come back in a year with more experience on ENWP, and at least one more wiki (although edit counts are subjective, I’d suggest that 3,000 in 15 months is on the low side), and I’ll be more likely to support. Green Giant (talk) 07:59, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Global rename for Editor D.S

Status:    In progress

• Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Editor D.S (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)

Not ending before 30 June 2018 23:10 UTC

Hello. I want this permission to respond to solicitations on lusophone projects, mainly pt.Wikipédia, which is my source wiki. I am currently an administrator on pt.wikinews and have already used the renaming tool on a Wiki that, although I do not belong to Wikimedia, I was part of the administrator and bureaucrat groups. I know that the renaming tool is available in user contributions, along with privileges management buttons, deleted contributions etc. In my source wiki there are a lot of renaming requests and I would like to be able to contribute with one more task and with responsibility. I know the new user name can not exist in other wiki and the user can not be blocked in any project. I'm stay openned to questions. Thanks! --Editor D.S (talk) 23:09, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

• Since you are "open to questions", please explain this. You were blocked on your homewiki for some disturbing reasons in the past 11 months:
  1. for incivility/rudeness
  2. for abusing multiple accounts/sockpuppetry and vandalism
  3. for sockpuppetry/vandalism (different incident)
  4. for vandalism

There are more, I just picked these and sometime your talkpage and email access had to be disabled because of continuous rant. Can you explain how that happened and what have changed? –Ammarpad (talk) 05:29, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Ammarpad. Thank you for your question. First of all I'm sorry if my English is not very suitable, because I do not speak much English. I can explain these blocks. If you look at these blocks, you will see that they occurred well at the beginning of my activity on pt.wikipedia. I confess to you that as a novice I felt quite difficult in the project and committed wrong attitudes that I thought were correct. About blocking for abusive behavior, it was precisely because I did not understand the rules of the project and insist on attitudes that I thought were correct. But this incivility was never due to rude words, because I always try to talk politely. About blocking due to multiple accounts, it was because, early on, I practiced testing on articles not logged in my account, as a kind of experimentalism, and the checkuser decided to block it because of that. But I have never used multiple accounts to attack other editors or participate in polls, discussions, etc. On removing my access to the email, it was due to the fact that in one of the blocks I was nervous and used the PDU incorrectly (but I emphasize that I did not use inappropriate words) and a bureaucrat (with whom I was having conflicts previously) decided remove my PDU and email access.

But today, I say with happiness, that I have changed my behavior quite a lot, even because I learned from these blocks. Currently I am dedicated to combating vandalism in pt.wikipedia (and I even receive praise from other editors) and also started to contribute to the monitoring of other projects of Wikimedia Foundation, as well as in the patrolling in Meta-wiki. Whenever a vandal is reported in Steward requests/Global, for example, I research the vandal's global contributions to try to reverse them. I feel like I'm growing more and more in the wiki world. --Editor D.S (talk) 14:53, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

•  Oppose Sock blocks on a home wiki are a no go for holding any advanced global rights for me. I know this is a global community, but on en.wiki it sounds like you would have been indefinitely blocked. My standard is if the behavior could have lead to a legitimate indefinite block on any major project (which it sounds like it could have in this case), we shouldn’t be giving out global rights. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:03, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose primarily per the too-recent-for-me blocks on homewiki. Also to note the existing "administrator" access claimed is a temporary grant. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:34, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Xaosflux and TonyBallioni, I understand your point. But I would like to remind you that the blocks are not so recent and the multiple account block was due to testing on articles over IP. I think the most important thing is that I learned from those mistakes and did not repeat them again. --Editor D.S (talk) 02:51, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

All were within the last year and a block log like that could be indef on some projects, and since it is a global right, how the behavior would be viewed on other projects matters. I may be willing to support in 6 months, but not now. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:56, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

"recent" is subjective, like I said, too recent "for me", others may disagree. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:19, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

•  Oppose would prefer more time between the homewiki incidents and granting advanced permissions like this. – Ajraddatz (talk) 04:27, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Thank you for your answer. Please continue your anti-vandalism work on pt.wp and don't engage in sockpuppetry and vandalism again. –Ammarpad (talk) 06:00, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose per above. Concerns with recent blocks on pt wiki. -FASTILY 17:56, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Requests for other global permissions

Please be sure to follow the instructions below: Your request might be rejected if you don't follow the instructions. Instructions for making a request Before requesting additional global permissions, make sure that: You are logged in on this wiki; No specific section on this page exists for the permission you want to request; To request additional global permissions Copy the template below to the bottom of this section and explain what kind of access you need and why. If needed, link to relevant discussions. If you hold, or have previously held, the right and are asking for either a renewal or revival of that right, please add a link to the previous discussion. === <Add requested permission here> for [[User:Foo|Foo]] === {{sr-request |status = <!--don't change this line--> |domain = global<!--don't change this line--> |user name = Username |discussion= }} <Add an explanation here>, thanks, --~~~~ The request will be approved if consensus to do so exists after a short period of consideration. A steward will review the request.

2FA for Operator873

Status:    Done

• Global user: Operator873 (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

Prefer to switch to 2FA for security reasons, thanks, --Operator873 (talk) 01:13, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Done. Please follow the instructions on Help:Two-factor authentication and make sure you keep a copy of the scratch codes. --Alaa :)..! 01:24, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

2FA for Jkadavoor

Status:    Done

• Global user: Jkadavoor (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

Prefer to switch to 2FA for security reasons. Wish to test and give feedback too. Thanks, --Jee 05:00, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Done. @Jkadavoor: Please read the instructions at Help:Two-factor authentication carefully, and ensure you keep a secure copy of the scratch codes. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 09:26, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Green Giant. Jee 09:28, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

add global OTRS member for Ecritures

Status:    Done

• Global user: Ecritures (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

Thanks, --Krd 09:00, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Done.--HakanIST (talk) 09:01, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

add global OTRS member for Sp5uhe

Status:    In progress

• Global user: Sp5uhe (edits ^(alt) • CA • global groups • crossactivity • verify 2FA)

Thanks, --Krd 10:47, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

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