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This page is for requests to have stewards grant or revoke administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights on Wikimedia projects which do not have a local permissions procedure. Old sections are archived. The list of archives is below. Requests for bot flags are handled at SRB, and requests for global permissions are handled at SRGP. If you are requesting adminship or bureaucratship, and your wiki has a local bureaucrat, submit your request to that user or to the relevant local request page (index). For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel. In emergencies, type !steward in the channel to get the attention of stewards. Otherwise, you can type @steward for non-urgent help. Other than requests to remove your own access or emergencies, please only make requests here after gaining the on-wiki approval of your local community. Quick navigation: Administrator | Interface administrator | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Miscellaneous | Global permissions (translate | edit)

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Using this page

1. Place the following code at the bottom of the appropriate section below:

==== Username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!-- don't change this line -->
 |domain    = <!-- such as en.wikibooks -->
 |user name = 
 |discussion= 
}}
(your remarks) ~~~~

2. Fill in the values:

• domain: the wiki's URL domain (like "ex.wikipedia" or "meta.wikimedia").
• user name: the name of the user whose rights are to be changed (like "Exampleuser"). In case you're requesting access for multiple bots, leave this field blank and give a list of these bots in your remarks
• discussion: a link to the local vote or discussion about the rights change (for example, "[[ex:Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#ExampleUser]]").

3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

Confirmation of signing confidentiality agreement

Certain permissions (notably CheckUser and Oversight) additionally require users to sign a confidentiality agreement. Users requesting these permissions must make a request below, and must also sign the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation. The request is placed on hold temporarily, until the receipt has been formally confirmed by the Office.

Requests

COPY THE FOLLOWING CODE to the bottom of the appropriate section below:

==== Username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    =
 |user name =
 |discussion= 
}}

Administrator access

Steward requests/Permissions/Sysop-header

Reder@sg.wikipedia

Status:    Done

• Wiki: sg.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Reder (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: request

I've been an admin on this wiki for more than a year, and I would like to extend the mandate. On this wiki there is no community, and they need someone to control vandalism and make a bit of order. I would like to request an admin access for 6 months if it is possible. Thanks, --Reder 16:50, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Done Matanya 07:18, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. --Reder 20:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Bureaucrat access

Steward requests/Permissions/Crat-header

Nartay Asimov Ashina@kkwp

Status:    In progress

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

The KKWP (Kazakh Wikipedia) community representatives at Wikimania have asked me to ask for Bureaucrat permissions for User:Ashina, as they are in the midst of very accelerated growth and would like to easily appoint new admins to handle the flow. Thanks. Ijon 08:12, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Please, start a local discussion on the wiki. Ruslik 08:32, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Crochet.david@fr.wikiversity

Status:    Done

• Wiki: fr.wikiversity.org (list 'crats • no standard bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Crochet.david (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: Bonjour j'ai mis des messages à deux stewards Darkoneko sur wikipédia en français, et à Guillom sur Commons, mais malheureusement ils n'ont pas répondus, c'est pour faire une clôture d'une candidature de bureaucrate sur Wikiversité qui devrait être terminée et les deux bureaucrates qui sont en place actuellement ne sont pas très actif. v:fr:Wikiversité:Bureaucrate/Candidature/Crochet.david.

Merci beaucoup pour votre aide, amicalement. FrankyLeRoutier 02:50, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

(my French is everyday worse, but I'll try) Bonjour. Ceci est une demande d'accès aux des outils de bureaucrate, oui? Parce que vous avez mis cette demande dans la section "retrait des statutes". RM77 a été un peu actif. SVP de envoyez lui un message (PDD/email) avant demander aux stewards. Att, -- Dferg ^{☎ talk} 07:46, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Bonjour, je lui est écrit un message par email le 13 août, il n'a pas eu de réaction de sa part, que faut-il faire d'autre ? Tanks FrankyLeRoutier 11:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I suggest to wait a few more days to give RM77 some time (it's Summer vacation time, after all). RfB aren't usually urgent, and this one doesn't seem to be the exception. guillom 12:31, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Rebonjour Crochet.david est maintenant bureaucrate par RM77 [1]. Merci beaucoup pour vos avis. FrankyLeRoutier 03:23, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

CheckUser access

Steward requests/Permissions/CU-header

Oversight access

To request to have content oversighted, ask in #wikimedia-stewards, or email oversight-llistswikimediaorg for requests regarding English Wikipedia. This is the place to request Oversight access. Note that temporary Oversight access is not permitted and the temporary status is only used by Stewards.

Stewards

Do not grant Oversight access unless the user is identified to the foundation, which will be announced on the Identification noticeboard. When you give someone oversight access, list them on Oversight.

Removal of access

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• If you're requesting the removal of your own permissions, make sure you're logged in to your account. If you have multiple flags, specify which you want removed. Stewards may delay your request a short time to ensure you have time to rethink your request (see [[<tvar name="self-discussion">Talk:Steward_requests/Permissions/2011#Self_requests</tvar>|previous discussion]] on 24 hour delays); the rights will not be restored by stewards once they are removed.

• To request the removal of another user's permissions, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. When there is community consensus that the user's access should be removed, provide a link to the discussion, with a brief explanation of the reason for the request, and summarize the results of discussion. However, as bureaucrats of some wikis may remove users from the administrator or bureaucrat group, please see also a [[<tvar name="crat-rem">Bureaucrat#Removing_access</tvar>|separate list of these specific wikis]].

• To request the removal of another user's permissions for inactivity, link to your local inactivity policy. If your site does not have inactivity policy, the global policy [[<tvar name="aar">Admin activity review</tvar>|Admin activity review]] applies.

• See the [[<tvar name="usage">#Using this page</tvar>|instructions above]] for adding new requests. Please post new requests at the bottom of the section.</translate>

Purbo_T@ksh.wikipedia

Status:    Done

• Wiki: ksh.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • no standard bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Purbo_T (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: discussion

Admin flag should be removed. This is a bot created by, and granted admin rights by, Purodha who has just been de-adminned. Dbach 15:17, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

• Invalid request. There is no evidence that the bot did anything it was not supposed to do, and there is nothing on the bot in the article presented as "discussion" above. --Miss van der Roehe 15:46, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
• Comment I can confirm that there is no discussion about the bot, but if we take a look at the discussion below, the bot was misused against the community opinion. Such bot with sysop flag is more than questionable if the operator was desysoped. --WizardOfOz ^talk 15:59, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

True, we did not discuss the bot yet. But in fact, Purodha - as a real person - will continue to be an admin if his bot has sysop rights; so there is hardly any point in de-sysop'ing the "real" username and leave the bot with admin rights. Dbach 16:32, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

The bot was never used against community consensus, and I would never do so. The whole idea of misuse is bogus. It is only a false insinuation by Dbach aka ksh:User:Düüvelskääl, not the first one by the way. Makes it hard to assume good faith, but I keep trying. --Purodha Blissenbach 17:51, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Done I have read the discussions relating to this request and it is clear that the community has deadmined a member and that member is operating an admin bot. Clearly this means the person retains admin and this is clearly not the desire of the community. Whether or not further discussion should happen is strictly for the ksh community to decide, locally. Therefore, admin is removed, bot is left. fr33kman 03:56, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

J. 'mach' wust@alswikipedia

Status:    Done

• Wiki: als.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy_{[no automatic approval]} • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: J. 'mach' wust (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: Local policy states that access is lost if the user remains inactive for 12 months. J. 'mach' wust's last edit was on 7/18/2010 (and the last one before that on 8/5/2009). He has been notified on his talk page but unfortunately there has been no response (also no response to various queries on his talk page on als.wikipedia and de.wikipedia since 2009). The local community has also been informed.

--Terfili 22:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Done fr33kman 03:14, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Mike.lifeguard@testwiki

Status:    Done

• Wiki: test.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • no standard bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Mike.lifeguard (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: Could you please remove the import right, which was given to me at Steward_requests/Permissions/2011-08#Mike.lifeguard.40testwiki? I now require bureaucrat access instead, which I suspect I'll have to ask the testwiki natives for... Thanks  – mike@meta:~$  00:59, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

This was done & now I'm done with the 'crat rights as well. Thank you  – mike@meta:~$  02:57, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Done Thank you for your micro service :) fr33kman 03:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Vardion@miwikipedia

Status:    Done

• Wiki: mi.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Vardion (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: Notice of intent to request removal of own rights is here.

I received administrator and bureaucrat rights at the Māori Wikipedia back in 2004, mainly for the purposes of working with the interface. However, my activity there has been minimal, bordering on non-existent. Additionally, I was appointed (without my requesting it) by the unilateral judgement of another bureaucrat (who has since lost his status there anyway). I'm not aware of any specific policy on that wiki against inactive bureaucrats, but I would prefer not to keep either my bureaucrat or admin permissions if I'm not using them. (The notice at the top of this section says I should be "logged in to a global account". I hope that means "(if you have one)" — I don't, and if I created one right now, I'm told that my Māori Wikipedia account would become my "home wiki", even though I hardly use it. This is part of the reason I'd rather not just let my permissions on the Māori Wikipedia sit.) --Vardion 05:33, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for your help! --Mercy 06:54, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Miscellaneous requests

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