Steward requests/Permissions

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This page enables stewards to handle permissions requests, including the giving and taking of administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights, for all Wikimedia wikis which do not have a local permissions procedure. 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 (see the index of request pages). Requests for bot status, URL blacklisting and whitelisting, and CheckUser queries belong elsewhere.

Interface-translations are done at Betawiki.

For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel (see a web-based IRC client). In emergencies only, type !steward in the channel to inform stewards that you need help.

Please only make requests here after gaining the on-wiki approval of your local community.

Quick navigation: Administrator | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Temporary permissions | Miscellaneous | Global permissions

Cross-wiki requests
Meta-Wiki requests

Using this page

  1. Place the following code at the bottom of the appropriate section below: 
    ====user name@xxproject====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    = 
 |user name = 
 |discussion= 
}}
Thank you! ~~~~
  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"). Leave it blank and list them yourself if you're requesting access for multiple bots.
    • '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 identity

Certain permissions (notably CheckUser and Oversight) additionally require users to confirm their identity. Users requesting these permissions must make a request below, and must also submit the relevant identification to the Foundation. The request is placed on hold temporarily, until receipt has been formally confirmed by the office.

Instructions for how you can confirm your identity can be found at: Steward handbook/email templates.

For stewards: Identification noticeboard.

Requests

Administrator access

See administrator for information about the position. Requests for temporary permissions and removal of access belong in other sections. Admins doing cross-wiki work may wish to see IRC/wikimedia-admin for information about joining #wikimedia-admin.


Georgian wikiquote

Status:    Done

Please give administrator rights to user

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Trulala (talk) diff, please sign discussions with --~~~~ (UTC)

Hello,
two votes are very few, and he nearly has no edits, I suggest a temporary period of three months (it is technically the same and can be prolonged).
Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 16:17, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, my candidature was nominated according to my work in Georgian Wikipedia and not in wikiquote, but your suggestion is quite acceptable. In addition there are 6 votes now. Kind regards Rastrelli F23:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Already 6 votes. I'm current administrator of this project, and strongly support for Rastrelli F--Trulala 09:09, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello to You both, thanks for the update.
Looking at the voting shows that most of the voters have very few contributions, please note that I do not put in question Your credibility or reputation, Rastrelli F, it is just that a voting is (or should be) a quality control. On a smaller project where not many users are evaluating the candidates contributions, a temporary status can be helpful.
In the light that the only sysop is supporting Your request and also another user with lots of contributions, I would suggest to grant a temporary period of three months and if the voting does not change to contra until then the status should be made permanent.
What do You think about that? Other stewards opinions are welcomed on this also if they disagree ;)
Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 23:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done, expires: 09-04-2009 please remember to translate the interface at betawiki: only and to upload images preferably to commons:, please come back a few days before the status expires to prolong it or hold a local voting if the community grows, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 17:54, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat access

See bureaucrat for information about the position. In principle, requests for temporary bureaucrat access are not granted.

CheckUser access

To request CheckUser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information. This is the place to request CheckUser access. Note that temporary CheckUser access is not permitted and the temporary status is only used by Stewards.

Stewards: When someone asks for CheckUser status, please check the current policy regarding bestowal of status before giving the status. The current mail template to use to request identification from the new CU can be found here. Do not grant CheckUser access unless the user is identified to the foundation, which will be announced on the Identification noticeboard. Breaching these rules may be cause for removing your steward access. When you give someone CheckUser, please list them on CheckUser, ask them to subscribe to checkuser-l, email checkuser-l-ownerlists.wikimedia.org so that the listadmins know the person is allowed on the mailing list (the list may contain confidential information), and make sure they contact an op for access to #wikimedia-checkuser.

Oversight access

As with Checkuser, do not initiate a request for oversight access here. You need to work through your local wiki. Some wikis have elections. Some wikis have their Arbitration Committee make the request once there is consensus on the local wiki. The request should show a link to the local wiki election results, or be made on behalf of an ArbCom by a member of that ArbCom, whichever is applicable.

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 Hiding revisions.

Removal of access

If you're requesting the removal of your own status, make sure you're logged in to a global account or place an English note on your local user talk page to prove you own both accounts (and add the diff link of your local confirmation edit to the request).

To request the removal of another user's status, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. All discussion must be kept on your local wiki. When there is community consensus that the user's access should be removed, a trusted person from that wiki should provide a link here to the discussion, a very brief explanation of the reason for the request, and summarize the results of discussion.

In either case, copy and paste the following text into the correct section (see instructions above). 

====user name@xxproject====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    = 
 |user name = 
 |discussion= <!-- local confirmation link / local policy link -->
}}

__Summary of discussion here__. Thank you! ~~~~

Bradipus@frwiki

Status:    In progress

6 months of inactivity. Thanks! Clem23 23:21, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For the record could you point to the policy page at fr:wp that covers desysop for inactivity? Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 06:38, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I think it is this page fr:Wikipédia:Prise de décision/Administrateur/Suspension et retrait du statut en cas d'inactivité prolongée ou de démission which states (as I understand the machine translation) that admins and 'crats with no activity can be suspended after 6 months, and for the next year can ask for automatic restoration, but after than the suspension is permanent. Is that correct? If so then this would be the first part of that, the 6 month suspension? ++Lar: t/c 06:46, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The translation is correct. Admins and bureaucrats inactive for 6 month are suspended but were they to come back within 1 yr, they could ask for the restoration of their status. (:Julien:) 10:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Moondyne@enwikipedia

Status:    Done

I've decided its time for me to move on. Further notification will be left at w:User talk:Moondyne. Please remove my admin flag from there. Thanks. Moondyne 04:17, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Per your request ([[1]]) and with thanks for your long service. Best wishes. ++Lar: t/c 06:36, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary permissions or emergency or technical access

If you are requesting administrator status to translate the wiki interface, this should done at the BetaWiki project instead (see mw:localisation). You can ask questions in the IRC channel or on the mailing list.

If you are requesting adminship to handle one-time vandalism incidents or clearing a deletion backlog, please see Vandalism reports and Multilingual speedy deletions.

Stewards: Currently active temporary permissions are listed at /Approved temporary. When granting a request, please copy the request to the appropriate section there, and clearly state the date of removal. Requests only need remain listed below for a few days, and may afterward be removed as long as they have been copied to the subpage.

Miscellaneous requests

Requests that don't fit in other sections belong here. Note that the following types of requests belong on separate pages: bot status, URL blacklisting and whitelisting, and requests for CheckUser queries. If you want to have your Meta username changed, please go to Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. If you want to have changed a username on a Wikimedia wiki without bureaucrats, please go to Requests for username changes.(Existing requests have been moved to the appropriate page.)

Reminder

  • Import rights can be granted by stewards only, not bureaucrats, so the automatic list of local bureaucrats is irrelevant for this; please show a link to a consensus if the wiki has a community.
  • Usurpation requests should be placed at Steward requests/Usurpation.
  • Username changes should be placed at Requests for username changes.

NonvocalScream@simple wikipediaproject

Status:    Done

Requesting importers permission. It is a small community, not exactly sure how many participants are needed in the discussion. Discussion is still in progress. Thank you! NonvocalScream 23:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, please grant the community at least one week to respond to Your request, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 00:04, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And, please note that you have to file a bug on bugzilla to get source wikis for import enabled. (I read your request as being for transwiki import rights, not for XML file import, right?) --Thogo (talk) 00:05, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Either / or (XML or souce/dest (transwiki)). Transwiki import is preferred, should I file a big request now, or wait a week? NonvocalScream 00:11, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Uhm, no he has not, if he has import he can import xml files from anywhere, if he wants transwiki, he needs sysop rights and file a bugzilla request to specify the wiki where he can import from directly. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 00:13, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The XML import will work then. In this manner, I can export pages from a WMF Wiki into Simple. I'll visit back on 8 Jan (unless I see or have questions). Thanks! NonvocalScream 00:16, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please wait, the !voting only has two supports on SEWP; I think the conversation has moved on, no consensus at the moment. Microchip08 (Simple English editor, not a steward!) 16:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, this requst is on hold until 8., there is a local voting, where You can express Your concerns [2], thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 16:11, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Howdy. It being 8 Jan, any updates to this request? Very best, NonvocalScream 03:27, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 17:51, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Microchip08@Simple.Wikibooks

Status:    In progress

Please grant Import rights so we can do the things as discussed on the Village pump Abigor talk 18:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Abigor@Simple.Wikibooks

Status:    In progress

Please grant Import rights so we can do the things as discussed on the Village pump Abigor talk 18:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, please grant the community at least one week to respond to Your requests, also please keep in mind that as b:simple:special:listadmins shows that none of You are admins but importing often requires to delete something, You might want to run for sysopship too.
Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 18:22, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oke, We will wait until 12 January. I will asked Microchip if he wants to run for admin also. Abigor talk 18:31, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I will run for adminship after I get the 500 required edits :-). Microchip08 14:29, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See also

  • Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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