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This page outlines the standards and guidelines related to the use of the global renamer right and other user rights assigned to the "global renamers" user group.

Global renamers are a group of users with the technical ability to change the name of a global account in accordance with the global rename policy. Global renamers are appointed by stewards.

Scope

The purpose of this group initially was to allow users who were experienced bureaucrats on individual projects to help with the global renaming process, when, as a part of the SUL finalization, renaming rights were removed from bureaucrats. This was supposed to allow the workload of global renames to be spread out more evenly, and also to draw on the experience of these global renamers from their home projects to prevent account renaming to usernames which violate individual project policies. Global renamers should focus on requests from their home wiki, with the potential to expand to requests from other projects as they gain experience with global renaming.

As time passes and previous bureaucrat experience becomes less relevant in regards to renaming, this scope should not restrict other users from becoming global renamers as current community consensus decides.

Membership

Membership in the global renamers group can be granted to users who request it on Steward requests/Global permissions. These requests will run for at least two weeks, and require consensus for promotion and a support margin of at least 80%.

Removal of access

Global renamer rights can be removed immediately by a steward in the case of abuse or serious misuse, after which a request for comment must be filed. In other cases, a request for comment can be filed, and the rights removed by a steward if it is closed with consensus for that course of action. Their rights will also be removed when they have not taken any action with the rights within a year. They may re-apply through the regular process.

Rights

The global renamers group contains the following rights on Meta-Wiki:

  • centralauth-rename – Rename global accounts
  • autopatrol – Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
  • oathauth-enable – Enable two-factor authentication

See also: group rights for global renamers.

Communication

Global renamers and stewards may contact each other via the IRC channel #wikimedia-renameconnect or via the private mailing list. The mailing list is for internal communication only, please request username changes via Special:GlobalRenameRequest or renamers(_AT_)wikimedia.org (you can use this form to confirm account ownership).

Users with global rename access

Name Languages spoken Renamer since
1997kB hi, en-3 2018-05-16
331dot en 2018-09-23
A09 sl, en-3, de-1, la-1 2024-05-31
Aafi ks-N, ur-5, en-3, hi-2, ar-1 2023-07-09
Acalamari en 2014-09-13
Adavyd ru, en-4, de-3, no-2 2014-09-06
Ahecht en 2024-12-19
Ahonc uk, ru-3, en-2, de-1 2014-09-17
Ajwaan (شيماء/Shayma) ar, en-3 2021-07-08
Alphama vi, en-4 2020-09-21
AramilFeraxa pl, en-3, de-1 2023-06-01
ASid zh, en-2 2024-12-19
Avraham en, he-2 2018-03-20
Bencemac hu, en-2 2018-05-26
Blua lago hu, en-5, fr-2 2023-07-09
Bradv en 2024-01-21
Cabayi en, fr-2, pt-1 2020-08-09
Céréales Killer fr, es, en-3 2014-09-17
Civvì it, de-4, en-3, lmo-2 2021-03-19
CptViraj gu, hi-4, en-3 2020-11-01
Deepfriedokra en 2018-05-03
DejaVu fa, mzn, en-4, fr-3, eo-2, glk-1 2021-01-03
Dr-Taher ar, en-4 2019-02-11
DreamRimmer en, hi-5, tr-4 2024-01-13
Ejs-80 fi, en-3, sv-1 2014-09-05
Elli en 2024-10-22
Érico pt, en-2, es-1 2014-09-19
Eta Carinae pt, en-3, es-2 2022-04-12
Euphydryas it, en-1, fr-1, la-1 2015-04-03
Faisal (فيصل) ar, en-3 2018-05-17
Faris knight ar, en-3, fr-1 2016-02-13
Fitindia en-3, hi-2, mr-2 2021-02-14
FlightTime en 2023-07-21
Framawiki fr, en-3 2017-06-10
Gadir az, tr-4, en-2 2024-05-14
Geonuch th, en-2 2021-03-07
Gerges ar, arz-4, en-2, de-1, grc-1 2024-12-11
Ginaan (기나ㅏㄴ) ko, en-2 2024-10-31
Hide on Rosé vi, en-3 2024-02-27
HouseBlaster en, la-2, es-1 2024-12-26
Hyphen (מקף) he-N, en-3 2023-06-06
Ingenuity en, fr-1 2024-01-19
Itti de, en-2 2014-09-05
J ansari hi, en-3, ur-1 2023-03-05
JBW en, fr-3, it-1 2018-10-10
Jianhui67 en, zh, ja-2, ms-2 2015-04-06
Jules* fr, en-3 2024-03-11
Justlettersandnumbers en, it-4, fr-3, es-2, de-2, ar-1, mt-1, pt-1 2020-02-16
Kadı tr, en-5, fr-2 2023-09-23
Kızıl tr, en-2, es-1 2024-12-18
K6ka en 2015-06-20
Ladsgroup fa, en-4, az-2, ar-1, de-1 2014-09-08
Lentokonefani fi, en-3, sv-2, es-2, ru-1, nl-1, de-1 2024-09-02
Litlok fr, en-3, de-2, ru-1 2014-09-04
LuchoCR es, en-4 2021-05-02
Maire pl, en-4, es-2, de-2, fr-2, ru-1 2014-09-17
Maxim en 2014-09-08
MBq de, en-3, fr-1 2014-09-05
MdsShakil bn, en-3, as-1 2022-06-06
MemicznyJanusz pl, en-3, de-1, cs-1 2021-02-22
Mys 721tx zh, en-3 2015-04-07
Nadzik pl, en-4, de-2, it-1, nl-1 2020-07-08
Neriah he, en-3 2023-04-17
Ney (ネイ) zh-4, ja-4, en-4 2021-01-11
NhacNy2412 vi, en-2, zh-1 2021-10-15
Nihonjoe en, ja-2, de-1, es-1, fr-1, it-1, pt-1 2022-04-05
Ontzak es, gl-1, pt-1 2017-06-05
Oshwah en 2018-11-02
Peacearth zh-Hant-TW, nan, en-3, ja-1 2022-08-06
PhilKnight en 2016-04-11
Pminh141 vi, en-4, ja-2 2024-08-25
PurpleBuffalo he-N, en-4 2024-04-07
QueerEcofeminist mr-N,hi-N,sa-2,en-N,bn-1,bh-2,ne-2,gom-2,hif-3 2022-07-07
Rachmat04 ace, id, en-3, ja-1, ms-1 2021-09-06
Robertsky en, cmn-3, nan-1, ko-1, ja-1, fr-1 2024-12-05
Squasher de, en-4, fr-1, es-1 2020-12-18
Steinsplitter bar (tir), de-4, en-2, it-2 2015-04-18
Syunsyunminmin ja, en-2 2024-08-08
Taketa nl-4, li-4, en-4, de-1, fr-1, la-1 2014-09-05
Tamzin en, fr-3, tok-3, es-1, it-1 2022-09-06
Tchoř cs, en-3, sk-3, de-2, hsb-2, la-1 2014-09-09
Teles pt, en-3, es-2 2024-11-10
TenWhile6 de, en-3 2023-10-15
Ternarius sv, en-3 2014-10-01
TheSandDoctor en, fr-1 2018-12-27
Turkmen az, tr-4, en-2 2019-11-12
Ulubatli Hasan ur, hi, en-3, mr-1, pnb-1, fa-1, ar-1, tr-1 2021-10-03
Uncitoyen tr, en-2, fr-2 2020-07-30
Vincent Vega tr, en-3 2021-10-19
Vladimir Solovjev ru, en-1 2014-09-06
WikiFer pt, es-3, en-2 2021-08-03
Wong128hk yue-N, zh-n, zh-hant-n, zh-hans-4, en-4, lzh-2, ja-2, ko-1 2022-08-07
Xeno en 2014-09-04
Yamla en 2017-09-23
Yerpo sl, en-3, de-1, it-1, hr-2, sr-2 2014-10-22
  • Stewards and some Wikimedia Foundation staff (currently the members of the Trust and Safety team and Office IT) also have the ability to rename global accounts. In addition, stewards have the ability to usurp local accounts.
  • If there's already an unattached local account for a global renamer on a wiki (thus the renamer can't have a local account of their own), user page moves will appear as being done by User:Global rename script.

See also