Steward requests/Permissions
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
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Meta-Wiki requests |
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]]"). This should normally be for at least one week, but no more than three weeks (if so, you'll need to restart the process).
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
Administrator access
See Administrator for information about this user group.
- If you are requesting adminship to handle one time vandalism incidents or clearing a deletion backlog, please see Steward requests/Miscellaneous.
- MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
- Admins doing cross-wiki work may wish to see IRC/wikimedia-admin for information about joining #wikimedia-adminconnect.
- Stewards: Please use {{Systmp}} for approved temporary requests.
Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.
Please start a new discussion about requesting the permission on the local village pump, administrators' noticeboard or a designated page for requesting permissions each time you request or renew adminship.
- Discussions should be open for seven days. Please request adminship here seven days after discussions started. This page is not the place for any discussions or votes. (For wikis with few active users, it is OK to have no comments.)
- If you only want adminship for specific tasks, please state for how long and for which tasks you need it. Otherwise stewards will decide whether to assign permanent adminship and the duration of adminship. See Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements.
User ubaierbhat@ks.wikipedia
- Wiki: ks.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: ubaierbhat (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: ks:Wikipedia:Sysops
Kashmiri Wikipedia has been in a mess for a long time. It has no active contributors. The main page looks like it is vandalised and the script has been changed from persio-arabic (which is the official script for Kashmiri). Some of the articles are in Hindi/Urdu and not in Kashmir. No one has replied to the last user who wanted to become the admin/steward.
- Please, login first. And the above link actually leads me nowhere. Ruslik (talk) 18:08, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
- I updated the link. Ubaier (talk) 15:39, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
- On hold until 5 January 2020 Ruslik (talk) 17:54, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
- I looked at your account and found that overall you have 94 edits including 2 in kswiki. Don't you think that you need more experience? Ruslik (talk) 15:08, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Ubaierbhat: Ruslik (talk) 18:03, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- On hold until 5 January 2020 Ruslik (talk) 17:54, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
- I updated the link. Ubaier (talk) 15:39, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Harshil169@gu.wiktionary
- Wiki: gu.wiktionary.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Harshil169 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: gu:વિકિપીડિયા:પ્રબંધક અધિકાર માટે નિવેદન#હર્ષિલ મહેતા
Greetings, there are no active contributors on the both projects and lots of maintenance work is pending on these two projects. Additionally, to import new pages and block vandal IPs, these rights are required. These projects are flagship projects of Gujarati Wikipedia and RfA was held. Out of 7 active contributors, 5 supported me. Regards,--Harshil169 (talk) 07:20, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- The link to the archived discussion is here. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 16:16, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Harshil169: If I read that conversation right, then consensus was for Nizil Shah to act as gu.wikt's sole admin for three months and then see what your contributions were like. Is that right? –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 16:32, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- @MJL: consensus was abolished after stewards refused to make anyone as admin on the basis of voting on gu@wikipedia. Community decided to revive the gu@wiktionary project and we’re doing so. Within 3 months, we’ll hold an election there.—Harshil169 (talk) 16:47, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Harshil169: Ah, gotcha. I think maybe that happened because no project I can name really has ever outsourced voting to another project like that. It's not unheard of, though. Simple English Wikipedia has a policy called Wikipedia:Follow English Wikipedia, but that really isn't exactly the same thing.
Are you going to withdraw this request? –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 16:58, 7 December 2019 (UTC)- @MJL: please see my explanation below on gu wikiquote section that why I requested on gu Wikipedia. —Harshil169 (talk) 17:00, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Harshil169: I saw that, but what I'm saying is that it isn't generally what happens. Normally, if you are trying to restart a project what you do is that make a post on w:gu:વિકિકોશ:સમુદાય મુખપૃષ્ઠ saying you intend to run for adminship, and then you let everyone on the Wikipedia project know about it. Then they just post their support there.
I know it sounds odd to hold an adminship discussion in an inactive project, but that's what generally happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:09, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Harshil169: I saw that, but what I'm saying is that it isn't generally what happens. Normally, if you are trying to restart a project what you do is that make a post on w:gu:વિકિકોશ:સમુદાય મુખપૃષ્ઠ saying you intend to run for adminship, and then you let everyone on the Wikipedia project know about it. Then they just post their support there.
- @MJL: please see my explanation below on gu wikiquote section that why I requested on gu Wikipedia. —Harshil169 (talk) 17:00, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Harshil169: Ah, gotcha. I think maybe that happened because no project I can name really has ever outsourced voting to another project like that. It's not unheard of, though. Simple English Wikipedia has a policy called Wikipedia:Follow English Wikipedia, but that really isn't exactly the same thing.
- @MJL: consensus was abolished after stewards refused to make anyone as admin on the basis of voting on gu@wikipedia. Community decided to revive the gu@wiktionary project and we’re doing so. Within 3 months, we’ll hold an election there.—Harshil169 (talk) 16:47, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
Harshil169@gu.wikiquote
- Wiki: gu.wikiquote.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Harshil169 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: gu:વિકિપીડિયા:પ્રબંધક અધિકાર માટે નિવેદન#હર્ષિલ મહેતા
Greetings, there are no active contributors on the both projects and lots of maintenance work is pending on these two projects. Additionally, to import new pages and block vandal IPs, these rights are required. These projects are flagship projects of Gujarati Wikipedia and RfA was held. Out of 7 active contributors, 5 supported me. Regards,--Harshil169 (talk) 07:20, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- The rights are requested in gu.wikiquote but the link is to gu.wikipedia? Ruslik (talk) 20:25, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Ruslik0: There’re no active contributors at both gu.wikiquote and gu.wiktionary. Also for administrator access of gu.wikisource, requests are being done here because gu.wikipedia is parent project. —Harshil169 (talk) 02:40, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- Requests must be always made on the projects where the permissions are requested. Ruslik (talk) 12:48, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Ruslik0: Main problem is there are no active contributors who can vote. Here was my request which gained zero votes in 7 days. Also, Sushant savla has requested on gu.wikipedia for interface rights of gu.wikisource and it got approved even. Check and coincidentally you had approved request. Now, if this can't proceed then please tell alternative way to get community consensus.--Harshil169 (talk) 13:32, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- I made an error and probably the permission should be removed. Ruslik (talk) 19:46, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Ruslik0: Main problem is there are no active contributors who can vote. Here was my request which gained zero votes in 7 days. Also, Sushant savla has requested on gu.wikipedia for interface rights of gu.wikisource and it got approved even. Check and coincidentally you had approved request. Now, if this can't proceed then please tell alternative way to get community consensus.--Harshil169 (talk) 13:32, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- Requests must be always made on the projects where the permissions are requested. Ruslik (talk) 12:48, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Ruslik0: There’re no active contributors at both gu.wikiquote and gu.wiktionary. Also for administrator access of gu.wikisource, requests are being done here because gu.wikipedia is parent project. —Harshil169 (talk) 02:40, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- I have some serious concerns about both of these requests. For starters, the lack of edits by the requestor and second, they are fresh off a block (with TPA revoked) elsewhere for personal attacks, misconduct and an inability to resolve disputes in a collaborative manner. This is not what we expect from editors who seek adminship on any project. Praxidicae (talk) 13:54, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- English is my third language and indeed I am bad of communicating in that language. The issue was solved and Gujarati wiki community has voted in favor of me.--Harshil169 (talk) 14:23, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- It is disingenuous to present your block as a language issue. Praxidicae (talk) 14:28, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- With that recent history I don't believe it is appropriate to grant you what could be mis-exercised as sole editorial authority on a project. Vermont (talk) 15:03, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- English is my third language and indeed I am bad of communicating in that language. The issue was solved and Gujarati wiki community has voted in favor of me.--Harshil169 (talk) 14:23, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
Les Meloures@lb.wiktionary.org
- Wiki: lb.wiktionary.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Les Meloures (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: renewing rights: actuallay lb.wiktionary needs a lot of changes, as new speeling rules were introduced in luxemburgish language. So there are a lot of items to mowe and to delete as well ass changes to to in blocked templates. Actually the communuty isn't really existing so that there can't be any vote for permanent adminship. Thanks in advance --Les Meloures (talk) 09:42, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- "Requests for permissions that don't fit in other sections belong here". What rights you are asking? Stryn (talk) 12:16, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- Ok, put it on the right place now. I'm asking for admin-rights, same as I had before . --Les Meloures (talk) 13:21, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- Please provide a link to the local vote or discussion about your candidature. Stryn (talk) 10:37, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- As I said above: Actually the communuty isn't really existing so that there can't be any vote for permanent adminship. Do you think a local vote is really important in this case. But however, if it may help, information was put here --Les Meloures (talk) 12:11, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- Please provide a link to the local vote or discussion about your candidature. Stryn (talk) 10:37, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- Ok, put it on the right place now. I'm asking for admin-rights, same as I had before . --Les Meloures (talk) 13:21, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
Aue Nai@mnw.wikipedia.org
- Wiki: mnw.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Aue Nai (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Hello! I would like to continue and request for adminiship for Mon Wikipedia. I was a test admin previously at Wp/mnw and the temporary administrator at Wp/mnw . As an administrator, I would like to focus to the projects of Mon Wikipedia. Thanks. Aue Nai (talk)
- Have you started a local discussion about your request for admin rights? Masum Reza📞 12:03, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Of course, i did it. Aue Nai (talk)Aue Nai (talk) 14:03, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- Please provide a link to the local vote or discussion about your candidature. Stryn (talk) 10:37, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, the link is Here Sir, the link that you mean is this one or not. if not, pls guide me how. Aue Nai (talk) 14:07, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Coconutic@pih.wikipedia
- Wiki: pih.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Coconutic (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Here
Interface administrator access
See Interface admin for information about this user group.
- If you need to accomplish a one-time, non-recurring task, please request your task at Steward requests/Miscellaneous.
- If you are requesting adminship and the interface admin at the same time, you can file one request in administrator section and state you want interface adminship as well.
- MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request interface administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
- Since the end of 2018, all interface administrators are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Please, enable it before posting your request here.
- Stewards: Please use {{Systmp}} for approved temporary requests.
Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.
Please start a new discussion about requesting the permission on the local village pump, administrators' noticeboard or a designated page for requesting permissions each time you request or renew interface adminship.
- Discussions should be open for seven days. Please request interface adminship here seven days after discussions started. This page is not the place for any discussions or votes. (For wikis with few active users, it is OK to have no comments.)
- If you only want interface adminship for specific tasks, please state for how long and for which tasks you need it. Otherwise stewards will decide whether to assign permanent interface adminship and the duration of interface adminship. See Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements.
अनिरुद्ध कुमार@hi.wikisource
- Wiki: hi.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: अनिरुद्ध कुमार (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: wikisource:hi:विकिस्रोत:प्रबंधक/निर्वाचन#अनिरुद्ध कुमार_2
please grant this user permanent admin and interface admin right. he is performing temporary admin work. he has got six support and zero oppose vote including two admin. Hindi community need admin like him to keep growth momentom.नीलम (talk) 13:28, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- On hold until 9 January 2020 Ruslik (talk) 18:13, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Kareyac@hyw.wikipedia
- Wiki: hyw.wikipedia.org.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Kareyac (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: [hyw.wikipedia:Թեքնիկական hամակարգողի թեկնածութիւն․ Kareyac]
Hi. I'm applying for temporary interface adminship in hyw.wikipedia for the current calendar year term. My goal is to continue work on including new and fixing existing features and tools Kareyac (talk) 12:16, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- Granted for 1 year to expire on 2021-01-06. Ruslik (talk) 18:16, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Jayprakash12345@pa.wikisource
- Wiki: pa.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Jayprakash12345 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: wikisource:pa:ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ:ਸੱਥ#Interface_Admin_right_for_1_week
Indic-TechCom got the request from pa.wikisource on their board phab:T241490. To fulfil, I need interface admin right for 1 week. 7 days has been passed from nomination at village pump. Please grant the rights. Thanks --Jayprakash >>> Talk 04:39, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Bureaucrat access
- In principle, requests for temporary bureaucrat access are not granted.
- A small project does not need bureaucrats. Currently whether a promotion is valid or not is decided by stewards. See here for a guideline.
Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.
CheckUser access
- To request CheckUser information, see Steward requests/Checkuser. This is the place to request CheckUser access.
- One-time CheckUser access is not permitted and temporary access is only used by Stewards or when the mandate of the CUs has an expiry date specified in local policies.
- Stewards: Before granting this permission to a user, please check the current policy and make sure that the user has signed the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation. An email template is available for requesting new users to identify.
- When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list, ask them to subscribe to checkuser-l, notify listowners checkuser-l-ownerlists.wikimedia.org, and make sure they contact an op for access to #wikimedia-privacyconnect and #wikimedia-checkuserconnect.
Oversight access
- To request to have content oversighted, ask for a steward in #wikimedia-stewardsconnect and contact a steward privately. This section is for requesting access to the Oversight tool.
- For contact details about oversighters across the wikis, refer to this page.
- Note that temporary Oversight access is not permitted and temporary status is only used by Stewards .
- Stewards: Before granting this permission to a user, please check the current policy and make sure that the user has signed the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation.
- When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list.
Removal of access
- 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 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 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 Admin activity review applies.
- See the instructions above for adding new requests. Please post new requests at the bottom of the section.
संजीव_कुमार@hiwikipedia
- Wiki: hi.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: संजीव_कुमार (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: hi:विकिपीडिया:प्रबन्धक#प्रबंधक को हटाना
By our policy which can be seen in the given link (point no. 2) an administrator needs to have 180 edits in previous 6 months. The user here doesn't meet this requirement. Now, Administrator flags should be removed from his user account as per hindi wiki policy.Ravishdutta (talk) 05:43, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Sanjeev bot@hiwikipedia
- Wiki: hi.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Sanjeev bot (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: hi:विकिपीडिया:प्रबन्धक#प्रबंधक को हटाना
By our policy which can be seen in the given link (point no. 2) an administrator needs to have 180 edits in previous 6 months. The user here doesn't meet this requirement. Now, Administrator flags should be removed from his user account as per hindi wiki policy.Ravishdutta (talk) 05:43, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
bencmq@zh.wikipedia
- Wiki: zh.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: bencmq (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Please remove my sysop and 'crat bits due to inactivity, it's been a while since I've used those tools, thanks! Bencmq (talk) 10:28, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions --Alaa :)..! 13:25, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
- Done. Matiia (talk) 17:49, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Miscellaneous requests
Requests for permissions that don't fit in other sections belong here. Importer rights can be granted on most wikis by stewards only. Please gain local community consensus before posting a new section here.
Note that the following types of permissions requests belong on separate pages:
Арчы_Уола@sah.wikiquote.org
- Wiki: sah.wikiquote.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Арчы_Уола (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Click here to see discussion
Renewing rights. Thank you. 94.245.129.66 10:41, 25 December 2019 (UTC).
- Please, login. Ruslik (talk) 13:32, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Not done no response since more than 7 days --Alaa :)..! 13:26, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
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- Log of changes to user rights
- Log of global rights-related changes
- Steward handbook
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