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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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.
Саид Мисарбиев@ce.wikipedia
- Wiki: ce.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Саид Мисарбиев (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: ce:Википеди:Requests for adminship
Hello. Please give me admin rights on an ongoing basis. Above is the link to the vote. This is the fourth time my colleagues have supported my candidacy. We are constantly writing in the Chechen language only 2 authors.--Саид Мисарбиев (talk) 22:17, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Arash.z@fawikisource
- Wiki: fa.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Arash.z (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
per local discussion please grant the above-mentioned user administrator access for 6 months Mardetanha talk 09:31, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Granted for 6 months to expire on 2021-4-20. Arash.z, please make sure to start a new vote about a week before your adminship expires to prolong it. --Base (talk) 10:21, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
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.
bennylin@jvwikt
- Wiki: jv.wiktionary.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Bennylin (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: wikt:jv:Wiktionary:Warung_Kopi#Panganggo:Bennylin_(15_September_2020)
I'm already long-term sysops in multiple projects such as id.wikipedia and id.wikt. I'm requesting a permanent adminship in jv.wikt. If you're just gonna give a temp admin, then don't bother. ✒ Bennylin 11:38, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- On hold until 2020-10-22 @Bennylin: Per the guidelines, 5+ voters who are an active participant of the project are necessary for a permanent adminship to be granted. Right now, in your case, only two persons with more than 50 edits at jv.wikt voted. Per the guidelines, the adminship will be temporary (possibly for a year rather than 6 months, given you are apparently trusted at several projects), unless that changes before the voting finishes. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:53, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- Apropo, is this a request only for interface adminship? Or do you want both flags (sysop and interface-admin)? --Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:57, 19 October 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.
Mardetanha@en.wikipedia
- Wiki: en.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Mardetanha (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards Mardetanha, Martin Urbanec, and Tks4Fish solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2020 Arbitration Committee election. For the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee --Cameron11598 (talk) 21:23, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Signature: missing
Martin Urbanec@en.wikipedia
- Wiki: en.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Martin Urbanec (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards Mardetanha, Martin Urbanec, and Tks4Fish solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2020 Arbitration Committee election. For the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee --Cameron11598 (talk) 21:23, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Signature: diff
Tks4Fish@en.wikipedia
- Wiki: en.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Tks4Fish (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards Mardetanha, Martin Urbanec, and Tks4Fish solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2020 Arbitration Committee election. For the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee --Cameron11598 (talk) 21:23, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Signature: diff
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.
Vietbio@viwiki
- Wiki: vi.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Vietbio (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bi%E1%BB%83u_quy%E1%BA%BFt_b%E1%BA%A5t_t%C3%ADn_nhi%E1%BB%87m_b%E1%BA%A3o_qu%E1%BA%A3n_vi%C3%AAn
This request results seem it's pretty sure to this user's permissions can be revoked. (Discussion are not end so please put it in on hold). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by J. Smile (Love & V.A.V.I) (talk)
- What is the reason? Ruslik (talk) 20:21, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
- Sounds like Inactivity and lack of initial trust of the initial permission request, in the vote. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 21:16, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
On hold until October 25. --Base (talk) 22:20, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
My local policy is have more than 10 vote, with at least 50% agree. Zig zag x Pump it pump it up! Babe! 06:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- BTW, please don't bring any removal requests which discussion has not yet ended. — regards, Revi 10:56, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy@vi.wikipedia
- Wiki: vi.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Please remove my sysop rights and interface-admins rights, due suspicion regards to this user group and also personal request. minhhuy (talk) 08:16, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. @Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy: You can withdraw this request at any time within 24 hours. --Sotiale (talk) 08:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- This would be a big lost to the community. I suppose Minh Huy have spent his thoughts over and the decision wasn't made hastily under the recent events. In any case, I request an extended delay until things are clearer. Buiquangtu (talk) 09:51, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- We usually do not grant any extension beyond the standard 24 hour wait. — regards, Revi 10:46, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- Request withdrawn I made up my mind and decided to hold tools longer for now. Sorry for all the mess here. --minhhuy (talk) 07:41, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy: No problem. Welcome. --Sotiale (talk) 09:17, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Request withdrawn I made up my mind and decided to hold tools longer for now. Sorry for all the mess here. --minhhuy (talk) 07:41, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- We usually do not grant any extension beyond the standard 24 hour wait. — regards, Revi 10:46, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- This would be a big lost to the community. I suppose Minh Huy have spent his thoughts over and the decision wasn't made hastily under the recent events. In any case, I request an extended delay until things are clearer. Buiquangtu (talk) 09:51, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
DixonD@uk.wikipedia
- Wiki: uk.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: DixonD (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Please remove the user's sysop flag. The community decided to remove it due to DixonD's prolonged inactivity (see the discussion here; the result is 82.14% in favor of removal, with 51% required by the rules). --Aced (talk) 09:16, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks for their service. --Sotiale (talk) 09:19, 20 October 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:
See also
- Steward requests
- Log of changes to user rights
- Log of global rights-related changes
- Steward handbook
- Users that have signed confidentiality agreement for nonpublic personal data
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