Steward requests/Permissions

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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

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Cross-wiki requests
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

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

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

Administrator access

See Administrator for information about this user group.

  • MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
  • 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.

Yasanto Lase@niawikipedia

Status:    On hold

I want to be an admin on Wikipedia Nias to advance the Nias language in the wiki project.Yasanto Lase (talk) 07:59, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yasanto Lase@niawiktionary

Status:    On hold

I'm requesting to be an admin on Nias Wiktionary and Nias Wikipedia Yasanto Lase (talk) 01:03, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold till January 30. Yasanto Lase, please submit a separate request for Nias Wikipedia linking to the respective discussion. --Base (talk) 04:59, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

AVSmalnad77@gomwikipedia

Status:    In progress

Requesting to be an admin on Goan Konkani Wikipedia. Thanks AVSmalnad77 talk 05:58, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

7elteven@nawikipedia

Status:    On hold

There is no any active administrators in Nauruan Wikipedia, so I can be one. I'm learning Nauruan language for about 1 year and I've been active here since November 2020. 7elteven (talk) 07:58, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@7elteven: Hello! Can you start a local discussion about your promotion, and link it here? Thanks! Putting this  On hold until discussion finishes. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:39, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Slaia@niawiktionary

Status:    On hold

I am requesting adminship for all admin-related tasks on Nias Wiktionary after my administrator access ends on 12 Feb. Glad to see that a lot of progress has been done, but still a lot to do. Slaia (talk) 08:56, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interface administrator access

See Interface admin for information about this user group.

  • 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.

Bureaucrat access

See Bureaucrat for information about this user group.
  • 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

See CheckUser policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • 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.

Oversight access

See Oversight policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • 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 .
  • 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.

Umherirrender@dewiki

Status:    Done

Please remove my sysop right/administrator access from dewiki. Thanks. Der Umherirrende (talk) 22:53, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On hold for 24h per standard practice. einsbor talk 07:01, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thank you for your service. RadiX∞ 05:21, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Derbeth@plwikinews

Status:    Done

Please remove my sysop rights. Derbeth (talk) 06:32, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On hold for 24h per standard practice. einsbor talk 07:01, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thank you for your service. RadiX∞ 05:21, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Eldad@hewiki

Status:    Done

Please remove my bureaucrat rights on hewiki. Thanks. Eldad (talk) 08:33, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On hold for 24h. einsbor talk 08:39, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thank you for your service. RadiX∞ 05:21, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Remove global sysopship for ~riley

Status:    Done

Today I looked at the activity of all global sysops in the cross-wiki activity tool. Riley's global sysop right should be removed. According to the inactivity rule on global sysop policy, global sysops can be directly removed if they don't use their rights for at least 6 months, except for projects where they are local administrators. According to the cross-wiki activity tool (see), the last log is at en.wikiversity see on June 19, 2020. Riley is local admin on commons, enwikiquote, meta; also enwikipedia and these wikis aren’t include for global sysop wiki set. The list below contains the last 5 wikis riley was active per cross-wiki activity tool. As far as I use this tool is correct generally, but it's worth checking again by stewards. Regards. --Uncitoyentalk 13:29, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Uncitoyen Might want to check for GIE too. As GIE is also 6 months inactivity, sad to see the rights removed but these are high risk privs. Thanks for checking. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Camouflaged Mirage: It says that if they don't make edits about the interface for at least 6 months, their rights can be removed. Probably the expression mentioned for these edits are .js .css .json. These generally provide the interface of the site and users. I couldn't see such edits on commons, en.wikiquote, meta, en.wikipedia and wikidata. As the stewards know this situation better, they can handle this issue if possible. If possible, I can ping @Base: is active for permissions requests recently. --Uncitoyentalk 19:16, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Just want to mention that I have seen the ping, but I am a bit busy right now and this one requires spending some time checking so cannot promise I can check this in timely manner.. --Base (talk) 16:26, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Why was not ~riley notified about this thread? Ruslik (talk) 20:45, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Ruslik0: Is it for global sysop or global interface-admin? The last 2 months, we've seen some global sysops removed by stewards out of notified are inactive over the past 6 months. --Uncitoyentalk 20:50, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I mean we don't have notification requirement as far as I know for inactivity for GS, inactivity section just put "Global sysops will automatically lose their access if in six months they've not used the respective rights outside of wikis on which they have local rights." Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:53, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If the rights are removed without discussion then there is no need to notify. However if you start discussing a user then it is considered a common courtesy to notify the user. Ruslik (talk) 13:16, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Wiki User page Last edit Last log action Rights
commons commons:User:~riley 2021-01-09 21:20 2021-01-07 04:53 (interface-admin, sysop, translationadmin)
enwikiquote wikiquote:en:User:~riley 2020-12-17 19:21 2020-12-17 19:33 (interface-admin, sysop)
meta User:~riley 2020-12-17 01:15 2020-12-17 01:15 (interface-admin, sysop, translationadmin)
enwikipedia wikipedia:en:User:~riley 2020-06-22 15:55 2020-12-12 08:53 (accountcreator, autoreviewer, extendedconfirmed, extendedmover, filemover, reviewer, rollbacker)
enwikiversity wikiversity:en:User:~riley 2020-04-08 23:03 2020-06-19 05:05
(discussion stalker) I ran some script some time ago and noticed ~riley was already close to losing it, so I ran it again and got the following output:
pihwiki block 20200601080403
pihwiki delete 20200601080404
hiwiktionary delete 20200601080758
hifwiki delete 20200608033347
hifwiki delete 20200608033347
hifwiki delete 20200608033347
tnwiki delete 20200608041622
tnwiki delete 20200608041624
tnwiki delete 20200608041624
enwikiversity block 20200619050527

Which means his last action was June 19th, 2020, so that's past the 6 month mark we have in the global sysop policy. I am not entirely sure about the notification requirement here, as I have had GS in the past and lost it automatically and only got the notification of the removal itself. --Wiki13 (talk) 21:35, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@~riley: Since it doesn't appear they have been notified yet. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 10:49, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per my comment above there isn't a need to notify as far as I can see, but good to ping too. Doesn't the application ping the users for such issues? Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:55, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Camouflaged Mirage: Yes, usually an application pings the users (if compiled correctly), it happened a few days ago with me :) --Superpes15 (talk) 11:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In fact, even when you create this request, the notification goes away. Because on wiki projects, when I write users' names in deletion, block requests (seems like [[User:]], they reply immediately. As far as I have seen in the archives, there aren't notified for inactive global sysops. --Uncitoyentalk 11:10, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If the policy doesn't explicitly say it requires notification, it should not be required - and it leads to pointless actions just to keep the rights. --Rschen7754 19:39, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done I removed riley's access based on the "crossactivity" tool and the outputs published above. I failed to find any sysop access outside of wikis where riley holds local access. Removed as per policy. Sincerely, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:58, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Trijnstel: Can you do the list honors, please? Thanks! Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:58, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Remove global interface-editor for ~riley

Status:    In progress

Per above, I think is best to split into 2. @~riley: for notification. It seems that they didn't edit the interface for 6 months per above. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 10:57, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Remove global sysop for Esteban16

Status:    Done

My activity will decline for the following months. I may not be able to help as a GS in the short term, so it would be better to have my flag removed. It was a pleasure serving the global community for the last two years. If I become active again, I may consider re-applying for GS. Thank you :) Esteban16 (talk) 02:13, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions --Alaa :)..! 12:31, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thank you for your work. RadiX∞ 15:38, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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:

  • SRB — Local or global bot status
  • SRGP — Global permissions

Several users@smnwiki

A vote was started on January 16th about who should be the administrators on the Inari Sámi Wikipedia (smnwiki), which resulted in the following five users being elected:

The following two users were also elected. However, they did not confirm their interest in continuing as administrators on the Inari Sámi Wikipedia.

--Muotâ (talk) 11:12, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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