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.

Rpel@dz.wikipedia

Status:    On hold

I endorse RPel as an admin for Dzongkha Wikipedia. I have known RPel, a native Dzongkha speaking IT graduate, who has been working in the field of Dzongkha language computing and computer security, for over 10 years. CFynn (talk) 07:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please, supply a link to a local discussion. Ruslik (talk) 20:48, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
dz.wikipedia.org Requests_for_adminship#User:Rpel CFynn (talk) 09:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Request filed 2021-10-23, so  On hold until 2021-10-30. — regards, Revi 21:32, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It would be unusual to grant sysop access to a new account with few edits. Ruslik (talk) 20:25, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, There are only a handful of us trying to get the Dzongkha Wikipedia going. To get mor people interested and participating, we need to make it more attractive - by fixing the CSS, making a few simple Templates and then putting up some more useful articles. But it seems we are very limited in what can be done on our own without the necessary rights - unless there is someone with those rights we can contact who can do it for us. CFynn (talk) 09:14, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nehirowisiw@atj.wikipedia

Status:    On hold
 On hold until 19 December 2021 Ruslik (talk) 20:27, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ParittoAme@zh.wikibooks

Status:    In progress

Admin rights for one month (user has his/her name changed). Sorry for postponing the poll for such a long time.--Sayonzei (talk) 08:35, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MONUMENTA@es.wikiversidad

Status:    On hold

I wish I was still an administrator at es.wikiversidad.--MONUMENTA (talk) 15:14, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 1 December 2021 Ruslik (talk) 20:22, 28 November 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.

Satpal Dandiwal@pa.wikipedia

Status:    On hold

I am an admin on Punjabi Wikipedia but due to update some mediawiki pages I need Interface admin rights. There is only one interface admin on Punjabi Wikipedia as of now. The have posted on the VP as well about requesting these rights. Kindly give me "interface admin" rights. Thank you. - Satpal Dandiwal (talk) 05:38, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Satpal Dandiwal Hello, can you please enable H:2FA, which is a requirement for interface adminship?  On hold until that happens. Thanks, Martin Urbanec (talk) 15:44, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And until November 21 in any case. --Base (talk) 11:27, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Dear @Martin Urbanec: & @Base:, I have enabled H:2FA. Kindly proceed according to your criteria or process. - Satpal Dandiwal (talk) 17:19, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
2FA is now OK.  On hold until 2021-11-21 to allow for a discussion to happen. Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:28, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.

poudou!@fr.wikipedia

Status:    On hold

Could you please grant me the CheckUser access on Wikipedia-fr.
Please note that I have signed the "General confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information" on Phabricator with my global account: Poudou99 (which is the one I use in Commons, Mediawiki, Wikidata,...).
My local account on Wikipedia-Fr is Poudou!. However both these 2 accounts : Poudou! (on Wp-fr) and Poudou99 (my global account) have the same email adress.
Thanks. Regards, --Poudou99 (talk) 06:48, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold pending WMF Office's confirmation of the necessary signatures.
@Poudou99 Normally I would've asked you to confirm the request with the other account, but since your userpages are pretty clear about the connection, I'll abstain from that requirement. Martin Urbanec (talk) 07:12, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Martin Urbanec. Thanks you for your understanding.
Indeed; these 2 account do not make things easy.
In 2007/2008 I started to use the global account Poudou99 in Wp-Fr and in Commons.
In 2016, after some periods of absence in WP-fr, I have created a new account in WP-fr (account which was renamed in Poudou!). But I always continued to use the account Poudou99 in Commons and in the other WM projects.
Yesterday, when I tried to connect in meta.wikimedia.org, the global account Poudou99 was chosen, and the same for Phabricator. It was impossible to create an account for Poudou! in Phabricator because Phabricator said that my email address was already in use.
So I signed the agreement with my Poudou99 account
I hope this situation will not complicate my request. --Poudou99 (talk) 08:07, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @NahidSultan (WMF) @JSutherland (WMF), can you please advise how to proceed here? There are multiple accounts involved, and I'm not sure if this form of a signature can be admitted. Thank you, Martin Urbanec (talk) 23:16, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think the user can create a new phabricator account, connect it to the alternate name, and sign the documents for the alternate name. This would avoid all exceptions. (At best the accounts should be merged, but I think this cannot be required.) --Krd 08:38, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
What Krd said - that could be one way to move with the signature. But my understanding is Legal doesn't require it as long as we can confirm the person using the alternate account is the same person who signed the document under a different account. As a next step, I would suggest Poudou99 to send a note to ca@wikimedia.org explaining the situation so that we can keep that for our internal record. As for adding the rights - this can go ahead as I can confirm the email used to sign the agreement is also the address that has been attached to these two accounts. Thanks. – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 11:20, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@NahidSultan (WMF) Thanks for the suggestion.
@Poudou99 Can you please follow the next steps outlined by @NahidSultan (WMF) from the Office? Once the status of the signature is clarified by the Office, I'll be able to continue in processing this. Thanks for your understanding. Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:23, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
(conflict in editing)
@Martin Urbanec:
Hi,
Thanks everyone for helping me in trying to solve my double accounts problem.
I have to remind that the problem comes from the fact that my email address is common to my two accounts (Poudou! in WP-fr and Poudou99 in Commons).
Initially, Phabricator has linked my email address to my Commons account (Poudou99). But when I wanted to log into Phabricator with my WP-fr account (Poudou!), it failed because Phabricator said my email address was already in use. I've tried to change my email address on Commons side but Phabricator kept the old one.
I'm stucked on this point. So I had to sign with my Poudou99 account... And that does not work with my CU resquest for my WP-fr account.
I don't kwow if someone can cancel my Phabricator account (with Poudou99 name) so that I could create a new one for Poudou! and then I will be able to sign with this account.
I take note of the suggestion to write to ca@wikimedia.org (to what or to whom this address corresponds to ?).
Thx, --Poudou99 (talk) 12:33, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Poudou99 ca@wikimedia.org is an email address maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust and Safety team (aka T&S), which is the team @NahidSultan (WMF) is a member of. The team is (among other things) responsible for the NDA signature process.
For the Phabricator side of things, you would need to change the email address in Phabricator itself (it has a separate database, and it only takes your Wikimedia email address when you sign in for the first time). You can do it by logging in there, clicking the profile icon in top-right (next to the search box), clicking "Settings" and going to "Email addresses". In that screen, you can add a different email address, set it to Primary and then delete your old email address. Once you do so, you'll be able to create the other account. Let me know if you have any issues with that.
Hope this makes sense. Happy to clarify further if there are more questions. Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:39, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Martin Urbanec:
I managed to change my email address in Phabricator for account Poudou99.
Now I have the same account Poudou99 in Commons, in Meta-Wikimedia and in Phabricator with the same email address for these sites (let's call it "addr2")
Then, I have created a new Phabricator account with account name "Poudou" associated to my account Poudou! in Meta-Wikimedia and in Wikipedia-Fr with the same email address (let's call it "addr1").
Finally, I have signed the aggreement with my Poudou account in Phabricator
Let me know if that is OK for you.
(you can see that I am connected now with the account Poudou! ) --Poudou! (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'll now wait for the office to review & confirm :). Martin Urbanec (talk) 19:42, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Martin Urbanec:
May I ask you if you have received any new information? Should I have provided further data? --Poudou! (talk) 02:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Poudou! Not yet, Access to nonpublic personal data policy/Noticeboard still lists only one of your accounts. You claim to sign the agreement again with the other account on Friday, and now it's a Monday, so let's please allow few more days for the Office to confirm. Martin Urbanec (talk) 10:32, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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

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.

Solt@ro.wikipedia

Status:    Done

According to our local policy (ro:Wikipedia:Revocare#Expirare), administrators and bureaucrats lose their special permissions if they have been inactive for more than 1 year. The period of inactivity is measured since their last contribution.

User Solt made his last contribution to our project on November 29, 2020. We have notified him in advance, both on his talk page and by e-mail message. I kindly ask you to remove the sysop rights of this user. Pafsanias (talk) 09:22, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Martin Urbanec (talk) 10:35, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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