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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.

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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.

Penaku@gorwiktionary

Status:    In progress

Hello., this request is for new administrator access in gorwiktionary. Marwan Mohamad (talk) 11:37, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where was this advertised that meets MVR? -- Amanda (she/her) 13:38, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "advertised that meets MVR"? Thank you. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 04:46, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for helping ask the problem. CC: @StevenJ81:, Regards... Marwan Mohamad (talk) 09:20, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Marwan Mohamad, sorry for the confusing question. What we need to know is for you to demonstrate how you have advertised the page wikt:gor:Wikikamus:Hihile mowali Tā mongurusi Penaku 5 Juni 2023 to other community members. Normally it is done via linking to such page or transcluding it into the project's Administrator page or the project's village pump or forum. In this case I see that there are no links to this page, the page for administrators, wikt:gor:Wikikamus:Pengurus does not exist, neither does the community portal, wikt:gor:Wikikamus:Būbu'a lēmbo'a. Is there some on wiki place where the nomination was mentioned that I might be missing? If not, could you please, for example create the community portal, and link to the nomination there? The reason we want this is because we want to ensure that people do not just notify their friends about the nomination on social media or so (which is a phenomenon that referred to as canvassing) whilst there might potentially be some community members who have to say something against the candidate but have no chance to learn about the nomination. --Base (talk) 02:53, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Base: sorry for late reply. I've created a page which is a community portal, wikt:gor:Wikikamus:Būbu'a lēmbo'a and shared the admin request link in this page. Please check to see if it's correct. Thank You. Marwan Mohamad (talk) 18:09, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Marwan Mohamad@gorwiktionary

Status:    In progress

Hello, my admin rights will expire on July 20, 2023. I want and request to extend admin again and become interface admin. Marwan Mohamad (talk) 11:23, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where was this advertised that meets MVR? -- Amanda (she/her) 13:38, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for late reply. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "advertised that meets MVR"? Cc: @StevenJ81: Regards... Marwan Mohamad (talk) 09:17, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Marwan Mohamad, the MVR page (see link) requires requests for admin permissions to happen on (or to be linked from) the Village pump or Admin's noticeboard. This to ensure everyone has had the chance to find and comment on the request. Where was your request advised to the community, please? Thank you, Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:15, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
(Not to dulicate my comment, the same I wrote in Penaku's section also applies here). --Base (talk) 02:53, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tvcccp@th.wikiquote

Status:    In progress

Dear sir, Thai Wikiquote Administrator rights of User:Tvcccp expires on July 22nd, so I nominated him to be elected to serve as a permanent administrator. (If possible) Regards.--B20180 (talk) 17:37, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kaoavi@th.wikiquote

Status:    In progress

Dear sir, I've approached User:Kaoavi to serve as an administrator on the Wikiquote project. He is happy to be considered by the community. (P.S. User:Kaoavi already has some experience and understanding of policies.) Regards. --B20180 (talk) 17:37, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Murma174@stq.wikipedia

Status:    Done

I'd request a renewal of my adminstrator and interface administrator access to stqwiki. If possible, permanent access (as long as it is needed). Murma174 (talk) 20:20, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2025-07-09. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:23, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! --Murma174 (talk) 20:09, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Arcuscloud@bjn.wikipedia

Status:    In progress

Hello. This request is renewal for Administrator and Interface Administrator access. Ezagren (talk) 04:01, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

V0lkanic@sk.wikiquote

Status:    In progress

I'd like to request admin rights on sk wikiquote. The only bureaucrat on the project may seem active due to his obviously robotic edits, but he clearly doesn't respond to any of my (or other users') requests, even on other projects (see here here or here. Therefore, I have to ask you for the rights this way. Thank you in advance. --V0lkanic (talk) 15:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question Question: So let's clarify your request above: You came to the Slovak Wikiquote, made literally 200 edits in the span of 4 days of which nearly none with summary and about one third of them seems to be robotical, on that 4th day you have submitted your RfA and after 14 days without a single vote you came here complaining for no response or action taken on that and furthermore requesting that adminship here? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 90.176.96.41 (talk) 21:26, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, the project has literally no community and it has been like that basically for years (since around 2010). There is no other person adding any content or at least categories, correcting typos, anything like that (except for the 1 sysop and bureacraut using robotic edits to do some maintenance who clearly isn't responding to - not only my - requests). None of my edits are robotic. Yes, I actually did spend hours trying to add categorries, add articles to the appropriate date page or fix some of the article introductions. The total number of edits I've made so far is 900, which unfortunately already ranks me as the 6th most active user ever on the project (by total edit count). In this request, I am not complaining about anything, I only try to explain the situation on the project and the unfortunate inactivity of the only bureaucrat who is the only user able to take any action. Using the admin rights, I'd try to do some maintenance on the project and I believe that the 3 month period is certainly enough for that as as of this date, there is no point in being a sysop for any longer (as there is noone to even patrol etc., simply zero users). V0lkanic (talk) 10:17, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

KuboF Hromoslav@eo.wikivoyage

Status:    In progress

After automatic loose of admin rights after 1 year (Esperanto Wikivoyage is a small project) I have asked for the admin rights for 3rd time. The community voting was small but entirely positive. --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 19:00, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Mithridates@ie.wikipedia.org

Status:    In progress

My last sysopship expired in December and I wasn't all that active at the time so let it expire, but apparently there are spam and related tasks to deal with so would be nice to be a sysop again. Vote was conducted late last month. Mithridates (talk) 04:15, 12 July 2023 (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.

Kuldhar Rabha@as.wikiquote

Status:    Done

I request both admin and interface admin rights for Assamese Wikiquote. If granted, I would be happy to work for the further improvement of the Assamese wikiquote. Kuldhar Rabha (talk) 06:33, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kuldhar Rabha, I granted adminship (expiring in 6 months on 2023-12-30). For the interface adminship, can you please enable 2FA now? It is a requirement according to the policy.  On hold until that happens. Thank you! Martin Urbanec (talk) 15:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
2FA is enabled. -Kuldhar Rabha (talk) 16:17, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Kuldhar Rabha, Done, temporary interface administrator rights are granted, they are to expire together with your regular administrator rights. As these seem to be your first admnistrator and interface administor rights please do not hesitate asking any questions on how something is done if you have any. --Base (talk) 01:17, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CubanoBoi@tum.wikipedia

Status:    In progress

Requesting for the renewal of sysop and Interface admin for them. Discussion ran for 7 days. Thank you. -- Tumbuka Arch (talk) 08:21, 11 July 2023 (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.

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

Turbojet@ro.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Turbojet is a candidate for the role of Good Article nominations reviewer. The required 7 days of discussion have elapsed on June 26. Local policy on ro.wikipedia requires a bureaucrat to close the discussion, but since there are no bureaucrats on this wiki we ask a steward to observe the consensus and close the discussion. Additionally you may refer to this precedent. Thank you. Gikü (talk) 18:11, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Gikü to confirm, you are not asking for any specific rights to be added here, you just want a steward judge your local consensus - because your community made a local policy that requires action by a local bureaucrat, but has not installed any bureaucrats? (If so, perhaps you should reconsider your local policy and allow your administrators to do this?) — xaosflux Talk 18:29, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's exactly right. rowiki indeed used to have bureaucrats when rules were instituted.
I am preparing a set of update proposals to those rules, which include your suggestion. I will wait until the pending discussion is finalized in order to not induce confusion. Gikü (talk) 20:17, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Gikü, Done. but please either change the rule or elect some bureaucrats. :) --Base (talk) 01:37, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.

DreamRimmer@awa.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Since I don't have enough time to contribute to the Awadhi Wikipedia, kindly remove my admin rights. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜 10:19, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. --Wim b 15:39, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Done, although in my opinion you could expect a month for the automatic expiration. --Wim b 10:48, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Danny B.@skwikiquote

Status:    In progress

I'd like to request the removal of bureaucrat rights for Danny B. (talk · contribs) in multiple projects. He currently holds them for 9 projects despite being utterly inactive or hardly ever active on at least 7 of them (the other 2 - incubator and testwiki I didn't even check). At first sight, he's clearly an active user involved in multiple projects, as he even states on Meta (without updating the info and icons on his userpage despite losing some of the rights he used to possess). However, looking at his edits on each of the projects (seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), it is clearly visible that his edits are robotic and most likely made possible by a script of some kind. It is very important to clarify that I do not request the removal of his sysop, interface-admin, import or any other rights (besides the bureaucrat rights) he may have been granted on any project. His edits are useful and in the vast majority of cases beneficial for the project and the community. The scripts that he is using seem to be well written and are used thoughtfully (despite rare exceptions). Despite that, I have not been able to find a single edit in the last year or two on any of the 7 projects mentioned above that would not appear robotic. It is also important to note that he uses the same robotic scripts for other projects, such as the Slovak Wikipedia (seen here) where he does not hold advanced rights (or holds only some). The last edit on his account not made by a script I was able to find is from 2018 on the Czech Wikipedia (seen here). Not only has he not responded to an e-mail I sent him 2 weeks ago, he also doesn't react to the messages sent to his discussion pages (here, here, here or here). His bureaucrat right has already been taken from him on the Czech Wikinews in 2022 due to his utter inactivity for more than a year in which 3 requests for sysop rights were completely ignored (in 2020, in 2021 and in 2022). While his inactivity (except for the robotic scripts) is apparent in some projects, other ones (such as Slovak Wikibooks or Slovak Wikisource) are so inactive that there are basically no requests for him to even be taken care of. However, on the Slovak Wikiquote, Czech Wikisource and Czech Wikiquote, his long-term inactivity is apparent. Also, it's important to note that he is the only bureaucrat in 4 of the projects (namely cs wikiquote, sk wikiquote, sk wikisource and sk wikibooks). In conclusion, I do not see any point in keeping the bureaucrat rights of the user as the he does not fulfill the only duty resulting from the bureacrat right. I am aware of the fact that you may not be able to revoke the bureaucrat right from the user in projects where no request have been made (sk wikibooks and sk wikisource), however I ask you to consider doing so in the ones where his inactivity can be proven. I am unable to send you any local inactivity rules as there are obviously none for the bureaucrat right and the user hasn't been inactive long enough (officialy, once again only because of the robotic edits) as a sysop for the right to be revoked (and, as mentioned above, I absolutely do not even request that). --V0lkanic (talk) 16:54, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question Question: So let's clarify your request: In a nutshell you request removal of the bct rights of the long term active user (on half of the projects you have mentioned pretty much the only active user who apparently for long time keeps those projects alive) because of you have feeling that their edits since 2018 are robotical? Do you have any evidence for your claim which you could provide? — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 90.176.96.41 (talk) 21:53, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. Just as I've mentioned in the beginning of the text, everything seems fine after checking the user's edit count, sysop actions, periodical activity etc. And it mostly really is, I've already mentioned that the edits are indeed purposeful, in some cases completely unneccessary but certainly not malicious (despite the exception I was able to find mentioned above). However, looking at any of the user's edits in particular (I've already linked everything in the message above), it is clearly visible that the user is able to do up to 20 edits in just 1 minute, with the very same edit summary in each one of them. All of these edits are made at exactly XX:07, mostly in batches of 10 edits (sometimes there is an exception and the batch is executed at XX:37). Furthermore, it is clear that these robotic edits are even used for sysop tasks - such as the deletion of the "Deň:5.február" page I accidentaly created on the sk wikiquote that was deleted together with a batch of other edits on July 6, 2023. The summary used in the deletion was even exactly the same word I used in the reasoning for the deletion request. This way the user seems active even as a sysop, despite the sysop actions clearly being scripted just like the normal edits. How would a user be able to execute exactly 10 edits (sometimes 20), each at exactly XX:07, roughly every other day (at completely random times) on approximately 10 projects. I am asbolutely not able to comprehend how edits like that could be done manually. The inactivity of the user in responding to messages or e-mails despite making these edits on a regular basis may indeed also be a hint to you that the edits are in fact, robotic. V0lkanic (talk) 10:40, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Styyx@global

Status:    Done

Please remove my global sysop and global rollback rights. Thanks. Styyx (talk) 14:25, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Standard 24-hour hold for resignation of advanced permissions. — xaosflux Talk 14:36, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
D: ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:53, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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