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This page hosts requests for administrator access on the Meta-Wiki; for requesting administrator access on any other wiki, please find the appropriate venue on the index of request and proposal pages. Requests for bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight and bot, as well as removal of them (other than inactivity) are also made here. Before making a request here, please see the administrator policy.

Most requests should be listed here for at least seven days; bureaucrats should only close after the minimum time foreseen in the relevant policy. Discussions are not closed early. Adminship will be granted by a support ratio of at least 75%. If a request hasn't been addressed by a bureaucrat after a lengthy period of time, please leave a note at Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Requests may be extended, or put on hold by bureaucrats, pending decision or finding of consensus.

Requests for temporary adminship and bot requests may be less formal and often go for a shorter duration if consensus becomes clear after only a few days of discussion.

All editors with an account on Meta, at least one active account on any Wikimedia project, and a link between the two, may participate in any request and give their opinion of the candidate. However, more active Meta editors' opinions may be given additional weight in controversial cases.

See below for information on prerequisites on submitting a request, and how to add a nomination.

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Note that this page is for access on Meta only. See the permission request to stewards page for adminship/deadminship requests on other projects.

Regular adminship

  1. Before requesting admin access, please check the policy for requesting adminship.
  2. Use the box below, insert your username:

  3. Place a request on this page, by transcluding the subpage, for example {{Meta:Requests for adminship/Username}}. Please put the newest request on the bottom. Bear in mind that even if you do meet the criteria above this does not mean that the community will automatically approve a request.
  4. Please note, past administrators who have given up their rights must meet all criteria at the time of the new request. There is no separate process for reinstating past administrators.

Please note: Ill-considered nominations for adminship can be draining and deflating to both the community and the candidate. Any successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate sufficient experience within the Wikimedia community, in addition to a familiarity with Meta-Wiki. If a candidate is not already a local administrator or holder of advanced permissions on a Wikimedia content project, they are less likely to pass a request for adminship here at Meta-Wiki.

Bureaucratship

Add your request below under the bureaucratship section. Please note:

  • Only active administrators can become bureaucrats, and only after at least 6 months of regular adminship.
  • User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after they nominate themselves here.

If you fail any of these requirements, you will not be assigned the bureaucrat flag. For more information see the Meta bureaucrat page.

Other access

For these types of access, create a subpage just as you would for regular adminship and add it to the appropriate section of this page.


  • Limited adminship: If you need sysop access for a particular reason (such as ability to edit protected pages), you may request limited adminship on Meta. If granted, the user understands that they will only be allowed to use the tools for the tasks they were approved, and not doing so will be grounds for immediate removal. Temporary sysop access will normally be valid for one month unless requested and granted otherwise.


  • CheckUser: please read the CheckUser policy and add your request below under the checkuser section, in the same way as an admin request.

  • Oversight: please read the Oversight policy and add your request below under the oversight section, in the same way as an admin request.



For these types of access, just ask on Meta request for help from a sysop or bureaucrat page:

Requests for global renamer permissions are handled at global permission requests to stewards page.

WMF Office Staff and Contractors

  • If you are an WMF Official or Contractor and need rights on Meta-Wiki to perform your duties the process is different. Please have a look at the WMF staff userrights policy on Office wiki[restricted access] and follow the procedure described there. If in doubt, please contact Trust and Safety; or send an email to ca@wikimedia.org.(source)


Requests for regular adminship

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Requests for limited adminship

None currently

Requests for interface adminship

None currently

Requests for bureaucratship

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Requests for CheckUser access

"Meta:Requests for checkuser" redirects here. To request checkuser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information.
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Requests for Oversight access

"Meta:Requests for oversight" redirects here. To request oversighting, see Meta:Oversighters#Requests.
None currently

Requests for translation adminship

None currently

Requests for CentralNotice adminship

حبيشان

Not ending before 20:26, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

I am an Arabic user who is familiar with interface issues in right-to-left languages, I am an interface administrator for three projects: Wikidata, Arabic Wikipedia, and Arabic Wikisource. I believe I can contribute to fixing any issues related to right-to-left interfaces or the Arabic language. --حبيشانtalk 20:26, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@حبيشان Not clear which right you're looking for - is this for CentralNotice or interface administrator? Leaderboard (talk) 15:20, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Leaderboard For CentralNotice. I presented my experience in the interface to confirm my knowledge of HTML, CSS, and MediaWiki. حبيشانtalk 19:28, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@حبيشان Are there any specific issues currently occuring with banners in right-to-left/Arabic languages? The reason I ask is that I haven't heard of anyone complaining about banners in such languages, but I could be wrong. Leaderboard (talk) 06:33, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Leaderboard There are some minor errors that appear from time to time, but few people bother to report them. Look at this error, for example. Despite its severity, I am the only one who has reported it. حبيشانtalk 10:28, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for bot flags

CapacityExchangeBot

Not ending before 23:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi. I activated this bot solely to synchronize CapacityExchange' translations between Meta-wiki and Metabase. I've been doing some supervised edits with the account, so I believe it's ready to work automatically. --ALeoncio (WMB) (talk) 23:40, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ALeoncio (WMB) I'm having a hard time finding a reuse declaration on "Metabase", can you point to where readers of that project should find that? — xaosflux Talk 10:43, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
OK, did come across this page, is your bot limited to the item, property and entity schema namespaces there? — xaosflux Talk 10:45, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux: Yes, all data is obtained only from items. Although the license there is CC0, the bot always mentions the link to the source in the edit summary. ALeoncio (WMB) (talk) 12:16, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Are these one-way (to metawiki)? — xaosflux Talk 14:15, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Primarily yes, since these translations are used on {{CapacityExchange}}. I'm also very interested in doing the opposite, and our tests indicate that it would work without problems, but I still have to resolve the licensing issue so that CC-BY-SA content isn't "degraded" to CC-0. ALeoncio (WMB) (talk) 14:47, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ALeoncio (WMB) one suggestion is that when you publish these here, you multi-license local contribution also under CC0. You could indicate this in your edit summary. Please also update the bot userpage to describe the task(s) and if you decide to make a multi-licence CC-0 declaration there as well (e.g. Stating that contributinos you mark as "CCO" are multilicensed under CC0 in addition to our other licenses). It won't solve this whole problem, but at least you are not locking your own contribution here (that someone else may locally fork) in to CCBYSA. — xaosflux Talk 15:49, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux: It's not exactly a problem, since it's allowed for content originally under CC-0 to be remixed (in this case, translated) by someone else under a more restrictive license such as CC-BY-SA. The problem is in the opposite direction.
One option I considered would be to specify in the translation documentation (/qqq) that if someone publishes a translation here, they automatically agree to license it under CC-0, but I have the impression that this would be something quite new here and I'm still not sure if it's worth the effort. ALeoncio (WMB) (talk) 18:10, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, my only suggestion is that when YOU publish here you should say all your contributions here are also CC0; then if this can be improved there won't be a revision (the one you made) here tied to a more restrictive license. You of course don't have to, and that will not hold up this request. — xaosflux Talk 19:19, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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