Meta:Requests for adminship

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. Bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight and bot requests 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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Information

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

Before requesting admin access, please check the policy for requesting adminship.
Use the box below, insert your username:
Place a request on this page, by transcluding the subpage, for example {{Meta:Requests for adminship/Username}}. Please put the newest request on the top. Bear in mind that even if you do meet the criteria above this does not mean that the community will automatically approve a request.
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.

Interface adminship: Please read the Meta interface administrator page. The WMF requires two-factor authentication for this access.

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.

Bot: Please read the bot policy. This wiki allows global bots and automatic approval of certain types of bots; for other bots, add your request below under the bot section, in the same way as an admin request.

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.

Translation administrator: please read Meta translation administrator page and Meta’s page about translate extension. No fixed time limit for these requests is defined, and there are no particular requirements; if you provide a valid reason and demonstrate that you know and understand how to prepare pages for translation, your request will most likely be granted.

CentralNotice administrator: Meta Central notice administrator page grant access to manage and edit banner campaigns. Because of the potentially huge impact of banners on the wikis, this should be granted carefully and sparingly. The WMF requires two-factor authentication for this access.

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

MassMessage senders: please read about MassMessages, and provide a clear reason for requesting access. Specify whether you need it temporarily or permanently.
Uploaders
Patrollers

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 cawikimediaorg.^(source)

Requests for regular adminship

None currently

Requests for limited adminship

None currently

Requests for interface adminship

None currently

Requests for bureaucratship

None currently

Requests for CheckUser access

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

None currently

Requests for Oversight access

"Meta:Requests for oversight" redirects here. To request oversighting, see Meta:Oversighters#Requests.

None currently

Requests for translation adminship

Darafsh

Darafsh (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.

I am requesting translation adminship to help translate content between English and Persian. As an active member of the Iranian Wikimedians User Group, I need this access to keep our pages updated in both languages. Currently, asking other admins to mark pages for translation takes considerable time, and having this access would allow me to manage translations more efficiently. --Darafsh (talk) 17:33, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support trusted user - sounds good to me! Ternera (talk) 21:41, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
please prepare a page for translation following Meta:Internationalization guidelines as required per Meta:Translation administrators to demonstrate your practical experience with the translation syntax in your request for translation adminship. --Johannnes89 (talk) 05:04, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89 I just created a page with translation syntax: Event:Wikipedia Asian Month Introduction Darafsh (talk) 11:34, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Darafsh thanks for preparing the page! Please read the linked guidelines again and adjust the page:
Don't set translation units () manually, that's what translation admins do using Special:PageTranslation. What you need to do instead is setting <translate> tags at the appropriate places, they will be responsible for later automatically creating translation units.

Please pay special attention to links and other special elements that need translation variables, so that the link itself doesn't show up when users are translating the page (instead they usually see something like $1)
Johannnes89 (talk) 12:32, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannnes89 Thank you for tips, you may check the new attempt: Iranian Wikimedians User Group/Tbilisi-- Thanks Darafsh (talk) 19:30, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The previous link is also updated now: [1]. Darafsh (talk) 19:50, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No response in almost a week. --SHB2000 (t • c) 00:31, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@SHB2000 Hi, I was looking for an opportunity to create a relevant page. Darafsh (talk) 11:38, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There is nearly everything wrong with the markup of the prepared page --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:17, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I don't think there is any consensus on this request at the moment, so I will wait a few days to see if there are any positive comments before making a decision(because Darafsh responded on 31 Aug). --Sotiale (talk) 02:19, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral, User is trusted, but is not familiar with the translation markup. The only concern I have is that you do not add the <languages/> tag, placed on the top of the pages. Learn how to prep translations correctly and keep it up. ToadetteEdit (talk) 12:32, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Auregann

Auregann (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.

Hello there! I'd like to have the translation admin rights on Meta with my personal account user:Auregann. I've been preparing and marking pages for translation for several years with my WMDE account user:Lea Lacroix (WMDE), but since I'm now running several multilingual projects with my personal account, it would be more efficient to access the feature directly from this account instead of switching.

You can see some of my recent work here:

Please note that some of those are living pages and are frequently edited, and/or the decision has been made to keep some parts untranslated. I'm happy to receive feedback and suggestion for improvements as I know there's always a way to make it better :)

I am of course willing to work on pages other than my own projects, and I will be very happy to take on requests to prepare and mark pages for translation, as well as training and advising other users on how to do it.

Speaking of training, I recently gave an introduction presentation at Wikimania 2024: you can find the slides and video accessible on Wikimedia Commons. I hope that this material can be useful to inform editors on how to prepare a page for translation.

Many thanks in advance for considering my request! Best --Auregann (talk) 06:20, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support - translation markup seems OK from what I can see, and it is clear from your Wikimania 2024 presentation that you know how the extension works. Leaderboard (talk) 06:27, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support trusted and experienced --Johannnes89 (talk)
Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 14:15, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --TenWhile6 15:37, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:58, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ternera (talk) 21:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Stïnger （会話） 23:41, 6 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Requests for CentralNotice adminship

None currently

Requests for bot flags

AccountVanishRequests

AccountVanishRequests (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.

Not ending before 4 September 2024 16:27 (UTC)

Follow on from phab:T372024 - while developers are working on options to convert to a system user, we should flag this as a bot to avoid flooding certain recent changes/watchlist updates when it is used here. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:28, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To be fair, I think it's better to have its locks/renames show up on RC? That's what we would do with if anyone else renamed, and I'm not sure why this should be any different (other than the fact that it normally focuses on accounts with zero edits). Leaderboard (talk) 17:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If people want this, no big deal - we've had complaints (usually when the job gets stuck and then does a bunch). — xaosflux ^Talk 17:58, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Leaderboard. I would rather have locks and renames show up on RecentChanges than not. --SHB2000 (t • c) 01:12, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for notes so far, opposes are welcome. Very likely this account will be changed to a "system account", but that is distinct from if it should assert "bot" on its actions. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Information

Regular adminship

Bureaucratship

Other access

WMF Office Staff and Contractors

Requests for regular adminship

Requests for limited adminship

Requests for interface adminship

Requests for bureaucratship

Requests for CheckUser access

Requests for Oversight access

Requests for translation adminship

Darafsh

Auregann

Requests for CentralNotice adminship

Requests for bot flags

AccountVanishRequests

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