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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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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

  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.


  • CentralNotice administrator: The Central Notice administrator group grants 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:

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

Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors

If you are a Wikimedia Foundation staff member or contractor and need rights on Meta-Wiki to perform your duties, the request process is different. Please review the WMF staff userrights policy on Foundation-wiki and follow the procedure described there. If in doubt, please contact Trust and Safety by sending an email to ca@wikimedia.org.

Requests for regular adminship

Sohom Datta

Not ending before 17:05, 18 October 2026 (UTC)

I initially wanted to apply for community-wishlist-manager but was advised to apply directly for adminship instead since the community did not have any existing processes to grant the wishlist-manager right. TLDR, I've helped out a fair bit with the Community Wishlist process by triaging wishes from time to time and contacting relevant WMF teams! I would like the ability to decline wishes that don't include actionable items for the WMF technical teams (i.e., can be resolved by local admins). I'm fairly active on Meta, and if given this right, I'm also willing to participate in helping out with Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat or other admin activities as well. --Sohom (talk) 17:05, 11 October 2026 (UTC)reply

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.

SHB

Not ending before 03:03, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Hi, everyone, I'm SHB. I've been an admin here for about 2.5 years and have served as a steward since the start of this year. I'm mainly applying for checkuser locally here on Meta, as while LWCU has been useful in most instances, I've had many cases where LWCU data was insufficient, particularly when checking for sleeper accounts and sockpuppets. If elected, I'd also like to help out with requests at Meta:RfCU. I've held CU perms on my home wiki of enwikivoyage for about a year now (where I'm also a sysop and bureaucrat) and am reasonably familiar with the tool as well as the checkuser policy and ANPDP. Thanks for your consideration, //shb (t • c) 03:03, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Support
  1. Support Support. Trusted and seems reasonable. In a few months I would even support you to become a third CU at English Wikibooks if possible. Codename Noreste /// ⭐️✨ 03:11, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  2. Support Support Borhan (talk) 04:43, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  3. Support Support, trusted user --Saroj (talk) 04:45, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  4. Support Support Valid use for the tools, so I don't see why not. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 05:00, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  5. Support Support By far. Absolutely someone I want around as a checkuser. EggRoll97 (talk) 05:22, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  6. Typical waste-of-time request not due to the OP's fault. Leaderboard (talk) 07:30, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  7. Support Support sure. EPIC (talk) 08:57, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  8. Support Support PieWriter (talk) 10:31, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  9. Support Support – Ajraddatz (talk) 15:03, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  10. Support Support --Morkoz (talk) 15:12, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  11. Support Support HouseBlaster (talk • edits • he/they) 20:03, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  12. Support Support. No issues here. -Barras talk 20:20, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  13. Support Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 20:33, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  14. Support Support --Ferien (talk) 23:25, 13 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  15. Support Support * Pppery * it has begun 06:03, 14 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  16. Support Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 17:10, 14 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  17. Support Support Max (talk) 17:23, 14 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  18. Support Support sure. signed, Aafi (guesthouse) 08:49, 15 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  19. Support Support - both because SHB is great, and because I think that all stewards should be able to use CU/OS on Meta-Wiki. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 09:10, 15 October 2026 (UTC)reply
  20. Support Support Neriah - 💬 - 23:40, 15 October 2026 (UTC)reply
Oppose
Neutral

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

None currently

Requests for bot flags

None currently

See also

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

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