Volunteer Response Team/Volunteering

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The Volunteer Response Team (VRT) always welcomes new volunteers to help with answering tickets. Nonetheless, to ensure the quality of service and given the confidential nature of the work, there is a selective application procedure.

The VRTS administrators are a group of highly-trusted and experienced volunteers who assess your application to join the VRT. When assessing an application, they familiarize themselves with your work on the Wikimedia projects to ensure that you are suitable as an addition to the VRT. It therefore takes some time before you receive a response regarding your application.

How do I volunteer?

If you are interested in volunteering, please read VRT/Recruiting for information about what the job entails. Feel free to join #wikimedia-vrt^connect to ask any questions that you might have with regard to the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team. Before applying, please ensure that you are:

• Willing to work on difficult, sensitive, and at times hostile messages
• Courteous, skilled at resolving disputes, friendly – even in the face of hostility – sensitive to the needs of outsiders, and have exemplary discretion
• Willing to sign the VRTS users confidentiality agreement, considering the access to nonpublic personal data policy
• 16 years of age or older

Please review the list of queues prior to submitting your application, and apply for all of those queues where you think you'd be able to help.

Notes

• The VRT is especially interested in users who are entrusted with any special tools on local projects (sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser, etc.), though this is not an absolute requirement.
• Applicants are usually expected to have shown consistent activity for at least six months.
• Language skills — other than English — are also highly appreciated. Additional help in language queues is greatly needed and we'd like to know if you are able to help in any other language.
• If you already have access to VRTS, and you'd like to get access to additional queues, you typically don't need to apply here. Ask on Administrator requests on vrt-wiki instead.
• If you currently don't have access to VRTS, but had access in the past, even under a different user name, please advise accordingly during your application.
• Permissions queues: users that already have strong knowledge of and experience with copyright issues, like administrators or license reviewers on Wikimedia Commons, are highly appreciated and invited to volunteer. Users without such skills should apply for info queues instead.

German-speaking volunteers

If you'd like to volunteer for the info-de queue, please apply locally by following the instructions at de:Wikipedia:Support-Team#Mitarbeit im Support-Team.

Dutch-speaking volunteers

If you'd like to volunteer for the info-nl queue, please apply below and send an email to contact-nllistswikimediaorg for the team to assess your application.

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Seawolf35

• User links: Seawolf35 (talk • contribs • CentralAuth • global • count • blocks)
• Babel/Languages you can reply in: en-N, es-2, fr-1
• Your most active user talk page(s): enwiki, commons
• Queues you would like access to: info-en
• Email sent? - Yes

I'd like to help out on the Volunteer Response Team because I would like to help people with their questions regarding Wikipedia/Wikimedia. I have been editing enwiki for about 2 years and my general focus is maintenance work such as spam removal. I am a member of the Account Creation Team on enwiki and I mentor new editors as well. I understand the relevant policies and I have signed the VRTS users confidentiality agreement as well as the ANPDP. Seawolf35 (talk) 22:13, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Qədir

• User links: Qədir (talk • contribs • CentralAuth • global • count • blocks)
• Babel/Languages you can reply in: az-N, tr-3, en-2
• Your most active user talk page(s): azwiki, meta
• Queues you would like access to: info, info-az, permissions-az, permissions-commons, renamers
• Email sent? Yes

Hello. I am ready to volunteer. I am an administrator on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia, and also a global rollbacker and global renamer. I have been active for approximately 10 years. I am very careful about copyright issues and take them very seriously. I am ready to answer incoming questions and have a good knowledge of Wikipedia policies. I have signed the confidentiality agreements for ANPDP and VRT regarding users’ private information. Thank you. Sincerely, Qədir (talk) 05:10, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Samat

• User links: Samat (talk • contribs • CentralAuth • global • count • blocks)
• Babel/Languages you can reply in: hu-N, en-2, de-2
• Your most active user talk page(s): huwiki, meta
• Queues you would like access to: info-hu, permissions-hu
• Email sent? Yes

I was, together with Bdamokos, one of the initiators of the Hungarian-language VRT queues in 2008 and served as the organizer of the Hungarian VRT team for over a decade. Some years ago, due to my off-wiki responsibilities, I became inactive for a period of time and consequently lost access to these queues. As the Hungarian VRT team is currently facing capacity issues, I am willing to help again and would therefore like to regain access. Samat (talk) 09:33, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Toadspike

• User links: Toadspike (talk • contribs • CentralAuth • global • count • blocks)
• Babel/Languages you can reply in: en-N, de-N, zh-N, als-2/3
• Your most active user talk page(s): en:User talk:Toadspike
• Queues you would like access to: info-en, info-zh, permissions-en, permissions-zh-hans, permissions-zh-hant, permissions-de, info-simple, info-als.
• Email sent? Done

I'd like to help out on the Volunteer Response Team because I believe I have a suitable temperament and my language skills could be of use. I am an administrator on the English Wikipedia and I occasionally edit a variety of other projects as well. I have long been a mentor for new users and I have experience dealing with subjects of biographical articles ([1], [2], [3]). I am familiar with copyright guidance and would be comfortable handling permissions tickets. If I've missed any queues you feel may be relevant please let me know. Toadspike [Talk] 20:50, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

I've been encouraging 'Spike to apply for a while now, and I am thrilled he has finally done so. In my experience working with 'Spike, he is unfailingly kind and patient. Being natively trilingual(!) is also huge bonus. I strongly support his application :) Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:54, 18 January 2026 (UTC)