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Meta-Wiki has a small active community. When a normal user requires the assistance of an administrator or bureaucrat for some particular task, it is not always easy to find one. This page helps users find one when they need one; asking specific admins directly via their talk pages is one way to elicit a fast response. It is only for assistance required at Meta-Wiki, help for other wikis needs to be requested at those wikis.

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General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map

Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help

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

Meta-Wiki maintenance announcements [edit]

General maintenance announcements:

(as of 16 October 2026)

• Assistance with Meta-Wiki maintenance is always welcome.
• Many files awaiting review for basic {{information}}, source and license.

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Discussions:

(as of 16 October 2026)

None currently.

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Blacklist shortcuts

@Lp0 on fire recently retargeted SBL to Talk:Spam blacklist. It used to be a disambiguation page, which is now at SBL (disambiguation) (the {{disambiguation}} does not seem to support "(disambiguation)" titles), but that page is not even linked from anywhere. Meanwhile, TBL links to Title blacklist (rather than the talk page), which has a notice about MediaWiki:Titleblacklist at the top. Would it be better to point SBL to Spam blacklist with a similar note to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:44, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

I targeted SBL to the talk page because as a shortcut I felt it should point to the page that people are likely to want to navigate to. It's not obvious to me what benefit there would be to adding an extra click to the workflow of reporting a URL (and if an admin wants to action a request, including a request of their own, they're still likely to go to the talk page first, either to see the report or to document their addition and provide a comment to be given to {{sbl-log}}). Retargeting the shortcut to the page itself would be neater but I'm not sure it would be helpful. The title blacklist is a much lower-traffic page and not one I have really engaged with, so I can't say whether it's more helpful to have a shortcut for the page itself or the talk page. lp0 on fire () 20:52, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

At least as an admin, when I enter "SBL" I would want to get to the blacklist, e.g. to check what domain is on it (though personally I mostly interact with the title blacklist). To me it seems more intuitive. At least the note about MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist should be added at Spam blacklist, and the disambiguation page should probably be deleted. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 04:03, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4 Please, no more blacklist, not all listed websites are maintained by "blacks", such claiming is setting unnecessary negro hats into irrelevant peoples. ~2026-54067-30 (talk) 02:59, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

the term "blacklist" has nothing to do with black people. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 17:09, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-54067-30 Please do not POINTY; it's not related to the problem that we are discussing here. Veritas Sapientiae (talk | email) 12:56, 12 October 2026 (UTC)

Discussion about bureaucrats

Hi all. Since Meta:Babel is probably less viewed, I thought it might be a good idea to post this here. Related to the most recent requests for bureaucrat rights, a discussion was started about the process. It would most likely be good to get more input at Meta talk:Bureaucrats. You are welcome to drop a comment there or bring up other/additional ideas. -Barras talk 13:30, 12 October 2026 (UTC)

Event organizer for Alan Colin Arce (WMCA)

Global user: Alan Colin Arce (WMCA) (talk • contribs • User rights • global contributions • CentralAuth • block log)

Reason for request: I work for Wikimedia Canada as Administrative Manager of the North America Hub. We will begin organizing online events and workshops, so I would like to be an event organizer to manage registrations and events with the Event Organizer tools.

Criteria met:

• No active blocks: I confirm no active blocks.
• Global edits: 620 edits
• Additional Criteria: Staff member at Wikimedia Canada

--Alan Colin Arce (WMCA) (talk) 18:56, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Done Barras talk 19:01, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

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Event organizer for Gayo Bah

Global user: Gayobah13 (talk • contribs • User rights • global contributions • CentralAuth • block log)

Reason for request: I am the founder and leader of the Gambia Wikimedia Community User Group and a member of the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee. I am requesting event organizer rights to create and manage event registration pages for community training sessions, workshops, edit-a-thons, and other Wikimedia activities.

Criteria met:

• No active blocks: I confirm that I have no active blocks.
• Global edits: 5754
• Additional criteria: Founder and leader of the Gambia Wikimedia Community User Group; member of the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee.

-- Gayo Bah (talk) 21:24, 16 October 2026 (UTC)21:28, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

Granted for 1 year NDG (talk) 21:30, 16 October 2026 (UTC)

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