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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.

• Before posting to this page, make sure your comment doesn't belong at one of these specific request pages:
  • Requests for (translation/central notice/interface) adminship on this Meta-Wiki
  • Requests for CheckUser information on this Meta-Wiki
  • Requests for oversight of edits on this Meta-Wiki
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• Import is currently enabled in this wiki from some projects. From other wikis, you will need to copy and paste your materials by hand but please remember to add a link, as a permanent link, and the history of the page being imported in the edit summary to avoid copyright violations.
• To report vandalism on Meta: please click here. For immediate assistance, join #wikimedia-meta^connect and use !admin@meta to notify administrators.
• To report cross-wiki vandalism see Steward requests/Miscellaneous.

See also: Stewards' noticeboard, Access to nonpublic personal data policy noticeboard, Category:Meta-Wiki policies, Category:Global policies

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 17 December 2025)

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

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(as of 17 December 2025)

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(Last updated: 2025-08-27)

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EditRequest gadget

The EditRequest gadget has never worked, ever since it was imported from Commons in 2020. As written, it only runs on pages that have elements with the class .com-edit-request-admin-area, but no pages on Meta have this class. According to Special:GadgetUsage, it has 20 active users and 6 inactive; the gadget has always been admin-only, so these 26 are all admins or former admins.

The gadget consists of these three pages:

• MediaWiki:Gadget-EditRequest.js
• MediaWiki:FulfillEditRequest.js/install.js
• MediaWiki:FulfillEditRequest.js

I have deleted them accordingly and removed the corresponding entry from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. If someone wants to try their hand at rewriting it so that it works on Meta, feel free to ask me for a code review. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 05:18, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-41111-79

~2025-41111-79 (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --☠︎Quinlan83☠︎^{(𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖐𝖎𝖓' 𝖙𝖔 𝖒𝖊?)} 10:16, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Done – DreamRimmer ■ 10:24, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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Event Organizers right request

Reason for request: I am a leader in my local community (Projet:Les sans pagEs/Strasbourg), the event organizer's right will help me organize my workshops in Events.

Criteria met

No active blocks: No

Global edits: 12,491

Additional criteria: I will be organizing a Wikimedia events/projects in my community, and I will need the event organizers right.

Additional information: None

Thanks

Waltercolor (talk) 11:07, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

@Waltercolor: Do you plan to create events on Meta-Wiki? – DreamRimmer ■ 11:12, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer My organization (Projet:Les_sans_pagEs on Wikipedia) required recently that for my local workshops I now use the tool Events of the Foundation. So, following the example provided, I created last week (with no special rights) a Wikipedia page with an "Event:" syntax allowing the registration of my participants via Events and linked the corresponding outreach dashboard in Events. It seems it worked, but I have no idea if it's the correct way to use Events, because someone else of the project asked me also to make a sysop request for right's like this example to become an organizer of my events in Events. What am I supposed to do exactly ? Thanks. Waltercolor (talk) 13:27, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Done You meet the criteria, so I have granted the right. I only wanted to check whether you plan to create events on Meta-Wiki. The reason I asked is that your project page is on the French Wikipedia, and that wiki has a local right for event organisers. – DreamRimmer ■ 13:34, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @DreamRimmer. I use also to work with people on other wikis as Wikiquote (for the #SheSaid campaign), Wikidata, Commons, Wiktionnary... So it's not only the French Wikipedia. Waltercolor (talk) 14:35, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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Report concerning User:Saroj hates RedFinlandTheBlocky

Saroj hates RedFinlandTheBlocky (talk • contribs • deleted contribs • logs • filter log • block user • block log • GUC • CA) — Reasons: Vandalism. Long-term abuse XReport --Nvdtn19 (talk) 05:04, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Already locked by Bsadowski1. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 05:28, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 05:28, 17 December 2025 (UTC)