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This page is for requests to have stewards grant or revoke administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights on Wikimedia projects which do not have a local permissions procedure. Minimum voting requirements are listed here.

Old sections are archived. The list of archives is below.

  • Requests for bot flags are handled at SRB, and requests for global permissions are handled at SRGP.
  • If you are requesting adminship or bureaucratship, and your wiki has a local bureaucrat, submit your request to that user or to the relevant local request page (index).
  • For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel. In emergencies, type !steward in the channel to get the attention of stewards. Otherwise, you can type @steward for non-urgent help.
  • All processed requests are automatically archived after 24 hours of no activity. Use {{PinSRP}} on a request section to prevent it from being archived, or {{ArchiveNowSRP}} to archive a request section as soon as possible.

Other than requests to remove your own access or emergencies, please only make requests here after gaining the on-wiki approval of your local community.

Quick navigation: Administrator | Interface administrator | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Miscellaneous | Global permissions

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Cross-wiki requests
Meta-Wiki requests

Using this page

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1. Place the following code at the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== Username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!-- Don't change this line -->
 |domain    = <!-- Such as en.wikibooks -->
 |user name = 
 |discussion= 
}}
(your remarks) ~~~~

2. Fill in the values:

  • domain: the wiki's URL domain (like "ex.wikipedia" or "meta.wikimedia").
  • user name: the name of the user whose rights are to be changed (like "Exampleuser"). In case this is for multiple users, leave this field blank and give a list of these users in your remarks.
  • discussion: a link to the local vote or discussion about the rights change (for example, "[[ex:Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#ExampleUser]]"). This should normally be for at least one week, but no more than three weeks (if so, you'll need to restart the process).

3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

Confirmation of signing confidentiality agreement

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Certain permissions (notably CheckUser and Oversight) additionally require users to sign a confidentiality agreement. Users requesting these permissions must make a request below, and must also sign the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation. The request is placed on hold temporarily, until the receipt has been formally confirmed by the Office.

Requests

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COPY THE FOLLOWING CODE to the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== User name@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
  |status     = <!--don't change this line-->
  |domain     =<!-- Such as en.wikibooks -->
  |user name  =
  |discussion = 
}}

Administrator access

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See Administrator for information about this user group.

  • MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
  • Stewards: Please use {{Systmp}} for approved temporary requests.

Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.

Please start a new discussion about requesting the permission on the local village pump, administrators' noticeboard or a designated page for requesting permissions each time you request or renew adminship.

  • Discussions should be open for seven days. Please request adminship here seven days after discussions started. This page is not the place for any discussions or votes. (For wikis with few active users, it is OK to have no comments.)
  • If you only want adminship for specific tasks, please state for how long and for which tasks you need it. Otherwise stewards will decide whether to assign permanent adminship and the duration of adminship. See Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements.

Assilidjoe@fat.wikipedia

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Status:    On hold

I have been an administrator on the Fante Wikipedia for some time and I would like to continue administrating on the Fante Wikipedia to help maintain and tackle vandalism. Thank youAssilidjoe (talk) 16:35, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Assilidjoe, you cannot link to the old discussion back from February for a new request. Please start a new discussion and come back with its results in a week (it is okay even if no one replies there as long as no one opposes). --Base (talk) 19:29, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Base@A09 please check I have sent a new request.Assilidjoe (talk) 08:30, 6 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
 On hold On hold to allow for a fresher admin candidacy, can be marked as not done in absence of a newer local adminship request. A09|(pogovor) 17:51, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Second ping, @Assilidjoe. A09|(pogovor) 17:50, 5 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Okay@A09 and @Base, I will apply for new adminship request. Thanks Assilidjoe (talk) 18:25, 5 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! A09|(pogovor) 18:57, 5 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

SijiR@ml.wikiquote

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Status:    On hold

Requesting sysop rights at Malayalam Wikiquote as Malayalam Wikiquote currently have no bureaucrat.Some people from the commnuity voted in my favour and none has voted against me. I would like to volunteer the project as there is only one admin there. SijiR (talk) 17:24, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold @SijiR: Could you please make a new local request? We would love to see a fresher discussion than March. Best,. A09|(pogovor) 17:56, 5 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Interface administrator access

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See Interface admin for information about this user group.

  • If you are requesting adminship and the interface admin at the same time, you can file one request in administrator section and state you want interface adminship as well.
  • MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request interface administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
  • Since the end of 2018, all interface administrators are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Please, enable it before posting your request here.
  • Stewards: Please use {{Systmp}} for approved temporary requests.

Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.

Please start a new discussion about requesting the permission on the local village pump, administrators' noticeboard or a designated page for requesting permissions each time you request or renew interface adminship.

  • Discussions should be open for seven days. Please request interface adminship here seven days after discussions started. This page is not the place for any discussions or votes. (For wikis with few active users, it is OK to have no comments.)
  • If you only want interface adminship for specific tasks, please state for how long and for which tasks you need it. Otherwise stewards will decide whether to assign permanent interface adminship and the duration of interface adminship. See Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements.

Sinucep@vec.wikipedia

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Status:    On hold

I requested administrator rights on this page last month and was granted them. I hadn't enabled two-factor authentication at the time, but I've now done so and am requesting the interface administrator access. I need the ability to edit some JS and CSS pages because I am the only active administrator. Tell me if the request is appropriate, thank you! Sinucep (talk) 13:11, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold @Sinucep: I am afraid we cannot proceed with this request at this time; w:vec:Wikipedia:Aministradori/Elesion/Sinucep does not indicate any request for the IA rights. Would you mind making another request for interface adminship? A09|(pogovor) 10:41, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat access

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See Bureaucrat for information about this user group.
  • In principle, requests for temporary bureaucrat access are not granted.
  • A small project does not need bureaucrats. Currently whether a promotion is valid or not is decided by stewards. See here for a guideline.

Requests for removal of access should be posted at the section below.

CheckUser access

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See CheckUser policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • To request CheckUser information, see Steward requests/Checkuser. This is the place to request CheckUser access.
  • One-time CheckUser access is not permitted and temporary access is only used by Stewards or when the mandate of the CUs has an expiry date specified in local policies.

Oversight access

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See Oversight policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • To request to have content oversighted, ask for a steward in #wikimedia-stewardsconnect and contact a steward privately. This section is for requesting access to the Oversight tool.
  • For contact details about oversighters across the wikis, refer to this page.
  • Note that temporary Oversight access is not permitted and temporary status is only used by Stewards .
  • When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list.

Lesnas ättling@bewikipedia

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Status:    On hold

Following the discussion, the community granted the user oversight rights. The user was instructed to sign an agreement with the Foundation. Currently, these rights are locked for u:Mienski. I understand that once the rights are granted to Lesnas ättling, they will automatically be unlocked for Mienski? Please let me know if our local Wikipedia needs to take any further action. MocnyDuham (talk) 12:17, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold pending on the candidate's signature of the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information (see instructions) and Wikimedia Foundation confirmation of the same. Noting that Wizardist's OS rights (whose flag was suspended) will be restored following execution of this request. There won't be anything else that needs to be done by the community in that end. EPIC (talk) 12:19, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
EPIC, the candidate already signed the confidentiality agreement. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 18:29, 6 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
We are aware, but granting is still on hold as the candidate does not currently meet the security requirements for this role. EPIC (talk) 18:31, 6 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous requests

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Requests for permissions that don't fit in other sections belong here. Importer rights can be granted on most wikis by stewards only. Please gain local community consensus before posting a new section here.

Note that the following types of permissions requests belong on separate pages:

  • SRB — Local or global bot status
  • SRGP — Global permissions

User:Yug@commonswiki (importer)

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Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T385582
Previous request here (successful)
Yug (talk · contribs · logs · User rights · Number of edits: · Global account information · Email this user)

Hello ! I'm requesting the renewal of transwiki importer rights for Wikimedia Commons. This mission have been approved by the community and I was granted the importer userrights (discussion) for it. This past winter I managed to achieve 98% of the mission (public report on Commons: about 8000 wikipages imported without issues), with the exception of our 2 largest wikipages due to technical limitation : XML exports files of our main forums are too heavy to import. I since realized I can split that XML of a single wikipage into 10 XML files, which should allow me to complete this mission. This request is therefore more an extension or continuation request, rather than a new request.

Reminder from previous request:

Personal profile: « I'm a 2 decades wikimedian, former Commons administrator, lead and administrator on Lingua Libre project, briefly freelanced by Wikimedia France to lead the important 2025 changes in accordance with the Wikimedian community. I have to import all wikipages from Lingualibre.org/wiki/ toward commons:Lingua_Libre . Consultation with the Commons community on this effort got a 100% approval so far, see c:Commons:Village_pump#Migration of Lingua Libre project pages to Commons . See also T385584. »

Due to the summer which I still hope I will enjoy more outside than in front of my PC and scripts, could you grant me the right for 3~4 months? This last leg should take me one day or two, I plan to work on it in August or September 2026. Thanks by advance. Yug (talk) 15:44, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of access

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  • If you're requesting the removal of your own permissions, make sure you're logged in to your account. If you have multiple flags, specify which you want removed. Stewards may delay your request a short time to ensure you have time to rethink your request (see previous discussion on 24 hour delays); the rights will not be restored by stewards once they are removed.
  • To request the removal of another user's permissions, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. When there is community consensus that the user's access should be removed, provide a link to the discussion, with a brief explanation of the reason for the request, and summarize the results of discussion. However, as bureaucrats of some wikis may remove users from the administrator or bureaucrat group, please see also a separate list of these specific wikis.
  • To request the removal of another user's permissions for inactivity, link to your local inactivity policy. If your site does not have inactivity policy, the global policy Admin activity review applies.
  • See the instructions above for adding new requests. Please post new requests at the bottom of the section.

Ingenuity@meta

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Status:    Done

Please remove my global rename permission; unfortunately I have not been as active as I had hoped and I haven't been able to make much use of the permission recently. Thanks, Ingenuity (talk) 20:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. EPIC (talk) 20:23, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Done with thanks for your service. ML to be handled. EPIC (talk) 08:09, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MarioGom@global

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Status:    In progress

Last visible action, an edit, more than a year ago at 17:05, 2025-06-11 (UTC) on enwiki. Per the policy, GIPBE rights should be removed. Thanks! – DreamRimmer ■ 15:31, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Danny B.

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Slovak projects
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Status:    Done
Status:    Not done

Last visible admin action conducted on December 8, 2025, which is now more than 6 months ago. According to the skwikisource admin requirements, rights can be revoked after 6 months of inactivity.

I would also like you to consider revoking the user's rights on Slovak Wikiquote, where the 6 month inactivity requirement is also applied and the user's only actions since December of 2025 were 5 datamining edits on his own personal subpage. However, I acknowledge that this could technically still be considered an action on the project.

Done for skwikisource with thanks for their service. @V0lkanic: Just to clarify, for skwikiquote, does the inactivity policy apply to any activity on the project or only to admin activity? If it is the former, I think we can consider them active per policy. EPIC (talk) 16:25, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@EPIC:On this page it says "Správcovi, ktorý po dobu pol roka nevykoná žiadnu zaznamenanú akciu, môžu byť automaticky odobrané práva správcu" which Google Translate correctly translates to "An administrator who does not perform any recorded action for half a year may have their administrator rights automatically revoked." To me, this most likely means that any activity is considered enough for the admin rights not to be revoked even if no admin actions were conducted in the last 6 months, although I am not 100 % sure if this is the way this rule was intented to work. Now, let's say making edits would be enough to keep the rights; in that case the only edits the user made are on his personal subpage, and as nearly all of the user's edits, they are done robotically (it is not entirely clear to me whether the user has to approve of all edits manually or not, but I personally suspect he does not). Technically the user has fulfilled the policy and the account has made multiple edits, but their "validity" to me is highly questionable. --V0lkanic (talk) 16:34, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
What I find rather interesting that on this site, it states that there apparently isn't a difference between a logged action and a logged action requiring the rights of an admin. Even though both policies do not explicitly state the same thing (as far as I am aware), as for removal of rights, following is stated in both cases: removal after 6 months without logged action. --V0lkanic (talk) 18:29, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Since the activity requirements appear to be met at skwikiquote, so after some discussion, marking as not done. EPIC (talk) 16:26, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thank you very much for your work. Sincerely --V0lkanic (talk) 17:29, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Czech projects
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Status:    Done

No activity since December 8, 2025, the wiki also has 6 month inactivity policy.

Status:    Done

In the case of Czech Wikisource, the 6 month inactivity policy clearly states that the activity applies to admin actions (not activity in general) and the user has not conducted any admin action for more than 6 months now, since December 8, 2025.

Therefore, I'd like to ask you to revoke the user's admin (and in some cases also bureaucrat) rights on the projects above. --V0lkanic (talk) 16:15, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done with thanks for their service. EPIC (talk) 16:25, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

DMaza (WMF)@global

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Status:    Done

No longer works for the WMF; account globally locked. Please remove staff rights. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 05:46, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done. EPIC (talk) 08:02, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Peacearth@global

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Status:    Done

The last rename action was more than a year ago, at 23:41, 20 May 2025 (UTC). Per the policy, global rename rights should be removed. Thanks! – DreamRimmer ■ 08:23, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done with thanks for their service, ML to be handled. EPIC (talk) 08:31, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

WikiFer@global

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Status:    Done

The last rename action was more than a year ago, at 21:17, 28 May 2025 (UTC). Per the policy, global rename rights should be removed. Thanks! – DreamRimmer ■ 08:23, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done with thanks for their service, ML to be handled. EPIC (talk) 08:31, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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