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This page is for Wikimedia wikis having no active administrators. Requests can be made here for specific administrative actions (such as page deletion) to be performed by a steward or global sysop. In other cases:

If the wiki does have active administrators, file the request with one of them.
If the wiki has an active editor community, any potentially controversial action (deletion of actual content, edit to a protected page, renaming of a protected page, etc.) should receive consensus from the wiki community before being requested here, and a link should be provided to that consensus in the request.
For global lock/block requests, file a request at Steward requests/Global.
For non-controversial deletion requests such as empty page, simple spam or vandalism, and non-controversial or emergency requests to block vandals, spammers or other malicious users, you may use global sysop requests instead.
If a consensus is considered required to act, similar principles apply as expressed at Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements, and can be used for guidance to how and what should be done at small and medium communities to gain a consensus.

To add a new request, create a new section header at the bottom of the "Manual requests" section using the format below:

=== Very brief description of request here ===
{{Status|In progress}}
Give details about your request here. --~~~~

It is helpful if you can provide a link to the wiki (or the specific page on the wiki) in question, either in the header or in the body of your request.

When reporting cross-wiki vandalism, the following template calls can be used to link to a user's contributions across all Wikimedia content wikis (these are for logged in users and non-logged-in users, respectively):

* {{sultool|Username}}

* {{luxotool|IP.address}}

Template {{LockHide}} can also be used in appropriate cases.

To request approval of OAuth consumers please use {{oauthapprequest}} (see the documentation before using).

Old requests are archived by the date of their last comment.

Cross-wiki requests
CheckUser information Global blocks/locks Permissions (global) Permissions (bot) Permissions (other) Username changes/ usurpation requests Miscellaneous requests URL blacklisting Title/username blacklisting Email blacklisting
Meta-Wiki requests
CheckUser information Deletion Permissions Requests for help

Bot-reported requests

See Global sysops/Speedy delete requests.

Manual requests

Unvanish Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user NbWaQhET3Y and Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user 283e0da92394fe248a40cb6f76f69058

Status: In progress

Please unvanish Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user NbWaQhET3Y and Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user 283e0da92394fe248a40cb6f76f69058. Editorial patterns and EXIF metadata from files uploaded to Commons suggest both accounts belong to the same user. --~2026-33721-77 (talk) 04:22, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

[1] [2] ~2026-33834-11 (talk) 03:55, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Update a common gadget

Status: In progress

An enwiki gadget that I use was broken.[3] It has recently been fixed. There are 102 copies of this gadget at various wikis.[4] I suspect that nearly all of them need to be fixed. The canonical version at mw:Snippets/Direct imagelinks to Commons. This edit shows the changes that fixed things at enwiki. It requires an IA, so I'm bringing it here for help. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:41, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a GIE, Krinkle is already engaged on this? Krinkle, do you plan on doing others? Perhaps this should just be an import from commons? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:44, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Until issues like T197137 are improved, this is a non-starter for me as I simply don't have the time to spend two full days repeatedly re-authenticating on each of these hundred wikis separately (which in turn involves unlocking my password manager, copying 2FA over bluetooth which overwrites my clipboard, and fighting timeouts T423193). This is on top of the "real" work for this: hundred times review each wiki's version to look for any unrelated changes, replace or incorporate the latest snippet, test the current and drafted version ahead of time in safemode on a random artice on that wiki.

Last year, this would have taken two hours total, which I can do. Line them all up, batching the tests and edits, clipboard magic, multi-tasking. Now, it would take ~5min per wiki serially (instead of 1min) and thus ~10h total (instead of 2h). Krinkle (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

OAuth permissions

Preferably permission requests should be submitted using the form from Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration.

After submitting this form, you will receive a token that your application will use to identify itself to MediaWiki. An OAuth administrator will need to approve your application before it can be authorized by other users. It is possible to request approval using {{oauthapprequest}}; please create a sub-section of this section.

A few recommendations and remarks:

Try to use as few grants as possible. Avoid grants that are not actually needed now.
Versions are of the form "major.minor.release" (the last two being optional) and increase as grant changes are needed.
Please provide a public RSA key (in PEM format) if possible; otherwise a (less secure) secret token will have to be used.
Use the JSON restrictions field to limit access of this consumer to IP addresses in those CIDR ranges.
You can use a project ID to restrict the consumer to a single project on this site (use "*" for all projects).
The email address provided must match that of your account (which must have been confirmed).

Bot-reported requests

Manual requests

Unvanish Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user NbWaQhET3Y and Special:CentralAuth/Renamed user 283e0da92394fe248a40cb6f76f69058

Update a common gadget

OAuth permissions

See also