Talk:Steward clerks

December 2025

Current clerks

• Didym (talk · contribs)
• LuciferianThomas (talk · contribs) Keep
• Red-tailed hawk (talk · contribs)
• SCP-2000 (talk · contribs)
• Borschts (talk · contribs) Keep

This initiative seems to have become stagnant and isn't reducing the request backlog. Current clerks, are you still interested and available to do these tasks? Pings to: @Didym:, @LuciferianThomas:, @Red-tailed hawk:, @SCP-2000:, @Borschts:. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 14:54, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

I am interested in continued assistance after my busier month. However, steward clerks have become an orphaned team as our coordinator is no longer a steward, and I refrained from participation, as I do not believe we should act without any form of proper supervision. Once stewards would introduce a new coordinator for the team, I'll be back handling requests probably every other morning. LuciferianThomas 03:49, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

It's likely going to be me, as I'm the primary VRT wrangler these days - but only if there is anyone to coordinate! — xaosflux ^Talk 18:10, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

-ja and especially -zh requests are something that could use help too. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:12, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

-zh I can help with, but I believe the -zh queue is not accessible by clerks as that seems to not be within the bounds of what clerks are supposed to do, according to the coordination page? LuciferianThomas 02:35, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

count me in :D Borschts ^Talk 02:41, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

• Current VRT proxy backlog is 9 days. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:44, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

  Noted, I'll take care of the backlogs right now. LuciferianThomas 01:58, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks, I was going to get to them but we had a huge backlog so just through them there for now. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:23, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

  Would you be able to provide us with a means of private communication such that we do not need to discuss tickets in public? LuciferianThomas 02:08, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

  Assuming we go forward with this yup. For the immediate, you can use notes on the tickets - they will mostly go to me as I'm sort of the ticket wrangler these days. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:25, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

  Cleared all of them with the exception of two, leaving relevant notes for your reference. LuciferianThomas 02:32, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks, will check! — xaosflux ^Talk 02:46, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

• @Xaosflux: Hello, I apologize for the late response. I think I may not have enough time to help these tasks currently, and I appreciate having the opportunity to participate in past years. As the current sysop of zhwiki, I am willing to help coordinate issues on zhwiki if the clerks don't have permission to resolve them. Happy New Year! SCP-2000 14:50, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

  We do get people we refer to w:zh:Wikipedia:IP封禁豁免 to start that process (especially brand new/ unregistered users) - would zh prefer these are sent to a VRT queue? — xaosflux ^Talk 16:59, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

  LuciferianThomas and Borschts are the IPBE grantor on zhwiki, and they can grant IPBE to users. The ticket can also moved to the info-zh-ipbe VRT queue if necessary. SCP-2000 18:34, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

  L & B - if we get these, would you rather us move to that queue, or send them to the directions? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:57, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

  I would process them on the spot. I'd avoid forwarding anything from the stewards queue to ipbe queues unless prolonged assistance is required. LuciferianThomas 01:53, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

• Apologies for my long departure. Should hopefully be better in a few weeks or so. Thank you all for allowing me to have helped in the past, and for all your work going forward. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 20:08, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Dec 2025 - call for clerks

I'm going to put out a call for additional clerks, from above we only have 2 active now. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:00, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

And yup, I'm going to be the coordinator (unless we don't get sufficient team and we collapse this initiative). — xaosflux ^Talk 11:59, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Tanbiruzzaman (talk · contribs) I'm interested for volunteering. Same username in VRT. 🪶-TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN (💬) 13:13, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for volunteering, will follow up with you. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:53, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@Xaosflux, unsure if I am late or if there is still any scope of this. Since I already have access to VRT (and open it more than a dozen times in day for various other reasons), I would love to volunteer in case any additional support is needed. For now, I have access to info-en/ur and permissions, and a few other role queues. Just felt a need to respond seeing that 3 clerks were removed, and only one new decided to volunteer. Thank you. _signed, Aafi ^(talk) 15:12, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, we've just processed the round of changes - if you would hit me up in say a month, I should know if things have stabilized or if additional resources will be needed. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 11:44, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Changes

Following up on above and from mailing list.

• I'm taking over as the clerks coordinator. (if any other stewards want in, you are welcome!)
• The following inactive clerks are being removed, thank you for your prior service: Didym. Red-tailed hawk, and SCP-2000
• The following clerks are being retained: @LuciferianThomas:, @Borschts:
• The following clerks are being added: @Tanbiruzzaman:
  • Pending ANPDP. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:23, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
• I'll be creating a mailing list for off-wiki coordination, will let everyone know when ready.
  • phab:T413631. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:12, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

• Requested at vrtwiki. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:41, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Happy 2026! — xaosflux ^Talk 18:15, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

New ML

We have a mailing list now for coordination needed off-wiki (such as discussing requests). Please send me a wikimail at Special:Email/Xaosflux with your username and the email address you would like to use for this mailing list. Any stewards are welcome to subscribe as well. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 15:05, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

• Pings to: @LuciferianThomas:, @Borschts: Done and @Tanbiruzzaman: Done. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:06, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Recent stats (June 2026)

I briefly reviewed last 2 months of proxy-queue closed tickets. There were 363 closed tickets.

Stats by handler

• Stewards:
  • 188 Xaosflux
  • 5 XXBlackburnXx
  • 1 MdsShakil
• Clerks:
  • 152 @LuciferianThomas:
  • 3 @Tanbiruzzaman:
  • 0 @Borschts:

We currently have about an 8 day backlog. Think it may be time for some clerk add/changes. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:43, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Currently, I have some free time and I am willing to help. Thanks. SCP-2000 15:25, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

I will be unavailable for the next month, and will resume handling tickets mid-July. LuciferianThomas 15:56, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

I reply to few tickets on UTRS and I still prefer to do it there. Is that (UTRS) no longer considered part of Clerk work? I ask because our VRT queue rarely has emails in languages I can read, and UTRS is much more user-friendly on mobile compared to Znuny. Borschts ^Talk 18:24, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

By “rarely” I meant at least whenever I happen to log in and check. Borschts ^Talk 18:26, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

UTRS rarely has anything, the VRT queue is where the work is. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:13, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

In that case, please accept my resignation as I plan to focus more of my time on ArbCom and U4C.

Small note: I understand the preference to stick exclusively to email tho having conversations on Discord in the past was an easier approach to resolving questions. Thank you for your work in leading this project :)

Ref. VRT queue access removal requested. Borschts ^Talk 14:20, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Happy to volunteer if there is a need for new clerks. – DreamRimmer ■ 00:50, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

• @DreamRimmer and SCP-2000: thank you for volunteering, have you reviewed Steward clerks? Do you have any questions? (Assuming this is move-forward, next step is I'll send the clerk applicant info up to the stewards mailing list for input). — xaosflux ^Talk 20:01, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

  I have reviewed and don't have any questions on it. Thanks. SCP-2000 01:51, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

  Reviewed. No questions. – DreamRimmer ■ 02:10, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

• Thank you for volunteering, currently being reviewed on the mailing list. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:38, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

  Xaosflux I would be happy to assist if needed. I have the necessary knowledge and experience in network technologies and would be glad to contribute. NDG (talk) 19:54, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

  + I'd be happy to assist as well, in case there's a requirement. _signed, Aafi ^(talk) 11:09, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

• Thank you to those who expressed interest, at this point we are adding two new clerks. Welcome to the team @SCP-2000 and DreamRimmer:. Your onboarding has begun, please look for a wikimail soon. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:29, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

  Onboarding steps:

  1. VRT access requests placed. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:49, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
  2. Mailing list processing: in progress. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:49, 21 June 2026 (UTC)