Meta:Requests for adminship
Most requests should be listed here for at least seven days; bureaucrats should only close after the minimum time foreseen in the relevant policy. Discussions are not closed early. Adminship will be granted by a support ratio of at least 75%. If a request hasn't been addressed by a bureaucrat after a lengthy period of time, please leave a note at Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Requests may be extended, or put on hold by bureaucrats, pending decision or finding of consensus.
Requests for temporary adminship and bot requests may be less formal and often go for a shorter duration if consensus becomes clear after only a few days of discussion.
All editors with an account on Meta, at least one active account on any Wikimedia project, and a link between the two, may participate in any request and give their opinion of the candidate. However, more active Meta editors' opinions may be given additional weight in controversial cases.
See below for information on prerequisites on submitting a request, and how to add a nomination.
Information
Note that this page is for access on Meta only. See the permission request to stewards page for adminship/deadminship requests on other projects.
Regular adminship
- Before requesting admin access, please check the policy for requesting adminship.
- Use the box below, insert your username:
- Place a request on this page, by transcluding the subpage, for example
{{Meta:Requests for adminship/Username}}
. Please put the newest request on the top. Bear in mind that even if you do meet the criteria above this does not mean that the community will automatically approve a request. - Please note, past administrators who have given up their rights must meet all criteria at the time of the new request. There is no separate process for reinstating past administrators.
Please note: Ill-considered nominations for adminship can be draining and deflating to both the community and the candidate. Any successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate sufficient experience within the Wikimedia community, in addition to a familiarity with Meta-Wiki. If a candidate is not already a local administrator or holder of advanced permissions on a Wikimedia content project, they are less likely to pass a request for adminship here at Meta-Wiki.
Bureaucratship
Add your request below under the bureaucratship section. Please note:
- Only active administrators can become bureaucrats, and only after at least 6 months of regular adminship.
- User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after they nominate themselves here.
If you fail any of these requirements, you will not be assigned the bureaucrat flag. For more information see the Meta bureaucrat page.
Other access
For these types of access, create a subpage just as you would for regular adminship and add it to the appropriate section of this page.
- Interface adminship: Please read the Meta interface administrator page. The WMF requires two-factor authentication for this access.
- Limited adminship: If you need sysop access for a particular reason (such as ability to edit protected pages), you may request limited adminship on Meta. If granted, the user understands that they will only be allowed to use the tools for the tasks they were approved, and not doing so will be grounds for immediate removal. Temporary sysop access will normally be valid for one month unless requested and granted otherwise.
- Bot: Please read the bot policy. This wiki allows global bots and automatic approval of certain types of bots; for other bots, add your request below under the bot section, in the same way as an admin request.
- CheckUser: please read the CheckUser policy and add your request below under the checkuser section, in the same way as an admin request.
- Oversight: please read the Oversight policy and add your request below under the oversight section, in the same way as an admin request.
- Translation administrator: please read Meta translation administrator page and Meta’s page about translate extension. No fixed time limit for these requests is defined, and there are no particular requirements; if you provide a valid reason and demonstrate that you know and understand how to prepare pages for translation, your request will most likely be granted.
- CentralNotice administrator: Meta Central notice administrator page grant access to manage and edit banner campaigns. Because of the potentially huge impact of banners on the wikis, this should be granted carefully and sparingly. The WMF requires two-factor authentication for this access.
For these types of access, just ask on Meta request for help from a sysop or bureaucrat page:
- MassMessage senders: please read about MassMessages, and provide a clear reason for requesting access. Specify whether you need it temporarily or permanently.
- Uploaders
- Patrollers
Requests for global renamer permissions are handled at global permission requests to stewards page.
WMF Office Staff and Contractors
- If you are an WMF Official or Contractor and need rights on Meta-Wiki to perform your duties the process is different. Please have a look at the WMF staff userrights policy on Office wiki[restricted access] and follow the procedure described there. If in doubt, please contact Trust and Safety; or send an email to cawikimediaorg.(source)
Requests for regular adminship
- TenWhile6 (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.
Not ending before 20 September 2024 13:04 (UTC)
Hi all! I am TenWhile6, dewiki admin, global rollbacker & global renamer. I’m actively patrolling the recent changes on meta, reverting vandalism and tagging pages for deletion. The possibility to block vandals and speedy delete nonsense pages would really help me. I also plan to create and maintain global edit filters, as I am already working with edit filters on my homewiki and I am very familiar with some globally active LTAs. Thank you for consideration, --TenWhile6 13:04, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support dewiki sysop, active, helpful and no reason why not. --SHB2000 (t • c) 13:06, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support It's a yes from me.--A09|(pogovor) 13:08, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support definitely! Ternera (talk) 13:17, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:36, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Wüstenspringmaus talk 14:04, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support There is a solid rationale, a valid use case and a trusted account. --M/ (talk) 14:07, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Krd 14:17, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support Trusted. --Count Count (talk) 14:18, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support No issues for me, thanks for volunteering. EPIC (talk) 14:26, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support AramilFeraxa (Talk) 15:16, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support - no concerns. – Ajraddatz (talk) 16:08, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support I might be biased knowing your excellent work from dewiki, but given the support from other users my impression seems correct ;) --Johannnes89 (talk) 16:10, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support obviously --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:18, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support Competent user, can be trusted with this. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:29, 13 September 2024 (UTC) - Support ok Leaderboard (talk) 19:13, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support excellent work. Thanks for volunteering - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 19:17, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support No doubts. --Stïnger (会話) 22:28, 13 September 2024 (UTC).
- Support --Saroj (talk) 06:14, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support Syunsyunminmin 🗨️talk 14:50, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support. —— Eric Liu(Talk) 15:46, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 16:28, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support Tmv (talk) 08:49, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Strong support Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 09:02, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support —MdsShakil (talk) 15:46, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Strong support, and I appreciate you for maintaining abuse filters on dewiki. :) Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 21:21, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support —DerHexer (Talk) 21:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
Requests for limited adminship
Requests for interface adminship
Requests for bureaucratship
Requests for CheckUser access
- "Meta:Requests for checkuser" redirects here. To request checkuser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information.
Requests for Oversight access
- "Meta:Requests for oversight" redirects here. To request oversighting, see Meta:Oversighters#Requests.
Requests for translation adminship
- 0xDeadbeef (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.
Hi all, I'd like to request translation admin to help with U4C-related work here. I am an edit filter manager on enwiki, and like my work on edit filters, I try to read the guidance on things before doing anything technical. (mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation administration is particularly helpful for the translate extension) One example edit I made to prepare a page for translation is linked here, any feedback would be appreciated! --0xDeadbeef (talk) 05:23, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- I would recommend to use translate tags for every single bullet point and to add an empty line after the section header. Besides that markup looks good, Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 06:44, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. I'll keep it in mind when preparing lists for translation in the future. As for the empty line after section header, do you mean after both "== Elected ==" and "== Statistics =="? 0xDeadbeef (talk) 07:39, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- After "== Vacancies ==" (has been done in the meantime). This will split up the section header from the following paragraph. If the translate tags are closed after the section header, it does not matter if there is an empty line or not. --Ameisenigel (talk) 11:03, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Got it, thanks! 0xDeadbeef (talk) 13:09, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- After "== Vacancies ==" (has been done in the meantime). This will split up the section header from the following paragraph. If the translate tags are closed after the section header, it does not matter if there is an empty line or not. --Ameisenigel (talk) 11:03, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. I'll keep it in mind when preparing lists for translation in the future. As for the empty line after section header, do you mean after both "== Elected ==" and "== Statistics =="? 0xDeadbeef (talk) 07:39, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support * Pppery * it has begun 15:32, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Stïnger (会話) 21:22, 15 September 2024 (UTC).
- Support Ternera (talk) 13:29, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:54, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support —DerHexer (Talk) 21:36, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support Tmv (talk) 21:40, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support per above. --SHB2000 (t • c) 05:25, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support per above --Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:53, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support --TenWhile6 20:58, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Requests for CentralNotice adminship
Requests for bot flags
- AccountVanishRequests (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.
Not ending before 4 September 2024 16:27 (UTC)
- Follow on from phab:T372024 - while developers are working on options to convert to a system user, we should flag this as a bot to avoid flooding certain recent changes/watchlist updates when it is used here. — xaosflux Talk 16:28, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- To be fair, I think it's better to have its locks/renames show up on RC? That's what we would do with if anyone else renamed, and I'm not sure why this should be any different (other than the fact that it normally focuses on accounts with zero edits). Leaderboard (talk) 17:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- If people want this, no big deal - we've had complaints (usually when the job gets stuck and then does a bunch). — xaosflux Talk 17:58, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- To be fair, I think it's better to have its locks/renames show up on RC? That's what we would do with if anyone else renamed, and I'm not sure why this should be any different (other than the fact that it normally focuses on accounts with zero edits). Leaderboard (talk) 17:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose per Leaderboard. I would rather have locks and renames show up on RecentChanges than not. --SHB2000 (t • c) 01:12, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- In my opinion this is just pointlessly flooding recent changes – especially with automatic vanishes of 0 edit accounts. Why should those show up on RC? Johannnes89 (talk) 06:24, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for notes so far, opposes are welcome. Very likely this account will be changed to a "system account", but that is distinct from if it should assert "bot" on its actions. — xaosflux Talk 13:44, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
See also
- Current administrators
- Current removal discussions
- Previous confirmation discussions (obsolete)
- Index of requests and proposals
- Information on user groups
- Meta–steward relationship
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