Steward requests/Permissions
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.
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.
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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Using this page
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 you're requesting access for multiple bots, leave this field blank and give a list of these bots 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
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
Administrator access
See Administrator for information about this user group.
- If you are requesting adminship to handle one time vandalism incidents or clearing a deletion backlog, please see Steward requests/Miscellaneous.
- MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
- Admins doing cross-wiki work may wish to see IRC/wikimedia-admin for information about joining #wikimedia-adminconnect.
- 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.
Lhoussine AIT TAYFST@shiWikipedia
- Wiki: shi.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: shi:Aggur:Anmuggar#Asutr wiss sin n timmuɣra n Lhoussine AIT TAYFST
Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 20:05, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
- On hold for one week until January 20, 2022. Discussion seems to have started on January 13. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 20:25, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Taravyvan Adijene@be.wikisource
- Wiki: be.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Taravyvan Adijene (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: s:be:Вікікрыніцы:Супольнасць#Адміністратарскія правы
Previous temporary admin flag ended. Just started discussion at local wiki. Renessaince (talk) 21:14, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- On hold until 2022-01-26 --Martin Urbanec (talk) 22:17, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Sakura emad@ckb@wikipedia
- Wiki: ckb.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Sakura emad (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Live Discussion.
it's been two weeks since the Election has started, with 11 Support and 1 oppose, 1 Neutral, for explaining the Opposition it was a misunderstanding with user's POV on my works on CKB wikipedia, i would like to tag a (Local Administrator @Aram to fully Explain everything to you, after that Please Grant me Permanent Admin Rights on ckb wikipedia thank you. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 22:36, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Interface administrator access
See Interface admin for information about this user group.
- If you need to accomplish a one-time, non-recurring task, please request your task at Steward requests/Miscellaneous.
- 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.
Bureaucrat access
- 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
- To request CheckUser information, see Steward requests/Checkuser. This is the place to request CheckUser access.
- Temporary CheckUser access is not permitted and temporary access is only used by Stewards .
- Stewards: Before granting this permission to a user, please check the current policy and make sure that the user has signed the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation. An email template is available for requesting new users to identify.
- When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list, ask them to subscribe to checkuser-l, notify listowners checkuser-l-ownerlists.wikimedia.org, and make sure they contact an op for access to #wikimedia-privacyconnect and #wikimedia-checkuserconnect.
صالح@arwiki
- Wiki: ar.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: صالح (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here.
- Signature: missing
--جار الله (talk) 10:53, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- On hold pending on the candidate's signature of the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information (see instructions) and Wikimedia Foundation confirmation of the same. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:54, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @جار الله, this is a reminder that you need to sign the confidentiality agreement before being assigned checkuser right. Best, Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:07, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @Martin Urbanec @صالح needs to sign the confidentiality agreement and he told me that he did. Best. جار الله (talk) 18:03, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, thought it was a self-requested permission (I'm not very good at reading Arabic). It's great the agreement is signed. Let's wait for the noticeboard update then. Martin Urbanec (talk) 18:54, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- The process between signage and the noticeboard update can have noticeable delays, due to the Office take time to review... Thingofme (talk) 02:42, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, thought it was a self-requested permission (I'm not very good at reading Arabic). It's great the agreement is signed. Let's wait for the noticeboard update then. Martin Urbanec (talk) 18:54, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @Martin Urbanec @صالح needs to sign the confidentiality agreement and he told me that he did. Best. جار الله (talk) 18:03, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Oversight access
- 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 .
- Stewards: Before granting this permission to a user, please check the current policy and make sure that the user has signed the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation.
- When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list.
Miscellaneous requests
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:
Removal of access
- 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.
Krystofer@ukwiki
- Wiki: uk.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Krystofer (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: w:uk:Вікіпедія:Заявки_на_позбавлення_прав_адміністратора#Krystofer_(друга_номінація)
I started discussion on removal admin rights of Krystofer in ukwiki, however he asked to revoke the rights straight away. Renvoy (talk) 17:09, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. RadiX∞ 17:27, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- Done -- Amanda (aka DQ) 17:30, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
See also
- Steward requests
- Log of changes to user rights
- Log of global rights-related changes
- Steward handbook
- Users that have signed confidentiality agreement for nonpublic personal data
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