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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Administrator access
[edit]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.
Lee@siwikibooks
[edit]- Wiki: si.wikibooks.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Lee (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: wikibooks:si:විකිපොත්:පරිපාලකවරු#Lee
I already hold a temporary sysop flag on this project, which expires very soon. Please look into the possibility of making it permanent. --Lee (talk) 13:17, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Granted for 2 years to expire on 2026-08-02. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks.
- Unfortunately per MVR I cannot grant you a permanent flag here, but given your previous tenures I am granting you adminship for another two year term. EPIC (talk) 13:21, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. -- Lee (talk) 13:23, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Lee@siwiktionary
[edit]- Wiki: si.wiktionary.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Lee (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: wiktionary:si:වික්ෂනරි:පරිපාලකවරු#Lee
I already hold a temporary sysop flag on this project, which expires very soon. Please look into the possibility of making it permanent. --Lee (talk) 13:23, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Granted for 2 years to expire on 2026-08-02. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks.
- (Same comment as above) EPIC (talk) 13:44, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. -- Lee (talk) 14:03, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Lookruk@lo.wiktionary
[edit]- Wiki: lo.wiktionary.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Lookruk (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Here
My sysop and IA rights was expired on 5 August 2024. --Lookruk 💬 (Talk) 04:32, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- Granted for 1 year to expire on 2025-08-03. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. EPIC (talk) 06:57, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
LiMr@cswikivoyage
[edit]- Wiki: cs.wikivoyage.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: LiMr (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: wikivoyage:cs:Wikicesty:Na_rozcestí#Správce
First administrator of the new project cs.wikivoyage is needed. LiMr (talk) 12:43, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Granted for 6 months to expire on 2025-02-04. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. EPIC (talk) 13:04, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Actually, I just noticed that I had misread the date; I just noticed that the discussion had only been open for two days. Since we need to allow a week of discussion I have to remove the rights for now and place this On hold until 9 August 2024. Apologize for the inconvenience. EPIC (talk) 15:48, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Interface administrator access
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.
- 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. Subscription to checkuser-l will be handled by list owners. Make sure new users contact an op for access to #wikimedia-privacyconnect and #wikimedia-checkuserconnect.
Oversight access
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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.
YesDi, KonstapelKatt, Vätte@svwiki
[edit]- Wiki: sv.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: YesDi (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: In Swedish Wikipedia, sysops are elected for one year at a time. YesDi declined reelection but said they would be open to return in the future. This should be done at or after 22:00 UTC, tomorrow July 31.
- Wiki: sv.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: KonstapelKatt (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: In Swedish Wikipedia, sysops are elected for one year at a time. KonstapelKatt has been completely inactive for six months and has not shown any sign of returning the last day. Even if he or she would, they would never get reelected due to inactivity. This should be done at or after 22:00 UTC, tomorrow July 31.
- Wiki: sv.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Vätte (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: In Swedish Wikipedia, sysops are elected for one year at a time. Vätte has unfortunately declined renomination. This should be done at or after 22:00 UTC, tomorrow July 31.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Estrellato (talk) 07:57 (UTC)
- On hold until 31 July 2024 22:00 UTC. Also linking to local policy part requiring yearly reelections for transparency (I will not be processing this as this is my home wiki). EPIC (talk) 08:02, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Since the term just expired I am noting that KonstapelKatt did not respond or start a reelection before the term ended and thus the rights should be removed from them as well. Also confirming removal of the other two, so any neutral steward may proceed with them. EPIC (talk) 22:20, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:32, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Luca M@it.wikipedia
[edit]- Wiki: it.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Luca M (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: per local policy: removal after 6 months sysop inactivity.
Please remove admin status. Luca M has been already informed and thanked for his work. Thanks, --Mtarch11 (talk) 08:35, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Done and also adding my thanks for their service. EPIC (talk) 08:39, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Ранко Николић, Ранко_Николић@srwiki
[edit]- Wiki: sr.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Ранко Николић (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: As an unsigned user he blocked me during a discussion with me (reports of vandalism) and after I informed that I was withdrawing from the project in order to suppress any discussion about the deletion of the template Short description where the community was excluded from the discussion and voting process because there was no notification on the main page. The discussion was held on the admin panel. I perceive this procedure as a punitive measure. I am requesting that my account be unblocked.
- I understand your frustration, but I don't think it would be a surprise to you that this is Not done. We can't remove permissions from users unless the community has explicitly voted to remove them, in case of inactivity, or in emergencies. So, unfortunately you will have to bring up your block with the srwiki admins since we also do not have authority to intervene in such issues on projects where there are local administrators who can do so. EPIC (talk) 08:29, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
See also
[edit]- 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
- Archives
General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map
Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help
Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation