Project:Requests for permissions

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Use this page for requests for:

autopatrollers, uploaders or IP block exemptions (which can be assigned by administrators)
Promotion to sysop, translation admin, bureaucrat or anything not above (which can be assigned by bureaucrats)

Note that Requests for comment and other miscellaneous requests should not go here, but instead to the Project:Village Pump or Administrators' noticeboard if you want to avoid using Structured Discussions.

Any new flagging to +sysop should have an associated subpage here, except for well-established developers, where a developer is someone who has had changes accepted to the MediaWiki core or a MediaWiki extension where the total number of changed lines in the relevant whitespace-insensitive diffs exceeds 100.

The autopatroller group can be assigned by administrators, too, but generally that is given when an admin notices that patrolling someone's edits does not add any value, and not based on requests by the user themselves.

One thing to keep in mind is that unlike most Wikimedia sites, this site is controlled by the MediaWiki developers, not the other users in this community. Being a developer (someone with merge access who uses it to maintain code that runs on Wikimedia sites) automatically entitles you to at least administrator status, and a long-time developer won't find it hard to become a bureaucrat. If you're not a developer, you do have to give some good reason to get any privileges; you should not expect to ever be made a bureaucrat. Something like a third of administrators and a quarter of bureaucrats are non-developers, however, so it's not like you shouldn't bother asking.

That said, there aren't really any formal policies on what's required: you just have to convince a bureaucrat. Use common sense – if you're trustworthy and your services are in need, there's no reason not to promote you to administrator at least, but don't ask for administrator without giving a concrete reason (unless you're a developer). Being personally known to a developer or having administrator or higher status on a major Wikimedia project are two ways to be deemed trustworthy. This is a wiki that has opted in to allowing global sysops to work here, and such users are free to use their rights on this wiki and do not need to separately request administrator. The same applies to global rollbackers, who are already autopatrolled on this wiki. Other users in specialised global groups (such as global interface editors) are also free to use their rights on this wiki by default.

Archives: Autopatrolled (formerly Autochecked user) • Translation administrator • Administrator • Interface administrator • Bureaucrat • Other user rights, Other requests, Requests for comments

Please fill out the form below to request rights, and then add the template here. If you have had a previous request, please add a number to the end of your username to create a separate request, example: MyUserName (2)

User: DannyS712 bot

Requesting bot and translation admin

DannyS712 bot (talk • contribs • logs • rights • SUL utility)

As a crat I guess I can do this myself per Project:Bots, but why not discuss - I want to get a bot to automatically marking pages with no net changes for translation. I am filing almost identical requests for bot approval on a bunch of wikis, and figured I should put some of the details in a central location. Please see meta:User:DannyS712/TranslationBot for further info. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:03, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 20:13, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Clump (talk) 12:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --M7 (talk) 08:10, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support yes please --Tmv (talk) 16:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 06:32, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support no objection to the bot of course, but surely the Translate extension should just be changed to make this unnecessary(?) Bawolff (talk) 11:33, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it only going to affect MediaWiki or is it also going to mark translations from wikis based on it? WellOver9000 (talk) 22:14, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This bot will only affect this wiki itself (the one documenting MediaWiki). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 23:00, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User: AndrewKing2014

Requested user-rights: Transwiki importer.

AndrewKing2014 (talk • contribs • logs • rights • SUL utility)

Although I haven't really joined Wiki for a longtime, I came here with a passion for it. I hope to do my best to contribute to Wiki. Today, I found that MediaWiki and Wikipedia are not compatible, and there are many things that are not shared. I want to try to improve the template system and find good templates from various WP templates to fill MW. In addition, I hope to do more things. Besides this application, if there is anything I can help with, I am happy to serve

Oppose You don't need special rights here to create new templates (and more than 0 experience on this wiki would be a pre-requisite for additional rights). Please do not create or copy over templates that have limited or no use on this wiki. --Clump (talk) 13:20, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What templates are you looking to import from en.wiki? Leaderboard (talk) 14:07, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for all the wrong reasons. User has 3 live edits here and SUL information suggests that this user doesn't have any knowledge with Wikipedia templates. Furthermore, MediaWiki.org is a special wiki and uses a different set of templates so the templates that you wish to import here will most likely not be used and be deleted instead. ToadetteEdit (talk) 11:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]