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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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Cross-wiki requests
Meta-Wiki requests

Using this page

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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

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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

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COPY THE FOLLOWING CODE to the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== User name@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
  |status     = <!--don't change this line-->
  |domain     =
  |user name  =
  |discussion = 
}}

Administrator access

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See Administrator for information about this user group.

  • MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
  • 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.

Interface administrator access

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See Interface admin for information about this user group.

  • 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

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See Bureaucrat for information about this user group.
  • 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

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See CheckUser policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • 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.

Oversight access

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See Oversight policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • 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 .
  • When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list.

Miscellaneous requests

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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:

  • SRB — Local or global bot status
  • SRGP — Global permissions

Lhoussine AIT TAYFST@zghwiki

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Status:    On hold

Request for Importer Permissions --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 19:31, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What will you use import for, and for how long will you need it? Importupload is quite cautious and we generally do not grant it permanently on wikis as small as zghwiki. If it is a one time task, we could perform it instead. EPIC (talk) 19:34, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you just want to import from a few specific wikis you can also request on Phabricator to add them to the list of sister projects for transwiki import so you can import from them with transwiki import. --Ameisenigel (talk) 21:02, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @EPIC @Ameisenigel, thank you for your prompt reponse! I require importer permissions to import a large number of articles as HTML files, which have been written in both the Tifinagh and Latin scripts. I will transliterate them into Tifinagh before importing. I need this permission specifically for this task. --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 23:54, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: Thanks for your response, however, I still don't fully understand what you need it for? The way I understand it, you want to convert articles to HTML files; however, this is not what import is meant for, the purpose of import is to import pages from one wiki to another. EPIC (talk) 00:38, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I now think I understand what you mean; however, as Ameisenigel already mentioned, this is not how import works. Importupload cannot be done with HTML files, it is performed by going to Special:Export on a MediaWiki wiki, exporting a page as an XML file and importing the XML file at Special:Import on the target wiki. See mw:Help:Import. EPIC (talk) 22:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You cannot import HTML files, importupload only works with XML files. --Ameisenigel (talk) 06:32, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi all @Ameisenigel @EPIC Thank you for your prompt response. I apologize for the confusion; I mistakenly referred to the files as HTML when I meant XML. I would like to import XML files into the Amazigh Wikipedia. --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 12:10, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: Thanks for your clarification. OK, how much time would be enough for performing your tasks? EPIC (talk) 13:56, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Where are these XML files coming from? What is the nature of the licensing of their revisions? — xaosflux Talk 14:14, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Ameisenigel @Xaosflux @EPIC I'm supporting @Lhoussine AIT TAYFST with this task which we have started during the Wikimania Hackathon in Katowice. The articles will be exported from shiwiki in XML format, the raw texts and titles will be converted from Berber-Latin to Tifinagh script, then the converted XML will be imported to zghwiki. The community will take care of adjusting those articles further manually. Ideophagous (talk) 21:04, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is good enough for granting import but I will also need to know how long to grant it for. I could go ahead and grant the rights once that is clarified. EPIC (talk) 21:12, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hold on. @EPIC This sounds problematic. Exporting from a WMF wiki, manipulating the content, and reimporting -- this seems like it will cause attribution problems. @Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: exactly how is this being avoided? — xaosflux Talk 22:16, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a reason why you could not just use transwiki import to import the articles and use a bot to convert the script afterwards? Changing that directly in the XML file does not sound good to me. --Ameisenigel (talk) 22:17, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And even if you are using tooling to do your translations (and your project is fine with machine translations) - you could still (a)export, (b) run your machine tooling, (c) use the API to publish the translation (provide attribution for the "translated from" source in the initial edit summary). There are also many other strategies. — xaosflux Talk 22:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, you are correct. Waiting for a response then. EPIC (talk) 06:03, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Ameisenigel @EPIC @Xaosflux shiwiki is written in the western dialect of Berber/Tamazight, in Latin-Berber, whereas zghwiki is written in Standard Tamazight of Morocco using Neo-Tifinagh script. @Lhoussine AIT TAYFST can probably answer this better, but as far as I understand, the dialects of Tamazight often display more influence from Arabic and French, whereas the Standard form is more pure. Nonetheless, they are close enough that simply by changing the script, all that's left will be to adjust some word choices to a more standard form, which can be done manually. I'm not sure it's a good idea to import a large number of articles in a different script, and then do the script conversion afterwards. Also, only articles missing from zghwiki will be included. By the way, the script conversion was already implemented in shiwiki, using the language converter, and if there's a way to import the articles and convert the script at the same time, that would certainly be a better solution to using a bot. Ideophagous (talk) 08:51, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: I've added temporary importer for you on testwiki, please import a couple of these to demonstrate the process. — xaosflux Talk 09:16, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Xaosflux Thank you very much for your assistance. I will proceed with testing the procedure as you outlined. --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 12:25, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of access

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  • 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.

See also

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Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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