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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

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

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

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.

Bureaucrat access

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.

Дагиров Умар@cewikipedia

Status:    In progress

I request bureaucrat rights in Chechen Wikipedia. --Дагиров Умар (talk) 19:35, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think that five votes is enough. Ruslik (talk) 19:52, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Continue vote? --Дагиров Умар (talk) 20:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You can, of course, continue. Ruslik (talk) 20:18, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Comment I see 16 supporting votes and 0 opposes on the request now. There's no global policy establishing a minimum number of votes as there is for CheckUser and Oversight. If we want to set restrictions for granting bureaucratship on small wikis, I think a RfC should be opened to discuss that. I don't think it is appropriate for stewards to override community consensus without a good reason. Defender (talk) 21:50, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Out of the 16 users supporting the request, only 7 are members of the community there. Unfortunately, I don't think that this is a sufficient threshold to support indefinite bureaucrat access, given the past problems that the project has had. Also worth noting that this is basically a line-by-line repeat of an RfB by the same user a few years ago, which was rejected due to the canvassing of voters to the request. So there really isn't any excuse this time. Ajraddatz (talk) 21:57, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, from your side I think you are right. CheWiki does not seem to need a B now. If somebody needs admin rights, we will apply here. Ilya Drakonov (talk) 14:51, 28 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Mean time for me to retire. --Дагиров Умар (talk) 15:08, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No, Umar, you are a good user:) We'll just continue working as sysops. Ilya Drakonov (talk) 15:27, 28 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
There are many small wiki where there is a bureaucrat. The decision of the Chechen Wikipedia community is not respected. --Дагиров Умар (talk) 21:51, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is what you define as the Chechen Wikipedia community. Well over half of the votes there are by people who aren't members of that community, who only came at either your or someone else's request to vote for you, and aren't going to contribute beyond that. That said, the number of local users supporting is now up to 8. Maybe that is enough; I don't want to interfere will local project autonomy, but I am concerned with a) the past issues the project has faced, and b) the use of canvassing to gain support, since it has happened before on RfBs and will probably happen again. Ajraddatz (talk) 19:30, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I will have to grant bot flags because we will have a grammar change from the government. --Дагиров Умар (talk) 20:15, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]


CheckUser access

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

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.

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.

Mjohnson (WMF) and I JethroBT (WMF)@meta

Status:    Done
Status:    Done

Temporary adminship for both users expired. —MarcoAurelio 11:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Trijnsteltalk 21:00, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

EdwardsBot@global

Status:    Done

Hi! I noticed my talk page got listed at User:MarcoAurelio/BotOps and EdwardsBot got listed at User talk:MarcoAurelio/BotOps. EdwardsBot can be removed from all user groups on all Wikimedia wikis, as far as I'm aware. This includes the "bot" user group and the "autopatrolled" user group. Global message delivery (and local message delivery) is now handled by MassMessage, of course. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 23:33, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not done The bot is not in the global group, has 'bot' and 'autopatrolled' status in the wikis where local groups can maintain these rights. You need to request individually on those wikis. ~ Nahid Talk 08:51, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @MZMcBride:. That list was a simple experiment because I wanted to propose a cleanup of bot flags on inactive accounts at this project. However I've not managed to post that proposal yet. Anyway, as local bureaucrat, I have removed Edwards bot's flag here at Meta. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 10:00, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi MarcoAurelio. Thanks for the local flag removal. Can you please also remove the other user groups listed at Special:CentralAuth/EdwardsBot? This is a self-request, basically. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi MZMcBride. I'm sorry but all the projects in which EdwardsBot have local bot flag have local bureaucrats which can remove it, thus policy does not allow me to remove such permissions. This is a pretty annoying task, and maybe policy should allow us to act in this cases. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 16:36, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If ever IAR was meant to apply, I think it would be here. Thanks to MF-W for actioning this. Ajraddatz (talk) 17:54, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Done My opinion is that stewards may remove all rights upon self-request. If only for the reason that it is better than to have someone wanting to lose his rights going "rouge", allowing removal by stewards to avert damage. --MF-W 18:00, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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:

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

User Aydinsalis@azwiki

Status:    Not done

(According to VP:VQSV, quote: 

"Regardless of a user's status he/she can edit rules of Wikipedia that were not officially adopted, create articles related to the rules and hold elections to officially adopt rules."

Users prepared rules regarding Arbitration Committee and held a discussion about it. Approximately 20 users took part in it. When 4 days were left before the end of the elections one of the administrators deleted, which goes against the rules. Please, restore the elections.) Aydinsalis (talk) 17:05, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are wrong: that page has been never deleted. Ruslik (talk) 19:13, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik, excuse my colleague's English. The page had never been deleted indeed, but the vote on it was stopped before its time, as I understand and it didn't have any official result (neither positive, nor negative). --Мурад 97 (talk) 19:48, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
But this is a local matter. Stewards have no role in closing such discussions. Ruslik (talk) 18:39, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ruslik, the question is not about discussion. The question is about voting and the election. Aydinsalis (talk) 01:01, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Stewards also have no role in voting and elections of an arbitration committee. Ruslik (talk) 17:03, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Of course you do not have any role. But you ought to control. Sysops do it: great vandalism, a huge fraud. You will not do anything? You can not do anything against vandalism and fraud? Aydinsalis (talk) 17:15, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A team of stewards closes the elections and confirmation discussions. Further documentation can be found in the steward policies, election process, and handbook. - meta.wikimedia.org

Aydinsalis (talk) 17:25, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This citation is about the stewards' confirmation process and it has nothing do with this case. I'm closing this as not done, as this is a local matter. --Stryn (talk) 17:50, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Stryn, the matter is very easy to close the matter. Who will solve the problem, then? At the very least, please answer this question. Aydinsalis (talk) 18:08, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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