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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.

Peaceearth@zhwikinews

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Status:    Done

Peathearth's temporary adminship will be expiring tomorrow. He has been granted tempoary sysop flag twice before (under his old username 和平奮鬥救地球, in 2020 and 2022), each for a period of two years. The local community has a consensus that permanent flag should be granted. Much appreciate if Stewards could grant the flag accordingly considering his long-term service and local consensus. Thanks. HW (talk) 03:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Done I assigned the flag permanently this time since the rights have been held in the past (both permanently and temporarily) without bigger problems, and there seems to be enough votes from users involved in the project to support that. Good luck! EPIC (talk) 08:21, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

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.

Vito Genovese@trwiki

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Status:    Done

Posting here for transparency; as per Oversight policy#Removal of access, I have removed oversighter rights from Vito Genovese@trwiki as per more one year of global inactivity. Last edit at 2023-03-03 10:03, last logged action at 2023-03-02 20:57. EPIC (talk) 07:54, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, per my email exchange with EPIC, I am leaving this quick note to let the record show that I am actively on my account and in full control of it, just not editing at the moment. As the policy intends to prevent the risks associated with unattended accounts, I believe we are safe here. Additionally, the local policy to get the access is only through an RfO, something that I am not willing to go through at this time, so the removal would only serve to prevent my potential work on this front. I would therefore appreciate it if a reinstatement could be considered. Thank you!
Vito Genovese 18:43, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure whether the rights can be reinstated at this point; I will leave this to another steward. In the meantime I will place this request on hold to prevent archiving. EPIC (talk) 15:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciate it! I have a couple additional points that I would be happy to share with the steward that looks into this case, which I am not willing to share publicly. Please drop me a line if you see fit. Thank you!
Vito Genovese 18:44, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Access was correctly removed in accordance with policy. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:17, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi JJMC89, thanks for weighing in. One point: I have never disputed the policy-compatibility of the action. It is unquestionably in line with the current wording. My plea is rather to go for the spirit of the policy, which I believe aims to tackle cases of account vulnerability that emerges when accounts with advanced rights do not get used or "deserted," if you will. In my case, however, I have been fully active (or, for the lack of a better term, online) but not editing due to reasons forcing this some time ago. The account has been safe all along.
The policy in question has slipped my mind, honestly, and had there been some sort of a notification or a reminder beforehand, I would certainly have taken action to prevent it. If I had edited a couple of days before the steward action, this was in fact going to be the case.
The reason I am asking for a reversion to be considered is that the current rules dictate that I would need to go through a fresh RfO on the local wiki, which is not an option at this point in time for reasons that are tied to me not editing at the moment. At the end of the day it becomes a mere technicality whether I had a chance to edit before the action or not, and in my opinion there is merit in following the spirit of the policy. There is nothing to gain from this otherwise.
Vito Genovese 13:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I know Vito Genovese from trwiki. To prevent his rights from being taken away from trwiki, he logs into his account once and disappears. He no longer cares about Wikipedia as much as he used to and has not used his rights on trwiki for a long time. The stewards did the right thing. 151.135.14.189 13:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Vito Genovese:, the problem with your line of reasoning is twofold: (i) others can make the same argument and (ii) once removed, stewards won't put it back except if it's a clear error. Not to mention that the whole point of an inactivity policy is to prelude inactive users - like yourself. Leaderboard (talk) 14:07, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Teles@ptwiki

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Status:    On hold

Please, remove checkuser status from my account on Portuguese Wikipedia. Thanks in advance.—Teles «Talk ˱C L @ S˲» 00:16, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. EPIC (talk) 00:17, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Admins@swwiki

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Status:    Done
Status:    On hold
Status:    On hold
Status:    On hold

Hello there. We have come to an understanding that the following users' rights will be stripped away. The reason behind being inactive one of them died last year. See discussion here

  1. User:Kipala - died 2023
  2. User:Sj - inactive
  3. User:Manguboy - inactive
  4. User:Ndesanjo - inactive

Thanks!User:Muddyb (Talk) 07:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Muddyb: For Kipala this was   Done in October last year. Regarding the other three, does swwiki have an inactivity policy or similar? Otherwise I don't know if one day of discussion is enough to remove the rights. EPIC (talk) 07:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No. I don't think so. But as whole community we've agreed to remove user rights if he/she did not contribute over one year. Also, you are right you can wait till tomorrow to have votes from another contributors. User:Muddyb (Talk) 07:45, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the explanation. I read on the local information page about administrators "Mkabidhi ambaye hajahariri kwa miezi 12 anaondolewa haki zake za ukabidhi; akirudi anaweza kurudishwa kwa mapatano ya wakabidhi waliopo" (which translates to "The assignor who has not edited for 12 months is deprived of his assignment rights; if he returns, he can be returned with the agreement of the present assignors"). Isn't this an inactivity policy? If not then yes, I will keep this on hold for some more time. EPIC (talk) 07:55, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You've got it right. In that case, those mentioned above there is no way they'll be able to return. Especially Sj and Ndesanjo. User:Muddyb (Talk) 08:02, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

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