Oversight policy/Local policies
Oversight policy is mandatory for all of the Wikimedia projects. However, some of them have their own additional policies. This page is intended to be an unofficial collection of these, for comparison. |
Feel free to update this page.
Full name | Oversight policy | Requests | Appointments process | Policy differences | Removal |
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All other wikis | Oversight policy | stewardswikimediaorg | Stewards/elections | ||
English Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-en-wpwikimediaorg | ArbCom Must be admin or arbitrator |
Removal of vandalism (defunct) | By ArbCom |
English Wikinews | Local page | Email users | RFP - 70% | No attack names provision | RFP only |
German Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-wp-dewikimediaorg #wikipedia-de-osconnect |
RFA - 25 supports, 80% Reconfirmed every 2 years Cannot be B, CU or ArbCom |
Must log actions | Temporary/permanent process (?) |
Finnish Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-request-fiwiki-llistswikimediaorg | RFA - 25 supports, 80% Must be an admin |
Same | With adminship (1 year of inactivity) |
French Wikipedia | Local page | privacy-wp-frwikimediaorg | Comité de nomination (similar to an Arbcom) - every year Must be an admin |
Same | by the Comité de nomination |
Indonesian Wikipedia | Local page | Email users | RFA - 25 supports, 70% Must be an admin |
No attack names provision | RfP |
Japanese Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-ja-wpwikipediaorg | RFA - 75%, 30 people Or in an emergency |
Removal of vandalism (defunct) | With adminship (including 3 months inactivity) |
Persian Wikipedia | Local page | Email users | RFA | Same | ? |
Polish Wikipedia | Local page | rewizor.plgmailcom | RFA - 25 supports, 85% | Same | ArbCom |
Portuguese Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-wp-ptlistswikimediaorg | RFA - 25 supports, 75% Must be an admin, annual reconfirm |
Same | Confirmations, with adminship |
Russian Wikipedia | Local page | Email users | ArbCom Must be admins |
Personal/libel info | ArbCom |
Simple English Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-wp-simplelistswikimediaorg | RFA Must be an admin |
Same | With adminship (100 edits in calendar year) |
Swedish Wikipedia | Local page | Email users | RFA - 25 supports, 90% annual reconfirm, cannot be a crat or CU |
Same | Confirmations |
Spanish Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-eslistswikimediaorg | RFP - 30 supports, 80% | Same | Deadminship processes apply for all additional rights |
Turkish Wikipedia | Local page | gozetmenlistswikimediaorg | RFA | Removal of vandalism (defunct) | Voting? |
Chinese Wikipedia | Local page | oversight-zh-wpwikipediaorg | RFA - 25 supports, 80%[1] Must be an admin for at least 3 months |
Removal of vandalism (defunct) | With adminship or self-request |
Commons | Local page | oversight-commonslistswikimediaorg | RFA - 25 supports, 80% Must be an admin |
Same | With adminship, or 50% for removal |
Meta | Local page | oversight-metawikimediaorg | RFA - 25 supports, 80% Must be an admin |
Same | With adminship, or vote |
Wikidata | Local page | oversightwikidataorg | RfP - 25 supports, 80% Must be an admin |
Same | With adminship, or 33% for removal |
Bengali Wikipedia | Local page | RfP - 25 supports, 80% Must be an admin |
Same | self-request or community consensus |
Wikis with no local oversighters
editFull name | Oversight policy | Requests | Appointments process | Policy differences | Removal |
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Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia | Local page | Email users | Elections - 4 OS maximum 75%, 25 people 2 year term Must be admin 1 month |
Same | Reconfirmations or RfP |
- ↑ Voters must be autoconfirmed users with at least 100 edits before 1 month before the vote start, and at least 1 edit in 3 months before the vote start; or with at least 3000 edits; or with at least 1500 mainspace edits.