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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 edit

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]]").

3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

Confirmation of signing confidentiality agreement edit

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 edit

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 edit

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.

Borschts@zhwikiquote edit

Status:    Done

vote began 15 days ago, with 4 in support, 1 oppose, and 1 comment. Please ping me if further action required, thanks. --Borschts Talk 16:36, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Borschts: "Any opposition requires a full discussion". Was the vote against discussed and what emerged from the discussion? Thanks. --Superpes15 (talk) 10:53, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The opposition to my application was based on my limited edit count on this specific wiki. However, the majority of the community supports a short-term grant of admin rights, recognizing my broader wiki experience and technical skills. The discussion overall was constructive, and the consensus leans towards a trial period to evaluate my contributions and fit for the role. Borschts Talk 13:12, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  Granted for 3 months to expire on 2024-03-08. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks.
@Borschts: Thanks for your explanation. Let's start with 3 months. Thanks also for volunteering! --Superpes15 (talk) 13:12, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

kuldeepburjbhalaike@pawikipedia edit

Status:    Done

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kuldeepburjbhalaike (talk) 09:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Granted for 1 year to expire on 2024-12-08. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks.

@Kuldeepburjbhalaike: Please next time remember to add an explanation to your request. Please note also that, per MVR policy, we cannot grant a permanent admninship in this case. Many thanks for your understanding and for volunteering --Superpes15 (talk) 13:16, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Many thannks, i will go through the policies before making a request next time. KuldeepBurjBhalaike (Talk) 15:42, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Superpes15: hi, the rights are granted for a year (accidentally) or you mentioned it wrong (6 months). :) KuldeepBurjBhalaike (Talk) 16:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Kuldeepburjbhalaike: Thanks, just a typo in writing, I confirm that I granted it for a whole year (since you already got it for 6 months) :) --Superpes15 (talk) 17:25, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
ok, thanks again KuldeepBurjBhalaike (Talk) 09:31, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

DannyS712@wikifunctionswiki edit

Status:    Done

Please grant administrator to DannyS712 after they have made a successful request for adminship. Terasail[✉️] 12:28, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Granted for 1 year to expire on 2024-12-08. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. --Superpes15 (talk) 13:20, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hehua@zhwikivoyage edit

Status:    In progress

The vote for extension has ended.3 votes in support, no one is neutral or opposed. Thank you.Hehua (talk) 06:04, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ericliu1912@zhwikivoyage edit

Status:    In progress

The vote for extension has ended.3 votes in support, no one is neutral or opposed. Thank you.--Hehua (talk) 06:04, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Interface administrator access edit

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.

AyourAchtouk@zgh.wikipedia edit

Status:    On hold

Hello, I am asking for Interface administrator rights. Thanks --AyourAchtouk (talk) 21:55, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  On hold User contacted for further details --Superpes15 (talk) 13:29, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

kuldeepburjbhalaike@pawikipedia edit

Status:    Already done

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kuldeepburjbhalaike (talk) 09:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Already done --Superpes15 (talk) 13:18, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Kuldeepburjbhalaike: Please note, for the next time, that you can post a single request into "Administrator access" section, asking for both sysop and interface administrator flags, thanks --Superpes15 (talk) 13:18, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ok got it, Thanks. KuldeepBurjBhalaike (Talk) 15:44, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Lookruk@lowiktionary edit

Status:    Done

@Superpes15: Waiting for a week. Thanks you. --Lookruk 💬 (Talk) 12:21, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Granted for 8 months to expire on 2024-08-05. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks.
@Lookruk: I set the same expiration as the sysop flag! Thanks for volunteering :) --Superpes15 (talk) 13:38, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Suyash.dwivedi@hifwikipedia edit

Status:    On hold
  On hold User contacted for furtehr details --Superpes15 (talk) 22:55, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Bureaucrat access edit

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 edit

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.
  • Temporary CheckUser access is not permitted and temporary access is only used by Stewards .

Fr33kman@simplewiki edit

Status:    On hold

Per successful RfCU (25/1) on simplewiki. --Ferien (talk) 19:19, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  On hold Thanks! We have to wait for the WMF confirmation :) --Superpes15 (talk) 13:38, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oversight access edit

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 edit

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 edit

  • 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.

RG72@eowiki edit

Status:    On hold
A ballot for removal of his sysop rights has yet occured right now. RG72 received 10 voices for removal and 5 voices aganist removal. The cases are politically motivated abuse of adminship and harrasment aganist Taylor 49. The request was made on Nowember 25th. Following our rules, the request will be submitted after two weeks:so on December 9th.--Fenikals (talk) 12:07, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  On hold So let's wait another day per your policy before proceeding! Let me say a personal thought: if the request is motivated with harrasments or abuses on wiki (I saw something on eowikt, even if this is another project, with the same involved users), it's fine, but I think that no one should be judged for a political motivation on wiki (obviously I am not referring to the case in question which concerns politically motivated abuse). Here we are all users, and we should evaluate our work on wiki stuff, and tbh I don't like to see external social-media links on a request for a deflag. If someone is a political POV-pusher, just link the edits, there's no need to highlight a person's political beliefs. Thanks --Superpes15 (talk) 13:39, 8 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
A small note that will help you understand the reasons and context of what is happening. A few months ago, Fenikals wrote a denunciation of me to Global Voices [1], an international journalistic project in which I take part as a translator. He said that I had the wrong views on events in Ukraine, and therefore I should be excluded from the project. The administration of this liberal project, which clearly and consistently supports the position of the Ukrainian government, nevertheless responded that political views are a personal matter of the participant, and expulsion can only follow for violating the rules - and since I did not break any rules, I will not be expelled.
After that, he regularly sent me spam via Telegram (I don’t know where he found my account), in which he demanded to explain my political position, threatened me with Western sanctions, FSB reprisals, or simply asked strange questions that cast doubt on his adequacy.
Apparently, without waiting for the promised reprisals against me, he began an attack against me in all wiki projects. He openly cited my political views as the reason why I should be revoked as an administrator (the first link leads to my Facebook page [2]). He made similar statements on Wikinews, Wiktionary, and perhaps elsewhere.
Realizing that it would not be easy to remove a person who has been working flawlessly on Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews and other projects for 15 years, and has never been accused of political propaganda or abuse of administrator rights, he mobilized users who were also exclusively interested in my political issues to vote.
Besides him, the main participants in this persecution were the open xenophobe Goren, who had previously attacked me (and others) on Telegram (his typical statements: “he’s just a nasty Russian” [3] (about me), “I’m pissing on your face, nasty Russian” [4] – in Esperanto "rusaĉo" is like "nigger" about the Russians) and politically motivated and psychologically unstable Taylor79, who was removed from Wiktionary as a Wiktionary Administrator several years ago by the stewards due to his endless conflicts with members, massive edits and deletions that turned Wiktionary into his personal playground. Having lost his administrator status, he demanded that the Esperanto-Wiktionary be completely eliminated.
So far they have not provided a single (!) evidence that I abused administrator rights. A number of participants paid attention to this, but fanatics and xenophobes are not interested in the rules. Thus, we are talking about political persecution organized by a bunch of fanatics and xenophobes. For your information. RG72 (talk) 14:49, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for the clarification. I would like to understand also if there is some clear policy with requirement, I saw some vote (supporting the deflag) made by users who were inactive for years. Anyway, we should evaluate the consensus, even if the whole issue is a bit weird imho Superpes15 (talk) 22:52, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
There are no rules about users activity in Esperanto Wikipedia.--Fenikals (talk) 08:00, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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