Steward requests/Permissions
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. Minimum voting requirement are listed here.
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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Using this page
edit1. 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 this is for multiple users, leave this field blank and give a list of these users 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
editCertain 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
editAdministrator access
editSee Administrator for information about this user group.
- If you are requesting adminship to handle one time vandalism incidents or clearing a deletion backlog, please see Steward requests/Miscellaneous.
- MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
- Admins doing cross-wiki work may wish to see IRC/wikimedia-admin for information about joining #wikimedia-adminconnect.
- 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.
Ericliu1912@zhwikiquote
edit- Wiki: zh.wikiquote.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Ericliu1912 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Wikibooks:申请成为管理员/Ericliu1912/第四次
The vote has ended with 3 supports and 1 opposition. In my defense, that only opposition was based on accusations not related to my record as administrator in Wikiquote, just like before. I hope stewards take that into account. —— Eric Liu(Talk) 15:21, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Granted for 1 year to expire on 2025-10-26. 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.
- Although there was an opposer, there is enough support for an extension per MVR. EPIC (talk) 15:30, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- While I acknowledge granting the flag, may I request any disinterested third party to mediate, please?--Jusjih (talk) 17:06, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Engelseziekte@ruewikipedia
edit- Wiki: rue.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Engelseziekte (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Here
The vote has ended with 6 supports and no opposition. Thank you. --Engelseziekte (talk) 22:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Granted for 1 year to expire on 2025-10-29. 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. EPIC (talk) 23:06, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Interface administrator access
editSee Interface admin for information about this user group.
- If you need to accomplish a one-time, non-recurring task, please request your task at Steward requests/Miscellaneous.
- 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
edit- 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- 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.
- Stewards: Before granting this permission to a user, please check the current policy and make sure that the user has signed the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation. An email template is available for requesting new users to identify.
- When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list. Subscription to checkuser-l will be handled by list owners. Make sure new users contact an op for access to #wikimedia-privacyconnect and #wikimedia-checkuserconnect.
Oversight access
edit- 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 .
- Stewards: Before granting this permission to a user, please check the current policy and make sure that the user has signed the confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation.
- When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list.
Yiyi@it.wiki
edit- Wiki: it.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Yiyi (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: election, passed (53/0/2).
- Signature: diff
User Yiyi has been asked to identify to the Foundation and sign the agreement. Please check and act accordingly. Ciao, M/ (talk) 15:25, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- On hold pending on the candidate's signature of the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information (see instructions) and Wikimedia Foundation confirmation of the same. EPIC (talk) 15:27, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @EPIC:. I signed the document on October 22, at 10:09 PM (UTC+2). --Yiyi (talk) 22:31, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, @JSutherland (WMF) and NahidSultan (WMF): would one of you be willing to have a look? EPIC (talk) 04:45, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry for replying late. Added. Thanks. – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 11:03, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, no issue. Now Done for the on-wiki part (and congrats as well!). @Krd: Pinging to handle VRT access. EPIC (talk) 11:50, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry for replying late. Added. Thanks. – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 11:03, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, @JSutherland (WMF) and NahidSultan (WMF): would one of you be willing to have a look? EPIC (talk) 04:45, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @EPIC:. I signed the document on October 22, at 10:09 PM (UTC+2). --Yiyi (talk) 22:31, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Miscellaneous requests
editRequests 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:
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.
Teles@global
edit- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Teles (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Hi! I would like to request removal of my Steward permissions. It's been a long journey since 2012, I am pleased to have been part of it and learned a lot, but I am now focusing on other areas of wiki. Prior to being a Steward, I was a global sysop and rollbacker. If possible, I would like to retain those, and also global renamer, as I plan to keep working on it. Thanks, folks, and keep up your great work.—Teles «Talk ˱C L @ S˲» 14:42, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions.
- @Teles: FYI, I moved this from SRGP to SRP. I don't see an issue with restoring GR and GS since you held them before your stewardship, but since you didn't hold GRN prior to steward rights, I think you would have to open a formal SRGP request for that. EPIC (talk) 15:01, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- @EPIC, thanks. I will open a request for g. renamer then. —Teles «Talk ˱C L @ S˲» 16:08, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Teles has been a steward since before global renamer existed. Given that stewards have equal permissions as GRNs in that area, I think it should probably be possible to assign him that permission as well. – Ajraddatz (talk) 16:08, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Our general practice in the past as far as I know has been to restore the rights if they were held prior to stewardship, thus why I'm quite sure this would require a formal request (as was the case with for example Avraham and -revi), though I don't have any objections to adding it if the other stewards think it can be added, since the resignation is uncontroversial and they've had the rights through the steward flag. EPIC (talk) 16:19, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- That is the usual practice, though I wonder with global rename if that is needed given the scope overlap is 100%. Then again I guess it's the same with GS/GR, and I can only think of one case of those rights being assigned following resignation to someone that didn't have them before. I'm fine either way :-) – Ajraddatz (talk) 17:25, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Our general practice in the past as far as I know has been to restore the rights if they were held prior to stewardship, thus why I'm quite sure this would require a formal request (as was the case with for example Avraham and -revi), though I don't have any objections to adding it if the other stewards think it can be added, since the resignation is uncontroversial and they've had the rights through the steward flag. EPIC (talk) 16:19, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for your service! --Ameisenigel (talk) 17:10, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your service! I hope I will still see you here on Meta :) TenWhile6 17:37, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Several things come back to mind, many places and gatherings. Thank you. --M/ (talk) 18:06, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
┌─────────────────────────────────┘
Done Though our paths did not cross much, despite the both of us being stewards, I would like to thank you for your long service and hope to see you return in the future. Until then, enjoy your time off!
I removed the on-wiki rights as well as stewardwiki access (there's also quite a bit more to be removed), and restored your GR and GS bits, though I waited with adding GRN per above. With that said I did not unsubscribe you from renamers-l since the SRGP request is so far clearly inclined to pass, so I don't see much point in removing it just to add it back to you in some time. EPIC (talk) 14:38, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- I'd also like to thank Teles for his service! A09|(pogovor) 11:53, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
پالایهٔ خرابکاری@glk.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: glk.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: پالایهٔ خرابکاری (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: glk:MediaWiki:Abusefilter-blocker
Unused abuse filter account. --TenWhile6 20:37, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- Done. EPIC (talk) 20:51, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
See also
edit- Steward requests
- Log of changes to user rights
- Log of global rights-related changes
- Steward handbook
- Users that have signed confidentiality agreement for nonpublic personal data
- Archives
General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map
Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help
Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation