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This page hosts requests for administrator access on the Meta-Wiki; for requesting administrator access on any other wiki, please find the appropriate venue on the index of request and proposal pages. Bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight and bot requests are also made here. Before making a request here, please see the administrator policy.

Most requests should be listed here for at least seven days; bureaucrats should only close after the minimum time foreseen in the relevant policy. Discussions are not closed early. Adminship will be granted by a support ratio of at least 75%. If a request hasn't been addressed by a bureaucrat after a lengthy period of time, please leave a note at Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Requests may be extended, or put on hold by bureaucrats, pending decision or finding of consensus.

Requests for temporary adminship and bot requests may be less formal and often go for a shorter duration if consensus becomes clear after only a few days of discussion.

All editors with an account on Meta, at least one active account on any Wikimedia project, and a link between the two, may participate in any request and give their opinion of the candidate. However, more active Meta editors' opinions may be given additional weight in controversial cases.

See below for information on prerequisites on submitting a request, and how to add a nomination.

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Information

Note that this page is for access on Meta only. See the permission request to stewards page for adminship/deadminship requests on other projects.

Regular adminship

  1. Before requesting admin access, please check the policy for requesting adminship.
  2. Use the box below, insert your username:

  3. Place a request on this page, by transcluding the subpage, for example {{Meta:Requests for adminship/Username}}. Please put the newest request on the top. Bear in mind that even if you do meet the criteria above this does not mean that the community will automatically approve a request.
  4. Please note, past administrators who have given up their rights must meet all criteria at the time of the new request. There is no separate process for reinstating past administrators.

Please note: Ill-considered nominations for adminship can be draining and deflating to both the community and the candidate. Any successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate sufficient experience within the Wikimedia community, in addition to a familiarity with Meta-Wiki. If a candidate is not already a local administrator or holder of advanced permissions on a Wikimedia content project, they are less likely to pass a request for adminship here at Meta-Wiki.

Bureaucratship

Add your request below under the bureaucratship section. Please note:

  • Only active administrators can become bureaucrats, and only after at least 6 months of regular adminship.
  • User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after they nominate themselves here.

If you fail any of these requirements, you will not be assigned the bureaucrat flag. For more information see the Meta bureaucrat page.

Other access

For these types of access, create a subpage just as you would for regular adminship and add it to the appropriate section of this page.


  • Limited adminship: If you need sysop access for a particular reason (such as ability to edit protected pages), you may request limited adminship on Meta. If granted, the user understands that they will only be allowed to use the tools for the tasks they were approved, and not doing so will be grounds for immediate removal. Temporary sysop access will normally be valid for one month unless requested and granted otherwise.


  • CheckUser: please read the CheckUser policy and add your request below under the checkuser section, in the same way as an admin request.

  • Oversight: please read the Oversight policy and add your request below under the oversight section, in the same way as an admin request.



For these types of access, just ask on Meta request for help from a sysop or bureaucrat page:

Requests for global renamer permissions are handled at global permission requests to stewards page.

WMF Office Staff and Contractors

  • If you are an WMF Official or Contractor and need rights on Meta-Wiki to perform your duties the process is different. Please have a look at the WMF staff userrights policy on Office wiki[restricted access] and follow the procedure described there. If in doubt, please contact Trust and Safety; or send an email to ca wikimedia org.(source)

Requests for regular adminship

None currently

Requests for limited adminship

Aafi (DCW)

Not ending before 30 October 2024 13:29 (UTC)

Hi, I have been volunteering since 2019 as Aafi, and have experience as an admin across two projects: Wikimedia Commons and the Urdu Wikipedia. I serve as the Program Lead for Deoband Community Wikimedia, a thematic user-group affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. We often needed help from sysops to delete irrelevant/outdated stuff that we aren't maintaining anymore - and I wouldn't want to load volunteer admins with doing maintenance actions on this. If granted, I would not use the tool anywhere else: such as in granting rights to others, in issuing blocks, and in being a "moderator". The use-case is limited to DCW-pages and those related to its clubs: Wiki Club AMU, Wiki Club Deoband and Wiki Club Jamia. Kind regards, --signed, Aafi (DCW) (talk) 13:29, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for interface adminship

None currently

Requests for bureaucratship

None currently

Requests for CheckUser access

"Meta:Requests for checkuser" redirects here. To request checkuser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information.
None currently

Requests for Oversight access

"Meta:Requests for oversight" redirects here. To request oversighting, see Meta:Oversighters#Requests.
None currently

Requests for translation adminship

None currently

Requests for CentralNotice adminship

None currently

Requests for bot flags

Shio-Bot

Not ending before 25 October 2024 08:55 (UTC)

I would like to request a bot flag for my bot as I will be using it for WMGMC housekeeping. According to a descion of the WMGMC Council, we will use a bot to handle the entrancen check request and send mass message tasks to avoid privacy leak. The bot will automatically fetch the information on this page, process it and post it to a Telegram group of Council members, and once the group members have made a decision, the bot will perform the relevant task (for approved applications, this will be to automatically delete the corresponding application information and send an email to the corresponding user with the message that the application has been approved and provided with WMGMC Telegram group joining connection).

In addition, the bot may also need IPBE right (due to the fact that the server running the bot has been blocked) and MMS right (which is needed to have done a mass messaging).

Thanks for your time.

--Iming (talk) 08:55, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

By "delete" you just mean edit and remove, not actually perform a delete operation, correct? No part of this description says why a MMS would be used. What are the details of that task? — xaosflux Talk 04:21, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it just edit and remove not actually perform a delete operation. MMS permissions are intended to be used to send user group messages to registered users (e.g. constitutional changes and internal RFC), a task that was originally to be performed by User:BureibuNeko, but which he has in fact semi-retired from since the beginning of the year. I would like to use a bot to do this. (I know it's possible to just use bots to do mass messaging, but then I'd need to apply for Chinese Wikipedia bot permissions, which is a bit of a hassle.) Thanks for your time to read these word. Iming (talk) 04:34, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK, so potential future MMS use is distinct from the other process. Please provide an example of your MMS target list. — xaosflux Talk 11:13, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As far as automation, it seems this bot will only edit this one single page than, correct? That is something that may be allowed which does not require a bot flag as the volume is low and changes to the page may actually be useful to be included on watchlists, etc. — xaosflux Talk 11:13, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got it. Yes, the bot will only edit this page, so please let me withdraw my application. Also, I think mass messages sending maybe should still be done manually by me, can I just request MMS access from you? The target list is here, which is formed based on the usergroup membership list and adds other users who have volunteered to receive messages. Thanks. Iming (talk) 11:35, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And can you grant this bot an IPBE right? Since the server running the bot was locked in Wikimedia for no open proxy policy. Thank you. Iming (talk) 11:48, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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