Jump to content
Wikimedia Meta-Wiki

Steward requests/Permissions

From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
This is an archived version of this page, as edited by Kaster (talk | contribs) at 21:58, 1 April 2005 (→Current requests for permissions ). It may differ significantly from the current version .

This is a central page to request permissions for sysop status, bureaucrat status or bot status on one of the Wikimedia projects, where no local means exist to do so yet.

If your wiki has a request for adminship page and a bureaucrat (a bureaucrat is able to make people sysop on the local wiki), please use your local page. If not, use this page.

For urgent access (to combat ongoing large-scale vandalism), you may ask on the IRC channels #mediawiki or #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net (users angela, anthere or engels).

Techniques to give status are described on m:stewards.

How to request status

When you make your request to be sysop, please follow the following steps

Step 1 : Have a valid local admin page (analagous to Administrator on Meta or w:en:Wikipedia:Administrator):

  • if an admin page does not exist on your project, please create this page. Add on this page:
    • Basic explanations of what a sysop is and what a sysop can do
    • Add a list of admins and bureaucrats on your wiki,
    • Add your name among those requesting sysophood on the admin page
    • then link the local admin page to this page.
    • and the conditions needed to become a sysop and the discussions (approval or disapproval) about a new candidate (larger wikis only).

Step 2 : mention your language code, and your project

Step 3 : give your user name on the project.

These three steps are mandatory. No request will be fullfilled if this is not provided.

The stewards will probably add a message on your admin page to mention you were named sysop without vote. If you wish that this message is posted in local language, please translate it. Thanks for the stewards.

Local request pages

Note to stewards: The steward interface has moved from Test to Meta. Please use special:makesysop.

Current requests for permissions

Please specify whether you are asking for adminship on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, or Wikinews. Please note that all adminships are subject to approval by the community. If you are granted adminship and a complaint is later filed against you, this may be revoked immediately pending a vote (like en:WP:RFA) to ensure the community on your wiki supports your request.
  • I request the sysopship for sr.wiktionary. I want partially to translate the interface and continuing work. The user milossh is not particular activ. My local user name is Kaster. Thank you! --Kaster 21:58, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)


Requests for stewardship

For stewardship, see Talk:Steward. It is not processed like as other request for permissions.

Removal of access

Self-deadminship, or removal of bot flags from your bot can be requested here, and will be granted immediately. You may be asked to prove you are the same user on meta as on your local wiki first. To request the removal of sysop access from another user, please gain consensus on this on your own wiki first. All discussion must be kept on your local wiki. When it is finished and there is a community consensus to desysop a user, a trusted person from that wiki should just provide a link here to the discussion and a very brief explanation of what the results of that were.
  • Dolos, on dewikipedia. Requested per elian 23:55, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC). Reason : possibly compromised account. Anthere 23:55, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
done. Anthere 17:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) (this is boulimy :-))

Requests for Bot status

To register a bot, please mention its name and the local wiki on which it will work here and make a public announcement about your intention on the local wiki and add a link to this annoucement here. The status will be given after one week if there is a rough approval.

Warning : for some big wikipedias, such as en:, you will need to specifically request an authorization over there. See en:Wikipedia talk:Bots for approval by a sysop and then ask for the bot flag here.

Bot policies: de en fr (about bots, and how to get status)

Note to stewards: Bot policy on Wiktionary (in particular en.wiktionary) is under discussion so bots should not be made without approval of the appropriate wiki. See Beer parlour.

  • I request the bot flag for wikt:de:Benutzer:MelancholieBot - the only other bot in the wiktionar is not active in the moment, but they need a bot. For questions, please contact me on IRC (nick: MichaelDiederich or "da_didi", thx!)
    -- MichaelDiederich 11:05, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    -- Melancholie 13:20, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
done on wikiquote. What is the rule on wiktionary ? Anthere
What do you mean? --Borislav 18:33, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Current temporary sysops for emergency or technical purposes

  • wo:user:Anthere
  • b:nl:CE requested temporary bureaucrat status.
  • I request the adminship for it.wikinews. I want to translate the interface. --Thom (in Wikinews n:it:Utente:Thom) 12:27, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Strong support it.wikinews is without sysops at the moment and there are some pending translations in MediaWiki namespace. --M/ 12:55, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Locked inactive wikis

Use this section to request the database of an inactive wiki be locked or unlocked.


See also

AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /