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This is an archived version of this page, as edited by Ruwaym (talk | contribs) at 14:01, 17 July 2022 (→‎Mardetanha@fawikiqoute: Reply). It may differ significantly from the current version .

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-stewards connect 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


Cross-wiki requests
Meta-Wiki requests

Using this page

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]]"). 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

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

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

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.

Abubakr1111@ha.wiktionary

Status: On hold

I'm requesting to continue carrying administrative task in Hausa Wikitionary. As a result of good and poor words creation in Hausa Wiktionary i'm requesting this right to delete inaccurate pages and patrol the good pages.Abubakr1111 (talk) 11:45, 17 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

On hold until 2022年07月24日 --Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:55, 17 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

Interface administrator access

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.

Murma174@stqwiki

When I asked for adminship, I didn't ask for interface adminship, too. Is it necessary, to start a new voting in this case? I'd be glad, if not. See also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Permissions/2022-07#Murma174@stqwiki Thanks --Murma174 (talk) 21:14, 10 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

@Murma174 For each user rights change, it's necessary to demonstrate community consensus. For sysop+interface admin, this is commonly done in a single discussion (that is, for SRP-managed requests; wikis with local bureaucrats may have different procedures). However, for that to be possible, the interface admin permission needs to be requested in the discussion when it starts. This is to ensure the community knows what you're asking for, and to ensure that the community agrees.
In this case, it looks the original RfA was only about adminship, not also interface adminship. This means another discussion is needed. Martin Urbanec (talk) 15:58, 12 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
Thanks for your comprehensive reply @ Martin Urbanec! I started a new voting: w:stq:Wikipedia:Weerskup#Interface_admin and will come back here after one week --Murma174 (talk) 17:04, 12 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
Great, thanks, and sorry for the little bureaucracy here . This is now On hold until 2022年07月19日 Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:55, 12 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

Bureaucrat access

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

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.
  • 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.

Oversight access

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-stewards connect 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

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

  • 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.

Vogone@wikidatawiki

Status: In progress

Vogone has not made the required ten bureaucrat/administrator actions over the last six months (see statistic). Please remove bureaucrat. Ameisenigel (talk) 06:26, 13 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

Ameisenigel, I see that except for those 9 logged actions they have also made a ns8 edit: d:Special:Diff/1614395925/prev. I am not sure how does the policy go about this? Technically it is neither an administrator nor a bureaucrat, but an interface administrator action, but Vogone basically inherited IA rights from his bureaucrat rights when IA flag was introduced (and when the policy was written that would had been an administrator action). --Base (talk) 12:59, 13 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
Yes, one cannot do this without IA (and IA has its own different inactivity policy). I have to admit that the p Ju JuneJune nolicy is not very clear about this, but all admins elected before August 2018 had the ability to receive IA without an additional election (not only bureaucrats). So it is up to you to decide. --Ameisenigel (talk) 13:12, 13 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
It also seems that bureaucrats do not have an inactivity policy per se, it is rather that when they lose admin rights for inactivity, this entails also losing bureaucrat rights. It is worded better in the RfC on this matter, d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Defining_bureaucrats#Inactivity. And as to admin inactivity policy, d:Wikidata:Administrators#Losing_adminship, the threshold is 5 rather than 10 admin or bureaucrat actions. It was changed as per d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Reforming administrator inactivity criteria, but apparently never reflected on d:Wikidata:Bureaucrats. That said I would let someone else to close this to have a second look. --Base (talk) 14:33, 13 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
Thank you for the clarification. So our policy is outdated since seven years and we should probably update it. --Ameisenigel (talk) 15:16, 13 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
My understanding is that it is 5 and the bureaucrat policy was never updated. But the IA question should be resolved at some point. --Rs chen 7754 18:03, 13 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

Mardetanha@fawikiqoute

Status: Not done

He became a bureaucrat and admin in Fawikiquote by no vote from local community, but some FaWikipedians. FaWq is too small to have a bureaucrat at all, Mardetanha is inactive as an admin too. He has brought almost nothing to this project. I been blocked indefinite there on 19 June by another by ex-admin:فرهنگ2016 who referred me for unblock to another admin. There is no "another". I see no any active access-holder there after one month. I suggest removal acces of Mardetanha in Fawikiquote. He has had this access for years, but not active, solved no case, did nothing. There have been cases of privacy violations and vandalism too that he could not stop it. A previously prolific article creator, Chyah, has made every new user there to be considered as her sock. I am sure that the accesses are not supposed to be lifelong in small projects.

Nevertheless with the absence of an active administrator/bureaucrat and there is no another admin there, I request for unblocking me there. I can ask help from FaWikipedia for new admin --Ruwaym (talk) 15:12, 16 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

Not done Stewards cannot unilaterally remove user rights, we can only change rights when community consensus or policies call for it. Neither (local) policy or community consensus was presented here, so the rights cannot be removed. I see MVR was linked in the discussion field, so to comment on that: The section you linked only covers appointing made by stewards. It does not cover appointing that was done locally, by a local bureaucrat (that can be only regulated by local policies). --Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:15, 17 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]
@Martin Urbanec So,bascially: Mardetanha will remain the "Ruler" of FaWq, when there is another admin who stops new entered users by unfair blocking... looks cool. Ruwaym (talk) 14:01, 17 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

WillemBK@nlwikisource

Status: Done

Less than 20 edits in the last 12 months, so admin status should be removed. Disclosing that I am not an active editor on nlwikisource. Rs chen 7754 17:29, 16 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

Done --Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:22, 17 July 2022 (UTC) [reply ]

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