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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. 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

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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 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

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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

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COPY THE FOLLOWING CODE to the bottom of the appropriate section below: 

==== User name@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain =<!-- Such as en.wikibooks -->
 |user name =
 |discussion = 
}}

Administrator access

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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.

Ninjastrikers@my.wikisource

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Status: Done

I would like to request to extend my sysop rights and interface admin rights which will be expired on 22-01-2025. Thanks. Ninja✮Strikers «☎» 17:00, 21 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Discussion should last for a week, but since it's only a day left I'll set it on hold until tomorrow. EPIC (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2025年07月23日. 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) 15:22, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Kuldeepburjbhalaike@pa.wikipedia

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Status: Done

i would like to request permanent Admin and Interface Admin rights @pawikipedia. Thanks. --KuldeepBurjBhalaike (Talk) 17:53, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Done Granted permanently, since MVR is met, and since all other admins on the project are permanent. EPIC (talk) 18:10, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Dervişli@gag.wikipedia

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Local Discussion voting is over. 1 week period is up. Assign the administrator right. Thank you. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dervişli (talk) 21:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

hold on. You got 2 support votes - both should be striked imo. user BEŞMAARĞ and user ZANCAL are obviously socks of an experienced user. --TenWhile6 21:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Due to the fact that this looks like very problematic influencing of the discussion, checkusering both accounts locally could be helpful. --TenWhile6 21:35, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Hello, @TenWhile6 I don't know, should I delete their votes? Dervişli (talk) 21:17, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Not delete, but they should be striked by an uninvolved user (therefore not you).
By the way, your local gagwiki account was created on 14th january 2025, thats very very recent too, why are you immediately running for sysop? @Stewards, please evaluate this situation carefully. Thanks, --TenWhile6 21:18, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Hello @TenWhile6 again, my friend recently became a sysop. I need administrator rights to activate the MediaWiki plugins and develop our native language, Gagawiki. I hope 3 months of management will be enough, we are trying to develop our native language. Dervişli (talk) 21:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

pinging @Çınarcan as (the only) gagwiki sysop, can you please review the local adminship discussion and tell your opinion on this? TenWhile6 21:20, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

okay, nevermind, Çınarcan seems to be Dervişlis friend. He might not be the most neutral person to ask. See 21:21. TenWhile6 21:31, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Hi @TenWhile6 The local administrator removed their votes and the puppets were destroyed Dervişli (talk) 21:45, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Voting accounts were detected to be dummy and were blocked I prefer not to comment on this vote. @TenWhile6 Çınarcan (talk) 21:49, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
And I would like to add that I know the friend through Wikipedia, I do not have a close relationship with her, I only care about her contributions. Çınarcan (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
"friend" and "do not have a close relationship" sound like two contradicting statements, to be honest. --SHB (t • c) 22:44, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
@SHB2000Let me explain it this way, when I say I don't have a close relationship, I only mean someone I know through wiki. Çınarcan (talk) 23:40, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Hello, @SHB2000 @TenWhile6 I thought about it and felt the urge to withdraw my application. I am withdrawing my application. I will contribute a little more and improve myself. Then you can close the application. Dervişli (talk) 05:50, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
@EPIC I withdrew my application, you can close it. Best regards. Dervişli (talk) 05:52, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Request withdrawn per above. EPIC (talk) 08:17, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
just as a note for transparency and the archive: Dervişli got indeffed by Çınarcan. As far as I understand it, the block reason is 'insulting'. TenWhile6 15:24, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Ah, well, Dervişli ended up insulting on metawiki too, therefore they are blocked here too. TenWhile6 15:30, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Paloi Sciurala@ro.wikivoyage

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Status: Done

My rights will expire soon. --Paloi Sciurala (talk|contribs) 15:01, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Done Granted for 1 year to expire on 2026年01月23日. 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.
For transparency I'll also point to the logs under the previous username: [1]. EPIC (talk) 15:17, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Janabaevazizbek@kaawikipedia

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Hello. I applied here to be the adminship of the Kaa.wikipedia project a week ago, but it was rejected because too much time had passed.

I was told that I would have to re-submit my candidacy for the position of adminship of the kaa.wikipedia project and submit my application here again in a week.

I submitted my candidacy to the Kaa.wikipedia project again and met all the requirements there again: At least four upvotes (yes votes: 5, no votes: 0), at least 500 corrections (3000 near corrections), etc.

From now on, I want to be a adminship in the Karakalpak Wikipedia project in order to work more efficiently and improve the kaa.wikipedia.org page. Thank you Janabaevazizbek (talk) 09:23, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2025年07月26日. 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) 12:28, 26 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Wolverène@lbe.wikipedia

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Hello! My temporary admin right has been expired recently. I made the local request for renewing my adminiship and looks like there were no objections. Thanks. --Wolverène (talk) 23:27, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Interface administrator access

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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.

Bureaucrat access

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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

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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.

Anr@fiwiki

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Status: On hold

Anr was elected as new fiwiki checkuser with 38 support votes and support ratio of 97.4 percent. Waiting for him to sign the agreement. Stryn (talk) 06:49, 24 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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) 08:42, 24 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Oversight access

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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

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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

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  • 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.

Deryck Chan@yue.wikipedia

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Status: Done

各位全域執行員大家好。由於線下事忙,嚟緊幾年未克履行事務員應有嘅上線頻率,故此請辭事務員權限,管理員權限不變。多謝各位俾機會我服務大家。

(Translation) Hello stewards. Due to RL difficulties I'm unlikely to be able to fulfil the expected level of participation for a bureaucrat, so I'm writing to request the removal of my bureaucrat status. I will keep my administrator flag (for now). Thank you for the privilege to serve the community.
Deryck C. (talk) 22:34, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. EPIC (talk) 22:35, 22 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Done Bureaucrat flag removed, sysop flag kept. Thank you for your service. EPIC (talk) 22:59, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

LucieManette@svwiki

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Status: Done

LucieManette requested a global lock as well as removal of their svwiki sysop flag. As per standard practice I have not locked the account, but proceeded with removing their sysop rights, thus why I'm placing this here for transparency. 24 hour hold was applied and completed. EPIC (talk) 21:36, 24 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

See also

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