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
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
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
Administrator access
See 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.
Katariq@qu.wikipedia
- Wiki: qu.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Katariq (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: [1]
Seven months ago, I get admin rights in the Quechua Wikipedia, my period ended, and I ask the community for a prolongation. I would like to request both admin and interface admin grants. I am a native Quechua speaker, and I made a lot of improvements in that Wiki. I would like to continue with this work. Thank you very much--Katariq (talk) 04:36, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
- I have done the administrator flag, but you need Help:2FA enabled for interface administrator. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 13:30, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Katariq Please see Amanda's note above. Martin Urbanec (talk) 06:43, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- Done for admin, Not done for IA (not meeting WMF policy on interface adminship). --Martin Urbanec (talk) 10:30, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
- Excuse me , I just saw today this. I needed to reply this, but it seems too late: "I would like to inform you that the oathauth user right is not enabled for me". Thank you for your consideration anyways.--Katariq (talk) 4:11, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Katariq: Given that you're an admin at quwiki now, you may enable 2FA at qu:Special:OATH. Please take a look at H:2FA first though. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:21, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- Setting status to On hold to avoid archiving. Please let us know when you enable 2FA. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:52, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Katariq Can you please enable 2FA? Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, excuse me for the delay. I have recently activated TOTP 2FA. Greetings --Katariq (talk) 04:39, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Katariq: Granted for 6 months to expire on 2021-12-05. Granted with same expiry as your regular admin access. 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. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 06:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, excuse me for the delay. I have recently activated TOTP 2FA. Greetings --Katariq (talk) 04:39, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Katariq Can you please enable 2FA? Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Setting status to On hold to avoid archiving. Please let us know when you enable 2FA. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:52, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Katariq: Given that you're an admin at quwiki now, you may enable 2FA at qu:Special:OATH. Please take a look at H:2FA first though. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:21, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Katariq Please see Amanda's note above. Martin Urbanec (talk) 06:43, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Erokhin@ru.wikibooks
- Wiki: ru.wikibooks.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Erokhin (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: b:ru:Викиучебник:Заявки на статус администратора/Erokhin 2
We need a permanent administrator. There is a lot of admin's work to be done in this project. Last. --Erokhin (talk) 14:32, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- Erokhin can`t be permanent administrator - only temporary.According to the rules of Wikibooks:
- He needs 3-5 votes in support for temporary administration and 6 votes for permanent. According to ВУ:ЗСА.
- Kylaix (talk) 06:48, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
- Granted for 1 year to expire on 2022-06-19. 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. Ruslik (talk) 12:05, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Kunokuno@bcl.wikipedia
- Wiki: bcl.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Kunokuno (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olay_sa_Wikipedia:Portal_kan_Komunidad#Request_for_extension_of_Adminship
I would like to extend my administrator rights and help secure and provide assistance for new users on our local wikipedia. Kunokuno (talk) 10:58, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
- On hold for one week until June 21, 2021. Local announcement posted on June 14. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:38, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Tahmid@bpy.wikipedia
- Wiki: bpy.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Tahmid (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: w:bpy:উইকিপিডিয়া:প্রশাসক হওয়ার আবেদন/Tahmid/২
I was granted adminship for three month. That period will end next sunday (20 June). So, I am requesting to prolong my adminship.
Note: The local discussion started on 9 June however no one commented. And discussion ended yesterday. T@hmid (T@lk) 06:37, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Granted for 6 months to expire on 2021-12-18. 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. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 06:41, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Yumeto@zh-classical.wikipedia
- Wiki: zh-classical.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Yumeto (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: w:zh-classical:維基大典:有秩選舉#再薦紺野夢人為有秩
Per voting. If possible, please grant a permanent permission. Konno Yumeto 12:02, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- Granted for 1 year to expire on 2022-06-18. 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. Ruslik (talk) 20:53, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
HongZongYi@trv.wikipedia
- Wiki: trv.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: HongZongYi (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: trv:Wikipidiya:Requests for adminship#HongZongYi
HongZongYi (talk) 04:42, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- On hold until 25 June 2021 Ruslik (talk) 12:06, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
info-farmer @ ta.wikisource
- Wiki: ta.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: info-farmer (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: 1) My voting notice in our village pump 2) 18 contributors are voted for the permanent sysop rights for me and no negative votes
- This is my 4th request to get the sysop permanent rights. You can find my earlier requests here. The_summary_of_ta.WS_sysop-stats
- Contributions at ta.WS stats ;-
- My future plans
- OTRS for the <2200 PDF books (clean up works at commons and ta.wikisource over 10k-12k book pages renaming among 3 lakhs OCRed pages)
- These books are uploaded by me during my Wikipedian in residence time.The95th, Its voting ta:விக்கிப்பீடியா:உறைவிட_விக்கிமீடியர்கள்#User:Info-farmer
- ta.WS_redirect_pages (Many pages are no need)
- we have to investigate its copy right status. Because i found few articles are from various digital library. For_example
- Due to our community outreach by the usres Ravidreams, Tshrinivasan, neechalkaran, ஐயோன், Balajijagadesh, our community growing fastly and getiing good results among Indic wikisources. indic-wsstats I hope that i furnished a breif details to get permanent sysop. My readiness for adminship by Xtools
- My one year approval expired on 7 June 2021. Kindly consider my permanent sysop request. We are now trying to integrate wikidata and wikisource. for example(ta:Module talk:Index template)--Info-farmer (talk) 07:06, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
- Done Ruslik (talk) 12:15, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Interface administrator access
See 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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.
Savant-bot@frwikinews
- Wiki: fr.wikinews.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Savant-bot (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Please remove his admin access, according to our procedure of removing permissions for inactive administrators.
Details:
- Bot inactive for over a year (2016);
- Owner is also inactive for over a year (2016) and have been warned on his talk page more than 3 months ago (2020);
- I'm a bureaucrat on this wiki. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SleaY (talk) 23:11, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
- @SleaY: Done. I left the bot permission though. It can be removed locally if needed. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:23, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Putnik@ru.wikimedia
- Wiki: ru.wikimedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Putnik (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Please remove my administrator permissions in Wikimedia Russia wiki. — putnik 02:10, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:45, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Done --Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:12, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
AGK@en.wikipedia
- Wiki: en.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: AGK (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Please remove my CU and OS rights from en.wikipedia. No change to my global permissions. Thank you. AGK ■ 07:06, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:46, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Done @AGK: Thank you for your service. Sincerely, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:13, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Ingwik@sv.wikibooks
- Wiki: sv.wikibooks.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Ingwik (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
According to the local policy for inactive admins an admin will be desysopped if the user has not been active for over a year and not responded to the message on their talk page about their adminship for a month. Ingwik has not been active for over two years, never used his tools and hasn't responded to the message on his talk page. Please remove sysop access. EPIC (talk) 17:53, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Done Ruslik (talk) 20:48, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
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:
See also
- 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