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This page enables stewards to handle permissions requests, including the giving and taking of administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights, for all Wikimedia wikis which do not have a local permissions procedure. 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 (see the index of request pages). Requests for bot status, URL blacklisting and whitelisting, and CheckUser queries belong elsewhere.

Interface-translations are done at Betawiki.

For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel (see a web-based IRC client). In emergencies only, type !steward in the channel to inform stewards that you need help.

Please only make requests here after gaining the on-wiki approval of your local community.

Quick navigation: Administrator | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Temporary permissions | 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: 
    ====user name@xxproject====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |___domain    =
 |user name =
 |discussion=
}}
Thank you! ~~~~
  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"). Leave it blank and list them yourself if you're requesting access for multiple bots.
    • 'discussion': a link to the local vote or discussion about the rights change (for example, "[[ex:Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#ExampleUser]]").
  3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

Confirmation of identity

Certain permissions (notably CheckUser and Oversight) additionally require users to confirm their identity. Users requesting these permissions must make a request below, and must also submit the relevant identification to the Foundation. The request is placed on hold temporarily, until receipt has been formally confirmed by the office.

Instructions for how you can confirm your identity can be found at: Steward handbook/email templates.

For stewards: Identification noticeboard.

Requests

Administrator access

See administrator for information about the position. Requests for temporary permissions and removal of access belong in other sections. Admins doing cross-wiki work may wish to see IRC/wikimedia-admin for information about joining #wikimedia-admin.

Lucyin@wawiktionary

Status:    In progress

I have made local request.

Thank you!

Lucyin 21:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I see that your request there was started on March 3. We need to allow at least a week (seven days) for the community to have time to manifest itself. It is also possible, however, that the project may not have a permanent, active community that will be able to support a permanent administrator at this point. If you feel that this is the case but have need of administrator access in order to do maintenance work, please consider making a request for temporary adminship, in the appropriate thread below. However, please do not translate the interface locally, that work needs to be done at the betawiki:, where all interface translations belong. Thank you. Redux 06:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As no one has commented and it has now been a week, you should leave a notice on the wiki explaining that you are requesting temporary adminship instead. This usually lasts 3 months. Angela 10:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I agree with Angela and Redux, we can grant You temporary adminship for three months if You will not translate the interface on wa.wiktionary locally (but if You wish to translate, doing it only on betawiki:, reasons for translating only there are obvious like having the interface in Walloon not only on wa.Wikipedia but in all wa.projects and wherever users choose that language from their preferences, and reasons like: there is a documentation on betawiki, to avoid common errors such as translating variables which would break the interface functionality, and softwareupdates are automatically implemented in the messages there or they are marked to be reviewed by the translators.)
If You can accept these terms (not translating locally and starting with temporary adminship), IMHO we could grant the status right away, the request has been open for a week and if no one objected to a 'permanent' adminship, no one would object to a temporary either (also there really don't seem to be other people at the moment).
Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 21:44, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hanberke@tkwikipedia

Status:    In progress

The Turkmen Wikipedia has two administrators who are in active for more than two years now. I'd like to be an administrator there, because categorizing of pages is necesary. There are some pages to be deleted since they were just copied out from other wikis as they were. Presently I'm about to complete the translation of the Milestone 1 in Betawiki. With the permission I will clean up and arrange Turkmen wiki what I have been trying to do in recent months. As there are no frequent users in our wiki it is major problem to ask for their votes, as well. I'm looking forward for your reply. Best Regards Hanberke 12:13, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hanberke, there is no local request made by You, please do that and wait for at least one week, if no one objects we can grant You a temporary adminship for 3 months (technically it is the same and can be prolonged easily), with no local request however we cannot grant You access. Thanks for Your understanding, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 12:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank You! I have made local request. Best Regards --Hanberke 13:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Whom it may concern! I made the local request at the very same day. And still waiting for local request has been being displayed since then. Is it the real status of my request or just a trivial thing?! Best Regards --Hanberke 12:22, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Hanberke, I don't understand Your question. You made a local request on 5th, it should stay open at least a week, so locals could comment, that would be not before 12th then. Also it seems that new requests are usually not added to the top of the request-page but at the bottom, and the format of the heading is different too, You probably should correct that too.
Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 23:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vpovilaitis@ltwikipedia

The following discussion is closed.
Status:    Not done

Hugo.arg 08:49, 11 March 2009 (UTC), Thank you![reply]

According to the list of bureaucrats, you have 4 'crats, not two. E rulez is active, but hasn't done any 'crat actions in a long time. Stewards are not here to override local 'crats. Laaknor 08:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  Not done, please see Steward_requests/Permissions/2009-03#Vpovilaitis.40ltwikipedia for the reasons, we cannot grant access from here, since there are local + active bureaucrats, if they do not fulfill the communities decisions, what they are supposed to do, the community has every right to make a voting for their removal, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 18:52, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Taran@KW.wiktionary

Status:    In progress

Thank you! Taran 146.227.11.233 09:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, please can You make a local announcement, that You want to become temp-sysop there, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 10:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bureaucrat access

See bureaucrat for information about the position. In principle, requests for temporary bureaucrat access are not granted.


CheckUser access

To request CheckUser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information. This is the place to request CheckUser access. Note that temporary CheckUser access is not permitted and the temporary status is only used by Stewards.

Stewards: When someone asks for CheckUser status, please check the current policy regarding bestowal of status before giving the status. The current mail template to use to request identification from the new CU can be found here. Do not grant CheckUser access unless the user is identified to the foundation, which will be announced on the Identification noticeboard. Breaching these rules may be cause for removing your steward access. When you give someone CheckUser, please list them on CheckUser, ask them to subscribe to checkuser-l, email checkuser-l-owner lists.wikimedia.org so that the listadmins know the person is allowed on the mailing list (the list may contain confidential information), and make sure they contact an op for access to #wikimedia-checkuser.

Oversight access

As with Checkuser, do not initiate a request for oversight access here. You need to work through your local wiki. Some wikis have elections. Some wikis have their Arbitration Committee make the request once there is consensus on the local wiki. The request should show a link to the local wiki election results, or be made on behalf of an ArbCom by a member of that ArbCom, whichever is applicable.

Stewards: Do not grant Oversight access unless the user is identified to the foundation, which will be announced on the Identification noticeboard. When you give someone oversight access, list them on Hiding revisions.

Removal of access

If you're requesting the removal of your own status, make sure you're logged in to a global account or place an English note on your local user talk page to prove you own both accounts (and add the diff link of your local confirmation edit to the request).

To request the removal of another user's status, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. All discussion must be kept on your local wiki. When there is community consensus that the user's access should be removed, a trusted person from that wiki should provide a link here to the discussion, a very brief explanation of the reason for the request, and summarize the results of discussion.

In either case, copy and paste the following text into the correct section (see instructions above). 

==== username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!-- don't change this line -->
 |___domain    = 
 |user name = 
 |discussion=   <!-- local confirmation link / local policy link -->
}}

Temporary permissions for emergency or technical access

If you are requesting administrator status to translate the wiki interface, this should done at the BetaWiki project instead (see mw:localisation). You can ask questions in the IRC channel or on the mailing list.

If you are requesting adminship to handle one-time vandalism incidents or clearing a deletion backlog, please see Vandalism reports and Multilingual speedy deletions.

Stewards: Currently active temporary permissions are listed at /Approved temporary. When granting a request, please copy the request to the appropriate section there, and clearly state the date of removal. Requests only need remain listed below for a few days, and may afterward be removed as long as they have been copied to the subpage.

ZaDiak@pntwikipedia

Status:    In progress

Hello I would like temporary sysop access at this wikipedia the wiki has just been created and there is much maintenance work to do. Thank you! ZaDiak 22:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, there is no local request/announcement for this, nor do You have any contributions to this wiki, please feel free to contribute to the project first, most things can be maintained without sysop buttons, and to help translating the interface at betawiki:, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 22:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have contributions but the pages haven't yet been imported and I have helped translating the interface but this data isn't yet available because nothing has been imported. Ner mind I will wait until the import is done. Thank you.--ZaDiak 23:08, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, thanks, still, there should be a local announcement/request, if there will be no objections we can grant You temporary adminship then until the project is big enough for a voting, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 23:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: we clearly need a better manual for how to get started with a fresh, clean wiki and a half-dozen editors. It makes sense for any such group to start out with temp sysops, for instance. -- sj | help translate |+ 01:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's different now, though, because we work with the Wikimedia Incubator. Technically they can hold their own elections on the test project before their "real" project gets created (I've seen this done in the past). I think some sort of Manual exists on Incubator. If not, that's probably where it should be created instead of here. :-) Cbrown1023 talk 02:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The incubator & betawiki are great for interface translation and initial work. Small wikis don't tend to get underway with temp sysops, all the same. We should have a "small wikis guidebook" that shows people how to do the typically overlooked things : renaming special pages; translating core pages that are linked in headers/footers; bootstrapping by creating administrivia pages (community portal/cafe, bot policy, administrators page, deletion policy & templates); when to ask for countervandalism or steward help. And that itself should be translated into at least the core languages. If there is such a thing it needs better publicity... -- sj | help translate |+ 03:00, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If that is so, we would need a link to that voting and need to know if it was a voting for rights on incubator or for the upcoming project. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 12:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have made a request I will wait for a while and if there aren't any objections I will notify you. Could you please tell me how long should I wait?--ZaDiak 12:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We usually let it rest for a week at least. --Thogo (talk) 13:24, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Thogo, I think this is an unusual request, I would say: granting the rigths now, but temporary for a week and if there are no objections locally, prolonging the rights to the usual three months after that one week (without any burocracy, just leaving this request open as a reminder). So he can already start to import the pages from incubator, what do You think, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 13:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, ok. I just saw that it was created only yesterday. --Thogo (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am for with birdy's comment , we can grant him temp for a week then we can prolong it --Mardetanha talk 13:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  granted for one week, as proposed, if no objections locally after that one week the status will expire: 06-06-2009, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 14:15, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous requests

Requests that don't fit in other sections belong here. Note that the following types of requests belong on separate pages: bot status, URL blacklisting and whitelisting, and requests for CheckUser queries. If you want to have your Meta username changed, please go to Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. If you want to have changed a username on a Wikimedia wiki without bureaucrats, please go to Requests for username changes.(Existing requests have been moved to the appropriate page.)

Reminder

  • Import rights can be granted by stewards only, not bureaucrats, so the automatic list of local bureaucrats is irrelevant for this; please show a link to a consensus if the wiki has a community.
  • Usurpation requests should be placed at Steward requests/Usurpation.
  • Username changes should be placed at Requests for username changes.

See also

  • Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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