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.
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 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
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.
ᱫᱚᱞᱚᱱ ᱯᱨᱳᱵᱟᱥ@Satwikipedia
- Wiki: sat.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: ᱫᱚᱞᱚᱱ ᱯᱨᱳᱵᱟᱥ (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Request for Adminship support of Santali Wikipedia
Hello. Please provide me access Permanently administrator rights on the Santali Wikipedia. I'm ready to be one who works against the vandalism/spam/nonsense pages and protected the page this wiki. More info is in the local discussion (see above). Thank you in advance. ᱫᱚᱞᱚᱱ ᱯᱨᱳᱵᱟᱥ (talk) 21:05, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- You have provided no link to a discussion. -- Amanda (she/her) 00:59, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
- The link you provided is to the main page. You need to have a local discussion in the wiki where the community can show support or opposition to your application. -- Amanda (she/her) 05:17, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
- It can't be done on your user talkpage, it needs to be done on a place like the community portal and it has to last for 7 days. -- Amanda (she/her) 05:45, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Caro de Segeda@nov.wikipedia
- Wiki: nov.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Caro de Segeda (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Li_komun_chambre#Request_for_Adminship_for_User_Caro_de_Segeda
Hello, the Novial Wikipedia is a very small one with just me and another casual user writing there. I would like to be an administrator for a month or so to just to a clean up there. Thanks. --Caro de Segeda (talk) 10:51, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @Caro de Segeda, thanks for the interest! Can you please start a thread about your request at nov.wikipedia, at some highly-visible page (village pump, administrator's noticeboard, dedicated page for request for permissions or similar), to serve as your request for adminship (RfA)? Once you start the thread, please link it here.
- To explain: A (local) RfA needs to be started on the project for someone to become an admin, even if the project is very small. This is to allow any wikimedians to speak up about the RfA and support/oppose, in case they wish to do so. If there won't be any comments under the RfA, that's fine – as long as there are no opposes, it will (likely) result in (temporary) adminship granted. More information about the way how stewards evaluate RfAs can be found at MVR.
- If you have any questions about the process, feel free to ask here – we'll be happy to help. Best wishes, Martin Urbanec (talk) 11:56, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done, thanks for the explanation. Caro de Segeda (talk) 11:59, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! This is now On hold until 2022-06-06 (7 days from now). Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:01, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Done, thanks for the explanation. Caro de Segeda (talk) 11:59, 30 May 2022 (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, ask them to subscribe to checkuser-l, notify listowners checkuser-l-ownerlists.wikimedia.org, and make sure they contact an op for access to #wikimedia-privacyconnect and #wikimedia-checkuserconnect.
Elph@arwikipedia
- Wiki: ar.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Elph (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: User Elph asked to remove all of his flags on 12 December 2021, but now he returned back, in our policy mentioned that "all flags returned to the user if user requested to be returned before the passage of 6 months duration". Sysop and bureaucrat flag already given. But Checkuser flag needs a steward (I can't do that, as arwiki is my homewiki)
- Signature: diff
I'll put this request "onhold" based on @RadiX: and @Trijnstel: comments on 2017-12. I'll open a discussion on steward-l. Best --Alaa :)..! 14:21, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Not done The consensus is that a new election is required for this user to regain their checkuser permissions. -- Amanda (she/her) 20:47, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
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.
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:
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.
Zhxy 519@zhwikisource
- Wiki: zh.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- Discussion: s:zh:Topic:Wuir0v1gqhndz5e1
I request the suspension of administrator access of User:Zhxy 519 until the desysop process for User:Zhxy 519 on zhwikisource ends. Reason: He blocks another administrator User:Jusjih on zhwikisource for submitting a formal desysop request of User:Zhxy 519 himself following the desysop process. This is absolutely unacceptable behaviour for an administrator on a small wiki. Midleading (talk) 10:42, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Collapsing extended discussion: Stewards are aware of this and discussing this on stewards-l. — regards, Revi 19:02, 30 April 2022 (UTC) |
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- Any update about this case? Thank you. SCP-2000 15:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- Is this still in progress or has been on hold? —— Eric Liu(Talk) 17:14, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- At this time i'm going to mark this Not done. It seems that no steward thinks there is something to action on here that is within our powers. This would be up to the local community to decide, but does not constitute an emergency removal of powers. -- Amanda (she/her) 20:52, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
Rahuldeshmukh101@mrwikisource
- Wiki: mr.wikisource.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Rahuldeshmukh101 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
They have importer rights on this project. The user is inactive on this project for last 10 years 2 months. So they are definitely inactive for long. As there was no action and such advance rights should be removed as per Admin activity review? I am bit confused as importer rights is not mentioned in the policy but such long inactivity seems a pretty good reason for removal? QueerEcofeminist [they/them/their] 17:54, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- You can ask the user if they still need it (the user is active on other projects). Ruslik (talk) 20:33, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, if active means to edit same site notice every year...as that's what they are doing every year. No other edits are seen even on mrwiki. QueerEcofeminist [they/them/their] 18:37, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- I have pinged them on their talk page let's se if they reply. QueerEcofeminist [they/them/their] 19:01, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- on their local talkpage they have replied saying they need it, but no fair rationale for use of it is mentioned, nor they are active after that. Do the needful. thanks QueerEcofeminist [they/them/their] 06:03, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
- I have pinged them on their talk page let's se if they reply. QueerEcofeminist [they/them/their] 19:01, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, if active means to edit same site notice every year...as that's what they are doing every year. No other edits are seen even on mrwiki. QueerEcofeminist [they/them/their] 18:37, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Jphwra@uk.wikipedia
- Wiki: uk.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Jphwra (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: uk:Wikipedia:Запити до бюрократів
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jphwra (talk) 19:38, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
- Just to give some context in case it is confusing what the linked discussion is, this is basically a resignation request but it follows the request to bureaucrats where it was discussed whether the user should lose the admin rights as arguably he might have violated the terms of limited adminship that he was granted. Base (talk) 13:39, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Actually, I have these rights until June 12. So stewards decide whether it makes sense to deprive in advance or not. In my opinion, the seizure through which I filed this application violates the rights granted to me by bureaucrats. I deleted the category I created incorrectly in my own article. I thought it was a perfectly normal edit not to distract administrators. Formally, my removal of the category was a violation of the terms of granting me administrator rights. Therefore, it is the stewards who must indicate whether it is a violation to remove an incorrectly created category or not. Thank you. --Jphwra (talk) 14:47, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Let me offer some clarification as a UkWiki bureaucrat who granted admin rights Jphwra.
Amidst Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian community has been experiencing reduced community capabilities to fight vandalism and fulfill other maintenance duties, so we’ve adopted the practice of granting temporary adminship for a brief period of time.
Jphwra was granted temporary adminship with strict limitation to use admin rights only for removing obvious vandalism (while Jphwra is an experienced user and former admin, he’d been involved in some rule violations like edit wars in the past, hence the limitation; Jphwra suggested this arrangement himself).
Formally, Jphwra broke the scope of his limited adminship and performed a deletion of the page that hadn’t been vandalized. While the admin action in question isn’t incorrect itself, it does formally violate the scope of Jphwra’s adminship and thus admin rights should be removed per the initial terms. --Aced (talk) 12:51, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- In fact, it was a petty act, the removal of an erroneously created category. I do not think this is a sufficient reason for deprivation of rights. --Yakudza (talk) 13:55, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Agree with User:Aced --YarikUkraine (talk) 16:11, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
@Jphwra: Are you submitting this as a resignation or not? -- Amanda (she/her) 20:53, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- NO more. Mine expires on June 12, so revoke those rights on June 12. I need this to prove that I keep my word as a user with an experience for which the main article is not the status. Thank you. Jphwra (talk) 20:57, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- "While the admin action in question isn’t incorrect itself, it does formally violate the scope of Jphwra’s adminship and thus admin rights should be removed per the initial terms" (Aced). --YarikUkraine (talk) 21:49, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- @AmandaNP:, Permissions should be revoked not of his own desire, but without discussion, Jphwra has violated the terms of which he undertook to comply with in the case of granting him permissions. These conditions were violated by him twice on May 29. Therefore, sysop permissons should be removed without discussion, this was written by bureaucrat Aced and confirmed by bureaucrat YarikUkraine. Can you remove them, or do such conditions not affect it? I will also note that the rights were granted with the support of the community, which was less than 40%. --Mykola talk 22:46, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- This is not an easy case. Normally we do require a full community consensus to remove the rights of a user. These are exceptional circumstances though where a user had conditions placed on their adminship with the consensus of bureaucrats seemingly, and it was directly logged also. Therefore I will go ahead and complete the removal and mark this as Done. I do suggest though that the community have a further discussion about the rules, circumstances and formal processes for removal. -- Amanda (she/her) 00:57, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Jphwra (talk) 04:48, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
- This is not an easy case. Normally we do require a full community consensus to remove the rights of a user. These are exceptional circumstances though where a user had conditions placed on their adminship with the consensus of bureaucrats seemingly, and it was directly logged also. Therefore I will go ahead and complete the removal and mark this as Done. I do suggest though that the community have a further discussion about the rules, circumstances and formal processes for removal. -- Amanda (she/her) 00:57, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Mohamed Ouda@arwiki
- Wiki: ar.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Mohamed Ouda (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Please remove the administrator access Basic on our local policy (Statistics)
Thanks.--جار الله (talk) 12:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello all , please hold this request because I am willing to resume my activity back Mohamed Ouda (talk) 17:55, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- If another steward can put this request {{onhold}} per community discussion; as Ouda sysop flag should be removed per our local policy, but there's a community proposal to give him a chance (and ignore all rules). I'll write further comment when discussion end. Thanks on advance --Alaa :)..! 20:42, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- And it's on hold. -- Amanda (she/her) 23:52, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
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