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This page is for requests to have stewards grant or revoke administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, and oversight rights on Wikimedia wikis which do not have a local permissions procedure. Please check the sidebar to the right to see whether your request belongs better elsewhere. Specifically, bot requests, requests for CheckUser information and global rights requests belong on their respective pages.

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).

Interface translations are done at translatewiki. Please do not request administrator access for that purpose; your request will be declined.

For urgent requests, such as to combat large-scale vandalism on a small wiki, contact a steward in the #wikimedia-stewardsconnect IRC channel (web client). In emergencies only, type !steward in the channel to inform stewards that you need help. Otherwise, you can use @steward to gain attention if the channel is quiet.

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 | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Miscellaneous | Global permissions | Unexpired temporary access
Crosswiki requests
MetaWiki requests

Using this page[edit]

  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= 
}}
(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]]").
  3. If anything is missing from your request, a steward will request more information.

Confirmation of identity[edit]

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 the receipt has been formally confirmed by the office.

Requests[edit]

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

==== Username@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    =
 |user name =
 |discussion= 
}}

Administrator access[edit]

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

If you are requesting administrator status to translate the wiki interface, this should be done at the translatewiki.net 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 Steward requests/Miscellaneous.

Stewards
Currently-active temporary permissions are listed at /Approved temporary; please use {{Systmp}} for temporary permission. Please invite new sysops to the admin IRC channel.
Archiving
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. Users who archive requests on that page, please check if the request was correctly added to the temporary subpage before removing it from this page.

For permanent sysopship please provide a link to the local community approval. For temporary sysopship please state for how long and for which tasks you need it, and link to a local announcement.

[email protected][edit]

Status:    On hold

Here we go again, still no active administrators. So here is my 6'th application for renew :) --Simeondahl (talk) 00:58, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold until July 1. --Rschen7754 00:59, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
no active discussion, Time2wait.svg On hold until July 8--Shizhao (talk) 01:24, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
@Shizhao: 7 days is usually enough for a discussion, though the adminship would be temporary... --Rschen7754 08:54, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
I have a question, will it be approved today or July 8?? :o --Simeondahl (talk) 14:18, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
July 8th. -- Avi (talk) 16:27, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Oki then. --Simeondahl (talk) 00:17, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure extending has much sense or purpose here, there is only one active other community member beyond Simeondahl who's not really involved in the more meta side of the project. Snowolf How can I help? 00:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Нұрлан Рахымжанов@kkwiki[edit]

Status:    Done

Hello! The mentioned candidate has received enough number of votes and corresponds to the requirements for sysop. --Qarakesek (talk) 16:33, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Have you tried asking the local bureaucrat? They were active on 2 May... --Rschen7754 18:04, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
The only local bureaucrat has been inactive since a long time. All recent admin and admin right withdrawal requests were done by global stewards. On May 2 a minor edit was done and was not related to his sysop or bureaucrat activity. Can you please track his latest bureaucrat edit? In meanwhile there is a voting process for a new bureaucrat (here). Thank you for your support. --Qarakesek (talk) 05:03, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Yes check.svg Done granted permanent adminship. --Rschen7754 05:07, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

[email protected][edit]

Status:    In progress

See my request (21.06.2014) for admin rights. Thanks. Oleg3280 (talk) 15:11, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Bureaucrat access[edit]

See bureaucrat for information about the position. In principle, requests for temporary bureaucrat access are not granted.
General note
There is an ongoing discussion regarding the minimum number of votes and overall participation to promote users to bureaucrat at Talk:Bureaucrat/2010-02#Minimum number of votes (see also this RFC). Users are encouraged to assist in the development of a policy that allows stewards to not decide on whether a promotion is valid or not. Thank you.

Jdforrester@wikimania2015[edit]

Status:    Locally handled

-- TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 18:09, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Can't be done until the wiki is created and added to the list of local dbs here. On hold. Ajraddatz (talk) 18:12, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
The wiki has been created and we can assign userrights to it. I suspect that you tried with wikimania2015 instead of the correct wikimania2015wiki. I note however that traditionally the initial bureaucrat(s) have been assigned by the developers as part of the creation process of the wiki and not stewards. Anyway, all of this ignored because Jdforrester does not have an account there, and as such we cannot assign rights there. I will poke James and Reedy and figure out what happens from there. Snowolf How can I help? 18:26, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Nope. On reflection, the error message was "There is no user by the name "Jdforrester@wikimania2015wiki". Check your spelling." which makes sense. Guess I was confusing/not reading the error message. Ajraddatz (talk) 18:31, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
I have consulted with the creating developer and he has assigned the required userrights. I note for future reference that this is traditionally handled by the developers who perform the creation and if this issue arises in the future the developer who created the wiki (in this case Reedy) is the correct person to contact. Snowolf How can I help? 18:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

CheckUser access[edit]

To request CheckUser information, see Steward requests/Checkuser. 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 before giving the status. There is an email template to request identification from the new CU. Do not grant CU access unless the user is identified to the Foundation. 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-at-lists.wikimedia.org so the listadmins know the person is allowed on the mailing list, and make sure they contact an op for access to #wikimedia-privacy and #wikimedia-checkuser.

Oversight access[edit]

To request to have content oversighted, ask in #wikimedia-stewards, or, for requests regarding English Wikipedia email oversight-en-wp-at-wikipedia.org. This is the place to request Oversight access. Note that temporary Oversight access is not permitted and the temporary status is only used by Stewards.

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 Oversight.

Removal of access[edit]

If you're requesting the removal of your own status, make sure you're logged in to a global 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 status, you must gain consensus on the local wiki first. All discussion must take place 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 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). Please post requests at the bottom of the section.

However, as the bureaucrats of a few wikis may remove users from the administrator or bureaucrat group, please see also a separate list of these specific wikis.

==== username@domain ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    = 
 |user name = 
 |discussion= <!-- local confirmation link / local policy link -->
}}
Your remarks, etc. --~~~~

Олександр Коваль@uk.wiktionary[edit]

Status:    Done

The user is inactive (no logged actions nor edits) for 4.5 years. Local vote was held, user was notified but didn't respond. The local policy actually requires 5+ users with 50+ edits and 1 month of experience to vote to consider vote successful but when you look at the list of active users you can ensure that it's impossible to fulfil that requirement at current state of the wiki. The most active user supported the denomination. --Base (talk) 19:29, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I am crat of ukwiktionary. Our policy says that we need have at least 5 voters for successful nomination. Now we have only 2 votes there and it is not enough. So I suggest to change this to 'On hold' and wait one week more.--Anatoliy (talk) 19:31, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
I've explained about this piece of requirements. There are less active users in a month — another week of holding won't make things better. The case also falls under Admin activity review I have no idea why stews have not dealt with that yet. --Base (talk) 19:40, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Because there are hundreds of notifications, communications and actions to take - the Admin Activity Review is taking time. QuiteUnusual (talk) 07:18, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Time2wait.svg On hold till 1 July 2014. If nothing changes the user will be desysoped based on Admin activity review policy. Ruslik (talk) 18:40, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Yes check.svg Done Matanya (talk) 05:32, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
@Matanya: why were the rights removed? The AAR process was not followed. --Rschen7754 08:25, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
My mistake, please revert. Matanya (talk) 23:16, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Reverted. I will be doing AAR for that wiki today though, so that we don't delay this too much longer. --Rschen7754 23:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Sorry, but all conditions of AAR had been met by 1 July. The user was notified on 1 June 2014 about possible removal. However, he did not participate in the subsequent discussion. So, I do not understand what you mean by "I will be doing AAR for that wiki today". Ruslik (talk) 15:58, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
About possible removal under the local policy, not possible removal under the global policy. --Rschen7754 18:30, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
What is the difference? Ruslik (talk) 20:01, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
See step 4 on AAR: this is the only process by which the rights may be removed by stewards. Since none of the process was followed, the rights cannot be removed. I know I'm being a bit legalistic about this, but in sensitive areas like rights removals, it is best for us to stick to the letter of the policy. --Rschen7754 20:23, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
So, you want to post the second notification identical to the first one on his talk page about removal of the rights just after the first one have been hanging their for more one month without any response? And then force the community to re-discuss his removal of rights the second time? I always thought that we are not a bureaucracy. Ruslik (talk) 06:39, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
The notifications are most definitely not the same: see [1] and [2]. And with rights removals, we have to follow the proper processes, because people are offended when we do not - both the person whose rights were removed, and the local communities who feel that stewards are overstepping. --Rschen7754 06:52, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
The notifications are not even remotely similar, and we should follow the proper processes, to ensure fair treatment to all and minimize resentment and drama. AAR is a sweeping intrusion into local wikis, with good reasons, but we should keep in mind its nature and proceed with caution. We're not in a real hurry, as this is the first round anyway. As a side note, the statement about not being a bureaucracy is an enwiki thing, and they are most definitively a giant bureaucracy ;-) Snowolf How can I help? 14:29, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

PinkAmpersand@wikidatawiki[edit]

Status:    Done
Time2wait.svg On hold for 24h Matanya (talk) 05:33, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
I don't believe this needs to be put on hold as this isn't a self-request but rather a local policy matter. Vogone (talk) 05:37, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
(Edit conflict.) Just out of curiosity, where is that third action? I can only find two ns8 edits in the logs. Anyway, this is not too relevant as also two actions are unfortunately less than ten. Vogone (talk) 05:37, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
@Matanya: Per Vogone, this does not need to be put on hold. @Vogone: The third action was the deletion he made at 05:16 UTC today, which no longer counts.--Jasper Deng (talk) 05:42, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Either I'm completely dumb or I overlook something but to me the top entry in d:Special:Log/PinkAmpersand appears as logged at December 31st. Vogone (talk) 05:49, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Since there is no June 31st, July 1st kinda serves as that. But technicalities aside, the desysop shouldn't be placed on hold.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:01, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
per comments above and requester talk page on wikidata - Yes check.svg Done Matanya (talk) 06:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Stryn@wikidatawiki[edit]

Status:    Done

I'm resigning as oversighter on Wikidata. Unfortunately I have not enough time for this anymore, and I think that the other two oversighters are enough to handle the requests we get. I'll still continue as admin, but now I have to take a break from wiki, because I'm so busy IRL. Thanks, --Stryn (talk) 15:49, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

on hold for 24h. 16:03, 1 July 2014 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 5.28.148.173 (talk • contribs) .
Yes check.svg Done--Shanmugamp7 (talk) 16:52, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

[email protected][edit]

Status:    Done

I have checkuser access because I'm on the en.wiki arbitration committee. However:

  • I never use it.
  • I don't understand how to use it.
  • I don't anticipate ever learning how to use it.
  • Because I'm listed as a CU, my comments about suspected sockpuppets have several times been misunderstood as "A Checkuser confirms a link between the two accounts..." or something similar.

So I'd like to have my checkuser access removed. I'll keep oversight, as that is not so far over my head. Thanks. --Floquenbeam (talk) 10:57, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold for 24 hours as per standard practice. -- Avi (talk) 14:59, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

You are mistaken, we do not put request of removal of advanced rights on hold, only sysop requests. Legal repercussions of access to certain rights are among the reasons that require we do not hesitate to remove them on request. In any case, it has never been standard practice. Snowolf How can I help? 16:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
On request from the local authority I agree; on a self-req, I'm not so sure. -- Avi (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
We specifically chose to discuss and include sysop removal request *only* from the standard practice 24 hours old. I also add that the standard practice has a purpose and if a request is clearly unrelated to the reasons we established that practices, we need not put it on hold. Snowolf How can I help? 00:25, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks guys. In this particular case, it doesn't matter either way; it's not done in anger, so I won't be changing my mind, but I also won't be using it (properly or improperly) in the next 24 hours - and, it's self-requested - so there won't be legal issues. I've had it for 6 months without using it, so I can have it for another day without problems. Been meaning to do this for a couple of months. Thanks, either way. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:58, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Whilst this is unequivocal, and even though EnWiki is a home project for me, I doubt anyone would think it improper for me to flip the bit, I'll hold off anyway unless this goes unanswered for a while. -- Avi (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Don't worry, I've Yes check.svg Done it. ;-) I'll also do the other stuff (cu-l etc). Trijnsteltalk 16:42, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, Trijnstel. -- Avi (talk) 16:50, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

[email protected][edit]

Status:    Done

Please remove a sysop and a checkuser rights from this user as per local policy. He is inactive for 3 months. Thanks. --Rxy (talk) 11:55, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

  • Yes check.svg Done Please thank the user for his service. -- Avi (talk) 14:58, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

odder@testwiki[edit]

Status:    Locally handled

Please remove my administrator access on the test Wikipedia. I never use it. --odder (talk) 17:13, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

(testwiki 'crat hat on)I removed the bit locally with my testwiki 'crat hat, if you ever want it back please shout :) (steward hat on) Locally done by some random guy. Snowolf How can I help? 17:22, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

ויקיג'אנקי@he.wikivoyage[edit]

Status:    Done

I am resigning as admin on Hebrew Wikivoyage. Please remove my rights. Thanks. --ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 03:23, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Time2wait.svg On hold for 24 hours per standard practice. --Rschen7754 03:25, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Done, Thanks for your work as admin--Shanmugamp7 (talk) 04:26, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Miscellaneous requests[edit]

Requests that don't fit in other sections belong here. Import rights can be granted on most wikis by stewards only, not bureaucrats, so the automatic list of local bureaucrats is irrelevant for this. Please gather community consensus before placing a link to the discussion here.

Note that the following types of requests belong on separate pages:

See also[edit]

Requests for:  permissions (global) — bot status — CheckUser information (local) — deletion (speedy deletions: local | multilingual) — translation — logos — URL blacklisting — username changes (local) — SUL problem solving — new languages — adminship on Meta — comments — interwiki map — an account on WMF wiki — help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat

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