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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
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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.


For communities, please note that the following discussion is open for comment It is currently proposed that the RFC will be closed from the 21 May 2013


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.

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.

CheckUser access[edit]

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 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; 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. --~~~~

[email protected][edit]

Status:    Done

Please remove my bureaucrat and administrator permissions, because due to a work change I haven't time to attend that task as it would require. --HrAd (talk) 17:14, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done and thanks for your help! Trijnsteltalk 10:41, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Micki@multiple wikis[edit]

Status:    Done

Please remove all my sysop and bureaucrat rights on all wikis as I don't have time to contribute as an active user any more and I don't need them. Thanks in advance :) micki 17:07, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

And also my GR flag. micki 17:16, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
gr flag done QuiteUnusual (talk) 12:09, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Someone else has done all your local userrights, so all done. Thank you for all your work over the years QuiteUnusual (talk) 12:11, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

[email protected][edit]

Status:    Done

Please remove my checkuser rights, because of the work I haven't time to attend that task as it would require. Thank you! Márcio Muniz What's up? 22:50, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done. -- Mentifisto 12:19, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

[email protected][edit]

Status:    Done

Please remove his sysop flag because his arbcom membership expired today and adminship was only granted for arbcom work. --Krd 10:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done. -- Mentifisto 12:19, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

[email protected][edit]

Status:    Done

He asked in our lounge do get his sysop rights removed. -- DerFussi 17:02, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done --MF-W 20:07, 1 June 2013 (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:

Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton @ pt - WV/WB/WP/WN/WS br-WM (account creator)[edit]

Status:    In progress

Hello to all,

I'll have a series of lectures and workshops through the program Wikimedia Brazil in schools, and it is very likely to begin on Tuesday, the 28th., where we will create a lot of new accounts in various projects, as will be unrealistic to ask every time, I like to have the ability to do this without open a bug all times. Thank you. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 16:02, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Do local projects know about your plans? Ruslik (talk) 16:54, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
We announced it a few months ago when the project was launched. Including on newspaper article about it... (ie. w:pt:Wikipédia:Esplanada/anúncios#Matéria e guia da Folha de São Paulo sobre a Wikipédia e escolas). I do not know if they are following, but as you can see, it reaches almost all communities, we can not give all the details separately, so all information is gathered in wiki of the Movement Wikimedia Brasil.
If you have fear of possibles reprisals of any community, I'm sure that will not happen, (maybe Wikipedia, but we will do not poke then tomorrow, and we can announce again...), at least to authorize Wikimedia Brasil. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 16:14, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Isn't much easier to request a temporary lift of IP cap than have one person creating all the accounts? Béria Lima msg 16:36, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
You don't need this flag. You are sysop on brwikimedia wiki, which has SUL so you can create the accounts there and they can login on all Wikimedia projects. --Nemo 16:41, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
No Beria, because we will gonna have many activities, for example, tomorrow 3 workshops, in two different schools. And usually those who know the technical details are not the people we're dealing with.
If I create an SUL account, when they go to another projects they will have no problem to start to edit? And the process is the same? Is it just me log in with my account, and create another, and login again? I've never tested this, so I'm asking. And I still think that is better have the flag, cause with not, I will have to ask for them go through two wikis to start to edit, and this can be confuse.Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 18:03, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
I just tested this. It depends on whether you create the accounts by letting the software send a random password via e-mail, or if you enter the password yourself. In the first case, the user needs to log in with the temporary password on the wiki where the account was created first to change it. --MF-W 18:15, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Not liking this. Users should create their own accounts as such the lifting of the IP creation restriction should be the correct way to ago about this. Also, I've granted account creator rights several times for these requests and I never once saw it used, so I am very inclined to stop considering them and let it all be handled in the correct way, that is, bugzilla. I am also not encouraged by the user's vague ramblings of 'reprisals from communities'. I also note that local communities should be informed beforehand and with a little bit more than 2 day notice, and that we need an end-date in any case. Again tho, I feel this should be deferred to the the proper outlet for this, bugzilla and the lifting of the IP creation cap, if needed. Snowolf How can I help? 19:05, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
First my main work in Wikimedia Movement is give lectures/workshops, second I was guided by staffs to acquire this flag. Exactly because I know that I would have to ask many times to release via bugzilla, and if their speed to respond are the same then other requests, I'll have to wait years for them to do, which is not thinkable. Also, lectures, and workshops, especially in Brazil, the dates are fully floating. Because of that, I'll have to change several times the bugs dates, and sometimes from one day to the other, I can not be held hostage to the developers as well as I am a hostage of the dates of institutions. And the numbers are likely to grow, we will begin work in schools that have more than 300 teachers, and who knows how many thousands of students. So that's why I'm asking, and some communities already very accustomed to having people coming from workshops such as Wikiversity-pt. I do not know the reason to complicate things further in a situation where a volunteer is willing to help.Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 22:26, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Looks like local projects weren't notified about this request for permission.—Teles «Talk to me ˱@ L C S˲» 22:46, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Ok, don't give the permission, and the workshop doesn't work... this is stupidity... Much bureaucracy instead of increasing the number of volunteers and facilitate beneficial actions, this is the movement that I want out. I'm just fulfilling the last things that what I committed. I will not get involved in politics if you do not want to give permission, I only ask that you take responsibility and send an email to the schools saying that you could not make it easier for the activity occurred because of technicalities, damaging the workshop to be held. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 01:37, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
It is not our fault. 'You' didn't request it to community.—Teles «Talk to me ˱@ L C S˲» 02:32, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
I will not do anything on Wikipedia tomorrow , but I will do on Wikinews, as they are not responding another things... And Wikiversidade is very used to receive this type of activities, focus of the talks today!... WB: here... Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 05:13, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't understand. Is this a request for removal of rights? Why is it in the removal section? PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:50, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Someone killed the "miscellaneous" headline, surely by accident. --MF-W 02:22, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, bad browser (I was in the Steam browser). Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 05:13, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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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