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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Meta-Wiki requests |
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.
- Wiki: fa.wikibooks.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Doostdar (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: b:fa:ویکیکتاب:درخواستهای مدیر شدن
- After several times of prolongation, this time I request for permanent Administrator access. --Doostdar (talk) 12:03, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
- I am not sure that three votes are sufficient. Ruslik (talk) 17:41, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
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.
Teles@ptwiki
- Wiki: pt.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Teles (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Self removal
Please, remove checkuser right from my account. I was perhaps the most voted checkuser on ptwiki and was there for sometime. As far as I know, never checkusered anyone improperly. WMF has been dealing with a local issue and, despite I know I am right, I am not allowed to disclose why. That lack of transparency made it appear that I was wrong and many trolling actions are being performed as a consequence. Any other privacy issue will have to be dealt by another user or WMF itself. There is no meaning on being correct within our policies while it can't be publicly sustained by WMF for self-protection and the negative feedback was sent to me and a few others. Good luck with the very known ptwiki trolling because I am out.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 17:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
On hold for 48 hours. —MarcoAurelio 11:01, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
User [email protected]
- Wiki: az.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Azerifactory (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: admin status voting page in azwiki
Please remove admin status. There was a mistake in counting of votes. According to the principle of az-wiki, he had to get at least 10 votes in favor. But he got only 8 votes. He himself refused the status. Sortilegus (talk) 17:59, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Done Ruslik (talk) 17:57, 24 June 2017 (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:
- Wiki: ur.wikibooks.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: BukhariSaeed (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Needs Rollbacker or Admin rights for ur.wikibooks to control vandalism. Thankyou Bukhari Talk 08:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Comment, there is no 'rollbacker' right on urwikibooks. If you want to be an administrator on urwikibooks you need to open a local discussion, pending community decision. --Ks-M9 [disc.] 12:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC).
- But there is no active-user on urduwikibooks,so how can i open a local discussion? -- Bukhari Talk 13:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
- Find a village pump or the request for administrator page and click a "new section" and write your statement. Stryn (talk) 17:05, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
- No answer for a week, so closing as not done. Stryn (talk) 18:02, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
- Find a village pump or the request for administrator page and click a "new section" and write your statement. Stryn (talk) 17:05, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
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