Steward requests/Permissions
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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-stewards IRC channel (see a web-based IRC client). In emergencies only, type 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 |
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[edit] Using this page
When requesting permissions, copy and paste the following text into the correct section. Please fill in all the required fields -- language code, link to the local request (or other means of confirming that the request has approval), and link to your local user page. Without this information, a steward cannot process your request.
Please summarize your request in the "summary".
==== Username@language-code project-name ==== I request sysop access. *'''Language Code:''' xx *'''Local Request Link:''' [[:xx:Project:wiki]] *'''Automatic List of local bureaucrats:''' [[:xx:Project:Special:Listusers/bureaucrat]] *'''Local User Page:''' [[xx:User:Example]] Thank you. ~~~~
The project names are coded as follows:
- Enter "wiki" for Wikipedia after the language code.
- Enter "wiktionary" for Wiktionary after the language code.
- Enter "wikibooks" for Wikibooks after the language code.
- Enter "wikinews" for Wikinews after the language code.
- Enter "wikiquote" for Wikiquote after the language code.
- Enter "wikisource" for Wikisource after the language code, but enter "sourceswiki" for the Multilingual Wikisource without a language code.
- Enter "wikiversity" for Wikiversity after the language code.
- Enter "commonswiki" for Wikimedia Commons without a language code.
- Enter "specieswiki" for Wikispecies without a language code.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Requests
[edit] Administrator access
[edit] Bureaucrat access
[edit] Kandy Talbot@sk wiktionary
I request bureaucrat access.
- Language Code: sk
- Local Request Link: wikt:sk:Wikislovník:Žiadosť o práva správcu
- Automatic List of local bureaucrats: wikt:sk:Special:Listusers/bureaucrat
- Local User Page: wikt:sk:User:Kandy Talbot
I count on I would have to wait a few days, but our community is not that active and there's no problem with support and we currently don't have a bureaucrat. Thank you. —Kandy Talbot 14:01, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- Well, we can't grant you b'crat status after less than one day of voting. Besides, if 4 votes is all you'll get, then there is no need for a bureaucrat, because the community is too small. --FiliP × 14:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- OK, my reasons was only the waiting bot requests. Thanks. —Kandy Talbot 14:22, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- I do not work on the domain, but I know the user and I would personally like to support him, if it does matter. -jkb- (cs.source) 15:06, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- OK, my reasons was only the waiting bot requests. Thanks. —Kandy Talbot 14:22, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- You may want to consider implementing the Bot policy on the wiki, which would automatically allow stewards to grant the bot flag to certain classes of bots (see Bot_policy#Automatic_approval). It's opt-in, but quite handy for letting smaller communities focus on important things such as article-building. I hope that helps out! :) Kylu 19:46, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for help! I made those steps. :) —Kandy Talbot 21:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
[edit] CheckUser access
To request CheckUser information, see Request for CheckUser information. This is the place to request CheckUser access. Note that temporary CheckUser access is not permitted.
Stewards: When someone asks for CheckUser status, please check the current policy regarding bestowal of status before giving the status. Do not grant CheckUser access unless the user is identified to the foundation, which will be announced here. 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@wikipedia.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.
[edit] Oversight access
Do not initiate an oversight request here. The Arbitration Committee will make the request once there is consensus on the local wiki (this process is currently for en-Wikipedia only).
Stewards: Do not grant Oversight access unless the user is identified to the foundation, which will be announced here. When you give someone oversight access, list them on Hiding revisions.
[edit] Removal of access
If you want to request that your own status be removed, please don't forget to place a note on your local user talk page (preferably with an English translation). This is required to prove your identity. And then add the request here. You should add the difflink 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.
Copy and paste the following text into the correct section. Fill in all the required fields -- language code, link to the local request, and link to your local user page. Without this information, a steward cannot process your request.
==== Username@language-code project-name ==== I request removal of access. *'''Language Code:''' xx *'''Local Confirmation/Request Link:''' <!--Difflink of the local confirmation edit (for own requests), or link to the community decision--> *'''Local User Page:''' [[xx:User:Example]] Thank you. ~~~~
Please summarize your request in the "summary".
[edit] Temporary permissions for emergency or technical purposes
If you are requesting administrator status to make a translation of the wiki interface, see also the BetaWiki project, which seeks to make a neutral MediaWiki translation that will then be default for all wikis. That is more useful than only making a local translation. You can ask questions in the IRC channel or in the mailing list. See also MediaWiki localisation. 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.
Copy and paste the following text into the correct section. Fill in all the required fields -- language code, link to the list of sysops and bureaucrats, local request link, link to your local user page, and the preferred duration with a reason. Without this information, a steward cannot process your request.
====Username@language-code project-name==== I request temporary sysop access. *'''Language Code:''' xx *'''List of local sysops:''' [[xx:Special:Listadmins]] *'''List of local bureaucrats:''' [[xx:Special:Listusers/bureaucrat]] *'''Local Request Link:''' [[xx:Example]] *'''Local User Page:''' [[xx:User:Example]] *'''Preferred duration and reason:''' Thank you. ~~~~
[edit] Lycaon@tum.wikipedia.org
I request temporary sysop access.
- Language Code: tum
- List of local sysops: tum:Special:Listadmins (none)
- List of local bureaucrats: tum:Special:Listusers/bureaucrat (none)
- Local Request Link: Lycaon@tum
- Local User Page: tum:User:Lycaon
- Preferred duration and reason: one week to one month should suffice to do some clean up
If a steward could pass by on that wiki and delete all those Turkish language files, that would be a satisfactorily option too.
Thank you. Lycaon 14:44, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
- tum:Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion Kylu 03:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Miscellaneous requests
[edit] Reminder
- Import rights can be granted by stewards only, not bureaucrats, so the automatic list of local bureaucrats is irrelevant for this.
- Usurpation requests should be placed at Steward requests/Usurpation.
- Username changes should be placed at Requests for username changes.
- Please make sure you have your accounts renamed before merging them.
[edit] Requests for global permissions (please don't add requests yet)
- ATTENTION: Please don't add requests yet.

