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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-stewards^connect 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.

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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

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

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

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-admin^connect.

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• 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.

Brwynog@kwwiki

Status:    On hold

• Wiki: kw.wikipedia.org.org (list 'crats • no standard bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Brwynog (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:An_tavern#Menystrer_aral

(kwwiki is a small wikipedia with one administrator at present and enabling another would facilitate the editing of vandalism and non-Cornish language content on the wiki, which seems to becoming more common) Brwynog (talk) 11:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

 On hold until 14 June 2024. Also assuming this was supposed to go here and not in the "Removal of access" section, so moved it here. EPIC (talk) 11:26, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Akwugo@ig.wikipedia

Status:    In progress

• Wiki: ig.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Akwugo (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: Request for Adminship

I would love to be an administrator on ig.wikipedia. The admin right would be useful in order to assist the admin in fighting vandalism on ig.wikipedia, improve the main page etc, thereby making Contents on Igbo Wikipedia accurate. Akwugo (talk) 07:00, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, as far as I can see, you did not open a local discussion. We cannot grant admin rights without one - please open a discussion locally and come back here after at least one week. EPIC (talk) 07:03, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Just an update after you linked a local request for adminship; This discussion is from March, almost three months ago. Unfortunately the consensus is too old and we are not able to grant admin rights with a discussion from that long ago. Like mentioned, please open a new local discussion and come back after at least one week, and we can evaluate this. EPIC (talk) 07:08, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

@EPIC please is the discussion different from the support from the community here https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship Akwugo (talk) 07:10, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, like I mentioned, the consensus there is too old for us to be able to grant admin rights. If you are still interested, then like I mentioned, please open a new local discussion and let it stay open for at least one week - if you want, you can let it run for two-three weeks, but not longer than that. EPIC (talk) 07:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

EmpAhmadK@dtp.wikipedia

Status:    Done

• Wiki: dtp.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • no standard bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: EmpAhmadK (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: here

Prior experience in interface management on ms.wikipedia, supported by community. Ultron90 (talk) 10:20, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

 Granted for 6 months to expire on 2024-12-11. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. EPIC (talk) 10:35, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the approval. However, it seems that I was not given interface administratorship rights as mentioned. I am still unable to edit the CSS page and I also don't see it marked in my user right page. Hope this can be adjusted as soon as possible. Thanks again! EmpAhmadK (talk) 07:24, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi @EmpAhmadK:, where in your request did you mention that you were applying for interface adminship? I only saw that you wrote "Saya terima pencalonan menjadi penyelia" which my translator translates to "I accept the nomination to be an administrator". EPIC (talk) 09:09, 12 June 2024 (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.

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• 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

See Bureaucrat for information about this user group.

• 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

See CheckUser policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.

• 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.

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• 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-privacy^connect and #wikimedia-checkuser^connect.

Oversight access

See Oversight policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.

• To request to have content oversighted, ask for a steward in #wikimedia-stewards^connect 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 .

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• 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:

• SRB — Local or global bot status
• SRGP — Global permissions

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.

Vito Genovese@trwiki

Status:    On hold

• Wiki: tr.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy_{[no automatic approval]} • summary • 'crats rights)
• User: Vito Genovese (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
• Discussion: Per Oversight policy#Removal of access

Posting here for transparency; as per Oversight policy#Removal of access, I have removed oversighter rights from Vito Genovese@trwiki as per more one year of global inactivity. Last edit at 2023-03-03 10:03, last logged action at 2023-03-02 20:57. EPIC (talk) 07:54, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, per my email exchange with EPIC, I am leaving this quick note to let the record show that I am actively on my account and in full control of it, just not editing at the moment. As the policy intends to prevent the risks associated with unattended accounts, I believe we are safe here. Additionally, the local policy to get the access is only through an RfO, something that I am not willing to go through at this time, so the removal would only serve to prevent my potential work on this front. I would therefore appreciate it if a reinstatement could be considered. Thank you!

Vito Genovese 18:43, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure whether the rights can be reinstated at this point; I will leave this to another steward. In the meantime I will place this request on hold to prevent archiving. EPIC (talk) 15:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Appreciate it! I have a couple additional points that I would be happy to share with the steward that looks into this case, which I am not willing to share publicly. Please drop me a line if you see fit. Thank you!

Vito Genovese 18:44, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

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• 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
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