Stewards
- To request permissions, please use requests for permissions or requests for bot status.
Stewards can set (give and remove) arbitrary user access (sysop, bureaucrat, steward, checkuser, bot) levels on any Wikimedia wiki. (The oversight permission is also available on en.wiki.)
List of stewards and the languages they speak
In alphabetical order
Active stewards
Last updated: 8 August 2006
Username | IRC Nick | Spoken languages | Active from | |
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1 | Angela | Angela | (en) | 20 April 2004 |
2 | Anthere | Anthere | (fr, en) | 20 April 2004 |
3 | Ascánder | (es, en, fr) | 11 January 2006 | |
5 | Daniel Mayer (mav) | mav, maveric149 | (en, es) | 20 April 2004 |
6 | Danny | (en, he, yi) | 31 May 2005 | |
7 | Jimbo Wales | jwales | (en) | 6 February 2006 |
8 | Jon Harald Søby | Jhs | (no, nn, en, da, sv, de, es, eo) | 11 January 2006 |
9 | Oscar | (nl (and its related languages), en, de, fr, es, it, sv and a bit of turkish and (spoken) hong-kong chinese) |
31 May 2005 | |
10 | Paginazero | Paginazero | (it, en, ru, de, fr, es) | 11 January 2006 |
11 | Romihaitza | (ro, en, fr, it-2, es-1) | 11 January 2006 | |
12 | Shizhao | Shizhao | (zh, en, ru) | 31 May 2005 |
13 | Sj | Sj | (en, de, es) | 31 May 2005 |
14 | Snowdog | (it, en, fr, es, ca, pt) | 31 May 2005 | |
15 | Suisui | (ja, en) | 11 January 2006 | |
17 | Walter | WalterBE | (nl, en) | 11 January 2006 |
18 | Yann | yannf | (fr, en, gu, hi) | 31 May 2005 |
Inactive stewards
A user was considered inactive if he/she didn't use the stewards tool for a month
Last updated: 8 August 2006
Username | Spoken languages | Active from | Last edit | Last time used steward tools | |
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1 | Ausir | (pl, en, de, ru) | 11 January 2006 | 27 June 2006 | 18 May 2006 |
2 | Datrio | (pl, en, de, ...) | 31 May 2005 | 23 June 2006 | 20 April 2006 |
3 | Fantasy | (en, de, it, fr, es) | 20 April 2004 | 21 June 2006 | 29 May 2006 |
4 | Dan Smith (Rdsmith4) | (en, es) | 11 January 2006 | 10 June 2006 | 5 June 2006 |
Previous stewards
Last updated: 29 June 2006
Username | Spoken languages | Period of stewardship | Reason |
---|---|---|---|
Karl Wick | (en, es) | 20 April 2004 - 1 June 2005 | inactivity |
ArnoLagrange | (fr, eo, en, es, it, de, ...) | 20 April 2004 - 11 January 2006 | failed renomination |
Looxix | (fr, en, nl) | 20 April 2004 - 2 February 2005 | resigned |
Andre Engels | (en, nl, de, fr, nds, ...) | 20 April 2004 - 7 December 2005 | resigned |
AstroNomer | (es, en) | 31 May 2005 - 13 December 2005 | never active |
Waerth | (nl, en, de, af, nds ... (many languages I basically understand small bits)) |
31 May 2005 - 24 March 2006 | |
Jean-Christophe Chazalette (villy) | (fr, en, es, it, pt, de, nl, ja, zh) | 11 January 2006 - 29 June 2006 | resigned |
Instructions for making admins
- Check the Requests for permissions regularly
- Check the procedure on that page has been followed
- Check the request does not violate any policies (eg - you can't request adminship here if your wiki has a local bureaucrat)
- Carry out the request using Special:Makesysop (see below for detailed instructions)
- Move the request to the Archive with a comment that the request is fulfilled
- Tell the person (preferably on their own wiki) that they are now an admin and/or bureaucrat
Using the steward version of Special:Makesysop
To adjust user rights on any Wikimedia project, go to Special:Makesysop on Meta.
Attention: you have also the option "User rights management" in the "Restricted special pages" section. This is the wrong one, you need "Make a user into a sysop".
The steward version of Special:Makesysop is slightly different from the bureaucrat version. You need to enter three things: the user name, the wiki, and the rights.
- Enter a username:
- Enter the user name (which must begin with a capital letter unless it is a sysop with a lower case username on a case sensitive wiki) followed by @ followed by the wiki name, except for meta. Enter for meta only the username.
- For Wikipedia, Wiktionaries, Wikiquotes, Wikinews' and Wikibooks, the wiki name is the language code followed by the word "wiki", "wiktionary", "wikiquote", "wikibooks", "wikiversity" or "wikinews". Minnan is an exception. You must enter "zh_min_nanwiki" with underscores for this. For language codes with a "-" use the underscore (e.g. nds-nl becomes nds_nl). For wikisource subdomain, the syntax is user@XXwikisource where XX is the subdomain language code. For the other projects, you need one of the following:
- commonswiki
- foundationwiki
- incubatorwiki
- mediawikiwiki
- sep11wiki
- specieswiki
- testwiki
- wikimania2006wiki
- For example: James@eewiki
- all of the prefix can see at download.wikimedia.org including not listed here.
- The following projects are on the Korean/Yahoo-cluster; jawiki, kowiki, mswiki, or thwiki info updated --Walter 23:02, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- For Wikipedia, Wiktionaries, Wikiquotes, Wikinews' and Wikibooks, the wiki name is the language code followed by the word "wiki", "wiktionary", "wikiquote", "wikibooks", "wikiversity" or "wikinews". Minnan is an exception. You must enter "zh_min_nanwiki" with underscores for this. For language codes with a "-" use the underscore (e.g. nds-nl becomes nds_nl). For wikisource subdomain, the syntax is user@XXwikisource where XX is the subdomain language code. For the other projects, you need one of the following:
- Enter the user name (which must begin with a capital letter unless it is a sysop with a lower case username on a case sensitive wiki) followed by @ followed by the wiki name, except for meta. Enter for meta only the username.
- Then click "Edit user groups". A new box will appear showing you what rights a user already has, and which other groups are available. To give the user new rights, choose which ones you want from the box on the right. You can select more than one by holding down the alt key. To remove user rights, highlight the ones to remove from the box on the left.
- Then click "save user groups"
- Encoding problems
- You will occasionally have cross-wiki encoding problems where you can not adjust the rights of a user with non-latin characters in their name. In these cases, you need to find out the target user id and use something like "#55@fr". The user will be able to find out their user ID by viewing Special:Preferences. In cases of emergency desysopping, you may want to ask a developer for this ID number rather than asking the user.
- Korean cluster, also know as the Yahoo cluster
- To set the rights for jawiki, kowiki, mswiki, or thwiki you need to use the steward interface on the Japanese Wikipedia (MediaZilla:3943). All stewards who had an account on the Japanese Wikipedia have steward access on both wikis. Other stewards of the Florida cluster can request to become a Korean cluster Steward at Requests_for_permissions#Stewardship_Korean_cluster.
- Other rights
- As well as the standard administrator and bureaucrat rights, you can set Steward rights, which allows a user to set arbitrary rights for any other user on any wiki. There is also a CheckUser rights; see the CheckUser policy. The 'oversight' permission can also be assigned for hiding revisions containing inappropriate personal information. "Boardvote" rights are available during Wikimedia elections and must only be given to the Election Officials since this allows them to view the IPs and user agents of all voters, and to strike out invalid votes.
See also
- Instructions for stewards on locking inactive wikis
- Steward policies; informal policies under discussion
- Stewards/elections 2004; 2004 steward elections page - closed
- Stewards/elections 2005; 2005 steward elections page - closed
- Stewards/elections 2006; the most recent steward elections page - closed
- Older discussion is at talk:developer access and talk:stewards
- Status: In progress