Stewards
Contact Wikimedia Stewards on IRC: #wikimedia-stewards (web-based version)
If you are in urgent need of assistance, and only in that situation,
enter the command
!steward
in this channel to ask for help Stewards can give and remove arbitrary user access levels, including sysop, bureaucrat, steward, checkuser, and bot, on any Wikimedia wiki. An additional level, oversight, is available at en.wikipedia.
List of stewards and the languages they speak
In alphabetical order
Active stewards
Last updated: 6 November 2006
Name | 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 | Daniel Mayer (mav) | mav, maveric149 | (en, es) | 20 April 2004 |
4 | Danny | dannyisme | (en, he, yi) | 31 May 2005 |
5 | Datrio | Datrio | (pl, en, de, ...) | 1 June 2005 |
6 | Fantasy | Fantasy | (en, de, it, fr, es) | 20 April 2004 |
7 | Jon Harald Søby | Jhs | (no, nn, en, da, sv, de, es, eo) | 11 January 2006 |
8 | Oscar | oscar | (nl and its closely related languages, en, de, fr, es, it, sv, and a bit of turkish and spoken hong-kong chinese) | 31 May 2005 |
9 | Paginazero | Paginazero | (it, en, ru, de, fr, es) | 11 January 2006 |
10 | Dan Smith | rdsmith4 | (en, es) | 11 January 2006 |
11 | Shizhao | Shizhao | (zh, en-1, ru-1) | 31 May 2005 |
12 | Sj | Sj | (en, de, es) | 31 May 2005 |
13 | Snowdog | Snowdog | (it, en, fr, es, ca, pt) | 31 May 2005 |
14 | Suisui | Suisui | (ja, en) | 11 January 2006 |
15 | Walter | WalterBE | (nl, en) | 11 January 2006 |
16 | 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 two months
Last updated: 6 November 2006
Username | Spoken languages | Active from | Last edit | Last time used steward tools | Notes | |
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1 | Ascánder | (es, en, fr) | 11 January 2006 | 21 July 2006 | 23 June 2006 | Resigned on nov 22th (lack of time to continue). |
2 | Ausir | (pl, en, de, ru) | 11 January 2006 | 11 August 2006 | 18 May 2006 | |
3 | Jimbo Wales | (en) | 6 February 2006 | 5 November 2006 | 12 February 2006 | |
4 | Romihaitza | (ro, en, fr, it-2, es-1) | 11 January 2006 | 1 September 2006 | 22 July 2006 |
Policy for requesting stewardship
Stewards elections are usually done once a year, when the needs for new stewards becomes necessary.
The voting will start on the 25th November 2006 and it will end on the 15th December 2006. You can list yourself during the voting time, but you'll have lower chances to reach sufficient support then (so try to candidate before the starting date). Because stewardship may require actions with legal consequences, only those individuals who have attained the age of 18 years are eligible to stand for election. You must identify yourself personally to the Wikimedia Foundation office (bpatrick_at_wikimedia.org) and supply proof of your age and real-life identity. The grant of administrative powers through stewardship is not to be taken lightly. NB: These requirements are the same as those required of persons running for the Board of Trustees.
To get through the elections, if you wish to become a new steward you must:
- Gain at least 30 votes in favor
- At least 80% overall votes in favor
- Have an account on Meta with a linked account on another project
- Be active for at least 3 months on that project
- Preferably show you are active on meta as well (link to your contributions on meta for example, or mention you are already sysop here, short statement regarding your background on Wikimedia, current activity and anything else you want.
The Board generally choose an ultimate number of people who'll gain new steward status.
Please remember to follow the Steward policies. Also be aware of the fact that inactive stewards will have their steward flag taken away. Voters: Anyone can vote provided that he/she has a valid account on meta with a link to at least one user page, on a project where the editor is a participant, with at least 3 months participation (not just to his/her userpage but) to the project.
Policy for de-stewardship
Inactivity
Any steward inactive (as a steward) on meta for a full year will be de-sysoped. "Inactive" means no steward action in the past 6 months and less than 10 stewards action in the last year. They may re-apply through the regular way.
Poll after a year
Stewardship is not a lifetime status. Get it if you need it. Keep it if people trust you. Quit it if you do not need it. Lose it if people feel they cannot trust you. Steward status will be granted till next elections (an incentive to make elections only once per year...). After that time, people will be invited to comment and in particular to ask for removal of your status.
However, since steward is typically a position likely to get into trouble and since the steward group can easily control itself, the confirmation itself will be done by all stewards (no self-approval). If the majority of other stewards request destewarding, the steward will lose his status. Stewards will be specifically careful to review situations when opposition from the community is registered.
Page for confirmation/removal: Stewards/confirm
Instructions to stewards for adjusting user rights
- Check the Requests for permissions page regularly
- Check that the procedure on that page has been followed
- Check that 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: "User rights management", in the "Restricted special pages" section, is the wrong page; 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 user with a lower case username on a case-sensitive wiki) followed by @, and the wiki name, unless you are adjusting rights for meta. For meta, only enter the username.
- For Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikiversity and Wikibooks, the wiki name is the language code followed by the word "wiki", "wiktionary", "wikiquote", "wikinews", "wikiversity" or "wikibooks" respectively. Minnan is an exception. You must enter "zh_min_nanwiki" with underscores for wikis in this language. For language codes with a "-" in the name, use an underscore instead of a hyphen (e.g. nds-nl becomes nds_nl). For a Wikisource subdomain, the syntax is user@XXwikisource where XX is the subdomain language code. For other projects, you need one of the following:
- commonswiki
- foundationwiki
- incubatorwiki
- mediawikiwiki
- specieswiki
- testwiki
- wikimania2007wiki
- For example: James@eewiki
- All of the prefixes can be seen at download.wikimedia.org, including ones not listed here.
- For Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikiversity and Wikibooks, the wiki name is the language code followed by the word "wiki", "wiktionary", "wikiquote", "wikinews", "wikiversity" or "wikibooks" respectively. Minnan is an exception. You must enter "zh_min_nanwiki" with underscores for wikis in this language. For language codes with a "-" in the name, use an underscore instead of a hyphen (e.g. nds-nl becomes nds_nl). For a Wikisource subdomain, the syntax is user@XXwikisource where XX is the subdomain language code. For other projects, you need one of the following:
- Enter the user name (which must begin with a capital letter unless it is a user with a lower case username on a case-sensitive wiki) followed by @, and the wiki name, unless you are adjusting rights for meta. For meta, only enter the username.
- 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 ctrl or alt key, depending on your browser. To remove user rights, highlight the ones to remove from the box on the left.
- Click "Save user groups"
- Encoding problems
- You will occasionally have cross-wiki encoding problems where you cannot 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 specify something like "#55@frwiki" for the user name (User ID 55, French Wikipedia). 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.
- 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 right; 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
- Steward/previous stewards
- Stewards/elections 2004; 2004 steward elections page - closed
- Stewards/elections 2005; 2005 steward elections page - closed
- Stewards/elections 2006; early 2006 steward elections - closed
- Stewards/elections 2006-2; end of 2006 steward elections page - open
- Older discussion is at talk:developer access and talk:stewards
- Status: In progress