Stewards

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Wikimedia stewards on IRC

Easy webbased access to IRC - select "#wikimedia-stewards" from the menu

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
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
4	Dan Smith (Rdsmith4)	rdsmith4	(en, 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
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

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)[reply]
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.