Steward requests/Permissions
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. Minimum voting requirements are listed here.
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-stewardsconnect 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.
Quick navigation: Administrator | Interface administrator | Bureaucrat | CheckUser | Oversight | Removal of access | Miscellaneous | Global permissions
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Using this page
edit1. 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 this is for multiple users, leave this field blank and give a list of these users 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
editCertain 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
editAdministrator access
editSee 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-adminconnect.
- 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.
group-atj.wikipedia
editHello, it's time for the administrator renewal at atj.wikipedia.org - here is the list of people who have expressed interest in being administrators for the next two years.
- Grouped discussion here : https://atj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipetcia:Waskapiwin#Admin_atj.wp_2025-2027
- ATJ Counsil at Wikimedia Canada : https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiClub_Metapeckeka?uselang=en
Best regards and thank you in advance. Brochon99 (talk) 17:08, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
Brochon99@atj.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: atj.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Brochon99 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
James-isaac ottawa@atj.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: atj.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: James-isaac ottawa (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
Thomas-élie quitich@atj.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: atj.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Thomas-élie quitich (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
Antwan quitich@atj.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: atj.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Antwan quitich (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
Amanda moar@atj.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: atj.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Amanda moar (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
Granted for 2 years to expire on 2025-06-27. 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. AramilFeraxa (talk) 19:01, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you AramilFeraxa. Best regards, Brochon99 (talk) 13:11, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
Къарачайлы@krcwikipedia
edit- Wiki: krc.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Къарачайлы (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Here
I want to extend adminship & get interface adminship because there are no active administrators in our language project except me. And I am the only active editor since the section was created. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Къарачайлы (talk) 17:52, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Къарачайлы the linked discussion doesn't seem to mention interface admin. Please explicitly mention all the permissions you want to get in the local discussion, even if there are no active community members. Johannnes89 (talk) 10:00, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
- done Къарачайлы (talk) 17:00, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
- If Google Translate is correct, the only comment [1] opposes granting admin permissions – the same user apparently opposed in December as well [2], not sure why @EPIC still granted admin permissions [3]. Johannnes89 (talk) 08:18, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Ok depending on how much text I insert in Google Translate it sometimes interprets the comment as opposing and sometimes as supporting. @DarqaviPalladin could you confirm if this [4] is an opposing or supporting comment? Johannnes89 (talk) 08:33, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Johannnes89: Since Google Translate doesn't have the language of the project the translation was indeed a bit off to me as well, but considering past supporting comments on pages like krc:Википедия:Иги статьялагъа кандидатла where "мен разыма" was used, I had ultimately assumed that it meant "I agree". EPIC (talk) 08:39, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- You have identified the translation correctly. Къарачайлы (talk) 17:47, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- I can confirm my agreement! :) DarqaviPalladin (talk) 02:30, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Our language is not in Google Translate, you translated it incorrectly. "мен разыма" means I agree. The user @DarqaviPalladin wrote twice that he agrees. Къарачайлы (talk) 17:46, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarification! --Johannnes89 (talk) 07:45, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- If Google Translate is correct, the only comment [1] opposes granting admin permissions – the same user apparently opposed in December as well [2], not sure why @EPIC still granted admin permissions [3]. Johannnes89 (talk) 08:18, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- done Къарачайлы (talk) 17:00, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
Granted for 6 months to expire on 2025-09-29. 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. --Johannnes89 (talk) 07:45, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
SimmeD@da.wikisource
edit- Wiki: da.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: SimmeD (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: wikisource:da:Wikisource:Anmodning om administratorstatus#SimmeD
This is my 7'th application. Thanks. SimmeD (talk) 13:28, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
- On hold until 29 March. AramilFeraxa (talk) 13:49, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
- Log for previous adminships [5]. We'll need to wait for the mandatory 7+ days of local discussion, but given their previous daWikisource adminships and permanent daWikipedia adminship I think we could grant for 2 years if there is no local opposition to the RfA. Johannnes89 (talk) 14:11, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
- Granted for 2 years to expire on 2027-03-29. 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. AramilFeraxa (talk) 10:13, 29 March 2025 (UTC).
Jaijaikopwell@lo.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: lo.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Jaijaikopwell (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Here
Discussion for 7 days. Thanks you. --Lookruk 💬 (Talk) 02:43, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- Granted for 3 months to expire on 2025-06-27. 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.. AramilFeraxa (talk) 14:07, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
Katelem@ann.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: ann.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Katelem (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: https://ann.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wìkìpedia:Akpatan̄-etip_ama
It's a new Wikipedia. No admin yet. There are some new pages written in languages that are not Obolo language. I will like to remove the as soon as possible. I'll also like to do some general cleanups which can only be done by an admin. I've been an active contributor and admin since Incubator, and I think I can handle the adminship here in the live Wikipedia. Katelem (talk) 22:43, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Katelem community discussions should be open 7–14 days, but usually no longer than a month. The discussion you linked has been open for three months, which is usually too old for us to consider. It would be best if you could open a new section on that page asking for admin permissions again – we can grant adminship 7 days later even if there are no other users commenting on your request for adminship per MVR. --Johannnes89 (talk) 08:30, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Done. I have now opened a new section and written a new adminship request. Katelem (talk) 17:16, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- So On hold until 5 April. AramilFeraxa (talk) 18:08, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Done. I have now opened a new section and written a new adminship request. Katelem (talk) 17:16, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
TiberiuFr25@rowikisource
edit- Wiki: ro.wikisource.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: TiberiuFr25 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: https://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Administratori
Hello! My previous rights as administrator have expired, and I would like to renew them for a period of one year. Thank you. --TiberiuFr25 (talk) 11:10, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Granted for 1 year to expire on 2026-03-28. 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. —MdsShakil (talk) 11:20, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
AguzulH@shiwikipedia
edit- Wiki: shi.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: AguzulH (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by AguzulH (talk) 02:38, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- Granted for 6 months to expire on 2025-09-30. 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. —MdsShakil (talk) 06:45, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Zakaria Tunsung@dgawikipedia
edit- Wiki: dga.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Zakaria Tunsung (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: [6]
Dagaare Wikimedians Community is a new wiki that currently has no administrator. I am a native speaker of the Dagaare language. I am requesting to remove vandalism, delete, manage users activities. I currently the one of the co-leads for the community. I have also requested for administrator’s position on the community portal for sometime now but yet to be granted. Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 16:48, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Zakaria Tunsung Have you considered to request global sysop for help since it's currently a small project? Lemonaka (talk) 08:49, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- Global sysops already have access to dgawiki. AramilFeraxa (talk) 10:29, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Zakaria Tunsung the linked discussion is five months old. MVR expects discussions to run for 1-2 weeks, if it's much older than a month we usually consider it too old to act on it. Please start a new discussion and re-submit your request on this page after 1-2 weeks, we will then grant your admin permissions. --Johannnes89 (talk) 10:26, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
Gazartashlomo0907@bbc.wikipedia
edit- Wiki: bbc.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Gazartashlomo0907 (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
Hello. We have held re-election for bbc.wikipedia administrator. Please grant permission to extend the term as administrator and interface administrator for Gazarthashlomo0907. Thank you. Herryz (talk) 00.18, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Granted for 6 months to expire on 2025-10-01. 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. AramilFeraxa (talk) 05:14, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗@sat.wiktionary
edit- Wiki: sat.Wiktionary.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗ (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: here
(Santali Wiktionary is now live. So, for the smooth functioning of our Wiki project it need an admin and I believe I can fit for it since I already lead this project during incubator stage.) ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗ (talk) 04:58, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
Interface administrator access
editSee 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.
- 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.
咽頭べさ@mnw.wiktionary
edit- Wiki: mnw.wiktionary.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: 咽頭べさ (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: [7]
I would like to ask a question about the Interface administrator, I applied for the Interface administrator position but it's been almost a month now, why isn't it finished yet? See ဝိက်ရှေန်နရဳ:ညးကောပ်ကာဲ--𝓓𝓻.𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓪|𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀 04:33, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- Related requests:
- Steward requests/Permissions/2025-02#咽頭べさ@mnw.wiktionary
- Steward requests/Permissions/2025-02#咽頭べさ@mnwwiktionary
- Steward requests/Miscellaneous/2025-02#Add wikt:MediaWiki:Gadget-UnsupportedTitles.js, wikt:MediaWiki:Gadget-Site.css, wikt:MediaWiki:Gadget-UnsupportedTitles.js to Mon Wiktionary, and Update wikt:mnw:မဳဒဳယာဝဳကဳ:Common.js
- This advice [8] apparently wasn't followed [9]. --Johannnes89 (talk) 16:43, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Bureaucrat access
edit- 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
edit- 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.
- 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-privacyconnect and #wikimedia-checkuserconnect.
Oversight access
edit- To request to have content oversighted, ask for a steward in #wikimedia-stewardsconnect 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 .
- 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
editRequests 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:
Removal of access
edit- 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.
Faigl.ladislav@cswiki
edit- Wiki: cs.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Faigl.ladislav (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
The user hasn't used his admin rights on Czech Wikipedia for more than 6 months by now ([10]). According to the local policy, an admin who hasn't used his admin rights for at least 6 months can be stripped of his rights. I am not delighted to be the one submitting the removal request, but the user's extremely low activity has clearly persisted over the last 4 years; therefore I request that his admin rights on cswiki are removed. --V0lkanic (talk) 14:17, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Done with thanks for their service. EPIC (talk) 14:46, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
GB fan@enwiki
edit- Wiki: en.wikipedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy[no automatic approval] • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: GB fan (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
Please remove my Oversight access on the English Wikipedia. I am not currently utilizing it and do not need the access. GB fan (talk) 14:51, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. AramilFeraxa (talk) 14:56, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Done. --❄️Mykola❄️ 15:04, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Doc Taxon@dewiki
edit- Wiki: de.wikipedia.org (list 'crats •
no standard bot policy• summary • 'crats rights) - User: Doc Taxon (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
please remove my oversight access on de.wikipedia
private resignation: no need to wait for usual 24 hours, I've already thought this through for many days. user:Johannnes89 is aware of it.
Thank you, Doc Taxon (talk) 10:21, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
- Done thanks for your service! @Krd: fyi reading OS-VRT access. --Johannnes89 (talk) 10:33, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
Billinghurst@meta.wikimedia
edit- Wiki: meta.wikimedia.org (list 'crats • bot policy • summary • 'crats rights)
- User: Billinghurst (talk • edits • logs • UserRights • activity • CentralAuth • email • verify 2FA)
- Discussion: Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity)/April 2025
with many thanks for their work. M/ (talk) 19:02, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
See also
edit- 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
- Archives
General requests for: help from a Meta sysop or bureaucrat · deletion (speedy deletions: local · multilingual) · URL blacklisting · new languages · interwiki map
Personal requests for: username changes · permissions (global) · bot status · adminship on Meta · CheckUser information (local) · local administrator help
Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation