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The 2025-26 Steward Confirmations are an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to comment on the performance of existing stewards. To make the process as smooth as possible, the confirmations are organized as follows.
To comment, please log in with an account that has edits (on any wiki) before 06 February. During the 2025 Elections, please mention if you are comfortable or unhappy with the use of steward tools of any of the people listed below and why.
After the election, stewards (including the newly-elected ones) are invited to review the confirmation comments and to give their impression of the outcome (consensus to confirm/remove etc.) on Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2025 for every steward who stood for confirmation. Of course, they are not required to do this for every candidate and will be especially careful to do it regarding someone about whom they expressed strong opinions in the confirmation. Non-steward comments are welcome outside of the "Final Decision" section, subject to the usual expectations of civility. Confirmation discussions will last one week after the appointment of the newly elected stewards. This may be extended to two weeks for one or more confirmations at the discretion of the Election Committee if the committee believes further input is required before concluding. The Election Committee will close these discussions and implement the outcome (which also means making a decision in non-obvious cases).
All stewards elected before February 2025 will undergo this process.
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Stewards should create their statements. They can use the preload below:
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: en-N, fr-3
- Personal info: Hello everyone! I have served as a steward from 2014-2020, and again from 2024 to present. Over the last year, I have focused on responding on the various steward requests pages, and fall in the middle range of stewards by activity. Since the end of the summer I have also served on the U4C, and while I am slightly over-extended in my current wiki-obligations, I think it is useful to have an (active) steward on the U4C. I am also one of the more active stewards in our regular engagement with the WMF on various topics, including temporary accounts. With your support, I would be happy to continue to serve as a steward for this next year, and I am also happy to respond to any questions or hear any concerns you may have (including those privately raised, either through email or on Discord). Thanks for your consideration, – Ajraddatz (talk) 00:36, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Albertoleoncio Stewards/Confirm/2025/Albertoleoncio
Stewards/Confirm/2025/AmandaNP Stewards/Confirm/2025/AmandaNP
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: en-N, fr-2
- Personal info: Hello! I was elected as a steward in 2022, this is my third confirmation. My activity this year has continued to focus on response to active abuse, as well as helping with VRT and ACC requests. I am also an active and regular participant in the monthly steward meetings, the mailing lists, and other discussion spaces. Since last year, I became an administrator of the Wikimedia Community Discord server and now serve as its coordinator. Due to a combination of external factors, it is difficult for me to make forward-looking statements about the next year, but I hope to remain active. With the community's support, I would be glad to continue to serve as a steward. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:45, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
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logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: uk-N, ru-4, en-2.5, be-3 (understanding only), es-0.5, slavic-0.5, nl-0.25, romance-0.25
- Personal info: Hello. This seems to be my sixth confirmation.
This year my activity was even worse than before, mostly due to my personal circumstances changing for the worse because of having a very unstable internet access both in actual connectivity availability and in ability to utilise it when available, all of which is the result of my country taking away a bunch of my human rights and forcing me to be where I do not want to be and do the job I do not want to do.
When I can, though, I still try to keep my finger on the pulse of the Wikimedia world, and that includes the steward bit. In those few actions that I did do this year, which are SRP, SRGP actions, some responses to off-wiki requests and information and I think I also participated in one of the stewards—WMF calls and occasional input on stewards' role in public Wikimedian centred chats, I do see value, as I feel like my experience around some areas, especially permissions management, as well as my better connection to some of the language communities (mostly intersecting with Mykola7), is helping the communities. My return to a more reasonable activity is now even more dependent on the change in the circumstances my country is facing, it is up to the community to decide whether it makes sense to tolerate it as it is now or not.
As always, be I confirmed or not I would still be around Meta and steward-related things.
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Bsadowski1 Stewards/Confirm/2025/Bsadowski1
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: de, en-3, es-1
- Personal info:
- Hi again, I've been a stewards since 2007 and changed my field of work a couple of times. Nowadays, my main focus lies on supporting the governance the group which mainly takes place in the background. For example, since my last confirmation I served in the Steward Election Committee, reviewed candidates for some Wikimedia Foundation committees, held presentations about steward-related activities, joined several meetings with WMF staff and tried to be available on all communication channels (IRC/Discord, email, stewardwiki, …).
- Furthermore, I'm co-contact for the Wikimedia Stewards User Group whose annual report of the group I wrote for which I have to be up to date in all fields of Stewards’ works. In this role, I have represented the group at the Wikimedia Summit 2024 and Wikimania 2024 where my long-time commitment as a Wikimedia Steward was recognized as the 2024 Wikimedia Laureate of the Year. You can read more about my steward work in this related Diff blog post.
- My other field of work is also one of those that is often not completely visible in public logs: When I am around and find an obvious or familiar long-term abuser, I try to be quick and stop them immediately. This often affects activities that have to be suppressed and therefore are not publicly logged. Although this is not my main focus area, I'm still performing some hundreds of logged actions on Metawiki, loginwiki checkuser actions and suppressed actions per year and try to support my colleagues who are more active there. My main focus as an active contributor to Metawiki where I'm holding some additional rights, are CentralNotice banner campaigns.
- Altogether, I'm filling some of the gaps and bring in some expertise from the early years and good connections to WMF as well. It'd be my pleasure to continue this service for another term in my 20th year in the Wikiverse.
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
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- Personal info: I've been a steward since the elections last year. I found myself having quite a hard time getting to know stuff in the beginning, one of the reasons being that I didn’t have any functionary experience, and I made quite some mistakes because contrary to how I had planned I had taken too quick of an approach, but I feel that the more time that has passed the more familiar I have become with the toolkit and stewarding in general.
With that being said I've been one of the most active stewards this year and performed over 60,000 actions in total, and I’ve been the steward with the most loginwiki checks this year. Most of my usage of the tools has went towards helping at Steward requests pages, as well as handling IRC requests and emails sent to the VRT oversight queue. I'm also one of the list owners of the global renamers' mailing list, and therefore I also help out in that end.
I had thought a lot about whether to run for confirmation or not, but I believe I've proved the opposition in my initial candidacy wrong and continue to find myself making good use of the tools, and I'm willing to continue serving for another year if the community wants it that way. Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns you want me to respond to. EPIC (talk) 00:00, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Elton Stewards/Confirm/2025/Elton
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: tr, en-3, az-3, es-2, de-1
- Personal info: Hello everyone,
I am HakanIST. Over the past year, I have remained active in steward duties, focusing on addressing vandalism, supporting Wikimedia projects with increased activity. I've been available on IRC throughout the year and I've also monitored VRTS, and helped with handling tickets. I'm also serving as a member of Elections committee. I'd like to serve another year with the same amount of activity.
Thank you for your consideration.
HakanIST
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Hasley Stewards/Confirm/2025/Hasley
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Hoo man Stewards/Confirm/2025/Hoo man
Stewards/Confirm/2025/JJMC89 Stewards/Confirm/2025/JJMC89
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: de, en-4
- Personal info: Hi, this is my first confirmation after being elected as a steward last year. As promised I used my steward permissions primarily for fighting xwiki vandalism/spam – see e.g. my steward stats [1], loginwiki CU stats [2] or SRG edits [3]. I particularly tried to assist with more complicated SRG requests which required opinions from multiple stewards. Other activities concerned (infrequently) SRGP, SRP and SRM [4][5][6]. I volunteered as a scrutineer for the Movement Charter ratification voting [7] as well as enwiki's admin election & ArbCom election [8] [9]. And I joined @DerHexer giving some talks on steward-related topics [10]. My activities have declined a little bit during the past 2-3 months due to off-wiki commitments, but I'm active almost every day even in busy times which should be sufficient. I would love to continue serving as a steward and hope for your confirmation. Looking forward to your feedback, questions and thoughts! --Johannnes89 (talk) 21:09, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
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editStewards/Confirm/2025/Jon Kolbert Stewards/Confirm/2025/Jon Kolbert
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
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- Personal info: I've been a Wikimedian since October 2006 and have completed eleven terms as a steward. As usual, I don't believe I have courted any controversy either as a steward or on any project where I am active. I have maintained a reasonable level of activity this year (except for August when I was moving house) and would characterise myself as in the "middle band" of activity amongst stewards. Typically I tend to pick up the things left on the noticeboard for a day or so which require a bit more thought or investigation rather than just a quick lock or block. If the community wants me to, I am happy to continue.
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logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
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- Personal info: Hello everyone! I'm a steward since 2020. In the past year, my work as a Steward heavily revolved around Temporary accounts, which affects patrollers of all kinds, including the stewards and other global functionaries. I am in regular contact with the Trust and Safety Product team (which is behind Temporary accounts), giving them advice from a steward perspective, helping to shape Temporary accounts in a way that doesn't make the work of functionaries unnecessarily complicated. Based on my advice, the team created several new features (and others are in process), such as IP Contributions or Global Contributions. Even though liasing with TSP doesn't result in any steward actions on the wikis, I consider this to be my most impactful project as a Steward in the past year.
In addition to that, I am also working on automating the onboarding of Stewards and checkusers (to decrease the number of manual actions that need to be taken). I'm also available during most of European daytime, responding to requests on IRC or Discord as appropriate.
As always, if you have any questions regarding my work as a steward, please feel free to reach out to me, and I will be happy to answer them.
Disclaimers: I'm a Wikimedia Foundation staff member, for which I work as a Senior Software Engineer within the Growth team. More detailed information can be found at my staff user page. I'm currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the Wikimedia Czech Republic's Board of Trustees.
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editStewards/Confirm/2025/Masti Stewards/Confirm/2025/Masti
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: it, scn, en-3
- Personal info: I would like to take a moment to thank the community and everyone who has reached out to me for general or technical support over the past year. Returning to supporting global stuffs alongside global sysops and patrollers has been a cornerstone for me. Maintaining a consistent presence throughout the year has been crucial in dealing with a wide range of LTAs. Additionally, the use of Discord and IRC has served as an additional tool in the fight against spam, spambots and LTAs (loginwiki stats), with an eye on the Steward VRT queues.
If the community supports it, I'd be happy to continue for another year, with a particular focus on areas where there's still a lot of work to be done, such as the fight against spam, spambots and LTAs. Thanks, and feel free to ask any questions! --Melos (talk)
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: uk-N, en-2, de-1, pl-1, ru-4.
- Personal info: Hello. I was elected as a steward in 2023, so this is my second confirmation. Over the past year, I have continued to carry out the usual steward duties. Primarily, I worked on SRG, SRGP, and SRP and handled several CU and OS requests. Compared to the previous year, my activity has slightly decreased but still remains above average. With the community's support, I would be happy to continue serving as a steward for another year. Thank you for your attention! --❄️Mykola❄️ 18:00, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
Stewards/Confirm/2025/RadiX Stewards/Confirm/2025/RadiX
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Sakretsu Stewards/Confirm/2025/Sakretsu
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Schniggendiller Stewards/Confirm/2025/Schniggendiller
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: ko, en-2
- Personal info: Community, everyone, hi! This is Sotiale. I never thought I would be in the role of a steward until now. Of course, you can make me quit the role. At this point, perhaps it's been almost 5 years? It feels amazing to me to be writing confirmation like this again.. Anyway, I'd like to state again what I'm going to do. I'm still focusing on the SRCU area, and using the steward tool to find some friends who are running around in various places. There are still some issues that I haven't fully addressed yet, so I'll address them and continue to do what I've been doing with this tool. I think this statistics show that my 5 years have been really long. I am glad that I have been able to do my work so far thanks to your support. I'll listen to your comments again. Thank you! --Sotiale (talk) 14:48, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: fi, en-3
- Personal info: Hi. I've been a steward since March 2015 and I would be interested to continue for another year. My activity has been quite slow, similar to my previous term, but I still believe I can be helpful in this position now and in future. My steward activity has been focused mostly in blocking cross wiki vandals and spammers. I'm available on IRC when I can and I read my email. I'm an administrator on the Finnish Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki. I'm also a checkuser on Finnish Wikipedia.
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Superpes15 Stewards/Confirm/2025/Superpes15
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Tegel Stewards/Confirm/2025/Tegel
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
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- Personal info: Hi all! This is my third confirmation as a steward. Since February 2023, I've also been the stewards' observer on the Ombuds Commission, allowing me to provide input on cases that would benefit from a steward perspective.
This past year, my steward work has centered around more behind-the-scenes tasks than in previous years, e.g., providing input for the Ombuds Commission, following and giving feedback on technical developments relevant to steward work, cross-wiki UPE investigations, and similar. I haven't been as active as I'd like in the more standard steward areas (e.g., SRG, RfCs, SRP), though I expect that to change in the next year as I'll have more free time. I'm available on IRC, Discord, and over email.
As always, I recommend reading DerHexer's 2024 Stewards User Group Report, which presents highlights from the group's work over the last year.
Stewards/Confirm/2025/Wim b Stewards/Confirm/2025/Wim b
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: en-N, es-1, de-1
- Personal info: Hello all, I am seeking confirmation for my 3rd term. My most active area is VRT, where I focus on primary triage and first-call resolutions (having completed ~2600/5200 of 2024 requests, not counting thousands of junk/spam requests that are closed without action.) I also continue to be active in workflow improvements for the global rename/vanish processes. Thank you for your consideration. — xaosflux Talk 16:08, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
logs: rights, globalauth, gblblock, gblrights | translate: translation help, statement
- Languages: bn-N, en-3, as-2, bpy-2
- Personal info: Hello everyone, this is my first confirmation as steward, and I am honoured to be here. This term, I attempted to learn and participate in all aspects of stewardship competency. In terms of statistics, my figures are not the highest, but they are consistent. As in past years, I focused on dealing with LTA and cross-wiki abuse/vandalism/spam, but this time with more tools. I also worked on steward requests pages, handled some global lock/block-related VRT/UTRS tickets, and handled a large number of oversight requests. I volunteered as a scrutineer for many vote wiki elections, including the board election and the first enwiki administrator election. In the coming term, I hope to continue my work and put my first term's experience to good use. I would be delighted to serve another year as a steward for the community, and I am also happy to respond to any questions or concerns you may have. Thanks for your consideration ~ Yahya (talk • contribs) 18:55, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
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