Steward requests/Permissions

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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.

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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Cross-wiki requests
Meta-Wiki requests

Using this page

1. 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 you're requesting access for multiple bots, leave this field blank and give a list of these bots 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

Certain 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

COPY THE FOLLOWING CODE to the bottom of the appropriate section below:

==== User name@xxproject ====
{{sr-request
 |status    = <!--don't change this line-->
 |domain    =
 |user name =
 |discussion= 
}}

Administrator access

See Administrator for information about this user group.

  • MediaWiki interface translations are done at translatewiki.net. Please do not request administrator access solely for that purpose; your request will be declined.
  • 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.

Nehirowisiw@atj.wiki

Status:    In progress
 On hold until 19 December 2020 Ruslik (talk) 20:54, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Luc Patin@atj.wiki

Status:    In progress
 On hold until 19 December 2020 Ruslik (talk) 20:54, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thérèse Ottawa@atj.wiki

Status:    In progress

Hello ! I do a group request, for the 4 sysops that have expired on the Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin. w:atj:Wikipetcia:Waskapiwin#Admin atj.wp 2020-2021See the talk page. Thanks in advance! Benoit Rochon (talk) 19:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 19 December 2020 Ruslik (talk) 20:54, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alina Vozna@uk.wikivoyage

Status:    Done

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Visem (talk) diff (UTC)

Done Granted for 3 months to expire on 2021-03-15. 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. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:56, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Boesenbergia@madwiki

Status:    Done

Boesenbergia has already been test-admin in Incubator. I propose giving him/her temporary adminship for 1 month to get the new wiki started. --MF-W 14:33, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds reasonable. Done Granted for 1 month to expire on 2021-01-15. Should Boesenbergia wish to remain as an administrator a local RfA would be required. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Saroj Uprety@hifwikipedia

Status:    Done

Requesting temporary sysop right for clean up and importing templates. --Saroj Uprety (talk) 16:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2021-06-16. 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. Ruslik (talk) 05:03, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interface administrator access

See Interface admin for information about this user group.

  • 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.

Bureaucrat access

See Bureaucrat for information about this user group.
  • 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

See CheckUser policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • 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.

Oversight access

See Oversight policy for information about this user group and the policy governing the use of this tool.
  • 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 .
  • When a new user is assigned to this group, please add them to this list.

DannyS712@wikidata

Status:    Done

I have closed the discussion as successful but I obviously can not check whether the candidate has been identified to the foundation.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:47, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am indeed identified, see the linked signature diff DannyS712 (talk) 07:49, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Done--Sakretsu (炸裂) 14:22, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
IRC access done. Trijnsteltalk 17:09, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of access

  • 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.

Huji@fawiki

Status:    In progress

Due to off wiki issues, I will not be able to stay regularly connected with the WMF wikis for at least two weeks. Because fawiki only has two users with checkuser right, me and User:Ladsgroup, and given that (while I trust the other CU very highly) my absence would render me unable to monitor their use of the CU tool, I think it is best that both our CU rights be revoked at this time. I will let the stewards know once I am back on track so you can reinstate both of us, hopefully in 2-3 weeks. Note that there is no need to redact other related access (e.g. CU wiki, CU listserv, etc.); the only access that depends on my role as the "peer reviewer" is the CU itself. User:Ladsgroup is aware of this situation and agrees with it (and I ask him to express his agreement here as well). Huji (talk) 20:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fine with this. I hope this will be over soon Amir (talk) 09:11, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Huji, as it is stated in the box above in this section, «the rights will not be restored by stewards once they are removed». While I can understand why this is being requested, and the fawiki situation in particular, I am not sure that we'd be able to simply restore both of you without a new RfCU. I will wait to read comments from my other colleagues. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:18, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify: I am not against, as can understand the why, but I would like to hear from others. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:38, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm inclined to reject this request. The checkuser policy allows you to be inactive up to one year before removal of access. Unless specified otherwise in a local policy, Amir can definitely be trusted alone with the tools for just a couple of weeks--Sakretsu (炸裂) 11:38, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Sakretsu. Unless you, Huji, also have other concerns which make it better for you to temporary not have access to the rights, it is okay. Stewards and Ombuds can also view the local CU logs, so if some red flags would reach us, we would be able to check as well. I am more than confident that Ladsgroup can be unsupervised for a fortnight or so though (besides as a developer he probably has some other ways to dip into the data…). --Base (talk) 12:23, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Huji: As MarcoAurelio mentioned, we're not allowed to promote users without a valid appointment. In another words, the only thing we can do as the stewards, is to take this as your resignation, (fully) demote both you and Ladsgroup (since he'd stay the only CU), and reappoint if and only if there was a valid RfCU. I've briefly discussed this with JSutherland (WMF), and the best thing to do would be to contact his team directly, via ca@wikimedia.org, and explain why a temporary removal of rights is needed. For reference, there's been a precedent of removing rights temporarily by the Foundation for security purposes at fawiki (cf. [1], [2]). I'll leave this open so it isn't archived automatically, Huji should feel free to set status to not done once the request is sent to the WMF. Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MarcoAurelio: fair point. If your interpretation is that "actively" monitoring the CU log is not needed, and others with access can do it on demand, then there is no reason to change anything and you can reject this request. Do you think I need to let anyone (besides Amir) know when I am back in the saddle? Huji (talk) 18:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
My preference and my practice is indeed that of actively monitoring where possible, Huji. If you or the fawiki community would be more confortable, I think you could ask the OC to take a look regularly to the fawiki log or as Martin suggested, ask the Foundation to temporarily suspend your permissions and those of Ladsgroup during your absence. Note that this is also opening a bit of a can of worms because while we try hard to understand every situation, not speaking the language or knowing the community is a barrier, and those could very well be exploited by trolls or other malicious users while there's no local CUs in fawiki to try to fool us and make us check somebody that uses puppet in a legitimate way due to the situation of the region. Best regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:13, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
(off-topic) In some Wikipedias (such as Arabic one), the policy allows restoration of resigned CheckUser right without a vote. See also Steward_requests/Permissions/2017-12#Elph@ar.wikipedia.--GZWDer (talk) 18:33, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure we should be bound by that honestly. Local projects may make it access to CU and OS harder, not easier; and the CU policy mandates either ArbCom appointment or community elections to access those permissions. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:03, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Fulano@ptwiki

Status:    Done

Unfortunelly, due to lack of time and animus, I'm not as active as before and I'll only be able to edit normally again in a few months, so, for security reasons and to be honest with ptwiki community, I'd like to resign my oversight flag. Thanks in a advance. Mr. Fulano! Talk 04:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for one day. Mr. Fulano, you are free to withdraw the request at any time until it is completed. --Base (talk) 07:25, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Mr. Fulano, Done. Thank you for your service! --Base (talk) 12:36, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous requests

Requests 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:

  • SRB — Local or global bot status
  • SRGP — Global permissions

See also

Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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