Jump to content

Steward requests/Permissions

From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
< Steward requests
This is an archived version of this page, as edited by Euphydryas (talk | contribs) at 20:11, 1 September 2024 (→Removal of access: +1). It may differ significantly from the current version.
Shortcut:
SRP

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 requirement 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

(translate | edit)
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 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

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.

Marwan Mohamad@gor.wiktionary

Status:    Done

Hello, my admin status on gorwiktionary has expired and I want to renew it. Thank you. Marwan Mohamad (talk) 03:48, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Marwan Mohamad similar to last time [1] the discussion should have been linked at gor:wikt:Wikikamus:Būbu'a lēmbo'a or similar pages. Has the request been posted at an appropriate place to meet MVR? Johannnes89 (talk) 05:34, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I forgot to put the link on the community portal at gor:wikt:Wikikamus:Būbu'a lēmbo'a. I just added it now and hope the community finds it and supports it. Thanks. Marwan Mohamad (talk) 07:48, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 On hold until 31 August 2024. EPIC (talk) 08:09, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2026-08-31. 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. EPIC (talk) 08:18, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Janezdrilc@sl.wikiquote

Status:    Done

Hi. After one year term I would like to request for a permanent admin status. Thank you. --Janezdrilc (talk) 21:29, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold until 31 August 2024. EPIC (talk) 21:45, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2026-08-31. 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.
Unfortunately per MVR I cannot grant you permanent adminship in this case, but given your previous tenures I am granting you adminship for two years. EPIC (talk) 23:15, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Thank you. --Janezdrilc (talk) 02:16, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

KartikMistry@guwiktionary

Status:    Done

3 supports / 0 oppose; 100% result. Previous RfAs: 6 months, 1 year, 2 years. Please grant permanent rights this time if possible. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 08:07, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2026-08-31. 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.
Unfortunately I cannot grant permanent adminship in this case per MVR, but given the previous tenures, I can grant for 2 years, which I will do here. EPIC (talk) 08:13, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Erick Soares3@ptwikisource

Status:    Done

━ Albertoleoncio Who, me? 02:46, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Granted for 1 year to expire on 2025-09-01. 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. EPIC (talk) 03:13, 1 September 2024 (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.

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

Lhoussine AIT TAYFST@zghwiki

Status:    On hold

Request for Importer Permissions --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 19:31, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What will you use import for, and for how long will you need it? Importupload is quite cautious and we generally do not grant it permanently on wikis as small as zghwiki. If it is a one time task, we could perform it instead. EPIC (talk) 19:34, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you just want to import from a few specific wikis you can also request on Phabricator to add them to the list of sister projects for transwiki import so you can import from them with transwiki import. --Ameisenigel (talk) 21:02, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @EPIC @Ameisenigel, thank you for your prompt reponse! I require importer permissions to import a large number of articles as HTML files, which have been written in both the Tifinagh and Latin scripts. I will transliterate them into Tifinagh before importing. I need this permission specifically for this task. --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 23:54, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: Thanks for your response, however, I still don't fully understand what you need it for? The way I understand it, you want to convert articles to HTML files; however, this is not what import is meant for, the purpose of import is to import pages from one wiki to another. EPIC (talk) 00:38, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I now think I understand what you mean; however, as Ameisenigel already mentioned, this is not how import works. Importupload cannot be done with HTML files, it is performed by going to Special:Export on a MediaWiki wiki, exporting a page as an XML file and importing the XML file at Special:Import on the target wiki. See mw:Help:Import. EPIC (talk) 22:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You cannot import HTML files, importupload only works with XML files. --Ameisenigel (talk) 06:32, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi all @Ameisenigel @EPIC Thank you for your prompt response. I apologize for the confusion; I mistakenly referred to the files as HTML when I meant XML. I would like to import XML files into the Amazigh Wikipedia. --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 12:10, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: Thanks for your clarification. OK, how much time would be enough for performing your tasks? EPIC (talk) 13:56, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Where are these XML files coming from? What is the nature of the licensing of their revisions? — xaosflux Talk 14:14, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Ameisenigel @Xaosflux @EPIC I'm supporting @Lhoussine AIT TAYFST with this task which we have started during the Wikimania Hackathon in Katowice. The articles will be exported from shiwiki in XML format, the raw texts and titles will be converted from Berber-Latin to Tifinagh script, then the converted XML will be imported to zghwiki. The community will take care of adjusting those articles further manually. Ideophagous (talk) 21:04, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is good enough for granting import but I will also need to know how long to grant it for. I could go ahead and grant the rights once that is clarified. EPIC (talk) 21:12, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hold on. @EPIC This sounds problematic. Exporting from a WMF wiki, manipulating the content, and reimporting -- this seems like it will cause attribution problems. @Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: exactly how is this being avoided? — xaosflux Talk 22:16, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a reason why you could not just use transwiki import to import the articles and use a bot to convert the script afterwards? Changing that directly in the XML file does not sound good to me. --Ameisenigel (talk) 22:17, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And even if you are using tooling to do your translations (and your project is fine with machine translations) - you could still (a)export, (b) run your machine tooling, (c) use the API to publish the translation (provide attribution for the "translated from" source in the initial edit summary). There are also many other strategies. — xaosflux Talk 22:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, you are correct. Waiting for a response then. EPIC (talk) 06:03, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Ameisenigel @EPIC @Xaosflux shiwiki is written in the western dialect of Berber/Tamazight, in Latin-Berber, whereas zghwiki is written in Standard Tamazight of Morocco using Neo-Tifinagh script. @Lhoussine AIT TAYFST can probably answer this better, but as far as I understand, the dialects of Tamazight often display more influence from Arabic and French, whereas the Standard form is more pure. Nonetheless, they are close enough that simply by changing the script, all that's left will be to adjust some word choices to a more standard form, which can be done manually. I'm not sure it's a good idea to import a large number of articles in a different script, and then do the script conversion afterwards. Also, only articles missing from zghwiki will be included. By the way, the script conversion was already implemented in shiwiki, using the language converter, and if there's a way to import the articles and convert the script at the same time, that would certainly be a better solution to using a bot. Ideophagous (talk) 08:51, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: I've added temporary importer for you on testwiki, please import a couple of these to demonstrate the process. — xaosflux Talk 09:16, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Xaosflux Thank you very much for your assistance. I will proceed with testing the procedure as you outlined. --Lhoussine AIT TAYFST (talk) 12:25, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lhoussine AIT TAYFST: As you have still not done so, I have extended your import rights for another week. If all looks good then I am inclined towards granting the rights as you have your community's consensus, but please do finish the demonstration this week if you have the time, otherwise this is likely to result in being declined. EPIC (talk) 06:51, 27 August 2024 (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.

.avgas@itwiki

Status:    Done

Please remove my sysop flag on itwiki. Thank you. .avgas 10:19, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. EPIC (talk) 10:31, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done Thank you for your service. EPIC (talk) 10:22, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Amakuha@ukwiki

Status:    Done

Please remove admin flag due to inactivity. The user have performed his last admin action more than 1 year ago, so according to the local policy his admin permissions should be removed. In a month after notification user didn't respond and didn't return to admin activity. --Mykola 00:12, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:48, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vargenau@wikidata

Status:    In progress

Please remove the sysop rights @wikidata for Vargenau due to inactivity according to policy at wikidata. User has made o sysop actions in the last six months as of April 1st (see [2]). --Lymantria (talk) 07:25, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,
Please keep my admin rights. It is true I have be active recently in wikidata as I have been mostly busy on French Wikipedia. I have just restarted using my admin rights.
Vargenau (talk) 09:27, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I guess we could close this request then? User no longer meets criteria for removal and has expressed intent to resume their activity. EPIC (talk) 10:46, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies for CP errors this morning (I apparently wasn't completely awake yet). The date is September 1st in stead of April 1st. I don't oppose you stretching our policy to include September 1st, but IMHO it is border line. --Lymantria (talk) 13:03, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Urbanec@wikidata

Status:    In progress

Please remove the sysop rights @wikidata for Vogone due to inactivity according to policy at wikidata. User has made 4 sysop actions in the last six months as of April 1st (see [3]). --Lymantria (talk) 07:25, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lymantria Please recheck. You're requesting removal of access for Vogone, listed is Martin Urbanec. Perhaps a lapsus? A09|(pogovor) 09:53, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Assumably just an error, Martin is the correct one. Only reason this has not been processed yet is that we are waiting for a response from Martin as he is active elsewhere and only one sysop action away at the moment, so it is mostly up to him at this point. EPIC (talk) 09:56, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The policy does not require any response. --Ameisenigel (talk) 10:05, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Correct, it does not. But Mykola pinged him in the stewards' IRC channel as he is only one action away, and since there is no real rush we decided to wait. EPIC (talk) 10:23, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies for CP errors this morning (I apparently wasn't completely awake yet). It is aobout Martin and the date is September 1st in stead of April 1st. --Lymantria (talk) 13:01, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Isn't pinging close to canvassing? Would you ping any user whose flag is requested to be removed for inactivity and is close to being active? This does not feel entirely comfortable. --Lymantria (talk) 16:56, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Now you have reached your goal by waiting long enough until Martin returned to activity and made the needed admin actions. This is not how our activity policy should work. --Ameisenigel (talk) 19:25, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Xnet1234@wikifunctions

Status:    On hold

Hello, I'm currently inactive in Wikifunctions. Please remove my sysop rights, Thank you. Xnet1234 (talk) 11:41, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions. EPIC (talk) 11:42, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Euphydryas@itwiki

Status:    In progress

Please remove my bureaucrat and sysop flag on itwiki. Thank you. --Euphydryas (msg) 20:10, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See also

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

Retrieved from "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Permissions&oldid=27385530"