Project:Requests for permissions

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Use this page for requests for:

• autopatrollers, uploaders or IP block exemptions (which can be assigned by administrators)
• Promotion to sysop, translation admin, bureaucrat or anything not above (which can be assigned by bureaucrats)

Note that Requests for comment and other miscellaneous requests should not go here, but instead to the Project:Village Pump or Administrators' noticeboard if you want to avoid using Structured Discussions.

Any new flagging to +sysop should have an associated subpage here, except for well-established developers, where a developer is someone who has had changes accepted to the MediaWiki core or a MediaWiki extension where the total number of changed lines in the relevant whitespace-insensitive diffs exceeds 100.

The autopatroller group can be assigned by administrators, too, but generally that is given when an admin notices that patrolling someone's edits does not add any value, and not based on requests by the user themselves.

One thing to keep in mind is that unlike most Wikimedia sites, this site is controlled by the MediaWiki developers, not the other users in this community. Being a developer (someone with merge access who uses it to maintain code that runs on Wikimedia sites) automatically entitles you to at least administrator status, and a long-time developer won't find it hard to become a bureaucrat. If you're not a developer, you do have to give some good reason to get any privileges; you should not expect to ever be made a bureaucrat. Something like a third of administrators and a quarter of bureaucrats are non-developers, however, so it's not like you shouldn't bother asking.

That said, there aren't really any formal policies on what's required: you just have to convince a bureaucrat. Use common sense – if you're trustworthy and your services are in need, there's no reason not to promote you to administrator at least, but don't ask for administrator without giving a concrete reason (unless you're a developer). Being personally known to a developer or having administrator or higher status on a major Wikimedia project are two ways to be deemed trustworthy. This is a wiki that has opted in to allowing global sysops to work here, and such users are free to use their rights on this wiki and do not need to separately request administrator. The same applies to global rollbackers, who are already autopatrolled on this wiki. Other users in specialised global groups (such as global interface editors) are also free to use their rights on this wiki by default.

Requests for permissions

Archives: Administrator • Bureaucrat • Editor • Other user rights

• Please create a subpage under Project:Requests/User rights/ with your user name as the page title and then transclude it to the bottom of this section.

=== User:Example ===
{{Rfur|Requested user right}} (Choose from: Administrator, Bot, Bureaucrat, Coder, Autochecked user, Transwiki importer, Other)
{{UserLinks|Example}}
I am a MediaWiki developer [http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/people.html?id=4 (korma proof)] http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/who_contributes_code.html
I have rolled back many instances of vandalism here and assisted users extensively.
I have accounts on Meta and am an active maintainer of the WMF Phabricator project [[phab:tag/foo|#foo]]. - Example 1 Apr 2015, 12:00am

* '''support''' I thought you were an admin here already! - User1, 1 Apr 2008, 12:45am
* '''oppose''' Example punched me in the nose at the last Wikimeet and broke it. I have a personal grudge. - User2, 1 Apr 2008, 1:15am

User:MC10

Requested user-rights: Reviewer.

I am currently an editor here, and would like reviewer rights to review new pages and edits appropriately. Thanks. —mc10 (t/c) 23:19, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

 Done --Skizzerz 05:31, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

User:Atmoz

Requested user-rights: Editor.

I don't make a lot of edits here, but I do at en.wp. It'd be nice if on the rare occasions I do edit here someone else doesn't have to waste time to approve it. Thanks. :) -Atmoz 21:26, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

You don't appear to have all that many edits and they aren't all that recent, perhaps wait a little while till you have a few more edits under your belt. Peachey88 09:11, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

N Not done No reply for over a month. Peachey88 22:47, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

User:Jasper Deng

Requested user-rights: Reviewer.

On enwiki, I have Reviewer rights, and, I would like to be able to include some more information in the wiki, which has few watchers. Thus, I am requesting Reviewer rights on the MediaWiki wiki.Jasper Deng 04:08, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

You don't have all that many local edits on this wiki outside the User name-space, perhaps wait a little while till you have a few more edits under your belt. Also is there a reason you are requesting reviewer rights compared to just editor rights?. Peachey88

This is a circular dependency. I'm trying to edit the pages on rangeblock and IPv6 support; however, I cannot edit them because from what I understand, PC requires Reviewer rights.Jasper Deng 04:13, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

They aren't protected... you are free to edit it, it just takes someone with a editor flag to approve the edit to appear visible to the non logged in users. Peachey88 06:20, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

N Not done Been over a month and no reply. Peachey88 04:39, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

User:DaSch

Requested user-rights: Editor.

I've made many changes to this wiki and maintain some Extensions and a Skin and it would be greate if I did not have to wait for my changed to beeing reviewed that long. See Manual:Gallery of user styles. Thanks. --DaSch 08:37, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

 Done Peachey88 09:16, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

User:A7x

Requested user-rights: Administrator.

I'd like admin tools to clean up vandalism and help with any maintenance issues here. I'm a trusted and established user in several major Wikimedia projects. I also have a long experience in reverting vandalism, and I am a rollbacker in the English Wikipedia (link), Simple English Wikipedia (link) and Commons (link). In addition, I am also a sysop and bureaucrat at the Test-Wikipedia (link), another "backstage" Wikimedia project. My motive for requesting the tools is for reverting vandalism, although I'll exercise caution when using the tools. I could also do some maintenance to the project, should the need arise. —stay (sic)! 05:28, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

N Not done In general, if users want adminship here to combat vandalism, I'd like to see a history of combating vandalism here. —Emufarmers^(T|C) 17:35, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I see your point. But then can I at least have editor or reviewer rights in here? It could be useful to me. —stay (sic)! 20:33, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

How could they be useful to you? —Emufarmers^(T|C) 05:56, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Well technically speaking, an editor is someone who has the ability to be autoconfirmed, have their own edits automatically marked as patrolled, patrol recent or new changes, and see unreviewed pages. A reviewer includes the former plus being able to mark, or validate revisions as "quality". I think a user who is established and deemed trustworthy in several other projects, is qualified to be trusted to have editor or reviewer rights here as well. On the English Wikipedia, in addition to rollback, I am autopatrolled, a reviewer, and a filemover. And on Commons, I am also a rollbacker, patroller, and filemover. —stay (sic)! 23:44, 14 July 2011 (UTC) (P.S. Sorry for the delayed response, I was caught up with something in real life. :-P)

Technically yes, but we aren't a flag factory here, we will give rights to those that can show why/how they would need/use them. Peachey88 01:53, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Take Two?

I wonder if I could revive this request and maybe take another shot at it. The last time I requested rights, it was at a ill-prepared moment and I was gone after a few days. Now that I'm back, this time I want to specifically request editor rights only. Looking through the archives, it appears that most requests were granted without asking many questions. Also after taking a look at Project:Requests/Header, there is actually no formal requirement for admin or editor rights. All I've to do is be persuasive and seem trustworthy. That being said, I mentioned before that I am trusted and have been granted flags in several projects. See my interwiki matrix for proof. Regarding the editor bits, the level of trust needed seems no higher than being granted rollback or (auto)patroller rights. I'll also mention that I'm currently a sysop plus bureaucrat on the Test Wikipedia, which is according to Meta, another "backstage" project like this one, so I have experience and knowledge about the extra tools and what they're for. I hope you can take this into consideration. Kindly, —stay (sic)! 02:11, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

You have ZERO useful edits on this wiki. You haven't edited anything - you don't need editor flag, you haven't reverted a single vandalised page - you don't need to be an admin. Note that this wiki is not understaffed and we typically don't promote professional flag hunters just because they've shown some interest in this site. Max Semenik 02:41, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

If so, then how come there are several admins with only a small number of edits? For example, User:Ral315, User:Phil Boswell, User:Pinky, User:Misza13, User:Midom, User:Matanya, User:Mardetanha, and User: Kalan all have less than 20 edits, and yet they've been promoted. Also I've noticed that a several users have been unilaterally promoted to adminship without any formal procedure, and their only rationale being that they are admins/crats on other projects. —stay (sic)! 03:41, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Our policies change over time, at the current stage we don't really want to give out sysops unless the person can really give a good example as to why they need it. From the examples that you showed:

• User:Ral315 and User:Phil Boswell: given in 2007
• User:Pinky and User:Misza13: given in 2008 and are developers
• User:Kalan: Given in 2008 to do translations
• User:Midom: From 2009 and is a developer and works for the foundation maintaining the database systems
• User:Mardetanha: given in 2009 the user is a steward - Note: Mardetanha resigned as a steward on July 12, he is now global sysop - TBloemink 09:07, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
• User:Matanya: although given in 2011 is trusted by a local 'crat

Users who are developers (have svn commit access for core (/phase3/)) are generally given admin here if they request with no questions asked. Peachey88 07:09, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

So from what you're saying, sysop is only granted to developers and anyone whom a local bureaucrat wants to promote? If so, then you might want to reedit the wording of the header. It can be quite misleading, especially since it sounds like you're in the process of "hiring" admins, and the term "trustworthy" is ill-defined and too ambiguous. Btw, I want to restate this request is for editor, no longer for sysop. Regards, —stay (sic)! 08:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

After a little thinking, I am going to mark this as N Not done. You have, besides creating your userpage, talkpage and this request and everything that comes with it, only 1 edit, which was a revert. This does not show that you know how MediaWiki works. The editor flag needs knowledge of the software, to be able to see if an edit made by a non-editor is correct or not. Gain some knowledge about the software, make some more edits (mainly the Manual: and the Help: namespace) and try again in a while. Best regards, TBloemink 14:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Requests for renames

Information on how renames work is available on Wikipedia., Archives: 2011 (Previous years).

Example request:

=== Oldname -> Newname ===
I'd like to change my username to "Newname" because that's the
username I use on other projects. Thanks! - ~~~~

Akhilsunnithan -> Akhilan

I'd like to change my username to "Akhilan" because I have changed my username in homewiki(ml.wikipedia) from Akhilsunnithan to Akhilan, so please change the name in here also where i'm usually in touch Thanks! - Akhilsunnithan 12:37, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

 Done —Emufarmers^(T|C) 07:17, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Tectec -> Itsnotvalid

The CentralAuth system screwed me up, when I was attempting to change my usernames and then created a bunch of "auto-created" accounts for me. Please help me change the name. (Another mistake is by creating the target account, which I am the owner, if anyone could help me to move or unmerge or do whatever that could help me to move that SUL, it would be a great help. )Thanks! - Tectec 14:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Killer Magikarp -> AddThreeAndFive

I use this name on my other wiki accounts and would like to use it here as well. Thanks! Killer Magikarp 19:57, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

 Done —Emufarmers^(T|C) 05:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Hafezdivandari -> Hafez

I'd like to change my username to "Hafez" as I have the same accont globally, Thanks - Hafezdivandari 15:59, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

 Done —Emufarmers^(T|C) 00:48, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

None (SUL request) -> Striker

I am the owner of the global account and I want to usurp the local one, which has zero edits, for SUL purposes. Here's my identity confirmation for this request if needed. Thank you for your time. 186.213.139.173 18:26, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

 Done --Jack Phoenix _(Contact) 19:01, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Woytecr -> Wargo

This is my real nick. I have renamed it on plwikipedia. - wargo 11:09, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 Done. Enjoy! —Emufarmers^(T|C) 22:07, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

usurp User:Joy

Hi. I'm trying to get a unified account and this zero-edit account is in the way. Please move it away. Thanks. en:User:Joy/SUL --Joy-temporary 09:23, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Other requests and Requests for Comments

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