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.

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 are 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 are 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 are 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.

Archives: Autopatrolled (formerly Autochecked user) • Translation administrator • Administrator • Interface administrator • Bureaucrat • Other user rights, Other requests, Requests for comments

Please fill out the form below to request rights, and then add the template here. If you have had a previous request, please add a number to the end of your username to create a separate request, example: MyUserName (2)

User: ToadetteEdit

Requested user-rights: Administrator.

ToadetteEdit (talk • contribs • logs • rights • global account)

Happy new year! I am attempting to obtain the sysop flag after my previous request was withdrawn as pretty immature (criticism about hat collecting). I have been committed to this wiki five months ago and have since tagged lots of pages for deletion, and reverting unconstructive edits. The delete, block, and more importantly rollback rights will be very useful to delete pages, block vandals, and use rollback to revert edits instead of the slower TwinkleGlobal and manual undo functions.

I have also helped in the transition of Flow talk pages to wikitext ahead of the planned script run; suppressredirect would have been helpful when moving pages instead of leaving redirects that eventually get deleted.

I should admit that I am not the best candidate, but I hope you will all agree with me. ToadetteEdit (talk) 10:06, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh, I said 6 months last time, and you were improving in the last few months. This isn't even three months. Please listen Toadette - we're trying to get you out of the hat-collecting pit and you're doing the opposite. Leaderboard (talk) 10:41, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I've cooled off a bit. I think waiting three more months is okay, but I still want to avoid the hat-collector term being used on me. I have a need for the tools, and I will wear them after obtaining them, rather than collecting hats for no reason. ToadetteEdit (talk) 12:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Then you need to wait. Time is a very powerful healer and equaliser in things like these. Leaderboard (talk) 09:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]