Project:Requests for permissions
Information
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.
- Archives: Autopatrolled (formerly Autochecked user) • Translation administrator • Administrator • Interface administrator • Bureaucrat • Other user rights, Other requests, Requests for comments
User: Pppery (3)
- Requested user-rights: Bureaucrat.
I said at the recently-failed Project:Requests for permissions/Leaderboard (3) that We seem to have a dearth of active crats (the request above languished for a month, and the request before that did too), and then that request languished for months before failing, which didn't solve the problem. I guess it falls to me to fix said problem myself - I am a developer (to a much greater extent now than I was when I became an admin), and have been active here for a while, so should hopefully prove a less-controversial candidate. * Pppery * it has begun 04:43, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 05:16, 31 October 2024 (UTC)- Support No objections. --Clump (talk) 18:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Comment: "that request languished for months before failing" — I checked in on that RfP every few days, as did other 'crats. There's no policy on how long we keep requests open, and there's no real rush in closing requests (even more so when unsuccessful).
- "I guess it falls to me to fix said problem myself" — I get that you're frustrated, but that comes across as a little bit rude. — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 22:46, 1 November 2024 (UTC)