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 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: Aafi

Requested user-rights: Translation administrator.

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

Hi, I am Aafi and would like to offer my occasional support in maintaining Special:PageTranslation. Given that I hold TA rights on Commons, Meta-Wiki, Wikidata, and Wikimania wiki - a lot of folks reach out to me for assistance, the most recent case being for {{AWMDHeader }} where I realised I couldn't help much because of not having the TA rights here. I'd appreciate if granted, and my edits/tweaks wouldn't remain pending for the shoulders of other TA's, such as one I did at Special:Diff/6806263. Nonetheless, I agree that I don't have many edits here but I could offer my time/skills here. Kind regards, _signed,Aafi ^(talk) 17:10, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My general opinion on translation admin requests is that it's actually a good idea to let Shirayuki do all of the translation admin work, because that means a consistent standard is applied rather than multiple people each applying their own standards and causing chaos down the line (although that specific edit was fine). I'll let others comment before making a final decision, though. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 18:35, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 07:34, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fully qualified for this role. SD0001 (talk) 09:38, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support experienced TA elsewhere --TenWhile6 08:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User: SD0001

Requested user-rights: Administrator and Interface administrator.

SD0001 (talk • contribs • logs • rights • global account)

For occasional maintenance of the "global" gadget pages and JS/CSS snippets. I have +2 on mediawiki/ and intadmin access on enwiki. SD0001 (talk) 19:15, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 19:26, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. No concerns. _signed,Aafi ^(talk) 17:15, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 07:33, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support trusted user --TenWhile6 08:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ternera (talk) 14:23, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User: Flow cleanup bot

Requested user-rights: Bot and Administrator.

Flow cleanup bot (talk • contribs • logs • rights • global account)

I would like to run an adminbot to delete around 6000 empty Flow placeholders with no useful content. See more details at Topic:Yff64fw5rwjmc3ld * Pppery * _{it has begun} 22:32, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Confirming this from the bot account. Flow cleanup bot (talk) 22:33, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The code I'm using to find pages to delete is at https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/46222050/Flow.ipynb. I haven't written the part to actually do the deletion yet, but I'll probably use some library like Manual:Pywikibot/delete.py to delete a pre-generated list of pages.

The existing deletions and moves I've been doing with my main account were of pages generated by other versions of the same listmaking code, but I did manually review each page before deleting/moving it. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 22:35, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support, we need this bot to archive most Flow boards in advance before the date when all Flow boards are archived. ToadetteEdit (talk) 18:58, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User: Planetenxin

Requested user-rights: Translation administrator.

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

I'm maintaining a number of extensions mainly in the Semantic MediaWiki context, e.g. Extension:Semantic_Result_Formats or Extension:Semantic_Drilldown. I'd like to improve the documentation and for this, having the Translation admin role would help.

I doubt this edit may not use accurate syntax. I will give it a weak support. And did you read Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation example and prepared a sample page for translation? ToadetteEdit (talk) 17:05, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I think it's best to let Shirayuki do the marking for translation unless there's a good reason not to in order to ensure a consistent standard is applied. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 18:35, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]