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.

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

Requesting bot and translation admin

• DannyS712 bot (talk • contribs • logs • rights • SUL utility)

As a crat I guess I can do this myself per Project:Bots, but why not discuss - I want to get a bot to automatically marking pages with no net changes for translation. I am filing almost identical requests for bot approval on a bunch of wikis, and figured I should put some of the details in a central location. Please see meta:User:DannyS712/TranslationBot for further info. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:03, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested user-rights: Administrator.

• Ternera (talk • contribs • logs • rights • SUL utility)

Hello, I've been consistently doing anti-vandalism work here and on other wikis this year. I frequently come across vandalism that's in the form of translations, which require deletion to remove. In these cases, I always tag pages like these for speedy deletion, but it would be helpful to have the ability to delete them myself and to block obvious trolls/LTAs who continue to vandalize after multiple warnings. I'm also an admin at the Rwanda Wiki and hold global rollback rights. Thank you for the input! Ternera (talk) 20:25, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose 120 edits and no apparent dev activity is not enough experience to be granted local adminship. This wiki allows global sysops, which seems better suited to your use case than becoming an admin on a wiki you rarely edit. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 00:16, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ternera: I'm not opposed per se, but I wonder on whether you plan to get global sysops in the near future. We'd prefer you to get that instead if you are planning to anyway, but if you aren't, I'm OK with your getting admin rights - I don't think we need to look at development activity here. Leaderboard (talk) 07:13, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Leaderboard Hey, thanks for your comment. I would like to apply for GS in the future, but I'm not sure how soon that will be since I because a GR fairly recently. If I'm able to keep up my current level of activity, I'll probably request GS in a couple of months and see how it goes. If you would consider that the 'near future', I'll withdraw my request here. Thanks! Ternera (talk) 12:08, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ternera: Either is fine; I didn't realise that you got GR fairly recently. To be clear, this is a Support to your admin nomination. Leaderboard (talk) 12:26, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose You're going to need translation administrator as well to delete translations and your lack of awareness of that, plus Pppery's concerns, means I cannot support this. --Jasper Deng (talk) 06:20, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  To be fair, that is not obvious and would actually be a point in support for the user (because global sysops can't delete translation pages for some reason). Leaderboard (talk) 09:24, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  No, because it strengthens the case that admin is not the correct right for them to have here.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:50, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]