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This page hosts requests for administrator access on the Meta-Wiki; for requesting administrator access on any other wiki, please find the appropriate venue on the index of request and proposal pages. Bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight and bot requests are also made here. Before making a request here, please see the administrator policy.

Most requests should be listed here for at least seven days; bureaucrats should only close after the minimum time foreseen in the relevant policy. Discussions are not closed early. Adminship will be granted by a support ratio of at least 75%. If a request hasn't been addressed by a bureaucrat after a lengthy period of time, please leave a note at Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Requests may be extended, or put on hold by bureaucrats, pending decision or finding of consensus.

Requests for temporary adminship and bot requests may be less formal and often go for a shorter duration if consensus becomes clear after only a few days of discussion.

All editors with an account on Meta, at least one active account on any Wikimedia project, and a link between the two, may participate in any request and give their opinion of the candidate. However, more active Meta editors' opinions may be given additional weight in controversial cases.

See below for information on prerequisites on submitting a request, and how to add a nomination.

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Information

Note that this page is for access on Meta only. See the permission request to stewards page for adminship/deadminship requests on other projects.

Regular adminship

  1. Before requesting admin access, please check the policy for requesting adminship.
  2. Use the box below, insert your username:

  3. Place a request on this page, by transcluding the subpage, for example {{Meta:Requests for adminship/Username}}. Please put the newest request on the top. Bear in mind that even if you do meet the criteria above this does not mean that the community will automatically approve a request.
  4. Please note, past administrators who have given up their rights must meet all criteria at the time of the new request. There is no separate process for reinstating past administrators.

Please note: Ill-considered nominations for adminship can be draining and deflating to both the community and the candidate. Any successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate sufficient experience within the Wikimedia community, in addition to a familiarity with Meta-Wiki. If a candidate is not already a local administrator or holder of advanced permissions on a Wikimedia content project, they are less likely to pass a request for adminship here at Meta-Wiki.

Bureaucratship

Add your request below under the bureaucratship section. Please note:

  • Only active administrators can become bureaucrats, and only after at least 6 months of regular adminship.
  • User is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after they nominate themselves here.

If you fail any of these requirements, you will not be assigned the bureaucrat flag. For more information see the Meta bureaucrat page.

Other access

For these types of access, create a subpage just as you would for regular adminship and add it to the appropriate section of this page.


  • Limited adminship: If you need sysop access for a particular reason (such as ability to edit protected pages), you may request limited adminship on Meta. If granted, the user understands that they will only be allowed to use the tools for the tasks they were approved, and not doing so will be grounds for immediate removal. Temporary sysop access will normally be valid for one month unless requested and granted otherwise.


  • CheckUser: please read the CheckUser policy and add your request below under the checkuser section, in the same way as an admin request.

  • Oversight: please read the Oversight policy and add your request below under the oversight section, in the same way as an admin request.



For these types of access, just ask on Meta request for help from a sysop or bureaucrat page:

Requests for global renamer permissions are handled at global permission requests to stewards page.

WMF Office Staff and Contractors

  • If you are an WMF Official or Contractor and need rights on Meta-Wiki to perform your duties the process is different. Please have a look at the WMF staff userrights policy on Office wiki[restricted access] and follow the procedure described there. If in doubt, please contact Trust and Safety; or send an email to ca@wikimedia.org.(source)

Requests for regular adminship

Svartava

Not ending before 8 March 2025 18:26 (UTC)

Hi all. I am once again starting a request for Meta adminship.

  • At my first request, it was suggested that I could have a better chance if I applied later. The main concern was about the timing of the RFA, which has hopefully been taken care of by now.
  • I have almost 5000 edits (including ~ 1600 deleted ones) here and as before, I regularly do a lot of work for which having the admin tools would result in a better efficiency and productivity.
  • I am also active cross-wiki and as of now, I believe I have decent experience with adminship on my home wiki.

My primary usage of the admin tools would be, predictably, to help out against vandalism and other disruptive edits and monitoring speedy deletion requests. I am also interested in gaining a new experience and learning from it, which would overall help me in constantly bettering my contributions across different wikis. Svārtava (tɕ) 18:26, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for limited adminship

None currently

Requests for interface adminship

None currently

Requests for bureaucratship

None currently

Requests for CheckUser access

"Meta:Requests for checkuser" redirects here. To request checkuser information, see Meta:Requests for CheckUser information.

Johannnes89

Not ending before 9 March 2025 06:59 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Johannes, steward and admin on metawiki & dewiki. I mainly work in fighting crosswiki spam and LTA. Usually LWCU is sufficient for that purpose (see my stats for the past months [1]), but when spammers / LTA use sleeper accounts, LWCU is not possible, as it only shows registration data and (just like regular CU) only for the last 90 days. Hence the ability to do local checks via metawiki would be helpful. This would also allow detecting sockpuppets more effectively for LTAs known to switch proxy IPs after registering. I'm also happy to assist at Meta:Requests for CheckUser information, although there are just a few requests per year. Thanks for your consideration and your feedback! --Johannnes89 (talk) 06:59, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support
  1. Support Support--Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:06, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support, no brainer. aqurs ❄️ 07:08, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support sure! --Wüstenspringmaus talk 07:38, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Strong support Strong support One of the easiest strong supports I can make. //shb (t • c) 07:54, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support. Svārtava (tɕ) 08:10, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support --Arcticocean ■ 08:13, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 08:54, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support with frustration, because this is something that Meta:MSR should be explicitly allowing instead of having stewards apply for local CU here. But that isn't Johannes' problem. Leaderboard (talk) 08:59, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Communicating with local CUs for data is not that difficult in meta. It done that way in all other wikis with local CUs. BRP ever 10:44, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, but stewards are unique in that they often need to work with CU data in multiple forms. Half of the stewards have admin/CU/OS just because of how restrictive MSR is. Leaderboard (talk) 10:58, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support AramilFeraxa (talk) 10:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support --M/ (talk) 11:20, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support and disagree with Leaderboard about MSR --Ameisenigel (talk) 12:30, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support sure! --TenWhile6 13:06, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support sounds good. Ternera (talk) 13:20, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support. --Stïnger （会話） 13:45, 2 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]
  15. Support Support until we have a proper global checkuser, Meta adminship is the next best thing for stewards. No concerns with the candidate or rationale for the access. – Ajraddatz (talk) 20:14, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose
Neutral

Requests for Oversight access

"Meta:Requests for oversight" redirects here. To request oversighting, see Meta:Oversighters#Requests.
None currently

Requests for translation adminship

None currently

Requests for CentralNotice adminship

None currently

Requests for bot flags

None currently

See also

Cooperation requests for: comments (local) (global) · translation

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