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Bukovník@cswikiquote

Status:    Not done

1 support, 0 oposse, 0 neutral --Bukovník (talk) 08:11, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Please provide a link to the discussion --DannyS712 (talk) 08:12, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Also, account only has 41 edits to cswikiquote and was created 17 days ago... food for thought --DannyS712 (talk) 08:14, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
[1] There is it --Bukovník (talk) 08:36, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
The supporter made their support as their 4 edit to cswikiquote. Just a note --DannyS712 (talk) 08:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

@Bukovník: cswikiquote have a bureaucrat. Please contact him. --Sotiale (talk) 08:46, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Not done - @Danny B.: --Green Giant (talk) 02:08, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

شيماء@arwiktionary

Status:    Done

Hello stewards! Please extend the adminship of this ex-administrator. الناجم العاجم (talk) 14:25, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 1 year to expire on 2021-05-03. -- --Alaa :)..! 16:04, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Kibi78704@gd.wiktionary

Status:    Done

Hi.
I am petitioning for temporary adminship/sysop status on gd:wictionary.
I've been editing gd:wiktionary (aka Uicleir) since 1 February 2015. After a while, my partner and I, the sole editors at the time, both became temporary admins. At the end of that 6-month term, both of us took a hiatus from editing Uicleir. I returned three years ago to become the sole consistent editor. I have been cleaning up for the past 3 years, somewhat under the wing of Akerbeltz on gd:wikipedia. I've been translating & correcting misspelled page names, writing, debugging & documenting templates, deleting unnecessary redirects, categorizing and writing definitions, etc. I am currently the only editor working there. There are no stewards nor bureaucrats serving on that tiny wictionary; the only admin is the automated Abuse filter.
I have posted a notice about my request for adminship on the local portal, just in case anyone else is reading it. Please see Adminship for Kibi78704 - 25 Giblean 2020
Kibi78704 (talk) 20:29, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

 On hold until 2020-05-02 (mandatory 1 week notice). --Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:09, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2020-11-03. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:04, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Kibi78704 (talk) 22:02, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Fierodelveneto@vec.wikipedia

Status:    Locally handled

Following the regular election held for the appointment as administrator of Fierodelveneto on our Wikipedia but given that the current rules for the majority on elections as administrators are under revision we ask that he become temporary administrator for 3 months. At the end of the 3 months a new election will take place and the new rules that will be established will be applied to his election. Thanks --- Vajotwo (post) 22:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Vajotwo: You are a local bureaucrat on vecwiki. Granting him 3 months temporary admin permission or permanent admin permission can be done according to the consensus of the community with your bureaucrat permission. Are there any technical issues with granting him? --Sotiale (talk) 11:50, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
@Sotiale: I just did it. I didn't know I could assign temporary flags too. I apologize for the inconvenience. --- Vajotwo (post) 12:28, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
@Vajotwo: No! I'm also glad that it works out well. Thank you for your handling. --Sotiale (talk) 12:30, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Rachmat04@id.wikisource

Status:    Not done

Hello! I'd like to request long-term admin and interface-admin permissions on idwikisource to help other administrator handling administrative tasks, responding to spammer, and improving site gadgets. I have asked local bureaucrat to handle this query yet no response until today. Thank you. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 03:47, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Rachmat04, hi! There is a local bureaucrat in idws, s:id:user:Meursault2004, please contact them to close the vote and grant you the rights :) A small reminder, as an interface admin you have to have your 2FA enabled. --Base (talk) 03:13, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Geonuch@thwikisource

Status:    Done

Hello, Please renew my sysop and interface-admin right on thws again. A local discussion started since 23 April 2020. Best regards. Geonuch (talk) 03:44, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 1 year to expire on 2021-05-07. --Base (talk) 03:51, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

丁子君@zh-classicalwiki

Status:    Done

Hello. I would like an extension for my adminship in Classical Chinese Wikipedia, where I had worked as an admin for about two years. I have already announced my application to the community per the link provided. Thank you! 丁子君 (talk) 14:01, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

 On hold until 10 May 2020. --Sotiale (talk) 14:04, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Now the 11th, status changed. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 05:29, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2022-05-11. --Sotiale (talk) 12:45, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

QueerEcofeminist@mrwikisource

Status:    Done

I have been working with marathi community for a while, I have gathered some experience of different tools, policies, workflows of wikipedia/wikisource through my cross-wiki work, I wanted to give more time to mrwikisource community and bring back gadgets, tools, templates to mrwikisource, I will take things slowly and test before I do anything on large scale. Will enable 2FA too. List of tasks is here s:mr:सदस्य:QueerEcofeminist/List_of_tasks_for_sysop thanks QueerEcofeminist "cite! even if you fight"!!! [they/them/their] 10:26, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

 On hold until 13 May 2020 Ruslik (talk) 18:49, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2020-11-13. QueerEcofeminist, unfortunately due to the current community size I am not comfortable granting you permanent permissions yet, but I have granted it for 6 months given your experience (normally we start at 3). You will need to extend your permissions by initiating a new vote about a week before the date mentioned comes and file a new request here. Your new tenure will be longer. Now, given what tasks you want to perform, please note that with administrator flag alone you would not be able to do all of them, you will also need Interface administrator flag in order to edit gadgets and similar stuff, please run another vote for that. Also, please note that if you want to translate interface of the wiki to Marathi, you should do it at translatewiki.net and not locally (unless you have a good reason to override a global translation locally). 2FA is not compulsory for administrators but it is for interface administrators, so please enable it before submitting the IA flag here in a week :) Thank you for your work, and I am sorry that I have to put you through more bureaucracy than I'd like to. --Base (talk) 15:47, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
@Base:. Thanks a ton for the rights and suggestions, yes I am aware that I would need interface admin for gadgets, I prefer to go slow, so once I am prepared with all the things needed locally, I will request for interface admin with community approval. And I know that, I need to do translations on translatewiki, as I already have an account there, and I am doing it side by side for a while now. I had made my request for temporary sysop only, but then I changed it to permanent because of suggestions from three active members from the community itself. thanks again. QueerEcofeminist "cite! even if you fight"!!! [they/them/their] 16:39, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

JohnsonLee01@vi.wikivoyage

Status:    Done

Please grant sysop flag for 12 months. – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 10:03, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2020-11-16. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. @JohnsonLee01: I'm uncomfortable granting the permissions for one year, given viwikivoyage is a very small wiki. However, since you seem to be trusted by the Vietnamese community, I've granted the permissions for 6 months (usually, the first adminship lasts three months). --Martin Urbanec (talk) 14:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

BEGJIGIT@kaa.wikipedia

Status:    Done
Done Granted for 3 months to expire on 2020-08-16. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. Ruslik (talk) 19:46, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

User Balyozxane@kuwiktionary

Status:    Done

Hello. This request is for permanent Administrator access and permanent Interface Administrator access.--Ghybu (talk) 04:09, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

@Balyozxane: Please, enable 2FA in order to get interface administrator access. Ruslik (talk) 20:54, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
@Ruslik0: Enabled. Thank you!--Balyozxane (talk) 00:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
@Balyozxane: Hello. On https://ku.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?oldid=3971278#Gotûbêj, and unless the translation software is wrong, you said that you don't know CSS and that you may ask for interface-administrator access once you learned it one day. Have you changed your mind regarding this? Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:49, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
@MarcoAurelio: Yeah that's right. I realized there are some need for access to the interface-administrator rights.--Balyozxane (talk) 15:13, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
He needs it to modify the MediaWiki pages (for translation). Indeed, he asked me here because he needed to modify this page. And this type of modification doesn't require programming knowledge. And Having no opposition from other administrators (@Bikarhêner: [5]), I made the request directly here.--Ghybu (talk) 16:32, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Even an ordinary admin can edit MediaWiki: pages. An ordinary admin only cannot edit *.css and *.js pages in MediaWiki/User namespaces. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:47, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
@MarcoAurelio: Hello dear. Although we don't know CSS, we sometimes need to change interface elements, include *.css and *.js pages. For this, it is necessary to be an interface administrator. For this reason, I believe that Mr. Balyozxane's request must be accepted. Thanks. -- Bikarhêner (talk) 18:01, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
The interface admins were created to separate users who know CSS and JS from users who don't. Personally, I don't think persons who do not know CSS/JS should be interface admins, because the rights are very dangerous if used by a non-tech person. This is my personal opinion --Martin Urbanec (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
@MarcoAurelio "Even an ordinary admin can edit MediaWiki: pages.": are you sure? If this is the case there is no problem ... Balyozxane, can you to modify these pages: MediaWiki:Helppage, MediaWiki:Sidebar, MediaWiki:Searchmenu-new? The problem is that without Interface Administrator, we are blocked even to add a language here... Even if I understand your opinion, the reality on the ground is quite different, especially for small wiki. Many give up because for each modification you have to go through the Meta ...--Ghybu (talk) 18:54, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
@Ghybu Yeah I can change those pages now. I guess we don't really need full rights after all?--Balyozxane (talk) 20:19, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
PS. I've been learning Python for the Wîkî for some time now and meaning to start learning CSS afterwards.--Balyozxane (talk) 20:38, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
If you can change them, I no longer see the point of asking. You will ask for it later when you need it.--Ghybu (talk) 23:51, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Marwan Mohamad @gorwikipedia

Status:    Done

Dear stewards, my admin rights expired today. This is the 4th request I submit for an administrative right and it’d be happy if it is possible for me to be granted for a permanent right as I usually happen to be in the sea (working on the ship) and it is difficult to find a best network service to edit. Thank you for your kind assistance. Marwan Mohamad (talk) 17:01, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2022-05-22. Unfortunately, the community is not big enough for permanent adminship. However, since this is the 4th renewal, I've granted it for 2 years. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 17:38, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Lee@si.wiktionary

Status:    Done

I've held a temporary sysop flag on this project for 3 years now. This time also there were no participants on the vote. I am already a sysop on Sinhala Wikipedia project and I would be a better candidate in maintaining this project than global sysops. Therefore please grant me temporary sysop right on the project for 2 more years. --Lee (talk) 09:07, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2022-05-23. Ruslik (talk) 20:11, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Lee@si.wikibooks

Status:    Done

I've held a temporary sysop flag on this project for 3 years now. This time also there were no participants on the vote. I am already a sysop on Sinhala Wikipedia project and I would be a better candidate in maintaining this project than global sysops. Therefore please grant me temporary sysop right on the project for 2 more years. --Lee (talk) 09:07, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 2 years to expire on 2022-05-23. Ruslik (talk) 20:12, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

JohnsonLee01@viwikivoyage

Status:    Not done

Please check and grant flag in 6 months. – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 17:20, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Didn't we just go through this? Almost all of the support is from obvious socks and canvassed accounts in the first. And two votes in the second... Praxidicae (talk) 17:24, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Not done Per Praxidicae. As I already explained, the voting is not valid, because it isn't actually a community voting. Please give some time to vi.wikivoyage to develop. In the meantime, the stewards and global sysops are happy to help, please see SRM as a place for making requests. Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:40, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
[6] I do not use the puppet to vote, you can ban this account immediately if found out, I need this permission to add new utilities to wikivoyage. – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 17:46, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Canvassing and sockpuppeting is both dangerous and both a threat to normal consensus-making process. Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:57, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
I dont Canvassing and use sockpuppeting. I has delete out unqualified voting, Please grant flags, if violations are found, you can ban my account. Please monitor my account, – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 18:01, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Your insistence on granting sysop flags without understanding why it's been declined is problematic. You'd be better off waiting 6 months to a year instead of digging yourself further into a hole here by making demands. Praxidicae (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
I dare say that I did nothing wrong, I was unreasonably deleted flags. You can ban my account if I abuse voting or use sockpuppets. – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 18:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Mxn, DHN, Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy, ThiênĐế98,can you explain help me ?? – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 18:16, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Not reply? – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 18:42, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Martin, first I would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Since the Vietnamese projects, with the exception of Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource, are largely understaffed and do not have the necessary personal to take care of, our community has to send users from other projects from time to time to help carry out these projects. Recently, our community has seen a wave of vandalism from sock puppets, and projects that are not managed by anyone are really at risk. I have never seen a global sysop or steward dealing with these issues in Vietnamese language projects before, and the vandalism are done very subtly (for example: The socks made many normal-look-alike contribution, while putting unwanted, obscene contents inbetween the sentences, making it really difficult for Global Sysops to identify the vandalism). I personally think it would be better if we had a local administrator who speaks the language and takes care of the project. JohnsonLee01 has voluntarily taken care of vi.wikivoyage while other users have taken care of other projects. Although he has only registered with this account for just under two months, he has been contributing to vi.wikipedia for several years and knows exactly what he should and can do. Excerpt from the result of the first round of voting, which did not end as it should be, JohnsonLee01 is trusted by the Vietnamese Community, particularly the bureaucrats ThiênĐế98, Tuanminh01 and other sysops like Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy,... of vi.wikipedia. I would like to ask whether you can wait until the end of this voting round to decide whether you are giving him the right or not.--故人 talk 19:14, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
A surely there is a vi editor who has experience and has established trust with the community. A barely 2 month old user is not someone I would think that most communities would be willing to hand over tools to...you say htey are trusted by the community but I'm confused as to how. Less than 2 months they have been editing - that's barely enough time to demonstrate an understanding of the function of Wikipedia, let alone the need for tools.Praxidicae (talk) 19:17, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Praxidicae For the most part, I will agree with your statement. I certainly don't think he has enough experience for big projects like vi.wikipedia, but vi.wikivoyage is a small project is that receives not very much attention and we have to rely on people who are passionate about it. Even though he has only been registered for barely two months, what he did in a so short amount of time is outstanding and that's why many people think he could carry out vi.wikivoyage. The last time when he got the tools, he did a really good job, which shows that he could handle the tools. And I think that as a global sysop, you could look into the logs and see what he did while having the sysop tools to confirm what I said.--故人 talk 19:56, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
The fact that it is a small project with very little oversight is exactly why we shouldn't be granting unknown and untrusted users perms. As far as logs, I find them problematic, particularly the self granting of IPBE and ipbe to brand new accounts that did not request it. Praxidicae (talk) 19:58, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
The qualification is changed over time? Back then I remember if soneome got no opposite in a RfP for at least 1 week, they will be given sysop flag for 6 months or so (that is the way I got temporary sysop flag for vi.wikiquote and vi.wikibooks 10 years ago). In fact those small communities would "never" get enough support from their local community (which seem even no exist at all), they only could rely on support from trusted member in other wikis in the same language. In this case, JohnsonLee01 have trusted from few of "actively users still remaining" on Wikivoyage, I admit that canvassing is applying here (what else he could do for a very small community?) but we wouldn't vote for him if we didn't trust him enough in the beginning. If the qualification is being change, please explain the way this process should be done, instead just leave a comment like "leave it for steward and global sysops". We all know a steward or global sysop with no basic knowledge about specific language is also a "trouble", that why we should promoting local sysop as soon as possible as long as there is trusted people who volunteering to do this task. Aside from that, there is no guaranteed that community in Vietnamese Wikivoyage is skilled enough in English to communicating with Mr.stewards here by English, are you sure you are willing to response his wall of text in Vietnamese for each case needing help (since he has no obligation to present in English, simply he don't have to do that)? If you can, then please forget what I said. Thank you. --minhhuy (talk) 02:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Being an old temporary admin of vivoyage in the past, I see the valid points of both Praxidicae and the need of vivoyage to have an local admin. Clearly JohnsonLee01 has gained the trust of the Vietnamese community and is quite technically proficient, but he doesn't know how wikimedia works and the requirement of an admin from WMF. So if no compromise can be made, I will try to re-apply as an admin of vivoyage with JohnsonLee01 helping me. Thanks. Tuanminh01 (talk) 11:25, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Alphama@viwikibooks

Status:    Done

Hello Steward on Meta Wiki, in recent times, Wikimedia's Vietnamese projects have reappeared in the state of inter-Wiki sabotage when there have been many destructive modifications recently. Therefore, in order to avoid future sabotage, the community has made a number of Administrator elections and I am one of the people selected to this right along with User:ThiênĐế98 and User:Thienhau2003, according to the voting results here. Please, Steward, grant rights based on the above results to the community. Thanks. Note: This person is not very well-written in English and other requests related to other Wikibooks members asking for permission here are required by the same vote. Please forgive me for making the Meta request so I may not know the rules here. Thienhau2003 (talk) 06:40, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 1 year to expire on 2021-05-26. Ruslik (talk) 20:44, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Sayonzei@zhwiktionary

Status:    Done

After local RFA process. Xiplus (talk) 03:31, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 3 months to expire on 2020-08-26. To prolong your (interface) adminship, please start another election a few days before your temporary access expires, and after a week post your request again to this page. Thanks. --Sotiale (talk) 05:08, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

ThiênĐế98@viwikibooks

Status:    Done

Hello Steward on Meta Wiki, in recent times, Wikimedia's Vietnamese projects have reappeared in the state of inter-Wiki sabotage when there have been many destructive modifications recently. Therefore, in order to avoid future sabotage, the community has made a number of Administrator elections and I am one of the people selected to this right along with User:Alphama and User:Thienhau2003, according to the voting results here. Please, Steward, grant rights based on the above results to the community. Thanks. Note: This person is not very well-written in English and other requests related to other Wikibooks members asking for permission here are required by the same vote. Please forgive me for making the Meta request so I may not know the rules here. Thienhau2003 (talk) 06:40, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 1 year to expire on 2021-05-26. Ruslik (talk) 20:42, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Thienhau2003@viwikibooks

Status:    Done

Hello Steward on Meta Wiki, in recent times, Wikimedia's Vietnamese projects have reappeared in the state of inter-Wiki sabotage when there have been many destructive modifications recently. Therefore, in order to avoid future sabotage, the community has made a number of Administrator elections and I am one of the people selected to this right along with User:ThiênĐế98 and User:Alphama, according to the voting results here. Please, Steward, grant rights based on the above results to the community. Thanks. Thienhau2003 (talk) 06:40, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2020-11-26. Ruslik (talk) 20:45, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

User Kunokuno

Status:    Done

I would like to apply as temporary administrator for three months to fix module errors, update missing templates, and help the other administrators in locating pages which are subject for deletion or for further article improvement such as adding more reliable citations, untagging of broken links, and removal of minor vandalisms. Kunokuno (talk) 07:38, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

 On hold until 24 May 2020 Ruslik (talk) 20:31, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Support Support, I hope he will be approve as admin in Bicol Central wiki --Philippines ShiminUfesoj Philippines
ShiminUfesoj, this page is not meant for people to vote at. Please vote in the discussion on bclwiki linked. --Base (talk) 02:35, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Done Granted for 3 months to expire on 2020-08-26. --Sotiale (talk) 05:00, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Interface administrator access

Kaleem Bhatti@sd.wikipedia

Status:    Done

My temporary Interface administrators and administrators is expiring on 8 may 2020, as per local wiki voting I'm requesting for permanent Interface administrators and administrators. Kaleem Bhatti (talk) 05:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

 On hold until 8 May 2020 Ruslik (talk) 16:50, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Done Ruslik (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

JohnsonLee01@vi.wikivoyage

Status:    Done

Please grant Interface administrator flag for 12 months. – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 10:05, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

@JohnsonLee01:  On hold Please enable two factor authentication, as it is a WMF-imposed requirement on being an interface administrator. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 14:12, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
@Martin Urbanec: done! – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 14:32, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
@Martin Urbanec: Please grant Interface administrator flag for 12 months. – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 12:05, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Done --Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:07, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

JohnsonLee01@viwikivoyage

Status:    Not done

Please check and grant flag in 6 months. – Le Duc Anh (💬|📝) 17:21, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Not done Per the above. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:44, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Thienhau2003@viwikibooks

Status:    Done

Hello Steward on Meta Wiki, in recent times, Wikimedia's Vietnamese projects have reappeared in the state of inter-Wiki sabotage when there have been many destructive modifications recently. Therefore, in order to avoid future sabotage, the community has made a number of Administrator elections and I am one of the people selected to this right along with User:ThiênĐế98 and User:Alphama, according to the voting results here. In addition, because in order to perform an outdated interface update, I would like to ask for additional Interface Administrator Rights. Please, Steward, grant rights based on the above results to the community. Thanks. Thienhau2003 (talk) 06:46, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Please, enable 2FA. Ruslik (talk) 20:47, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Ruslik0 2FA has been activated, please check again and grant permissions. Thanks. --Thienhau2003 (talk) 06:10, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Done Granted for 6 months to expire on 2020-11-27. Ruslik (talk) 20:14, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Bureaucrat access

Luensu1959@lij.wikipedia

Status:    Not done

Please grant bureaucrat rights permanently. We advertised the election on our Community portal, on the Wikipediàn and by means of our site notice. We are well aware that we only have two permanent admins right now but plan on nominating two more admins soon, so please consider this: our small wikipedia has been making big progress in the past few years and we never collected so many votes like this time. We already had a bureaucrat election at the very beginning of our project back in 2006 at lij:Wikipedia:Buròcrati/Eleçioìn/Dario vet. Also, two past admins (Feipìn and Badano5) have voted favorably, testifying to great harmony in our community. --S4b1nuz E.656 (talk) 19:03, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

S4b1nuz E.656, Luensu1959, I know that it must be frustrating, but I have to decline this request. There are 6 people with 90+ actions in the past month, and some of the other people visible are long term editors although they did not edit much this year yet. This is a good number and I can only thank you for the effort you are making, but unfortunately I do not feel comfortable to assess your community as big enough to have a local bureaucrat yet. Please note that the main function of the bureaucrat flag in smaller wikis used to be local renames and local bot request handling. The former, since the accounts are now only global, is no longer a responsibility of local bureaucrats but of global renamers (and stewards); and while the latter still is true, it has lost most of demand due to interwiki links now being on Wikidata. Bureaucrats also handle assigning of administrator, interface administrator and bureaucrat flags, but this does not happens often in small wikis and there are 39 stewards to help you with this. I recognise that usually wikis also bestow some social role on bureaucrats not directly related to technical rights. If the community wants you to close especially tricky discussions and the like, I see no problem with that. Some small wikis do have bureaucrats but that is only because they have had them since long time ago when the practices were different. I cannot give you clear objective criteria which you have to satisfy if you want to have a bureaucrat, there are no such criteria, but the community should grow more. --Base (talk) 03:14, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

CheckUser access

Operator873@simple.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Please grant CU rights for Operator873 per community vote here [[8]]. He is also identified to WMF per [[9]] -- Enfcer (talk) 01:05, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Done. @Trijnstel and RadiX: Please add Operator873 to mailing list and private wiki. Thank you! --Sotiale (talk) 02:55, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Done. Trijnsteltalk 20:26, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

User علاء@wikidata

Status:    Done

Successful request. Lymantria (talk) 07:42, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Done —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 15:07, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks @Lymantria and Tks4Fish: --Alaa :)..! 04:40, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

User Marc Mongenet@frwiki

Status:    Done

For the French arbcom, — Racconish 💬 21:57, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

The user have just been notified on frWP Village Pump to sign the confidentiality agreement. Regards, Linedwell [talk] 14:06, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
@Marc Mongenet: Hi. I've just send you an email. Please take a look & reply. Trijnsteltalk 14:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Done. CheckUser permissions added. Access to mailing list et al. still pending to be processed. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 20:53, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Also Done now. Trijnsteltalk 21:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

User Jean-Christophe BENOIST@frwiki

Status:    Done

For the French arbcom, — Racconish 💬 21:58, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

The user have just been notified on frWP Village Pump to sign the confidentiality agreement. Regards, Linedwell [talk] 14:06, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
@Jean-Christophe BENOIST: Hi. I've just send you an email. Please take a look & reply. Trijnsteltalk 14:53, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
@Trijnstel: I've done both (signature and reply). Please tell if something wrong. --Jean-Christophe BENOIST (talk) 11:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Done. CheckUser permissions added. Access to mailing list et al. still pending to be processed. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 20:53, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Also Done now. Trijnsteltalk 21:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Vermont@simple.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Please grant the above user CU rights following successful community vote. Thank you. Chenzw (talk) 17:27, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:44, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Courtesy ping to Trijnstel so she can take care of the other stuff if not done already. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 19:26, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, MA. Doing... Trijnsteltalk 09:07, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
Now Done. Trijnsteltalk 18:44, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

User BRPever@wikidata

Status:    Done

I have closed this request as successful Ymblanter (talk) 06:07, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Done, Linedwell [talk] 07:57, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Oversight access

Mr. Fulano@ptwiki

Status:    Done

Mr. Fulano was approved for another term as Oversight at Portuguese Wikipedia. As explained by @Érico: here, please assign the permission without expiration. Thanks. EVinente (talk) 13:02, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Done. --Sotiale (talk) 13:14, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Enfcer@simple.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Please grant oversight permission to the above editor, following successful local RfP. Thank you! Chenzw (talk) 13:24, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Done @Trijnstel: Please do an additional job for Enfcer. Thank you for your time. --Sotiale (talk) 13:33, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Doing... Trijnsteltalk 18:05, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
And Done. Trijnsteltalk 22:42, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Removal of access

CptViraj@testwikidatawiki

Status:    Done

No longer needed, thanks. -- CptViraj (📧) 17:09, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Done--Sakretsu (炸裂) 17:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Tomos@jawiki

Status:    Done

This user are inactive for 3 months. Please remove sysop and bureaucrat permissions as per de-sysop policy due to inactivity. Thanks. -- rxy (talk) 10:42, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Done--Sakretsu (炸裂) 11:36, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

User SQL@enwiki

Status:    Done

I'm going to be away for a while (at an absolute minimum a month, probably a few months), and I won't be monitoring my account. Best practice is to remove any elevated perms. SQLQuery me! 01:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

 On hold for 1 day, standard for resignation of advanced permissions —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 01:38, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
The permission has been removed. @Trijnstel: could you please do your magic with the rest of things? einsbor talk 09:23, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Done. Hopefully you'll be back soon, SQL. Trijnsteltalk 09:57, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

LizaChekhovska (WMUA)@uawikimedia

Status:    Done

Hi, I was granted admin rights on this wiki as WMUA staff memeber, and now, since I am no longer working as staff, I would like to ask this right to be removed. Thanks! —LizaChekhovska (WMUA) (talk) 17:03, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Ruslik (talk) 20:24, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

User Gratus@frwiki

Status:    Done
Done-BRP ever 08:28, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
@Trijnstel:, can you please help with removing access at other venues? Thank you -BRP ever 08:40, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Done. Trijnsteltalk 21:24, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Michal Lenc@cswiki

Status:    Done
On hold for 24h per standard practice. einsbor talk 18:04, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
@Michal Lenc: Done Thank you for your service. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 16:39, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

CaAl@nlwiki

Status:    Done

Please remove my bureaucrat and sysop rights. I've fulfilled these roles with pleasure for many years and was hoping to reach my 25K-contribution to the project soon in a happier setting, but I lost faith in the Dutch community. The community has become so small and incrowd that decisions are now made based on who shouts the loudest, rather than who has the best arguments.

This has led to a lack of support to admins and other users who literally get harassed , on-wiki and off-wiki, for doing their job, and the recent attempts to explicitly use the male pronoun as much as possible in articles on non-binary persons, a slap in the face to all of us who try to make a more inclusive encyclopedia, the only way of having a true Free Encyclopedia. In the months after this poll closed, only a few users tried to find a common ground that respects the open and inclusive vision of this project. The vast majority either was okay with it or simply didn't care. For me, this revealed something that I've felt, but didn't realise, for a longer time.

The fact that the Arbitration Committee has been understaffed for years now is another sign that the Dutch community simply doesn't have sufficient critical mass to be a healthy community. In the past years, I've done various attempts to improve the situation, but unsuccesfully. Three months ago, I decided to take a wikibreak to reflect upon things. As sysop/bureaucrat, you are regarded by the outside world as a representative of the community. I've come to the conclusion that I no longer wish to represent the Dutch community. This is fine, by the way: in a democratic process, the majority gets to decide. In a healthy democracy, this is done whilst keeping the minority in mind. I guess we just grew apart. I always fought for a Free Encyclopedia, where Free stood for much more than not having to pay money. A battle I lost. So be it.

(Feel free to keep this on hold per standard practice - but as you can see from my contributions on nlwiki, this request has been on hold with me for three months. So if you want to immediately honour my request, that's fine by me as well.)

CaAl (talk) 06:55, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I put it on hold, to be done tomorrow. einsbor talk 08:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Done. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:05, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Обрадовић Горан@sr.wikipedia

Status:    Done

Please remove only sysop access. The user didn't make any sysop action within last six months. --Novak Watchmen (talk) 21:30, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Does this policy apply to checkuser admins as well? Ruslik (talk) 19:39, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
@Ruslik0: The relevant local (No. 1: administrator and/or bureaucrat access & No. 2: CheckUser access) and global inactivity policies (No. 1: English & No. 2: Serbian) don't exclude such users. --Novak Watchmen (talk) 14:00, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Done Ruslik (talk) 20:22, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. --Novak Watchmen (talk) 23:50, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

User Finnrind@nowikipedia

Status:    Done

User was not reelected for another period at the biannual reelection. Please remove admin access. Haros (talk) 22:18, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Done —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:43, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

User Tarjeimo@nowikipedia

Status:    Done

User was not reelected for another period at the biannual reelection. Please remove admin access. Haros (talk) 22:18, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Done —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:43, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

User Stigmj@nowikipedia

Status:    Done

User did not want another period at the biannual reelection. Please remove admin access. Haros (talk) 22:18, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Note @Haros: Stigmj has interface-administrator access as well, but that one was not removed. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:43, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks~for the warning. Haros (talk) 10:53, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Björn Hagemann@de.wikipedia

Status:    Done

NNW (talk) 12:39, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Done Ruslik (talk) 21:01, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Rodhullandemu@commons

Status:    Done

EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:59, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Done --Sotiale (talk) 14:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

ZUFAr@ba.wikipedia

Status:    Done

--ZUFAr (talk) 18:48, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

 On hold for one day as per our standard practice. You are free to withdraw this request at any moment until it is completed. --Base (talk) 01:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Done Thank you for your service. --Sotiale (talk) 14:00, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Miscellaneous requests

User Ghaly@arz.wikipedia

Status:    Not done
  • As per previous permission , I have been Bureaucrat on arz.wikipedia since 2009. I have just found out that I no longer have this permission. I can't recall being informed of any impending action regarding this and will be very grateful to know how and why this has happened. Arz.wikipedia had its articles increased in the last few months. It feels stragne that such action has been taken without informing me or explaining the reasons.
  • I was not aware of any investigation relating to a user of arz.wikipedia. Regarding my actions. there has been a support for sysop votes and no opposition. The nominations have stayed on for adequate amount of time. The interface permission was made due to need and after discussion between sysops that it was needed. I have followed the rules as much as I can. The users concerned have made many contributions to the arz.wikipedia. I am sorry for any unintentional acts that have taken place. I would have rectified them myself , had I been informed. As the user who originally put the proposal for arz.wikipedia, it doesn't make any sense that I have done anything to compromise it after more that 12 years of hard work to develop it. Kind regards. --Ghaly (talk) 05:40, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
    I'm here to post related annoucement by Tks4Fish. --Hamish 05:47, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
    This announcement and investigation were both made without informing me. I was not aware of the issue with the LTA.I would have removed the disputed rights , had I been informed. It is something that would have preserved the arz.wikipedia administration from interference by users from other wikipedias. the announcement is not an explanation of why this has been done without giving me time to explain what has happened. I am now finally doing this here. It beggars belief that I would intentionally do anything to compromise arz.wikipedia. I would recommend a quick review of my edits here on meta and my actions during the last twelve years.
    I would like to express my disappointment at the notion that the Interface administrators permission was given to anyone who was likely to misuse them. The page does not stipulate any voting process is needed. Reverting edits is an issue that should have been addressed locally. Edits from a user who mainly edits on another language Wikipedia would have been subject to normal dispute process. Transparency of the stewards' decision making would have helped resolve this early enough without reverting to what has happened. --Ghaly (talk) 08:36, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
    @Ghaly: I'm going to address each point separately.
    To begin with, and to address the I was not aware of any investigation/Transparency of the stewards' decision[...] concerns, this investigation involved private data, and as such we cannot publicize it.
    there has been a support for sysop votes and no opposition. The nominations have stayed on for adequate amount of time.: as arzwiki doesn't have a local policy for minimum voting requirements, it is covered by the global one, which can be seen on Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements and determines that for permanent adminship at least 5 votes are needed.
    The interface permission was made due to need and after discussion between sysops that it was needed.: can you please show where these discussions took place?
    The page does not stipulate any voting process is needed.: all grants of advanced permissions should be done after a vote or discussion in a public space, such as the Village Pump, as opposed to a (user) talk page.
    normal dispute process.: can you please link the page for such process on arzwiki?
    Arz.wikipedia had its articles increased in the last few months: this action was not taken to prevent the wiki's development, but to protect it and other projects (as the abuse of the IA permission can have global consequences). The stewards are never against the development of a project, but this development needs to be in consonance with the policies.
    I'd like to note that arzwiki is a wiki on the Global Sysop wikiset, which means global sysops and stewards can take actions there, such as deletion, block, protection, etc. Beside that, I'd also like to note that, provided the vote meets the requirements seen on Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements, arzwiki community is free to open local discussions and ask for the permissions to be granted here on this page. —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 15:02, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
    @Tks4Fish:
    Thank you very much for your reply
    1. This is the link to the discussion and request . No vote process was required according to the meta page. Only request to bureaucrat on wiki.
    2. This is the link to voting policy. Only stipulating that who votes must have made 40 contribution beforehand, no minimum number was required. This nomination in question , by the way, is still on the page and so far no opposition was lodged. I was yet to move it to closed nominations.
    3. The steward in question whose edits have been altered is acitive on ar.wikipedia. May I suggest reading the proposal for arz.wikipedia to clarify if there is a potential conflict of interest between ar.wikipedia editors and arz.wikipedia editors. That person should understand fully the language of Egyptian Arabic and could have pointed the pages out to you.
    4. The two users who lost their sysop right have contributed the most in growth and development of arz.wikipedia in the last few months, Neither one has commited any violations regarding arz.wikipedia work from what I can see. I fully understand the isuue about the LTA, which I was never made aware of, hence I have no objection regarding the user concerned.
    5. like many other disputes, the one who had a problem should have let the sysop and beurucrat know first. This would have been better on the village pumb page.
    6. I did not receive any notification that the nomination process should have been stopped. I would have co-operated fully with the advice.
    7. For judgment about how much work I have put in arz.wikipedia, I would suggest reading en:Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
    8. It would have been justified if you asked me first to explain what happened. I would have followed the rules as I have always done.
    So far, I find the actions against me unjustified. There is no way this is not going to affect further development of arz.wikipedia. I will be very grateful when the actions against me are revoked. I am not questioning your motivations, just wanted to set things straight.--Ghaly (talk) 16:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
    @Ghaly:
    1. That happened on 23:53, 29 December 2019 (UTC), whereas the right was given at 18:16, 29 December 2019 (UTC), and it's also a request for clarification on what IA does, and not a request for the permission to be granted. Moreover, 2FA is required by WMF for the role, and there's no evidence you requested that from the user.
    2. Thanks for the link. That page, however, only outlines the requirements for the voters, and not for the permission as a whole, which needs to be compatible with the Minimum voting requirements. It is not feasible to, in a somewhat absurd example, grant permanent adminship with only one support vote that meets the 40 edits requirement.
    3. I disagree that there's a conflict of interest here, as the action was taken as a steward fighting crosswiki spam, and not as an editor. If you think any action by any steward is in any way a violation of policies, you are welcome to write on the Stewards' noticeboard here on Meta.
    4. I understand the contributions these users had on the wiki. However, one of them is a globally blocked LTA, and, as such, editing is a evasion of this lock, even if he was productive locally. The other user, as mentioned on the announcement, had his right removed due to interfering on the crosswiki spam fighting.
    Again, the users are more than welcome to run again for the permission, as you are, provided the requirements outlined on Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements are met. As for the bureaucrat permission, the community may not be large enough for that permission, which may not be granted if a local vote is successful. —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 16:55, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
    @Tks4Fish:
  1. My understanding in that Egyptian Arabic is not your mother tongue, it is mine though. To my understanding of my mother tongue , this was a request. I used my discrition to grant these rights, this was due to the need and expansion of the arz.wikipedia. I have edited mediawiki files for years beforehand and this was just another step needed due to the changes over the last 12 years.
  2. No minimum number of votes have ever been required in arz.wikipedia and it was never the community's wish to impose this. That should have been respected.
  3. You did not provide any evidence what so ever to support that any of the users who had interface rights have commited vandalism or violation of the rules of arz.wikipedia. The three of them have acted with due deligence and helped growing and developing the project.
  4. Anyone who would like to stunt the growth of arz.wikipedia would have done exactly what you and the other steward have done.
  5. Applying rules retrospectively and denying me what has been my rightful right , then offering me to apply for it again knowing that it will be almost impossible to achieve is neither fair nor just.
  6. These actions have left arz.wikipedia under the mercy of people who don't have an understanding of the language itself.
  7. Conflict of interest is very clear here and should have been put in consideration when making a decision. The simple act of asking me to revoke the interface rights would have resolved this amicably. This would have been of benefit , especially if the rulle of en:Wikipedia:Assume good faith was followed.
  8. There was no malicious or intentionaly harmful act here and assuming good faith from a user who have put a lot of effort in developing a wikipedia that is now one of the 50 largest wikipedias would have been much appreciated. --Ghaly (talk) 18:07, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

If you still have sysop access is precisely because it was reasonable to acknowledge at least your good faith. However, it remains a fact that arz.wiki doesn't need a bureaucrat who grants a few flags per year in such a way, nor it is supposed to have bureaucrats at all per current guidelines. Now, please, instead of claiming that this is all due to an alleged conflict of interest although many people reviewed this case and came to the same conclusions, let me suggest that you focus on preventing LTAs from running wild again on arz.wiki. The idea of "one of the 50 largest wikipedias" built by an LTA makes me shiver. As for the rest, I'm not sure what this request was for, but I'm closing it as this isn't a place for appeals.--Sakretsu (炸裂) 23:02, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

  • @Tks4Fish:
  • Please accept my apology , as I was typing I put the link below not the one that has the request. This is the correct one, it clarifies the rationale behind the decision as well. I made the decision after reading the rules Interface administrators , and there was no mention of a voting process. The voting in the correct link was made on my page originally to make the user a bureaucrat. I was not the one who has chosen the voting to take place there. There was support as you can see. The user asked to have interface administrator rights. User was already a trusted sysop. I dealt with it as an administrator issue that can be addressed to improve the scripts.The decision was to give these rights to more than one based on my understanding of Interface administrators.
  • I have also found the link to the voting policy . There was no wikidata link to it. As you can see , there is no minimum number of votes required.

I appreciate your reasons for the closure of this discussion I was asking why these decision have been made. I am still unclear about what long term abuse has been committed, but I was told this is a privacy matter.

As has already been explained on arz.wiki too, Fuadalqrize is a cross-wiki spammer whose account has been globally locked. Sock Al-Dandoon was created on January 6, 2020 and was granted permanent adminship by you with three votes in favour just two months later. At that time, Al-Dandoon hadn't written anything but a bunch of messages, and created a ton of stubs with the aid of a bot. Needless to say, their cross-wiki spam activity kept going on. About the interface-admin right, that discussion took place on your talk page. At the end of it, you decided on your own to grant such dangerous right to all admins on the grounds that it was "needed", while obviously it wasn't. You didn't even require users to turn two-factor authentication on or have a basic understanding of CSS and JS. I'm sorry, but all these are exactly the kind of circumstances that we aim to avoid. With that being said, this isn't a "discussion". Please note that this is a request for an unspecified permission, which is now closed.--Sakretsu (炸裂) 23:02, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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