Project:Requests

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Use this page for requests for:

• Renaming
• Promotion (to administrator, bot, bureaucrat, etc.)
• Anything else bureaucrats are needed for (is there anything?)

One thing to keep in mind is that unlike most Wikimedia sites, this site is controlled by the MediaWiki developers, not its own community. Being a developer (someone with commit 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; and if you are, you might want to stick to renames and leave promotions to developers. 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.

Asking for transwiki, bot, or rename is fine without demonstrating that you're trustworthy, since those can be revoked at will and don't do much anyway.

Requests for permissions

Archives: Administrator • Bureaucrat • Editor • Other user rights

• Please create a subpage under Project:Requests/User rights/ with your user name as the page title and then transclude it to the bottom of this section.

===User:Example===
{{Rfur|Requested user right}} (Choose from: Administrator, Bot, Bureaucrat, Coder, Editor, Reviewer, Transwiki importer, Other)
I am a MediaWiki developer [http://svn.wikimedia.org/users.php (proof)] or 
I have rolled back many instances of vandalism here and assisted users extensively.
I have accounts on Meta and am an active maintainer of the WMF Bugzilla. - Example 1 Apr 2008, 12:00am

* '''support''' I thought you were an admin here already! - User1, 1 Apr 2008, 12:45am
* '''oppose''' Example punched me in the nose at the last Wikimeet and broke it. I have a personal grudge. - User2, 1 Apr 2008, 1:15am

User:Waldir

Requested user-rights: Transwiki importer.

I would like to be able to import pages from Meta. I've been improving documentation where I can, but lots of detailed information are still sitting there and creating a great deal of duplicated effort. --Waldir 19:01, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

What content are you planning to move over from meta? We only really hand transwiki out to those that can explain what they are doing and what they will be importing over. Peachey88 21:51, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm asking you the same thing I asked on previous requests for importer rights: which pages, exactly, do you want to transwiki? Will they add anything useful to this site? Max Semenik 22:53, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Answering to both: I don't have a specific list; I tend to edit things here whenever I come to read the documentation about specific features and find that I can expand/clarify some text, or add "see also"/disambiguation links to make content more understandable and/or more easily findable. I can give you the specific example that made me finally make this request: Help:Special pages vs. meta:Help:Special page. Just to make it clear: I don't plan to go on a rampage moving all mediawiki-related pages from meta to here or anything like that. I just want to, on a case-by-case basis, be able to import meta pages if that seems to be the action that would produce the most benefit. By the way, technically, I'm already acquainted with the tools: I'm an admin on enwiki, and have performed history merges and splits there; also, I have imported pages from meta to the Wikimedia Portugal wiki when our chapter was founded.

I hope this clears your doubts, but let me know if you'd like any further clarifications. --Waldir 01:33, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Ugh… not on the issue of the import rights, But it looks like Meta's Help: NS isn't in PD like ours is, So that could cause issues with importing it over. Peachey88 01:51, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Good point. I had overlooked that issue. I took some time to get acquainted with the discussions led throughout the past few years and collected a few thoughts on my user page; please take a look. In any case, I will be careful to avoid any licensing violations. Cheers, Waldir 16:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Hm, ancillary to this discussion but we might want to think about whether it needs to remain PD, isn't that for obsolete reasons related to GFDL being an inadequate package for Help that needs to be suitable for import into every mw project? I'm not sure that the license needs to necessarily remain compatible - but that definitely needs discussion elsewhere before it's changed.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 17:57, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

I'd love to see this (re-)discussed. The main reason, given what I could gather from the discussions I read, seemed to be the need to maintain compatibility of the help pages' license with whatever license the target wiki choses. CC-BY-SA is fairly less rigid than GFDL, but it's still viral, so we would need the contributors of meta help pages to collectively agree to either PD or a permissive free license (CC-BY?) if we ever wanted to change this. That sounds like *a lot* of work, but relicensing has been achieved before at a project-wide scale, so it's definitely not impossible. --Waldir 03:51, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

User:Purodha

Requested user-rights: Administrator and Editor and Reviewer.

I am a MediaWiki developer, and I am a translator at translatewiki.net, and I have an account at Meta, and I am active at Bugzilla, and I would like to fix the local Edittool adding a new letter we got in UNICODE, and I've had the wish several times recently to mark a change rewiewed, which I can do e.g. at the German Wikipedia, so I know what's it about.

Thank you. --Purodha Blissenbach 01:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Requests for renames

Information on how renames work is available on Wikipedia., Archives: 2011 (Previous years).

Example request:

=== Oldname -> Newname ===
I'd like to change my username to "Newname" because that's the
username I use on other projects. Thanks! - ~~~~

Tectec -> Itsnotvalid

The CentralAuth system screwed me up, when I was attempting to change my usernames and then created a bunch of "auto-created" accounts for me. Please help me change the name. (Another mistake is by creating the target account, which I am the owner, if anyone could help me to move or unmerge or do whatever that could help me to move that SUL, it would be a great help. )Thanks! - Tectec 14:50, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

SalfEnergy -> Wagner

SUL unification

Vladek Komorek -> Władysław Komorek

I have changed my global name from Vladek Komorek to Władysław Komorek. Please correct all my supages and remove "Vladek Komorek" account, also my old "Wlakom" if exist. Thanks! - Vladek Komorek 09:57, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

None (SUL) -> Yova

My name in other projects is Yova and I started to create a SUL with this name.

Dmb -> Dan Bosler

Plz merge User:Dmb with User:Dan Bolser if possible. Oh... on WP I think I'm wikipedia:User:Dmb000006.

Cheers, --Dan Bolser 22:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Other requests and requests for comments

Archives: Other requests and Requests for Comments