Project:Requests

Use this page for requests for:


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

There aren't really any formal policies on what's required. Use common sense. People with commit access probably get at least sysop automatically. Long-time developers and so on get bureaucrat. Otherwise, don't ask for something that you can't demonstrate a use for, and don't expect to be particularly trusted if you aren't known within the MediaWiki community, or at least trusted on some major Wikimedia wiki. Transwiki may be given out freely and removed freely, sysop and bureaucrat not so much.

Requests for permissions

 * Bureaucrat: In light of the creation of this page, and the relative lack of active bureaucrats, I would like to now place a request to fill the shoes. I know my way around the interface form experience on WS, and I haven't yet made any stuff ups there, so I think I'd be suitable. Cheers, -- Anon  Diss  08:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There's not much in the way of rename requests quite yet, we should really encourage non-admins to use this time to get renames straightened out before they all start having this problem. I don't have any issue with this, but if you could snag an opinion from another bureaucrat or developer first, I'd appreciate it? :) Kylu 16:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Well if you'd like an endorsement from someone who isn't a bcrat or developer then you have mine. I don't think another bcrat is a bad idea, and AD will do a good job (probably ^_^) (but seriously AD, don't get overwhelmed with all your new buttons you've been getting lately...)  Majorly  (talk) 02:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * On hold Please, if you're interested, leave this request here. Turns out there are some "hiccups" with account merging and we're waiting to see what the results of the patch are. I'm told by one of the shell users that we don't need any more bureaucrats here until the workload increases. Just imagine what it'll be like when general public accounts have to start getting merged! Kylu 02:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Need bureaucrats? Voice of All is pretty much the only active bureaucrat who has made more than 50 edits this year. I don't see how more aren't needed.... but I'm willing to wait. I'm not sure I understand why I am being put into limbo land though, while this patch issue goes over... how does this affect my request? Also, not to seem over-eager, but how long a wait are we talking? Weeks? Months? -- Anon  Diss  05:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Also know I have requested an opinion from bcrat and developer VOA. Anon  Diss  05:45, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * When I was asked about promoting more bureaucrats, I was told: "You've had, what, one rename request? No, we don't need more at the moment." I don't know the timeframe, sorry. If you'd prefer to be declined instead of on-hold, that's fine. I thought you'd appreciate being first when we end up needing more. Kylu 13:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I really don't think we need any more crats for now and since Tim has disabled Special:CentralAuth for now, it best to leave it as it is but if the need arises, AnonDiss is also my first choice..-- Cometstyles 13:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * We've had a grand total of eight user rights changes and ten renames so far this year (of which, incidentally, VoA has done one, Kylu two, Bdk five, and I nine). I just recently got a few rename requests in a row and foresaw many more to come.  I remarked on this in #wikimedia-tech, and Kylu volunteered to help.  I had seen her around and knew she was highly trustworthy, so I promoted her.  If we end up needing more bureaucrats, or you can otherwise convince VoA or someone to promote you, you'll be promoted.  Until then, not.  Since I can't personally vouch for you, I'm not going to personally endorse your promotion or promote you unless we actually need more bureaucrats. It's not clear we need more bureaucrats.  It depends on whether people are willing to step up and take on the rename load.  We already have eight bureaucrats, compared to for instance 3 on dewiki: almost three times the number with a ridiculously tiny percentage of the load.  Of course, it might be that everywhere is going to need more bureaucrats to handle SUL load.  We'll see.  Maybe giving sysops rename rights would be a more sensible course of action to handle it. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 13:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * wow I didn't even know that it was possible to do that (rename rights for sysops) but if its possible, that may be the best option...-- Cometstyles 14:17, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * User rights are very configurable. You could even make a usergroup ("renamers" maybe?) that only had that one tool. If you check m:User:Kylu/permissions you'll see a semi-steward "manager" right I came up with for test.wikipedia, which specifies exactly what rights can and can't be removed. I think, if nobody objects, I'm going to make this section for AnonDiss into a subpage and just link to it here as "Pending promotions" or similar. Cometstyles, if you're interested in custom userrights, let me know. I've got a ton of ideas and know how to implement them. :D Kylu 15:57, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Requests for renames
Could you please change my user name to Erwin. This user already exists but has no edits. Erwin is my user name on meta and my home wiki, nlwiki. I've put up a matrix on m:User:Erwin/Matrix. Thanks. --Erwin85 22:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Kylu 01:24, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Erwin 08:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Other requests
None currently.