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.

Any new grant of the administrator flag 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 are 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 are 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 are 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

Please fill out the form below to request rights, and then add the template here. If you have had a previous request, please add a number to the end of your username to create a separate request, example: MyUserName (2)

User:DelintBot

Requested user-rights: Bot.

DelintBot (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account)

This bot's job would be to fix lint errors on this wiki, specifically obsolete-tag and bogus-image-options albeit I intend to enhance its capabilities to handle other errors in the future (but I would not run the updated code here without prior approval!). It would not edit translations. Although it can also fix night-mode-unaware-background-color errors, it seems like that particular category is not something that actually affects this wiki (or in case it does, is riddled with too many false positives). I also see a request for a one-off bot job made by Tgr that I believe could be handled by this bot. It is currently flagged on bnwikt under the username RedminBot where it is approved to fix all lint errors.
Source code: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/redminbot/
Edge cases previously encountered in Wikitext that currently receive special attention: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/redminbot/-/blob/main/test_delinter.py Thank you. Redmin (talk) 13:52, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, I am only now realizing that I said the bot was flagged on bnwikt, it is actually flagged on bnwikibooks instead. Redmin (talk) 20:26, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Redmin: Can you please run some sample test edits first?--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:21, 13 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jasper Deng, done; there was a mistake on my part concerning the edit summaries, which were in Bengali as the bot usually runs on Bengali-language wikis but I have since fixed that. Redmin (talk) 07:06, 14 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so there was apparently an error: on three RelEng Team archive pages, there were URLs inside angle brackets that had URL query parameters which were interpreted as attributes of a HTML tag. I have fixed all of those pages and introduced a new check so a mistake like that never happens again. Redmin (talk) 07:40, 14 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to note that the bot has received the flag on Bengali Wiktionary and Wikidata since I started this request. Redmin (talk) 19:36, 27 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jasper Deng: ping :) Redmin (talk) 19:38, 9 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User: Super nabla

Requested user-rights: Translation administrator.

Super nabla (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account)

Hi, Wikimedians! I have been a TA on Meta-Wiki since October 2025; cf. m:Meta:Requests for translation adminship/Super nabla. Since then, I have helped tag and mark many pages for translation (logs), especially of affiliates and projects from South Asia. From time to time, I also receive requests for help from other affiliates, though. I have studied the internationalisation guidelines and reviewed the local (MediaWiki) documentation; I am always available for receiving and integrating feedback from fellow wikimedians and administrators.

As I become more active on Toolforge, I would appreciate being granted TA rights here to streamline translation tagging and reduce the backlog for fellow MediaWiki administrators. To demonstrate my ability in tagging pages for translation, I have recently tagged the page Code2Code Search. Notice that I wrapped in "translate" also Mediawiki-code2code-search-en-screen.png and File:Mediawiki-code2code-search-scheme.jpg as those images can be localised (see, e.g., the screen image in Telugu). Thank you for your consideration. Hope to see you soon in Milan if you're participating in the Hackathon.—super nabla(🪰 msg) 17:57, 10 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]