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This is an
official
Incubator policy.
This page has been elaborated and approved by the community and its compliance is mandatory for all users. You may edit it, but please discuss major changes on the talk page first.
Shortcuts:
I:A
I:Admin
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To request assistance from an administrator, go to
Incubator:Administrators' noticeboard
User groups on Incubator
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Test-administrators
34 users
manual list
Administrators
13 users
manual list showing main languages spoken
Bureaucrats
4 users
Importers
6 users
Interface administrators
3 users
Translation administrators
8 users
Bots
20 users
See
Special:ListGroupRights
for the full list of user groups with their user rights. User group changes are logged on
Special:Log/rights
(Please note, though, that many rights here—notably
test-administrator
rights—have automatic expiration dates. Automatic expirations are not logged.)
Test-administrators
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Description
A test administrator is an active contributor to a test here on Incubator who was given rights to take care of that test.
User rights
Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
Delete pages
Undelete a page
View deleted history entries, without their associated text
Block or unblock a user from sending email
Block or unblock other users from editing
Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
However, they may only use their tools on pages/users in their own test. Note that this is not maintained by the computer system, but by other users (mostly admins and bureaucrats). If you do something outside your test, be prepared to defend your actions or you may be desysopped.
Note for test-admins with sysop experience on other projects: The main sysop rights you do
not
have here are (a) revision deletion, (b) editing in the MediaWiki namespace, and (c) protection. Contact an administrator at
I:AN
if you need assistance on those matters.
Requirements
There can be several test-admins for one test, and inversely, you can be a test-admin for more than one test.
You must have a user page on the Incubator or on Meta and be a contributor to this wiki.
Your test must have more than 50 content pages/articles. Requests for multiple tests must include at least one test with 50 articles or more.
You are not completely new to Wikimedia projects, and you understand and agree with the goals of the Incubator project.
You agree to follow relevant
policies
as those are developed here.
Requesting test-adminship
Place your request, including the name of the test(s) in which you work, below at
#Current requests for test adminship
Users are given 5 days to place comments. After this period, requests will be reviewed by a bureaucrat and if there is no reasonable opposition, you will be made into a test-admin.
Requests for test-adminship are not votes. They are opportunities for other users to raise possible problems. If you get no comment at all under your name, that doesn't mean you are a bad user; it means no one has any objections to you being a test admin.
You can alternatively hold a discussion in a "community portal" page of the test-project. After at least 5 days, you can then add your request here, so that a bureaucrat will decide about it directly.
Removal and renewal of rights
Test-administrators will be desysopped after a domain request for their language is completed, or automatically after a year.
After one year, test-administrators can simply request that their test-adminship is renewed.
See
Incubator:Test-administrators
for a list of current test sysops.
Multiple tests
A request can be for more than one test, provided the request meets the requirements noted
above
Similarly, a test-administrator can request being added to an additional test or tests during the middle of their year as a test-administrator, and the same rules apply. In this case, the rights for the new tests are for less than a full year, because they will expire the same day as the rights for the first test. After that, all tests can be renewed at the same time for one year each.
Administrators
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Administrator access can be granted to known and trusted members of the community who are familiar with the policies of Wikimedia's Incubator wiki. Adminship status on Wikimedia Incubator is not an honour for outstanding content contributors but just an additional tool for people that showed that they want to clean up. Administrator access is also not meant to imply editorial authority on the project. An administrator is simply a trusted user who can:
Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages
Delete pages
Undelete a page
Block or unblock other users from editing
Block or unblock a user from sending email
Edit the user interface
more …
You can request adminship on the Incubator if you meet the following criteria:
You are not completely new to Wikimedia projects and you understand and agree with the goals of the Incubator project.
You have a user page on the Incubator and are a contributor to this wiki.
You agree to follow relevant
policies
as those are developed here and respect consensus of the users of this site.
As with the admin policy on
Meta
and
Commons
, inactive administrators may have their access removed. According to this policy, any sysop inactive on Incubator will be desysoped. "Inactive" means virtually no edits or log actions in the past twelve months. Inactive administrators may re-apply in the regular way.
Admins are expected to watch the
Administrators' noticeboard
for notices put up by other users.
When requesting adminship, after seven days, a bureaucrat will make a decision based on the votes and comments to grant, not to grant, or to extend the time for discussion if there is still need for it.
Any new admin should first propose (on the
Community Portal
for example) what they are going to do (
certainly for mass-scale actions
) before doing it. This is to prevent mass-scale mistakes that need to be reverted manually afterwards. Some time later (a few months or so), when the admin is used to common practices, this is no longer required.
Bureaucrats
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Bureaucrats are administrators who can assign user rights of requests on this page.
There are no requests for bureaucratship; any administrator may optionally ask to become a bureaucrat after one month (providing they have behaved well).
Account creators
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Currently on Wikimedia projects, the number of accounts that can be created in a 24-hour period from a single IP is limited to six. There may be situations, such as outreach events, where creating more would be helpful.
Administrators and bureaucrats are already exempt from the six-account limit and do not need this right. Anyone else (including test administrators) needing an exemption from the six-account limit for a specific event should ask here.
This right will normally be granted only to people with a history of responsible editing on Incubator and other Wikimedia projects.
When asking for this right, please provide detailed information on the reason you need the right (such as the time, place and sponsorship of the outreach event). This right will be provided only for the period needed, and then removed.
Ideally, please ask for this right at least three days in advance to provide time for comments. After that, a bureaucrat will make the decision.
Importers
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Importers
have the possibility to
import pages
with the full history from certain defined wikis (administrators can do this too). Additionally, they are able to edit pages in bulk from XML files, which is used for
importing closed projects
Transwiki importers
can import from the same defined wikis, but cannot import in bulk from XML files.
When requesting importer access, after three days, a bureaucrat will make a decision based on the votes and comments to grant, not to grant, or to extend the time for discussion if there is still need for it.
When you are already an administrator, no waiting time is needed. Bureaucrats are also able to grant these rights to themselves.
Interface administrators
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Interface administrators can edit JavaScript (JS), Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and JSON pages (pages such as
MediaWiki:Common.js
MediaWiki:Vector.css
). They can also edit users' individual CSS and JS pages which otherwise can only by edited by the users themselves. CSS and JS access is particularly sensitive due to the possible damage caused by intentional or accidental misuse, so it is important that interface administrators ensure they practice good account security and be careful with the changes they make. For legal and security reasons, the Wikimedia Foundation has decided that you need to have
two factor authentication
enabled in order to hold this right.
Bureaucrats are able to grant and revoke these rights, including to themselves. Please make requests in the appropriate section below. They will run for at least 7 days.
This right is granted for no longer than one year at a time to non-administrators, but is renewable.
Translation administrators
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There is a special usergroup which allows editing the MediaWiki namespace: the translator group. It was originally created for translating Incubator-specific messages in the MediaWiki namespace (see
Incubator:Translation project
). It is nowadays largely outdated, as most of the messages can now be translated on
translatewiki.net
or via
the local installation of the "Translate" extension
. It may still be granted for specific purposes.
The translation administrator group is for managing the pages which can be translated with the Translate extension.
Bureaucrats decide about granting both rights. Administrators can also add/remove the translation administrator rights on their own accounts. They are removed when a bureaucrat deems appropriate to do so (e.g. inactivity).
Bots
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The edits of an account with bot status will be hidden from the recent changes.
To request a bot status, please
list you and your bot's name below
along with a description of what your bot will be used for. A bureaucrat will decide if a bot is safe and needed though any user may make a comment about it.
Note: Bots for mass article creation are typically not approved. The ultimate approval of projects into subdomains is based on the existence of active communities, not only the numbers of articles.
Requests for permissions
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Shortcut:
I:RFP
Below are the current requests for permissions.
Please always first read the
policy written above
before making a request.
Current requests for adminship
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None currently
Current requests for test adminship
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Shortcut:
I:RFTA
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Merrahtar
Wp/sjd
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Hi! I would like to request a test-adminship on
Kildin Sami test Wikipedia
. I've already had test-sysop rights in the past, so basically I'd like to re-apply since lately I've been actively working there. Thank you in advance.--
Merrahtar
(talk)
20:57, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
reply
Do you really speak this language? --
MF-W
{a, b}
15:53, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
reply
Yes, at the intermediate level. I also work with a Sámi teacher — she wrote an article or two here when the wiki was active back in 2011.
(sorry, I've just noticed the message)
Merrahtar
(talk)
12:51, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
reply
ऐक्टिवेटेड्
Wp/mag
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Hello. I would like to request for renewal of test-adminship for
Magahi Wikipedia
for maintenance of this project. Thank you. -
ऐक्टिवेटेड्
talk
17:22, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
reply
Done. --
MF-W
{a, b}
18:23, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
reply
Teitei para
Wp/mrh
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I would like to request the
renewal
of test-adminship rights on Mara Wikipedia in order to perform maintenance the work. Thanks
Lai Tei (Teitei)
talk
03:08, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
reply
Done. --
MF-W
{a, b}
16:23, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
reply
Thank you.
Teitei para
talk
06:37, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
reply
Almajidy
Wy/ar
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I believe that for Arabic Wikivoyage to successfully graduate from the Incubator, it needs an active administrator, and I consider myself a strong candidate for that role.
Thanks
Almajidy
talk
00:36, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
reply
Comment
To be honest, I'm not sure you are ready for adminship yet. I think you need more time exploring the Incubator and seeing how things work.--
Mdktb
talk
04:00, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
reply
Exec8
Wp/hil
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I am requesting test-sysop rights for the Hiligaynon Wikipedia (Wp/hil) test project to help keep things organized as we work toward hatching the wiki. I have been engaged on this specific incubator, currently holding the most edit contributions, and I would like to help with standard managerial tasks like clearing out test pages and handling vandalism. I am already aware with the administrative toolset on the full wiki, as I currently serve as an administrator on both the Cebuano Wikipedia and the Wikimania wiki, alongside my localization work over at translatewiki.net. We are also putting together plans for offline outreach and editor training specifically for Hiligaynon, building on the exact same framework I used when organizing local community outreach for the Cebuano Wikipedia in Cebu, Davao and Iligan. Having the test administrator tools will simply make it easier for me to support our growing community of editors by keeping the test project clean and running smoothly. --
Exec8
talk
07:53, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
reply
Current requests for bot flags
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None currently
Other requests
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Note: If you want to translate the interface, Translatewiki is the preferred place:
here
. For local translations, see
Incubator:Translation project
Request for Translation Administrator rights for Wp/mrh
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Hello,
I am currently a Test Wiki Administrator on the Mara Wikipedia (Wp/mrh). I am actively working on developing Mara language content, including translation and localization of interface messages.
To better manage and support translation work using the Translate extension, I would like to request Translation Administrator rights.
I am familiar with the translation system and will ensure proper management of message groups and translations.
Thank you.
Teitei para
talk
07:35, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
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Comment
Hi, there's nothing in your test project which you can improve with translationadmin rights, and the interface messages are translated in
translatewiki
, not here. 🪶-
TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN
03:29, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
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Not done. --
MF-W
{a, b}
15:55, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
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