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The following page documents an official
Meta-Wiki policy
This page has been developed and approved by the community and its compliance is mandatory for all users. It must not be modified without prior
community approval
Policies and guidelines
Bureaucrat policies and information
Shortcut
WM:B
This page provides information on Meta-Wiki bureaucrats, and lays out relevant policies.
Bureaucrats
are Meta-Wiki users with the technical ability to:
Promote other users to
administrators
or bureaucrats;
Promote other users to and demote other users from
central notice administrators
interface administrators
confirmed users
flood flag
uploaders
and
translation administrators
- for
limited adminiship
, update also
Template:List of temporary administrators
Grant and revoke an account's
bot
status.
They are bound primarily by
policy
and
consensus
to grant any access, and only when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, always after a successful
request for permissions
Administrators
who have been active for at least the past 6 months may
request for bureaucrat permissions
. Bureaucrats are expected to ensure that the bot policies are followed when granting bot status to an user. They are expected to be capable judges of consensus, and are expected to explain the reasoning for their actions on request and in a civil manner.
Bureaucrats do not have the ability to remove admin rights from users or to grant further levels of access (they cannot promote to
oversighter
or
checkuser
). These capabilities are held only by
stewards
, a small multilingual group that serves all Wikimedia projects. Stewards are elected annually; for more information, see
Steward requests/Permissions
Requirements
edit
Administrators
can
request
bureaucrat permissions on Meta if:
They are active on Meta with over 150 edits/log actions (after getting adminship and not including own userspace) in the last six months.
The user is endorsed by two current bureaucrats after they nominate themselves at
Meta:Requests for adminship
No objections are raised in 24 hours after they nominate themselves at
Meta:Requests for adminship
. If objections are raised, a short discussion should ensue, at which point after 48 hours an uninvolved bureaucrat will close it and analyse whether consensus believes the concerns are valid or not. If the concerns are considered valid by consensus, the candidate must nominate themself via a one-week RfB process identical to RfA and pass to become a bureaucrat.
See also
edit
Bureaucrat
— general information about bureaucrats in Wikimedia projects
Meta:Administrators
Special:Log/rights
— Log of user right changes
Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat
— List of all users who have bureaucrat permissions
Stewards
System administrators
User groups
Local
groups
On Meta
Without global effects
Account creators
Autopatrollers
Bots
Bureaucrats
CheckUsers
Community Wishlist managers
Confirmed users
Event organizers
Flood flag
Importers
IP block exemptions
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Oversighters
Patrollers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Uploaders
With global effects
Administrators
Central notice administrators
Global renamers
Interface administrators
MassMessage senders
OAuth administrators
Push subscription managers
Translation administrators
WMF Office IT
WMF Trust and Safety
On some wikis
Uploaders
Autopatrollers
Patrollers
Reviewers
Rollbackers
Autochecked users
Extended confirmed users
File movers
Interface editors
Abuse filter editors
Template editors
Eliminators
Translation administrators
MassMessage senders
Arbitration committee members
Extended movers
Bots with administrator rights
Flooders
Curators
Election clerks
On one wiki
(except Meta)
Noratelimit accounts
Engineers
Upload Wizard campaign editors
Image reviewers
Test wiki administrators
Property creators
Wikidata staff
Researchers
IP block exemption grantors
Movers
Functioneers
Maintainers
Wikifunctions staff
On all wikis
Blocked users
Unregistered users
Newly-registered users
Registered users
Confirmed users
Autoconfirmed users
Account creators
Bots
Administrators
Interface administrators
Bureaucrats
Oversighters
CheckUsers
IP block exemptions
Importers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Structured Discussions bots
Historical groups
Extended uploaders
Course coordinators, Instructors, Online volunteers and Campus volunteers
ZeroRatedMobileAccess administrators
WMF ops monitoring
GWToolset users
Global
groups
Locked accounts
Unified accounts
Abuse filter helpers
Abuse filter maintainers
API high limit requestors
CAPTCHA exemptions
Founder
Global bots
Global deleters
Global Flow creators
Global interface editors
Global IP block exemptions
Global rollbackers
Global sysops
Global temporary account IP viewers
New wikis importers
Ombuds
Recursive export
Staff
Stewards
System administrators
U4C members
VRT permissions agents
wmf-email-block-override
WMF researchers
Links in
italic
are separate account statuses that are not assigned through user groups.
See also:
Wikimedia user groups
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