Incubator:Administrators

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.

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To request assistance from an administrator, go to Incubator:Administrators' noticeboard.

User groups on Incubator

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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Iohanen

I'd like to apply for Adminship. I've been a member of the Incubator since May 2020, and although this is nothing compared to those who are administrators (sysops, bureaucrats, etc.) today, I feel like contributing more to this community. It was here, on the Incubator, that I learned how most Wikis work (it could be said that I knew absolutely nothing about them) and got experience to work on and help improve other Wikiprojects (mainly English Wiktionary with some templates and modules). Because of that, I think that contributing to it as an administrator is a way to "pay back" all knowledge I got.

All this knowledge obtained through these four years has also granted me the necessary skills to manage user rights (and evidently other administrator-related responsibilities), resolve disputes, and enforce Incubator policies. I am committed to maintaining a high level of availability and responsiveness as an administrator.

Furthermore, I am a very unoccupied person (sounds sad but I'm currently an International Relations student, it simply doesn't consume much of my time), and I have a bunch of spare time to contribute here. All of this free time has always instigated me to come here now and then (being active for as long as 4~ months and then "disappearing") to help people out at the Community portal, or try — again and again — to manage, improve and instigate activity at Wp/hrx.

While I recognize that my past activity pattern may raise questions, I can assure you that I'm able to maintain a consistent activity (check my recent English Wiktionary activity for reference). I am certain that I could use this free time and the knowledge I got to help the Incubator itself and its users (as I've been doing lately).

(I've also been a test-admin for Wp/hrx during 2020-2021 and 2022-2023, but I don't think this is relevant considering that its rights are confined to the test wiki.)

I will, though, understand if I’m not approved, since I'm quite new compared to others who are much more experienced (both timewise and knowledge-wise) and my come-and-go activity pattern may cause doubt on some. I will keep on contributing and improving the Incubator in any way I can, nevertheless.

Best regards, Iohanen (João) (talk) 07:57, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I was surprised to see you have only ca. 2200 edits on Incubator and 3500 globally. Also you have been inactive for ca. 8 months before becoming active again 10 days ago. However you're already addressing this topic in your request. I would like to know what exactly you propose to do as an administrator - in which areas will you make use of the tools? --MF-W {a, b} 21:10, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@MF-Warburg: Well, like you said I had been inactive for the last 8 months, and what I noticed when I came back (again) is that many pages, even Incubator main pages are easily vandalized and that this goes unnoticed. Check, for example, the Help:Editing page that was left vandalized for almost a month. Other examples, inside Test-wikis for instance, are not uncommon.

I don't think the number of edits I've made is relevant, considering I'm by no means completely new to Wikimedia and MediaWiki itself, but as you put it, I have ca. 2200 edits here out of ca. 3500 globally, which demonstrates that I've gone through the most part of my time as a user of Wikimedia projects contributing to the Incubator. My edits here were mostly related to the Hunsrik Test-wiki, and that's why I spent a lot of that time creating templates and modules (which are large in size but small in number of edits). Today, I am trying, together with User:Piterkeo (a native and expert in the Hunsrik language, owner of this website) to increase the linguistic corpus of the language through Test-wiki, but this is not relevant to the discussion raised here.

In relation to the areas in which I propose to use the tools, I would like to focus on cleaning and rolling back vandalized pages whenever possible. I also noticed that most of the articles for speedy delete are not deleted speedily as expected, so I would like to contribute to this too. Another thing I noticed is that many people spend some time waiting for answers both here and in other areas of the Incubator, such as Incubator:Requests for starting a test, while no one answers them (specially there, here is not the case, I would just like to make things happen quicker here). Of course, I don't want to make a value judgment here, I'm just stating what I noticed. So, these are the areas that I believe I am capable of contributing to the Incubator.

Lastly, out of 12 administrators in the Incubator, at least three are not active according to this very own policy («"Inactive" means virtually no edits or log actions in the past twelve months.») and some have not made significant actions in the last 12 months (which then aligns with my case of being "inactive" [not inactive in this case] for 8 months, but I do not agree with this activity pattern).

Best regards, Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 00:10, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And of course I would very much like to keep helping people on the Community portal (helping with Main, MediaWiki, Module and Template namespaces and any other doubt one might have).

Best regards, again, Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 00:13, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Iohanen: As there were no objections to your request (I also had none to bring up after reading your thoughtful answers), you are now an administrator. Congratulations and I look forward to working with you. --MF-W {a, b} 18:25, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, sir! I also look forward to working with you and all the other administrators!

Best regards, Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 19:28, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tanbiruzzaman

Hello, I'm requesting for administrator rights here to take care of Incubator and other projects currently running here. Also to response to speedy deletion /deletion requests from various projects, and administrative works. I'm aware of all Incubator Policy and Administration policy as well. Hope you'll raise your concerns before going opposition. Thanks. –TANBIRUZZAMAN (💬) 10:26, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This request seems to me come a bit suddenly. You were active last year in Wn/bn, but have only started "meta" activities in this month. --MF-W {a, b} 07:40, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MF-Warburg, I got inactive for my temporary personal issues, later an interim war began in my country. W:2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. As an activist of the movement, I became fully inactive during the time. But now I'm here again, became a regular contributor from now on, and want to began cleanup. I'll not mention about fighting against vandals, because I don’t need the permission for fighting against vandals. But those vandals who's continuously doing their work (vandalism) should be stop by an administrator, reporting on Administrators noticeboard takes a little-long time to get response from current administrators, so I wanna also focus on this. I can also do it with my test-sysop permission, but that doesn’t seems correct to me, outside my test wiki. –TANBIRUZZAMAN (💬) 08:11, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Current requests for test adminship

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MohammedBama123 (wt/knc)

I would like to apply for the test administrator for central Kanuri Wiktionary for Bette and secure articles to be checked and monitored as am currently an admin central Kanuri Wikipedia with a good record MohammedBama123 (talk) 20:41, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributions are all to Wp/knc. Also, Wt/knc does not yet have 50 articles. --MF-W {a, b} 23:33, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MF-Warburg we have created more articles now , they are more than 50 . MohammedBama123 (talk) 08:57, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MF-Warburg hello i want to renew my adminship in central Kanuri Wikipedia,,,and request for admin in central Kanuri Wiktionary. MohammedBama123 (talk) 19:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IJzeren Jan (wp/isv)

Now that most of the work on Translatewiki.net has been done, I'd like to request test adminship for the Interslavic Wikipedia version in the Incubator. ~~I am aware of the fact that it doesn't have the required 50 articles yet, and that's why~~ I would also like to request the right to import most of the material that is currently in our wiki at Miraheze, including 485 articles and a number of templates, modules etc. If that is a problem, then I'd like to ask an admin to do it for me. For what it is worth, I have been active as a registered user on Wikipedia since 2004, I've been a moderator and ArbCom member at nlwiki and vowiki, and I have experience with import and export from one wiki to another. I am very familiar with Incubator (although I might need help with a few things), I know and accept the rules, and I speak Interslavic reasonably fluently. Best regards, IJzeren Jan (talk) 14:26, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discounting "project" page, the 50 article count really has only very narrowly been reached. I don't think there's a necessity for test-admins already at this stage. I suggest discussing the import at Incubator:Import requests. --MF-W {a, b} 21:14, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If the requirements have been reached, albeit narrowly, then what exactly is the problem? The way I understand policy, or rather: any policy, is that once all requirements are met, there should be a pretty good reason to make an exception. And if I'm being honest, "I don't think there's a necessity" does not strike me as a particularly convincing one. The reason why I think it's necessary is quite simply that to make everything work, I'll have to do certain operations that I am not allowed to. For example, implementing automatic transliteration between Latin and Cyrillic. Also, import needs to be performed carefully, because there are a few doublets to be taken care of. IJzeren Jan (talk) 18:52, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - @IJzeren Jan: Hello! I hope you're having a good day.

I understand the requirements have been reached, but do you really think Wp/isv needs a Test-administrator as of right now? Do keep in mind test-adminship does not grant you rights to create MediaWiki namespace pages (this means you still need to ask someone with proper rights), this is, you won't be able to implement automatic transliteration by yourself. About imports, I still suggest you go to Incubator:Import requests, because as you have said, imports need to be performed carefully and this is better done by an importer (a test-administrator does not have this right).

Also, do keep in mind that although "I don't think there's a necessity" is not a requirement, it is an opposition being made by a member, as stated in the policy itself: «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.»

Best regards, Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 20:09, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder: Although the request was made on August 4th, you only reached the requirement of 50 articles (or marked it here) on August 20th, while MF-W answered on August 22th. Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 20:25, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thank you! I was under the impression that MF-Warburg's answer was a decision taken as an admin, and not an opinion voiced as a member. If that's the case, then I suppose another bureaucrat will take a decision. Anyway, I'll do as you suggest and make an import request. Cheers, IJzeren Jan (talk) 09:21, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done: Incubator:Import_requests#Wp/isv! Cheers, IJzeren Jan (talk) 12:46, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Soon an importer will check your request ;). I think @Ooswesthoesbes was also responsible with dealing with test-adminship? Sorry for the ping if I'm wrong.

Best regards and good luck! Iohanen (Garcez) (talk) 21:08, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you muchly! :) And congrats with this, so good luck to you, too! Best, IJzeren Jan (talk) 21:27, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As it stands, you adhere to the requirement, but I would like you to answer the question at Import requests first :) --OWTB (talk) 05:57, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done! :) IJzeren Jan (talk) 08:19, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MRidhaAJ (Wp/acm)

I was good at test-adminship after I got its rights, I was using it to change names, block vandals, and so many things to grow the wiki I edit. Now the adminship year ended and the wiki was some type of offline because I am busy interface-translating. An active user disappeared for a month after he got adminship. Now I want to renew my adminship and keep an eye on the wiki, if there can be multiple admins at the same time. MRidhaAJ (talk) 14:28, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --MF-W {a, b} 21:11, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Song GK (Wp/iba)

I would like to apply test-adminship for Wp/iba wiki test since I am one of the regular contributor of this test wiki. I have created lots of templates and modules in this wiki as well as wrote several articles. Song GK (talk) 00:39, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --MF-W {a, b} 18:26, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Current requests for bot flags

User:Leaderbot

This is for meta:Global reminder bot, expected to run once or twice a day, and does not require a bot flag. Leaderboard (talk) 05:43, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Who will this bot notify and why is this thought to be beneficial? On Incubator, it would mostly affect test-admins. Maybe some test-admins can comment about whether they would find such a function helpful. --MF-W {a, b} 18:27, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MF-W: it will notify anyone with rights that is not in the exclusion list of metawiki:Global reminder bot/global. The reason I think it would be beneficial is to prevent cases like metawiki:Talk:Steward_requests/Global_permissions/2024#Question by giving the users enough time to reapply if they want to. And yes, I expect this to primarily affect test-admins on this wiki. Leaderboard (talk) 06:49, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @MF-Warburg: as I accidentally pinged an alternate account of yours (apologies if you've already seen it). Leaderboard (talk) 10:52, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Other requests

Note: If you want to translate the interface, Translatewiki is the preferred place: here. For local translations, see Incubator:Translation project

None currently