Test Wiki:Requests for permissions

Requests for permissions

You can request administrator, bureaucrat, or other permissions below. To be eligible for bureaucrat permissions, you must fulfill the criteria established in the bureaucrat policy. Generally, this means 4 days of being an administrator and having 10 edits total, with exceptions. Interface administrator rights can only be granted by the stewards and are only given to highly trusted users. Abuse filter administrator rights may be requested here, but two stewards must support your request. These rights are only granted to trusted users for non-test reasons. If two stewards do not support your request, please request abuse filter administrator rights at the community portal. All rights will be removed after 3 months of inactivity. Other Permissions: Bot, translate administrator, interwiki admin, autopatrol, election administrator, For Steward or System Administrator, a vote should take place on the community portal. Bureaucrats, you can use the userRightsManager gadget to easily handle requests. Please note that you should make a confirmation edit, then link to the diff on the other wiki, when specifying cross-project accounts.

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Click the Request rights button to request permissions

Whyiseverythingalreadyused

• User: Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk · contribs · deleted · logs · rights) (assign permissions)
• Requested right: Bureaucrat
• Link to your account in other projects, e.g. Wikimedia, Miraheze, Fandom (optional): English Wikipedia (see /Archive 18 § Whyiseverythingalreadyused)
• [Yes] I am familiar with all of Test Wiki's policies and agree to follow them completely.
• [Yes] I agree that I am entirely responsible for all actions done under this account, including those performed by someone other than myself.
• [Yes] I agree that if I misuse the tools, my access might be revoked and I may be banned from Test Wiki without prior warning.

Comments by the requester (optional): Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk · contributions · he/him) 10:04, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done Bosco (talk) 10:26, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Sotiale

• User: Sotiale (talk · contribs · deleted · logs · rights) (assign permissions)
• Requested right: Steward
• Link to your account in other projects, e.g. Wikimedia, Miraheze, Fandom (optional): See my Wikimedia account
• [Ay-ya, captain!] I am familiar with all of Test Wiki's policies and agree to follow them completely.
• [Ay-ya, captain!] I agree that I am entirely responsible for all actions done under this account, including those performed by someone other than myself.
• [Ay-ya, captain!] I agree that if I misuse the tools, my access might be revoked and I may be banned from Test Wiki without prior warning.

Comments by the requester (optional): A Wikimedia steward typically visits a test wiki to exercise their global administrative authority in a controlled environment where local oversight is absent. Because test wikis are designed for experimentation, they often lack a stable, permanent body of local bureaucrats. Stewards step in to manage user permissions, such as granting administrator or CheckUser status to developers and testers who need elevated access to break (and then fix) the software. Beyond simple permissions, a steward might arrive to mitigate cross-wiki disruption. If a bad actor uses the test wiki as a staging ground for spam or vandalism that threatens the global account system, a steward uses CentralAuth tools to lock the account across all Wikimedia projects. They also serve as the final line of defense for technical testing, verifying that new global user groups or configuration changes function correctly before they are deployed to high-traffic sites like Wikipedia. Sotiale (talk) 21:16, 20 February 2026 (UTC)