Use this page for requests for:
Note that Requests for comment and other miscellaneous requests should
not
go here, but instead to the
Project:Village Pump
or
Administrators' noticeboard
if you want to avoid using Structured Discussions
.
Any new flagging to +sysop 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're 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're 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're 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.