Steward requests/Global permissions
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Global rollback and global interface editor requests require no fewer than 5 days of discussion while abuse filter helper and maintainer requests require no fewer than 7 days. Global renamer and global sysop requests require no fewer than 2 weeks of discussion. For requests that are unlikely to pass under any circumstances, they may be closed by a steward without further discussion (after a reasonable amount of input).
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Requests for global rollback permissions
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Global rollback for BraunOBruno
[edit]- Global user: BraunOBruno (crossactivity • verify 2FA)
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Hey everyone. I'm a sysop on pt.wiki, active in counter-vandalism, including cross-wiki when needed, such as today and this past week. Having read Global rollback and its related policies, I would like to request access. BraunOBruno (talk) 18:47, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
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- @BraunOBruno: Hi, you are a trusted user as a pt.wiki sysop, but for global rollback you usually need to show more cross-wiki work before requesting it, for which tools like TwinkleGlobal and SWViewer can be helpful as Ternera said. I suggest you to withdraw this and apply later when you have the relevant experience. Svārtava (tɕ) 19:32, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Svartava I agree to withdraw per the reasonings. Do I need to do anything, or is my word enough? Thanks. BraunOBruno (talk) 19:36, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @BraunOBruno: I'll mark your request as such. Thanks! Svārtava (tɕ) 19:40, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Svartava I agree to withdraw per the reasonings. Do I need to do anything, or is my word enough? Thanks. BraunOBruno (talk) 19:36, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
Requests for global sysop permissions
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Global sysop for DreamRimmer
[edit]- Global user: DreamRimmer (crossactivity • verify 2FA)
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Hello everyone, I am DreamRimmer, a member of SWMT since mid-2023. I am requesting global sysop rights primarily to assist with Global sysops/Speedy delete requests and at GSR, where I have made over 1,100 reports (with a 99.99% success rate). I am actively involved in cross-wiki anti-vandalism and cleanup work and have submitted nearly a hundred OS requests to stewards (mainly to EPIC, Yahya, and JJMC). With my technical background, I would also like to help create local abuse filters to prevent recurring spam and vandalism. Some of my deleted edit statistics can be seen here.
I have knowledge of English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Fiji Hindi and some other Indic languages, along with basic knowledge of some foreign languages.
Currently, I am a global renamer and a member of the en:WP:Bot Approvals Group on English Wikipedia. I would not use the tools for any controversial actions and would always strive to use them responsibly. Two-factor authentication is enabled on my account for security. An ex-GS, now a steward, encouraged me to run for GS.
I am not sure if there is a recall policy on Meta, but I would like to follow one. If I am elected and, at any point, two or more stewards or global sysops ask me to resign, I will voluntarily resign my tools. Thanks for your time! – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:46, 26 March 2025 (UTC) – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:26, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- I noticed that there are complaint of your 'broken redirect' deletion requests. Is that useful as some of them might be still useful for the local community, I afraid if you are elected as a GS and mass delete those broken redirect will probably cause trouble, better let local community to handle them, or only delete those on the main space might be better? Second, you are not an admin in any Wikimedia projects, do you believe you can handle the sysop tool kit if you don't have relevant experience? You mentioned that you wanna help with abuse-filter, I have no concerns of your technical skills as you created many useful scripts/tools ;) , but why didn't you apply for AFH in enwiki (So that we can know you are experienced about it.)? Or you can point out that which AF you made suggestion for change so we can understand your skills or knowledge against AF? Thanks. aqurs 🍧 19:51, 26 March 2025 (UTC)
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- The links you mentioned above are where I requested redirect deletions locally instead of at GSR, as I had some doubts and wanted to check first. The reason I don’t hold sysop permission is that my home wiki is the English Wikipedia, where there are very high standards for becoming an admin, and I am not very active on other projects. I haven’t requested the deletion of any controversial pages, and most of the broken redirects I nominated were from the mainspace, where the target pages had been deleted and the redirects were not retargeted over many years. The only user-space redirects I nominated were those where users had changed their names twice, making the broken redirects unnecessary. I exercised full discretion in my reports and did not report any pages or redirects that I believed were useful to the community. I haven’t requested AFH/EFH on English Wikipedia as I never felt the need (I have responded to over 500 reports at 00:52, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
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- I truly appreciate your enthusiasm and the valuable experience you bring to the table, especially with contributing to various scripts and the Global Sysop stats! However, I have some reservations about your current readiness for Global Sysop, particularly since your longest stint as a sysop was just 20:55, 26 March 2025 (UTC)
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- I will just ask a question: If there are two active admins in a project and you are trying to do some routine stuff (eg. deleting pages tagged for like say a year or so with no local action till date. It is not obvious vandalism/spam and the admins are simply not responding to them). How will you proceed if you come across such a case?--BRP ever 08:12, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- I personally believe that two active admins are usually enough to handle routine tasks on a small wiki, so I would generally avoid doing any non-emergency work. However, if I come across a case where a project has two active admins and the tagged pages aren't obvious spam or vandalism, I would leave them for the local sysops to handle. If it seems like they may have overlooked them, I might leave a polite note as a reminder. As a GS, I would focus on uncontroversial actions and avoid deleting pages that have the potential to be improved. Also, if I am not comfortable with an action, I would leave it to other Global sysops or local sysops to handle. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:54, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
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- I personally believe that two active admins are usually enough to handle routine tasks on a small wiki, so I would generally avoid doing any non-emergency work. However, if I come across a case where a project has two active admins and the tagged pages aren't obvious spam or vandalism, I would leave them for the local sysops to handle. If it seems like they may have overlooked them, I might leave a polite note as a reminder. As a GS, I would focus on uncontroversial actions and avoid deleting pages that have the potential to be improved. Also, if I am not comfortable with an action, I would leave it to other Global sysops or local sysops to handle. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:54, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
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- I'm going to have to go against the crowd and say a solid
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- Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Just to clarify, all my work is manual, and there are no automation scripts involved. I have built some tools for global activities and plan to create more to make spam and vandalism tracking easier, but I haven’t started coding yet. It wouldn’t do anything automatically—just help Global sysops track spam and vandalism. Every bit of my work is done manually. While some tools(10:45, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- Oh, right – in that case I've struck my vote for now. /shb (t • c) 10:57, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
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I will have to regretfully12:52, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your time and feedback. I really appreciate it and hope to impress you with my work. All my contributions across wikis, including GS-wikis, have been made with full scrutiny, and you are welcome to review my stats. You will see that almost everything has been done carefully and remains uncontroversial. I am not asking you to reconsider your opinion, but I want to emphasize my commitment to never abusing any tools and to always being open to recall if needed. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:09, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I trust that you would never abuse your tools judging by your cross-wiki contributions. However, I still find a little less cross-wiki anti-vandalism work apart from your recent GSR requests, as a large number of your global edits across wikis are from renames. As I said, I hope to not discourage you and I would wholeheartedly support once you have a few more months of experience. Svārtava (tɕ) 14:25, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your time and feedback. I really appreciate it and hope to impress you with my work. All my contributions across wikis, including GS-wikis, have been made with full scrutiny, and you are welcome to review my stats. You will see that almost everything has been done carefully and remains uncontroversial. I am not asking you to reconsider your opinion, but I want to emphasize my commitment to never abusing any tools and to always being open to recall if needed. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:09, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- OK, I'm once again changing my vote as I'm swayed to
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- I believe Global sysops very rarely write local filters due to a lack of willingness. The GS tool includes this right, and I am willing to create necessary filters on wikis where there is recurring spam and vandalism. Many Indic and South Asian projects frequently face spam involving bank/mobile numbers, email IDs and astrologers’ contact details. I would write filters to prevent this and assist local admins in setting them up. For example, in this edit, a mobile number was added. While a filter exists to block such additions, users are finding new formats to bypass it. I would improve these filters to cover all possible formats. Additionally, small projects often have filters that log private information, such as mobile numbers and email addresses, which should remain private, and I would work on fixing this issue. Some projects prefer to keep broken redirects, but cross-wiki patrollers mistakenly tag them for deletion. I would help those projects set up filters to prevent such mislabeling, saving them time. Where there is at least one active admin, I would discuss with them and assist in setting up filters. The reason GS tools include this right is so that Global sysops can use it to stop spam and vandalism in small wikis.
- Just noting that OS doesn’t apply to the mobile number diff I shared, as it is a bank number and not a personal detail. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:35, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- `For example, in this edit, a mobile number was added` A local filter is not really helpful For Crosswiki LTA and Spam. `due to a lack of willingness`. Global admins hold back because filters are a major intervention that usually only takes place with the agreement of the community or for good reasons. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 (WikiBayerCatHelper) 17:15, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- Since a lot of GS wikis simply don't have active communities, I wouldn't mind global sysops adding tested abuse filters by themselves provided that they are careful in doing so. Svārtava (tɕ) 17:19, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- A good number of times, mobile-number LTAs target a single wiki, so local filters would work fine. Since filters are a major intervention that usually take place only with the agreement of the community or for valid reasons, this is why I said that where there is at least one active admin, I would discuss with them and assist in setting up filters. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:33, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @WikiBayer - what you're saying applies for AFM - global sysops and stewards are the two global roles that are generally allowed to manipulate filters for anti-vandalism purposes. Leaderboard (talk) 17:38, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Svartava, @Leaderboard Of course it is possible, as I wrote above, if there are good reasons for this. But filters like in large wikis are only written in consensus with the community.. DreamRimmer the linked LTA is Crosswiki active. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 (WikiBayerCatHelper) 18:30, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- WikiBayer: The mentioned example spam is primarily an issue for Indic wikis (around 70-80% of the cases), though other projects also face it. Given my knowledge of local languages, I can make good use of tools to address this issue. I have previously requested OS and, in a good number of cases, believe that a filter would have prevented spam from being saved, thus saving stewards' time by reducing the need for suppression.
- Svārtava and Ternera: If elected, I would take a careful approach, avoiding rushed decisions and asking questions to fellow GS members when in doubt. – DreamRimmer (talk) 19:01, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Svartava, @Leaderboard Of course it is possible, as I wrote above, if there are good reasons for this. But filters like in large wikis are only written in consensus with the community.. DreamRimmer the linked LTA is Crosswiki active. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 (WikiBayerCatHelper) 18:30, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- You do not need "agreement of the community". If I, as an administrator in a wiki, see vandalism/spam that can be prevented by an abuse filter I will just create such a filter. This is exactly my job and I will not start a discussion at the local village pump to do so. This would be counterproductive because the vandal would have a higher chance to know how they are prevented from continuing their vandalism if they are aware of the details of the filter. --Ameisenigel (talk) 22:23, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- I think this needs some deeper discussion since this really depends on the wiki. I for one, would not appreciate a GS coming into my home wiki and creating an abuse filter without knowing the full project scope and would rather see my wiki being opted out as a GS wiki if we do allow GSs to meddle with abuse filters. Agree with local admins, however. /shb (t • c) 11:21, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Yea on your case enwikivoyage is indeed a mid or big community, but for those projects who has 0 admin, or just 1 or 2 and inactive, and keep getting spammers, I think it's fine. aqurs 🍧 12:44, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah those communities should be uncontroversial – ultimately it's one of the key differences between "projects that have opted in to handle occasional excess vandalism" and "projects where GSs function as local admins". /shb (t • c) 02:07, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Yea on your case enwikivoyage is indeed a mid or big community, but for those projects who has 0 admin, or just 1 or 2 and inactive, and keep getting spammers, I think it's fine. aqurs 🍧 12:44, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- I think this needs some deeper discussion since this really depends on the wiki. I for one, would not appreciate a GS coming into my home wiki and creating an abuse filter without knowing the full project scope and would rather see my wiki being opted out as a GS wiki if we do allow GSs to meddle with abuse filters. Agree with local admins, however. /shb (t • c) 11:21, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- `For example, in this edit, a mobile number was added` A local filter is not really helpful For Crosswiki LTA and Spam. `due to a lack of willingness`. Global admins hold back because filters are a major intervention that usually only takes place with the agreement of the community or for good reasons. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 (WikiBayerCatHelper) 17:15, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
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- Q.2 and Q.3 were basic, and the rule for Q.1 was easy, but I acknowledge that I shouldn’t have asked about unicode characters (though unicode characters are now common in vandalism). – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:17, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Alright DR, I've also asked in that GAFH request that SHB2000 did not have to request EFH on enwiki because GAFH is truly global, but you've pinged me that I have to read one of your comments. Codename Noreste (talk) 04:43, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- In my support comment, I said 'you should have', not 'you should'. When I said 'you should have', I meant that you should have requested enwiki EFH instead of GAFH. As per 05:21, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Alright DR, I've also asked in that GAFH request that SHB2000 did not have to request EFH on enwiki because GAFH is truly global, but you've pinged me that I have to read one of your comments. Codename Noreste (talk) 04:43, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Q.2 and Q.3 were basic, and the rule for Q.1 was easy, but I acknowledge that I shouldn’t have asked about unicode characters (though unicode characters are now common in vandalism). – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:17, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
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Requests for global rename permissions
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Requests for global IP block exemption
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Global IP Block Exempt for Werbinich14
[edit]- Global user: Werbinich14 (crossactivity • verify 2FA)
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Global IP block exempt for Ninja Spmc
[edit]- Global user: Ninja Spmc (crossactivity • verify 2FA)
I request the IP block exemption status, as I contribute to Wikipedia using a VPN, which prevents me from editing on certain wikis due to global blockages on certain IP ranges. I currently hold this status on the Portuguese Wikipedia, but I have also been contributing to other Wikimedia projects, like Wikidata, Commons, English Wikipedia (where I simply can't even edit), Spanish Wikipedia, etc.
Additionally, when attempting to edit the source code of articles on the English or Spanish Wikipedia to manually translate the content to other wikis, I receive a message informing me that my edit is blocked due to an unauthorized IP range.
I believe I am a trusted user, as I have never been involved in conflicts or misunderstandings within the community and have never been blocked on any Wikimedia project. Since I already hold this status on the Portuguese Wikipedia, I see the need to have it on other wikis as well to continue contributing positively. --Ninja Spmc (talk) 02:06, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Simply wanting to us a VPN is not a reason to be exempted from the policy. You can privately explain why you have a special situation that requires the use of a VPN/ Please send us more details by opening a ticket at https://utrs-beta.wmflabs.org/ . — xaosflux Talk 08:56, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux, Right! So in this case the order could be cancelled? Ninja Spmc (talk) 10:16, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- I'll mark this copy of the request withdrawn, so you can submit in UTRS with private information. You may also make a new request here in the future if desired. — xaosflux Talk 15:21, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Which is now open below. — xaosflux Talk 15:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- I'll mark this copy of the request withdrawn, so you can submit in UTRS with private information. You may also make a new request here in the future if desired. — xaosflux Talk 15:21, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux, Right! So in this case the order could be cancelled? Ninja Spmc (talk) 10:16, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
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Requests for 2 Factor Auth tester permissions
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