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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None currently

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]

@MF-Warburg I don't see any comments - let me know if there's something I still need to do as a result. Leaderboard (talk) 16:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Maybe this gonna be helpful for test-sysops, as normally they get the rights for 1 year, if the bot reminds them before the expiration, then it will actually be helpful.

–TANBIRUZZAMAN (💬) 16:45, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Granting the test-admin flag here is generally more streamlined than what the community would normally have to go through, and given that it is for a one-year term, I'm not sure it's really necessary to notify them in advance. Typically, admins of projects going through this incubatorwiki can see when their term is expiring on their main page. If it's hard to see when someone's term is coming to an end, that means the project is inactive, which is a valuable piece of information when evaluating incubator projects. I'm not sure if adding this wiki would be worth it, since the risk of maintenance gaps is significantly lower than with typical wikis. --Sotiale (talk) 13:02, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sotiale "admins of projects going through this incubatorwiki can see when their term is expiring on their main page" - you mean Special:Preferences right? Just want to check whether there's something I'm missing. Please ping me in a response. Leaderboard (talk) 08:08, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Leaderboard, see Wp/nup and Wt/knc. This is their incubator project main page, so they can always check who the test admins of their community are. --Sotiale (talk) 10:29, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sotiale, thanks, I was unaware of this. I see where you're coming from, but personally I consider it to be a "no loss only win" situation. Worst case they ignore the notification, but I've indeed seen active users (not in Incubator) forget that their rights have expired, and run into problems (as even this wiki has a five-day mandatory discussion). The point of the bot is to give that reminder so that they would not have to face any interruption of their test-admin rights, even with the five-day period. I'll leave it up to the community regardless, but please let me know if you do not want this bot to run at all (this also means that no user can opt-in; it's easy however for a user to opt-out). And as usual, ping me in a response or decision (either way). Leaderboard (talk) 10:37, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Leaderboard, I fully understand your good intentions. As mentioned above, the community's response after their TA expires becomes meaningful data when evaluating incubator projects. Someone else on their community may apply, or show that they are inactive, and if they feel the community needs the expiring TA users, they may send a notice to them. I don't want to see pointless extension requests from intermittent TAs who don't even know their term is expiring, and I don't feel the need to collect my evaluation work data in any other way. This is because of the nature of this being an incubator project, and it's different from other regular projects. --Sotiale (talk) 11:16, 8 September 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