This page is a summary of information about bureaucrats, policies and guidelines regarding the use of bureaucrat tools on the English Wikipedia, and details on how to perform certain actions. Changes made to it should reflect consensus. |
Bureaucrat tasks: |
Bureaucrats are Wikipedia users, usually administrators, with the technical ability to perform the following actions:
Some of the above abilities overlap with administrators who are able to add and remove the IP block exempt, confirmed user, and pending changes user groups (in addition to certain other user groups).
Bureaucrats are bound by policy and consensus to only grant administrator or bureaucrat access when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, usually after a successful request at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. In the same fashion, they are expected to exercise judgement in granting or removing bot flags with the advice of the Bot Approvals Group. They are expected to be capable judges of consensus, and are expected to explain the reasoning for their actions on request and in a civil manner. Actions by bureaucrats are also bound by the policy on use of administrative rights.
Bureaucrats have been authorized by the community to remove administrator permissions in certain situations outlined below. Bureaucrats do not have the technical ability to remove bureaucrat rights from users or to grant or remove certain levels of access such as oversight or checkuser rights. These actions are performed by stewards, a multilingual group of individuals who serve all Wikimedia projects and are elected and reconfirmed annually by their users. Changes in user rights by stewards are recorded at meta:Special:Log/rights; for more information, see m:Steward requests/Permissions.
Users are granted bureaucrat status by community consensus. The process is similar to the process of granting administrator status, but the expectations for potential bureaucrats are higher and community consensus must be clearer. See Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship.
The bureaucrat privilege may also be removed by Steward request in certain situations (including if an account appears to be compromised).
On the English Wikipedia, there are currently 15 bureaucrats.
Timeline showing all users who have served as bureaucrats
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These are instructions and procedures concerning bureaucratic actions and processes.
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In some situations, a bureaucrat may remove an account's sysop
(administrator) rights, and/or
request that a
steward remove an account's bureaucrat
rights:
Bureaucrats should include a permanent link to the request or relevant policy when removing permissions. If necessary, the affected user should be immediately notified and given a reason for the removal along with advice on seeking the reinstatement of the permissions.
Should the extended confirmed
group have been removed from the account since becoming an administrator, it should be restored when removing administrator permissions.
The
interface administrator policy requires removal of the interface administrator
permission upon removal of the administrator permission.
The use of these procedures is not intended to constrain the authority of the Wikimedia Stewards to undertake emergency removal of permissions on their own discretion, or removal following a request from the Arbitration Committee, pursuant to the relevant policies governing Steward actions.
If an editor is verified as having died, all advanced permissions on the account should be removed. Unless the account is suspected of being compromised, it should not be blocked. For Checkuser, Oversight and Bureaucrat rights, which cannot be removed locally, a request to remove those should be posted on meta:Steward requests/Permissions § Removal of access.
There are two separate activity requirements applicable to bureaucrat accounts:
In the case that a former administrator or bureaucrat requests their permissions be restored via the bureaucrats' noticeboard:
copyviobot
flag.
[10]The interface administrator user group may be granted or removed according to the interface administrators policy.
A bureaucrat mailing list was established in March 2009, [11] but was retired following a discussion in 2017. [12] It was intended as a convenient way to notify bureaucrats about urgent matters or, on rare occasions, to discuss private matters.
Any issue that is neither urgent nor necessarily private should instead be handled at the appropriate on-wiki venue, for instance at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. For sensitive matters you may contact an individual bureaucrat directly.
This page is a summary of information about bureaucrats, policies and guidelines regarding the use of bureaucrat tools on the English Wikipedia, and details on how to perform certain actions. Changes made to it should reflect consensus. |
Bureaucrat tasks: |
Bureaucrats are Wikipedia users, usually administrators, with the technical ability to perform the following actions:
Some of the above abilities overlap with administrators who are able to add and remove the IP block exempt, confirmed user, and pending changes user groups (in addition to certain other user groups).
Bureaucrats are bound by policy and consensus to only grant administrator or bureaucrat access when doing so reflects the wishes of the community, usually after a successful request at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. In the same fashion, they are expected to exercise judgement in granting or removing bot flags with the advice of the Bot Approvals Group. They are expected to be capable judges of consensus, and are expected to explain the reasoning for their actions on request and in a civil manner. Actions by bureaucrats are also bound by the policy on use of administrative rights.
Bureaucrats have been authorized by the community to remove administrator permissions in certain situations outlined below. Bureaucrats do not have the technical ability to remove bureaucrat rights from users or to grant or remove certain levels of access such as oversight or checkuser rights. These actions are performed by stewards, a multilingual group of individuals who serve all Wikimedia projects and are elected and reconfirmed annually by their users. Changes in user rights by stewards are recorded at meta:Special:Log/rights; for more information, see m:Steward requests/Permissions.
Users are granted bureaucrat status by community consensus. The process is similar to the process of granting administrator status, but the expectations for potential bureaucrats are higher and community consensus must be clearer. See Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship.
The bureaucrat privilege may also be removed by Steward request in certain situations (including if an account appears to be compromised).
On the English Wikipedia, there are currently 15 bureaucrats.
Timeline showing all users who have served as bureaucrats
|
---|
These are instructions and procedures concerning bureaucratic actions and processes.
Discussion | Header | Footer |
---|---|---|
Successful RfA | {{
subst:rfap}}
|
{{
subst:rfab}}
|
Unsuccessful RfA | {{
subst:rfaf}}
|
{{
subst:rfab}}
|
Successful RfB | {{
subst:rfbp}}
|
{{
subst:rfbb}}
|
Unsuccessful RfB | {{
subst:rfbf}}
|
{{
subst:rfbb}}
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Bureaucrat discussions | {{
subst:bdtop|a|p}} (passed RfA) {{
subst:bdtop|a|f}} (failed RfA)
|
{{
subst:bdbot}}
|
On hold RfA | {{
subst:rfah}}
|
{{
subst:rfab}}
|
On hold RfB | {{
subst:rfbh}}
|
{{
subst:rfbb}}
|
Successful BAG | {{
subst:rfbagp}}
|
{{
subst:rfbagb}}
|
Unsuccessful BAG | {{
subst:rfbagf}}
|
{{
subst:rfbagb}}
|
In some situations, a bureaucrat may remove an account's sysop
(administrator) rights, and/or
request that a
steward remove an account's bureaucrat
rights:
Bureaucrats should include a permanent link to the request or relevant policy when removing permissions. If necessary, the affected user should be immediately notified and given a reason for the removal along with advice on seeking the reinstatement of the permissions.
Should the extended confirmed
group have been removed from the account since becoming an administrator, it should be restored when removing administrator permissions.
The
interface administrator policy requires removal of the interface administrator
permission upon removal of the administrator permission.
The use of these procedures is not intended to constrain the authority of the Wikimedia Stewards to undertake emergency removal of permissions on their own discretion, or removal following a request from the Arbitration Committee, pursuant to the relevant policies governing Steward actions.
If an editor is verified as having died, all advanced permissions on the account should be removed. Unless the account is suspected of being compromised, it should not be blocked. For Checkuser, Oversight and Bureaucrat rights, which cannot be removed locally, a request to remove those should be posted on meta:Steward requests/Permissions § Removal of access.
There are two separate activity requirements applicable to bureaucrat accounts:
In the case that a former administrator or bureaucrat requests their permissions be restored via the bureaucrats' noticeboard:
copyviobot
flag.
[10]The interface administrator user group may be granted or removed according to the interface administrators policy.
A bureaucrat mailing list was established in March 2009, [11] but was retired following a discussion in 2017. [12] It was intended as a convenient way to notify bureaucrats about urgent matters or, on rare occasions, to discuss private matters.
Any issue that is neither urgent nor necessarily private should instead be handled at the appropriate on-wiki venue, for instance at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. For sensitive matters you may contact an individual bureaucrat directly.