Incubator:Administrators

This is official Incubator policy. You may edit it, but please discuss major changes on the talk page first.

User groups on Incubator

• Test-administrators (13 users)
• Administrators (16 users)
• Bureaucrats (8 users)
• Importers (9 users)
• Translators (16 users)
• Bots (14 users)

See Special:ListGroupRights for the full list of user groups with their user rights.

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.

Rights

• perform rollback
• delete and undelete pages
• view deleted history of pages
• block users (also blocking the use of Special:Emailuser)

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.

Requesting test-adminship

• Place your request, including the name of the test(s) in which you work, below at #Current requests for test adminship.
• 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 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.
• 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.

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.

Administrators

Administrator access is 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:

• protect and unprotect pages
• delete and undelete pages
• block and unblock users
• edit the interface and other protected pages
• 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 no edits in the past six 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 he is 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.

Admins are strongly encouraged to join our IRC channel regularly.

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).

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.

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 and/or bureaucrat, no waiting time is needed. Bureaucrats are also able to grant these rights to themselves.

Translators

There is a special usergroup for translating Incubator-specific messages in the MediaWiki namespace: the translator group (for the standard messages, there is translatewiki.net). Bureaucrats decide about granting translator status, which is open to people contributing on Incubator or being active as translators on translatewiki.net and others who show that they are not new to Wikimedia and willing to translate the Incubator messages into their language. Translators lose their status when a bureaucrat deems appropriate to do so (e.g. inactivity).

For more information about translating on Incubator, please see Incubator:Translation project.

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.

Requests for permissions

Below are the current requests for permissions.

Please always first read the policy written above before making a request.

Current requests for adminship

I would like to protect some of the templates I have created from vandalism etc. I am on Mizo Wiktionary and Mizo Wikipedia incubators. Could that be done without adminship? If so please tell me how; If not, could I be made admin? Thanks (RMizo (talk) 08:18, 10 April 2012 (UTC))

Is there actually vandalism on these templates? If yes, we could consider to restrict the editing of the pages to autoconfirmed users (the only other possibility is to restict editing to admins, which shouldn't be done). You can request the protection of pages on I:Administrators' noticeboard. --MF-W {a, b} 21:55, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your consideration. There is as yet no vandalism. (RMizo (talk) 21:03, 11 April 2012 (UTC))

Current requests for test adminship

RMizo

I would like to be made a test-administrator so that I could do my wiki work with more authority. RMizo (talk) 19:24, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Please don't forget to mention which is your test wiki. Also, please note that being a test-admin doesn't give you any special authority, for example about the content or so. --MF-W {a, b} 20:07, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

• Not done Per comment above; test-wiki not specified. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 23:21, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

My test wiki is Wikipedia Lushai[[1]]. Thanks. (RMizo (talk) 17:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC))

Sorry, but "Also, please note that being a test-admin doesn't give you any special authority, for example about the content or so." will keep it as a Not Done for now. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 19:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Cekli829 (wq/tt)

• I would like to apply to be a test-admin in Wq/tt. Best regards, --Cekli829 (talk) 12:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

  Why? Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 20:37, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

  Thank you for your consideration! Because, a test administrator is an active contributor to a test here on Incubator who was given rights to take care of that test. --Cekli829 (talk) 03:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

  According to Special:UserRights/Cekli829 you are a test-admin already... --OWTB (talk) 14:52, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

  I am test-admin wn/az... --Cekli829 (talk) 12:29, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

  I don't know whether you have to reapply for that. When I was still test-admin I simply used the tools on all the tests I collaborate if necessary. According to the text above it says: "they may only use their tools on pages/users in their own test". It's rather vague, it doesn't say "in the test one is elected" or something. Wq/tt seems to be one of your tests, so in my opinion re-election is not necessary. --OWTB (talk) 13:56, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

  As test-adminship is given for (a) specific wiki/s, I think it's good if a test-admin who wants to become test-admin for another test too makes a request here. We can close this as done and add wq/tt to the list for Cekli, if nobody objects. --MF-W {a, b} 14:07, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

  I do believe that the current process doesn't really involve the test contributors (they aren't even informed using Talk:Wq/tt or something alike). It might be a good idea to change that for future applications. --OWTB (talk) 16:51, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

  A good idea, as test contributors rarely ever comment test-adminship requests. --MF-W {a, b} 17:23, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

  Yes, I know that. What I was asking is why you want these rights. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 09:39, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Amqui (wp/shh)

A test-sysop on shh is not needed right now, but, since I already have test-sysop admin rights on another test-wiki, I may use the tools by reflex if I need to perform a quick delete or something like that, so I prefer asking for test-adminship on wp/shh as well ahead of time. Thanks you, Amqui (talk) 03:06, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

This is not needed, but the 5 days could go by and I add Wp/shh to you. You may already use the tools there. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 17:13, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

• Done. Added wiki and extended ts. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 09:27, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Omnipaedista (wp/grc, wq/grc)

I would like to re-apply for test-adminship in Wp/grc and Wq/grc. Best regards. --00:01, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

renewed for another year --MF-W {a, b} 14:04, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Other requests (including translators)

Note: It is better to translate at Translatewiki: this and this.

For local translations, see Incubator:Translation project