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

Shortcut:
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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

None currently

Current requests for test adminship

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Rulwarih (wn/ms)

I would like to request to become a test administrator in Malay Wikinews (wn/ms) to continue the contribution to this community and to help for their approval. - Rulwarih (talk) 16:03, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have not edited since making this request. Is the right really needed? --MF-W {a, b} 21:04, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Test admin rights extension request for Wp/wlx

Hello, I am currently a test admin for the Wali Wikipedia Incubator which would expire on 1st October, 2025. I would be grateful to continue clean up and other guidance for the wiki. Thank you so much . Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 18:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --MF-W {a, b} 21:05, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Test admin right request for (Wp/sgh)

Hello, I kindly request for a test-administrator rights on Shughni Wikipedia (Wp/sgh). I have been actively contributing to the Shughni Wiki and understand that some pages needs to be either renamed, moved and/or deleted.

Examples of vandalism by anonymous IP addresses on Wp/sgh include:

All three are exact replicas of the cyrillic version of this article: Wp/sgh/Qaysar (Caesar) and the vandal created those articles on May 23, 2024 (ie. 250 days ago).

Other examples of vandalism include:

Wp/sgh/Г (gibberish text, created on May 23, 2024)
Wp/sgh/В (gibberish text, created on May 23, 2024)
Wp/sgh/Б (gibberish text, created on May 23, 2024)

I would like to devote my self in ensuring that this Wiki is safe and free of vandalism.

Thank you for your consideration. --DaveZ123 (talk) 10:32, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:DaveZ123: Done, and please add to your userpage the information about your sgh proficiency (babel). --MF-W {a, b} 21:06, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! sgh babel info now added on my userpage. --DaveZ123 (talk) 04:38, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Solicitud de administración para Wp/ppl (náhuat)

Hola a todos,

Mi nombre es Héctor Josué Martínez Flores. Desde el año 2023 he estado coordinando y dirigiendo el proyecto de la Wikipedia en náhuat (Wp/ppl), trabajando junto a estudiantes, maestros y miembros de la comunidad para revitalizar y fortalecer nuestra lengua a través de este espacio.

Actualmente hemos alcanzado más de 700 artículos y el proyecto se mantiene activo con ediciones constantes, editatones y actividades de traducción. Como coordinador del esfuerzo comunitario, me gustaría solicitar amablemente los permisos de administrador en Wp/ppl, con el fin de:

Apoyar mejor en la organización y mantenimiento del proyecto.
Facilitar la gestión de páginas, plantillas y categorías.
Brindar un espacio más ordenado y funcional para todos los colaboradores.

Agradezco de antemano la consideración a esta solicitud y el apoyo que se nos ha brindado en el proceso. Quedo a disposición para cualquier pregunta o aclaración.

Saludos cordiales,

--TimumachtikanNawat (talk) 17:10, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

--TimumachtikanNawat (talk)

TimumachtikanNawat (talk)

Test admin right request for Wp/kaj

Hi Admin, I am here to request admin rights in the Jju Wikipedia (Wp/kaj) project in the Wikimedia Incubator to support Kambai Akau in performing adminship functions. Thank you. Jjnzamah (talk) 17:09, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Test admin request for Wn/ne

Hello there myself Xaloria I would like to request test administrator access for the Wn/ne test project. The wiki currently has no active contributors or test administrators, and some pages need to be deleted or improved. Adminship will allow me to manage the content effectively, maintain the quality of articles, and restore activity to the project. I appreciate your consideration.Xaloria (talk) 00:10, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. With only 26 edits on Incubator, this is a bit early. If you make a new request again in the future, please note that test-admins are required to have a local or Meta userpage. --MF-W {a, b} 21:09, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Test admin right request for (Wp/sgh)

Hello,

I would like to request administrator rights on the Shughni Wikimedia Incubator Wp/sgh. I am very active in translating and creating content, and I frequently help improve existing articles.

I would use admin rights responsibly to maintain the quality of the Shughni Incubator, including deleting or renaming pages when necessary. I am familiar with Wikimedia policies and committed to supporting the community. Thank you for considering my request.

Current requests for bot flags

None currently

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