Abstract Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Archive/2026/04

Administrator: Koavf

I am an admin on d: and I've been trying to bring some structure to this wiki since it launched. If the community is hesitant about having local admins this early, I am willing to be a temporary admin and reapply after x months. Koavf (talk) 07:14, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

•  Oppose Most of your edits here are to templates (87/132) and categories (22/132), all of which are meta-esque/administration-related. Abstract Wikipedia is in its infant stage, and so its admins should be more content-focused. Not to mention, there are barely any admin-level tasks to be done at the moment (vandals, if any, can be handled by global sysops and stewards). NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 07:36, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

 Oppose, Nguoi said it well above. I'd prefer an admin that I can trust to handle the content side. You don't have any mainspace edits to WF so I don't think you qualify here. I might be willing to support a 1-month adminship if you elaborate on what you would do as an administrator. Feeglgeef (talk) 18:08, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

I do however think a local admin would do us good (I don't trust Stewards and Global Admins to perform content-related tasks), and for that reason I nominate @99of9:. Feeglgeef (talk) 18:09, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Closing as unsuccessful with  Support: 0,  Oppose: 2.Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 06:18, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Translation administrator: Tanbiruzzaman

Hello, the translation feature seems enabled now. I'm requesting for the translationadmin rights to help out with the translations in project namespaces (not mainspace translation), e.g. marking pages for translation.Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 07:44, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

• @Tanbiruzzaman: Note that it's not fully working yet for some reason, but hopefully soon! Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 14:58, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

  Update: The wonderful Niklas from the Language team has found and fixed the cause; I'll run the new script next week once it's live in production, after which the feature will work. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 12:22, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

  ✅ Now done. Sorry for the delay. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

• Could you please provide an example of a page that you have marked up for translation yourself? Tenshi! (Talk page) 13:53, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

  @Tenshi Hinanawi, thanks for the follow-up, here is an example from metawiki: m:WikiBarta, and here Help:Contents. Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 14:21, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

•  SupportSupport: lgtm Feeglgeef (talk) 16:00, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
• Support: If we want this project to be a global one, it's best to have people who don't speak English come in from the start, having PAGs that can be read is an important part of that. MetalBreaksAndBends (talk) 16:32, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
•  Support Globally trusted user. Koavf (talk) 07:13, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
•  Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:39, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
•  SupportSupport. ChaoticVermillion (talk) 08:54, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
•  SupportSupport. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:39, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
•  Support --99of9 (talk) 10:28, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
•  Support --Asked42 (talk) 17:25, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Closing as successfull with  Support: 8,  Oppose: 0 --Ameisenigel (talk) 14:33, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Translation administrator: Minorax

Good day, I'd like to request for translation admin toolset to help to mark and manage pages for translation here. I have similar experiences on other wikis. Minorax (talk) 07:59, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

•  Support Thank you for your willingness to volunteering here.Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 09:04, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
•  Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
•  Support ChaoticVermillion (converse, contribs) 01:01, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
•  Support: -- Asked42 (talk) 14:06, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
•  Support Globally trusted user. Koavf (talk) 06:26, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
•  Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 22:39, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Closing as successfull with  Support: 6,  Oppose: 0 --Ameisenigel (talk) 18:24, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Translation administrator: BZPN

Hi, I'd like to request the TA flag. I'm familiar with how the extension works and have experience translating content into my language across other projects. I'd like to help quickly organize and manage translations (project space) here as the project develops. Thank you, BZPN (talk) 19:38, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

•  Comment You don’t have similar rights anywhere. Can you prepare a page for translation by following m:Meta:Internationalization guidelines?Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 19:44, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

  Done, please review it here (based on Abstract Wikipedia:Useful functions for article composition). BZPN (talk) 20:43, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

  I'm also little cautious per the comment by Feeglgeef, it’s indeed your first edit on the wiki is to asking for the rights, and also the account creation log shows that you account was created also the same time. So at least spend some time as a reader, to know how things are working here. Until then I'm also  opposing the request. Tanbiruzzaman (talk) 02:33, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

 Oppose, and quite strongly, your first edit here was to ask for a user group, which is a massive red flag personally. I'm (at least, relative to others here) skeptical of users that rely solely on their global user rights, but you don't even have anything on that front. Feeglgeef (talk) 19:54, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you to JJPMaster for the links to their previous conduct, definitely Absolutely not and absolutely never. Feeglgeef (talk) 15:04, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Absolutely not. It is a terrible look to make this your first ever edit, especially considering your repeated zero-chance RfAs on Simple English Wikipedia. Furthermore, it is hard for me to overlook this and this. Perhaps you could show the community that we should trust you in spite of your views, but it is simply impossible to do that with zero prior experience on this project. JJP_Master (she/they) 13:54, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

•  Oppose Markup is mostly okay, though the list items should be broken up into separate translation units, and the translation units shouldn't be broken up per section. Also, the QIDs should likely be tvars. I'm not opposing because of these. The issues pointed out by others above, as well as this interaction on sco.wp 2 months ago indicate that you shouldn't be trusted with advanced permissions currently. Tenshi! (Talk page) 15:33, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
•  Oppose after reading this and other links above, sorry. ToadetteEdit (talk) 16:37, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Closing as not successful:  Support: 0,  Oppose: 5 --Ameisenigel (talk) 17:00, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Translation administrator: Sannita (WMF)

Hi, I'm Sannita from the Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia team. I need access as a translation admin here, to help with Template:Main page/News and potentially the other pages that might require translation. I already have the flag on Meta and Wikifunctions. --Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:57, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

•  Support ToadetteEdit (talk) 16:34, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@Sannita (WMF): Would this not go through wmf:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Staff Userrights Policy? JJP_Master (she/they) 19:04, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

•  Support.🪶-TΛNBIRUZZΛMΛN (💬) 03:23, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

• per JJPMaster I don't think this should go through a community process, but if it does I  Support. Feeglgeef (talk) 13:53, 23 April 2026 (UTC)
•  Support per above --Ameisenigel (talk) 07:48, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Closing as successful with  Support: 4,  Oppose: 0. I got myself indeffed on meta w/o tpa, so somebody else is going to have to ask the stewards. Feeglgeef (talk) 13:25, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Retiring this, since I can do that through staff procedure, not community procedure. Sorry, I feel so much part of the community, that I forgot about me being staff. :) Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:49, 6 May 2026 (UTC)