Stewards
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 | This page documents an official global policy. It represents broad consensus, and compliance is mandatory for all projects. It should not be modified without prior community approval. |
Stewards are users with full technical access to all features on all WickedGov wikis. This enables them to act as administrators, bureaucrats, or functionaries on all wikis in uncontroversial cases and emergencies, especially when there are no local users available. Stewards serve the global and local communities and may only act in accordance with consensus. They are volunteers and are not employed by WickedGov.
Stewards are not governors, arbitrators, or mediators; they have no special authority to resolve local or global disputes.
Duties edit
Primary duties edit
Stewards are the primary users responsible for performing the following technical actions:
Global user management edit
- Making and removing global locks on accounts, including suppression of usernames across all wikis
- Making and removing global blocks on IP addresses and accounts
- Renaming global accounts
Restricted user permissions edit
- Configuring membership in global groups
- Configuring the permissions assigned to global groups
- Adding and removing the local suppressor, checkuser, XML importer, and interface administrator groups on all wikis
- Removing the bureaucrat group on all wikis
- Removing the administrator group on wikis where bureaucrats do not have the technical ability to do so
CheckUser and suppression edit
- Performing CheckUser actions on Login Wiki, agreeably to the CheckUser policy
- Performing suppression actions on all wikis, agreeably to the suppression policy
Miscellaneous edit
- Creating and maintaining global abuse filters
- Maintaining the global interwiki table
- Deleting pages with more than 5,000 revisions (according to local consensus)
Secondary duties edit
Stewards are additionally permitted to perform the following actions on all wikis, but only in the following cases:
- Prevention or mitigation of spam or vandalism.
- Prevention or mitigation of disruption caused by compromised accounts.
- Emergencies and urgent situations.
- Uncontroversial maintenance.
- Enforcement of global policies or actions, including global bans and the global inactivity policy.
- When there are no local users who can perform the action, or all privileged local users are inactive.
Administrative actions edit
- Blocking and unblocking users
- Deleting and undeleting pages, files, revisions, and log entries
- Protecting and unprotecting pages and files
- Editing fully protected pages and files
- Using the rollback feature
- Maintaining local disallowed titles lists and spam blocklists
- Maintaining local abuse filters
- Editing the MediaWiki namespace and user CSS/JS/JSON
- Performing any other action which is traditionally performed by administrators on all or most wikis
User permissions edit
- Adding the administrator and bureaucrat groups
- Removing the administrator group on wikis where bureaucrats have the technical ability to do so
- Adding and removing the bot group
- Adding and removing the translation administrator, transwiki importer, account creator, autopatrolled, confirmed, and IP block exemption groups
- Adding and removing custom groups configured on individual wikis
CheckUser edit
- Performing CheckUser actions on all wikis other than Login Wiki, agreeably to the CheckUser policy
List edit
Currently, there are 2 Stewards (technical list).
| Name +/- | Languages spoken | Steward since |
|---|---|---|
| Awilh 37 | en | 2025-03-24 |
| Luke | en, es-2 | 2025-02-02 |