Stewards

If you are having problems with a global block or lock or want to make a request to the Stewards, please feel free to contact them.

Contact the Stewards

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

Primary duties

Stewards are the primary users responsible for performing the following technical actions:

Global user management

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

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

Performing CheckUser actions on Login Wiki, agreeably to the CheckUser policy
Performing suppression actions on all wikis, agreeably to the suppression policy

Miscellaneous

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

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 where no local users are available to act.
Uncontroversial technical maintenance.
Carrying out 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.

In all cases, Stewards must perform these actions in a manner compliant with local precedent and procedure.

Administrative actions

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

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

Performing CheckUser actions on all wikis other than Login Wiki, agreeably to the CheckUser policy

List

Currently, there is 1 Steward (technical list).

Name +/-	Languages spoken	Steward since
Luke	en, es-2	2025-02-02

Former Stewards

Name +/-	Start of term	End of term	Removed for
Awilh 37	2025-03-24	2025-09-21	Inactivity