Stewards

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

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:

1. Prevention or mitigation of spam or vandalism.
2. Prevention or mitigation of disruption caused by compromised accounts.
3. Emergencies and urgent situations where no local users are available to act.
4. Uncontroversial technical maintenance.
5. Carrying out global policies or actions, including global bans and the global inactivity policy.
6. 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

Special duties

There are special procedures governing when Stewards may use the CheckUser and suppression permissions.

CheckUser

• On WickedGov Login Wiki, Stewards may use CheckUser in any manner that is compliant with the CheckUser policy.
• On other wikis that do not have active local checkusers, Stewards may use CheckUser in any manner that is compliant with relevant policies.
• On other wikis that do have active local checkusers, Steward use of CheckUser is restricted to the following situations:
  1. Prevention or mitigation of disruption caused by compromised accounts,
  2. Situations where the situation is determined to be urgent, and
  3. Investigation of cross-wiki abuse or of evasion of a global ban, global lock, or global block.

Suppression

• On wikis that do not have active local suppressors, Stewards may use the suppression tool in any manner that is compliant with relevant policies.
• On wikis that do have active local suppressors, Steward use of the suppression tool is restricted to the following situations:
  1. Situations where the situation is determined to be urgent,
  2. Suppression of usernames from histories and logs as part of the global account suppression feature, and
  3. When the decision of local suppressors with respect to the content is manifestly noncompliant with the suppression policy.

Election

Candidates interested in becoming Stewards must meet the following requirements:

1. Have made at least 600 edits across all WickedGov projects.
2. Have made at least 20 edits across all WickedGov projects in the last 90 days.
3. Have had a WickedGov global account for at least 3 months.
4. Hold administrator or bureaucrat access on one or more WickedGov projects or hold global sysop access.
5. Appear on the identification noticeboard.

Voters in Steward elections must meet the first three requirements.

Election timing

When a candidate submits an application to become a Steward:

1. If the last election concluded more than 180 days ago, a 14-day waiting period shall immediately start where other users are encouraged to submit applications.
2. If the last election concluded less than 180 days ago, the waiting period shall last until the 195th day after the last election concluded.

At the conclusion of the waiting period, the election shall start.

Removal

Resignation

Stewards are permitted to resign at any time. Stewards who resign may only have their access restored through the regular election process.

Inactivity

The access of a Steward shall be removed if the Steward has not edited any WickedGov wiki in the last 6 months.

By other Stewards

Two-thirds of all Stewards are authorized to remove the access of a Steward for abuse or serious misuse of Steward tools. Stewards who have access removed in this manner may only have their access restored through the regular election process.

By system administrators

System administrators are authorized to remove the access of any Steward account that is endangering the security or technical wellbeing of the WickedGov sites. In such cases, system administrators are also authorized to reverse their own action if they determine that such danger no longer exists.

Confirmation discussions

Confirmation of a Steward may be called:

1. By the signatures of 10 community members, all of which are eligible to vote in Steward elections,
2. By the request of 40% of all Stewards, or
3. Automatically, one year after the start of the term of a Steward who has been elected with at least 70% but less than 80% support,

Provided, however, that no Steward shall be subjected to multiple confirmation discussions within any one 365-day period.

Confirmation discussions are not a vote and are based on consensus; users must present specific points in favor of or against confirmation.

Confirmation discussions shall last 14 days, unless there is clear and overwhelming consensus before then.

Office actions

In response to violations of user privacy or other serious or legal matters, and to protect the vital interests of the WickedGov sites, the WickedGov office may remove the Steward access of any user through an office action and may also declare such user ineligible for re-election for a fixed period or indefinitely.

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