Stewards

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Stewards are users with complete access to the wiki interface on all Wikimedia wikis, including the ability to change any and all user rights and groups. They are tasked with technical implementation of community consensus, and dealing with emergencies such as cross-wiki vandalism. Stewards are empowered to act as members of any permissions group on any project with no active member of that permissions group. For example: wikis without administrators may call upon stewards to fulfill that role; stewards will act as bureaucrats as needed on wikis without bureaucrats.

To gain emergency assistance or to ask a question, join the IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards^connect and write !steward in this channel to notify stewards of an emergency. For regular requests, see the list of request pages in the box at right. To contact a steward directly, use that steward's talk page. Requests can also be sent to the steward OTRS queue at stewardswikimedia.org.

Stewards generally do not perform actions on wikis where local users are available to perform them, except in emergency or cross-wiki cases. This arrangement originated in the need to dissociate rights management from software development and systems administration.

Stewards do have a rough equivalent to being global sysops: they can block and unblock users on any Wikimedia wiki, even without assigning themselves the local sysop permission.

New stewards are regularly (once or twice a year) elected by the global Wikimedia community. Their total number is not limited. The Elections are organized by existing stewards and run for roughly three weeks. Successful candidates must have a support-to-oppose ratio of at least 80% with at least 30 supporting editors.

Current stewards are confirmed during the elections through an open call for community feedback and commentary, followed by discussion and consensus-building among the stewards. A team of stewards closes the elections and confirmation discussions. Further documentation can be found in the steward policies, election process, and handbook.

List of current stewards

Last updated: 2015-02-28

+/-	Name	IRC nick	Languages spoken	Active from
1	Ajraddatz	ajr	en, fr-1	2014-02-28
2	Avraham	Avraham	en, he-2	2010-03-08
3	Barras	Barras	de, en-4, fr-1	2011-02-28
4	Bennylin	bennylin	id, ms-5, en-4, jv-3, map-bms-2, zh-2, able to read (-1 or -2) some Indonesian local languages	2011-10-07
5	Billinghurst	sDrewth	en	2012-02-28
6	Bsadowski1	Bsadowski1	en	2011-02-28
7	DerHexer	DerHexer	de, en-3, grc-3, la-3, es-1	2007-12-21
8	Einsbor	einsbor	pl, en-3, fr-2	2015-02-28
9	Elfix	Elfix	fr, en-3	2012-02-28
10	Hoo man	hoo	de, en-3, it-1, fr-1	2014-02-28
11	Jusjih	Jusjih	zh, en-3, fr-1, ko-1	2015-02-28
12	Jyothis	Jyothis	ml, hi-1, en-3	2010-03-08
13	Linedwell	Linedwell	fr-N, en-2, it-2	2015-02-28
14	M7	M7	en, it, de-1, es-1, fr-1	2006-12-22
15	MarcoAurelio	MarcoAurelio	es, en-2, fr-2, la-1	2015-02-28
16	Mardetanha	Mardetanha	az, fa, en-3, tr-2, ar-1, bqi-1, glk-1, mzn-1, tk-1	2009-02-28
17	Matanya	matanya	en, he	2011-02-28
18	Mathonius	Mathonius	nl, en-3, af-1, fr-1, de-1	2013-02-28
19	MBisanz	MBisanz	en, es-1	2012-02-28
20	Melos	Melos	it, en-3, scn-4, es-1, la-1	2010-03-08
21	Mentifisto	mentifis	mt, en-4, it-2	2011-02-28
22	MF-Warburg	MF-W	de, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1	2013-02-28
23	Pmlineditor	Pmlineditor	en(-4), bn, hi-2, de-1, (as, hif, bpy)-0.5	2015-02-28
24	Pundit	pundit_wiki	pl, en-4, de-1, ru-1	2012-02-28
25	QuiteUnusual	QuiteUnusual	en, fr-2	2013-02-28
26	Ruy Pugliesi	RuyP	pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, gl-1, it-1, sk-1, sq-1, ms-1, hi-1	2015-02-28
27	Ruslik0	rr0	ru, en-3	2011-02-28
28	Savh	Savh	es, nl, en-3, fr-2	2014-02-28
29	Shanmugamp7	shanmugamp7	ta, en-3	2014-02-28
30	Snowolf	QueenOfFrance	en, it	2012-02-28
31	SPQRobin	SPQRobin	nl, en-3, fr-2, de-2, af-1	2014-02-28
32	Stryn	Stryn	fi, en-2, sv-1	2015-02-28
33	Taketa	Taketa	nl, li, en-4, de-1, fr-1, la-1	2015-02-28
34	Tegel	Tegel	sv, en-3, da-1 (read), no-1 (read)	2012-02-28
35	Teles	Teles	pt, en-3, es-2	2012-02-28
36	Trijnstel	Trijnstel	nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1	2011-10-07
37	Vituzzu	Vito	it, scn, en-2, fr-2, la-1, es-1, pt-1	2011-10-07

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See also

• Stewards: global permission · global groups (tool labs) · member list · group changelog
• Special global permissions

• Former stewards.
• Documentation for stewards.
• Stewards' noticeboard.
• Stewards/confirm.
• Stewards policy.
• Steward elections: 2004 (talk), 2005, early 2006, late 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, early 2011, late 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
• Meta:Meta-Steward relationship

Steward logs on Meta

• Global account log.
• Global block log.
• Global rights changes.
• Local rights changes.
• Global changes performed out of meta-wiki.

Steward meetups

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  Wikimania 2010

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  Wikimania 2012

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  Wikimania 2014