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All rights available on Wikibooks are handled here, including autoreview, reviewer, importer, uploader, administrator (and interface administrator), bureaucrat, CheckUser, pseudo-bot, and bot flags. A nomination must demonstrate how the project will benefit from granting the rights.

Nominations
To nominate a user (including yourself), add their username to the appropriate section below. Please explain why you feel the nominated user would be a good choice. All registered Wikibookians may comment, and provide arguments in support or opposition. For the bot flag, technical information about the bot may be requested. See the specific requirements for each type of access on their respective pages.
Outcome
Consensus does not need to be demonstrated —though discussion is welcome— in granting autoreview, reviewer, importer, and uploader flags. Administrators may use their best judgement in granting those. Interface admin was historically part of the administrator tool set and is granted on request to administrators. All other tools require community consensus and can only be granted by bureaucrats. Access to CheckUser is governed by CheckUser policy. After about one week, if there is consensus to grant access, then a bureaucrat will make it so and record the fact here. If not, a bureaucrat may refuse to grant the rights and the request will remain until a consensus is reached.

Removal of permissions[edit]

Symbol comment vote.svg Note: You may request removal of your own rights at meta:Steward requests/Permissions. Requests to remove others' rights should be placed here, whether due to inactivity, or abuse. Proposals for the removal of advanced permissions (included admin and bureaucrat rights) are governed by the WB:ADMIN policy. A minimum discussion of one month is required to remove an admin or bureaucrat for inactivity.

Requests for permissions[edit]

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Ayutac (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfp · rights [change]) (Autoreviewer)[edit]

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Not done I don't have any issue with you, but there is no support at this time. You can just contact any reviewer/admin or post a request at WB:HELP regarding the pending changes. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 22:35, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

I nominate myself for autoreviewer. I'll probably only write commentary work like this one and I think I have written enough original material to qualify as not a vandal. As a some of my book changes are still pending, I think it would also take a little bit of work off the backs of others. If you read this, it would be nice if you could accept the outstanding pending changes in the book as well. Could also just make me a full reviewer, although don't expect me to work outside of my niche, I simply lack the time :/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayutac (talk • contribs) 10:54, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

We generally prefer to let users gain experience on the project, acclimating to its unique local culture, before giving them reviewer privs. Likewise autoreview, mostly. Cf. WB:Reviewers. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:40, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
While I disagree with Pi zero to an extent, I think that you'll do fine without autoreview at this time, partially because of your sporadic activity, and also it's easier to review your type of edits since you create them in one go. Maybe try again after about 40 edits? Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 14:47, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
I don't mind. I just thought it would be more convenient for others. I don't really care about about the pending change line. --Ayutac (discuss • contribs) 16:21, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
I would like to advise getting more experience, including remembering to sign your talks.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 04:41, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Texvc2LaTeXBot (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfp · rights [change]) (bot flag)[edit]

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Done, for 3 months as this seems to be a time limited requirement. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 13:21, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Request for bot permissions

  • Bot name: Texvc2LaTeXBot (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count)
  • Bot operator: Salix alba (discuss · email · contribs · logs · count)
  • Automatic or manually assisted: automatic but closely monitored
  • Purpose of the bot: to replace deprecated syntax in the LaTex mathematical syntax
  • Edit period(s): A one off run affecting 200 pages.
  • Programming language(s) (and API) used: python/piwikibot
  • Other projects that are already using this bot: enwiki, dewiki many other wiki across the whole of WikiMedia sites.
  • Additional information: All ready running on the English wikipedia at en:User:Texvc2LaTeXBot. Has sucessfully run on many other wikis, the update plan is described in mw:Extension:Math/Roadmap. The bot will apply 10 regexps replacing deprecated syntax inside <math>...</math> tags. The code has been tested to eliminate false positives. The bot is operated by Salix alba on English language wikis and meta:User:Debenben on German and other language wikis.
  • Comment There is no registered user with that name. Before noticing that, I was going to ask how much activity one would expect from such a bot, thus whether it would be better to allow it to run without the bot flag. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:18, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
I've now created the account, it seemed to happen automatically. The activity is going to be about 200 edits, with maybe a second run to catch pages we've missed. I'm happy to run with/without the bot flag, but thought it would be better to check. --Texvc2LaTeXBot (discuss • contribs) 14:32, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
It's been my understanding that one should get permission before running a bot, regardless of whether one wants the flag for it. Though I don't see that spelled out in policy (WB:Bots), so either I'm overlooking it, or I'm looking in the wrong place, or it's more of a matter of courtesy/etiquette. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
We will want to flag the account so that the edits autoreview. Another 200+ manual reviews will not be welcome. While the policy doesn't spell it out, it is custom and practice here to not allow bot-like processes to be run without discussion due to the additional impact of having flaggedrevisions active here. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 12:14, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
In which case, I do want to request bot permissions. --Salix alba (discuss • contribs) 15:47, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

大诺史 (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfp · rights [change]) (Autoreview/Autopatrolled)[edit]

Hi, I'm from commons & zh.wiki. I would like to request to have the autopatrolled permission as I am here to change images/files (usually png -> svg, gif/jpg -> png). As you can see, commons is currently changing the table images of chemical elements from png format to svg format, so I will be active here to make the necesary changeds. By giving me this permission, my edits can be autoreviewed and backlog on the "to be reviewed" edits will be reduced. 大诺史 (discuss • contribs) 05:13, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Comment We've kept up with these so far, I think. These are all to Wikijunior, I believe. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:01, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

DannyS712 (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfp · rights [change]) (Reviewer)[edit]

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Withdrawn. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:01, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

I'd like to request to be manually flagged as a reviewer to help patrol changes. I haven't yet made 100 edits, but my changes so far have been constructive. I won't misuse the rights, and am happy to answer any questions. I have experience on enwiki as a reviewer and rollbacker, and know how to use the rights properly. Thanks, --DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 08:00, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: I'm not quite sure why you need the rights - no evidence of "patrolling changes" as such. Could you explain on that - maybe I'm missing something. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 08:46, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
@Leaderboard: so far I've been going through recent changes and undoing the spam or vandalism, but this would also let me approve the good changes. --DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 18:12, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
@DannyS712: I don't think you have much experience here to gain reviewer, as @Pi zero: often says, reviewer here is a bit different compared to some other projects. That's just my line of thought though. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 14:44, 26 May 2019 (UTC):
Just looking through some of DannyS712's unreviewed edits, on one hand they've certainly been doing useful counter-vandalism edits, on the other hand some moderately tricky situations arose that can benefit from a certain amount of additional project-specific experience. For example, in one case they made a useful de-wikifying edit, but then they also figured to remove the {{dewikify}} tag, which seems to me premature as the page still had some half dozen or so redlinks. On another page I found they'd undone IP vandalism to a page that already had a pending IP vandalism edit to it (and it took me a bit of studying to be quite certain the earlier edit was vandalism). Another page had a whole pile of unreviewed previous edits on it that I wasn't even sure of, and I left the whole sequence still pending.

Note that it's not urgent to have review for these things; we really do try to keep up, but when we don't, the unreviewed edits will wait for us. So I don't think there's any lasting harm in letting DannyS712 continue making helpful edits and learning the project by osmosis, for a while. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:52, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

@Pi zero: I understand. I'd like to withdraw this request --DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 05:19, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
@DannyS712: Great to see your involvement. In due season, you should be autopromoted. Cheers. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:13, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

WolfgangFahl (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfp · rights [change]) (Reviewer)[edit]

I would like to resolve https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/issues/446. The committers of the OpenJSCAD project don't know how to proceed in being able to get their pages to a "reviewed" stage. I did a few edits and I don't know any reviewer who could do the work. I could do it might self but i don't edit any other WikiBooks content. You'll just see me on Wikipedia and more on semanticmediawiki.org. --WolfgangFahl (discuss • contribs) 13:42, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, @WolfgangFahl:. A few thoughts.
  • Reviewing edits on English Wikibooks is something we do mainly as a counter-vandalism measure. We get to things when we get to them, and though we prefer to do so sooner when possible, it doesn't greatly hurt anything if we don't get to it for a while. It isn't something that should be an administrative concern for some other project (as with the external page you link to). Wikibooks is, after all, a collaborative project.
  • We prefer to limit review privileges to users who have enough experience with English Wikibooks to be familiar with the local culture. Our autopromotion criteria usually suffice.
--Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:10, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Also I'd note that you can just ask any administrator or reviewer to have your pages reviewed. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 08:42, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Debanshu.Das (discuss · contribs · count · logs · block log · rfp · rights [change]) (Autoreviewer)[edit]

Please allow me to be autoreviewer so that I can upload the changes I have made. I am about to make a pdf version of the book and some portions remain unreviewed. Hence I ask for this permission. Debanshu.Das (discuss • contribs) 16:58, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

@Debanshu.Das: Autoreview is not required to make a PDF version; the difference between reviewed and unreviewed pages isn't much. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 14:33, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
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