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 | content = <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Use this page for requests for:</span>
*<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">[[Special:MyLanguage/Project:Autopatrollers|autopatrollers]], [[Special:MyLanguage/Project:Uploaders|uploaders]] or [[Special:MyLanguage/Project:IP block exemption|IP block exemption]] (which can be assigned by administrators)</span>
*<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Promotion to sysop, translation admin, bureaucrat or anything not above (which can be assigned by bureaucrats)</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Note that Requests for comment and other miscellaneous requests should '''not''' go here, but instead to the [[Project:Village Pump]] or [[Project:Administrators' noticeboard]] if you want to avoid using Structured Discussions'''.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Any new flagging to +sysop should have an associated subpage here, except for well-established developers, where a developer is someone who has had changes accepted to the MediaWiki core or a MediaWiki extension where the total number of changed lines in the relevant whitespace-insensitive diffs exceeds 100.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The [[Special:MyLanguage/Project:Autopatrollers|autopatroller]] group can be assigned by administrators, too, but generally that is given when an admin notices that patrolling someone's edits does not add any value, and not based on requests by the user themselves.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">One thing to keep in mind is that unlike most Wikimedia sites, this site is controlled by the MediaWiki [[Special:MyLanguage/Developers|developers]], not the other users in this community.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Being a developer (someone with merge access who uses it to maintain code that runs on Wikimedia sites) automatically entitles you to at least administrator status, and a long-time developer won't find it hard to become a bureaucrat.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">If you're not a developer, you do have to give some good reason to get any privileges; you should not expect to ever be made a bureaucrat.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Something like a third of [[Special:ListUsers/sysop|administrators]] and a quarter of [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat|bureaucrats]] are non-developers, however, so it's not like you shouldn't bother asking.</span>

<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">That said, there aren't really any formal policies on what's required: you just have to convince a bureaucrat.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Use common sense – if you're trustworthy and your services are in need, there's no reason not to promote you to administrator at least, but don't ask for administrator without giving a concrete reason (unless you're a developer).</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Being personally known to a developer or having administrator or higher status on a major Wikimedia project are two ways to be deemed trustworthy.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">This is a wiki that has opted in to allowing [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Global sysops|global sysops]] to work here, and such users are free to use their rights on this wiki and do not need to separately request administrator.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The same applies to [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Global rollback|global rollbackers]], who are already autopatrolled on this wiki.</span>
<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Other users in specialised global groups (such as [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Interface editors|global interface editors]]) are also free to use their rights on this wiki by default.</span>
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