Stewards

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Stewards are users with complete access to the wiki interface on all public Wikimedia wikis, including the ability to change any and all user rights and groups. Stewards have responsibility for technical implementation of community consensus and for dealing with emergencies such as cross-project vandalism. When a particular project has a permissions group with no member (such as the administrators permissions group or bureaucrats permissions group), a steward may exercise the powers of a member of the empty permissions group. However, except in an emergency or when action across multiple projects is needed, stewards generally do not exercise their powers in a project that has local users with the required rights.

Wikimedia created the position of steward when it recognized the need to separate user rights management from software development and systems administration.

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.

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: 2016-12-07 - total number of stewards: 30

+/-	Name	IRC nick	Languages spoken	Active from
	Ajraddatz	ajr	en, fr-1	2014-02-28
	Avraham	Avraham, Avi|work	en, he-2	2010-03-08
	Barras	Barras	de, en-4, fr-1	2011-02-28
	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
	Bsadowski1	Bsadowski1	en	2011-02-28
	DerHexer	DerHexer	de, en-3, grc-3, la-3, es-1	2007-12-21
	Einsbor	einsbor	pl, en-3, fr-2	2015-02-28
	Hoo man	hoo	de, en-3, it-1, fr-1	2014-02-28
	Jyothis	Jyothis	ml, hi-1, en-3	2010-03-08
	Linedwell	Linedwell	fr, en-3, it-2	2015-02-28
	MarcoAurelio	MarcoAurelio	es, en-2, fr-2, la-1	2015-02-28
	Mardetanha	Mardetanha	az, fa, en-3, tr-2, ar-1, bqi-1, glk-1, mzn-1, tk-1	2009-02-28
	Masti	masti	pl-N, en-4, de-3, ru-2 several -1	2016-02-28
	Matanya	matanya	en, he	2011-02-28
	MBisanz	MBisanz	en, es-1	2012-02-28
	Melos	Melos	it, en-3, scn-4, es-1, la-1	2010-03-08
	Mentifisto	mentifis	mt, en-4, it-2	2011-02-28
	MF-Warburg	MF-W	de, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1	2013-02-28
	NahidSultan	NahidSultan	bn-N, en-3, bpy-1, as-1	2016-02-28
	Pmlineditor	Pmlineditor	en(-4), bn, hi-2, de-1, (as, hif, bpy)-0.5	2015-02-28
	QuiteUnusual	QuiteUnusual	en, fr-2, it-2, es-1	2013-02-28
	RadiX (formerly known as Ruy Pugliesi)	RadiX	pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, gl-1, it-1, sk-1, sq-1, ms-1, hi-1	2015-02-28
	Ruslik0	rr0	ru, en-3	2011-02-28
	Savh	Savh	es, nl, en-3, fr-2	2014-02-28
	Shanmugamp7	shanmugamp7	ta, en-3	2014-02-28
	Stryn	Stryn	fi, en-2, sv-1	2015-02-28
	Tegel	Tegel	sv, en-3, da-1 (read), no-1 (read)	2012-02-28
	Teles	Teles	pt, en-3, es-2	2012-02-28
	Trijnstel	Trijnstel	nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1	2011-10-07
	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, 2016.
• 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

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  Steward meetup 2015