This page is for requesting the addition or removal of user rights, not only administrator rights, on the multilingual wikisource. Requests for administrator actions should be placed on Wikisource:Scriptorium or another relevant page. Requests for bureaucrat actions should be placed on Wikisource:Bureaucrats.

Archives: Wikisource:Nominations for adminship/Archives

(cf. Wikisource:Bureaucrats)
For a completely up-to-date list of administrators generated by the system, see Special:Listadmins.

Admin statistics: for all time • 1 year • 6 months • 3 months

1. -jkb- (bureaucrat) – Czech, Slovak, German, English, limited Russian and Spanish
2. Ankry – Polish, English, Russian
3. Draco flavus – Polish, German, English, Russian
4. Jon Harald Søby – Norwegian, English, Northern Sami, Swahili
5. Jusjih (bureaucrat, importer) – Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, French (nearly intermediate), Korean (basic), Japanese (learning)
6. Koavf (bureaucrat) – eng-N, spa-2, de-1, pt-1
7. Mahagaja (earlier as Angr) – English (native), German, French, Irish, Latin
8. Ooswesthoesbes (bureaucrat, importer) – Limburgish, Dutch, Ripuarian, English
9. Satdeep Gill – Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, English
10. VIGNERON – Français, English, Deutsch, Latina, brezhoneg, Chinese
11. ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ – Sylheti

Additionally, User:Abuse filter is a common sysop bot across WMF wikis.

The users below retired after distinguished service as administrators, many because they were administrators in the early days of the project but became too busy with other Wikimedia Foundation responsibilities, they would generally be welcomed back as admins.

1. Angela (former steward and board member)
2. Tim Starling (Lead staff developer and System administrator)
3. Brion Vibber (Staff developer:Lead software architect, former WMF Chief Technical Officer) – English, Esperanto
4. Bastique – (steward)
5. VasilievVV – Russian, English
6. ThomasV (developer) – English, French, German (last edit 27 June 2011, last log action 21 February 2011, unanimously desysopped 3 November 2012)
7. Candalua – Venetian, Italian, English
8. DeirdreAnne (earlier as Doug) (importer) – English (native), German, French (read, write with great difficulty)
9. SWilson (WMF) – English
10. अनिरुद्ध! – Hindi
11. Yann – English, French, Hindi

The users below were desysopped after a very long period of inactivity and with no reply and would be expected to go through a nomination and vote before re-appointment

1. Dr Absentius – Greek, French (last edit 2004-04-11, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
2. Menchi (last edit 19 Sep 2004, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
3. Samuel – Chinese (last edit 2004-05-20, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
4. Maveric149 (last edit 2005-02-16, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
5. Kalki (1 edit in 2005, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
6. Ambivalenthysteria (last edit august 2005, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
7. Caton (former account of Marc, unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
8. Maveric149 (unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)
9. Daniel Mayer (unanimously desysoped on 2007-02-07)

   NOTE: Maveric149 and Daniel Mayer are the same person.

10. Shin-改 – Japanese (last edit 17 January 2006)
11. GregRobson (last edit 17 January 2006 )
12. Christian S – Danish, English (Reply in Danish to Swedish and Norwegian) (last edit 8 april 2006)
13. Gubbubu – Hungarian with some English and Latin  / Magyar, angol, latin (last edit 7 May 2007 )
14. Marc (formerly/anciennement Caton – French) (last edit 17 March 2007)
15. Zhaladshar (one edit in 2008; last edit 8 August 2007)
16. Shizhao – (former steward) – Chinese, Russian (one edit in 2008; last edit 11 October 2007)
17. Mxn – Vietnamese, Spanish (one edit in 2008)
18. ArnoLagrange – French, Esperanto, English, German (last edit 6 September 2008)
19. Innv – Russian, English (last edit February 2010)
20. ThomasBot – Bot of ThomasV (last edit in September 2010/last log action 7 December 2010, unanimously desysopped 3 November 2012)
21. Maximillion Pegasus – Basic Italian and Spanish (last edit in February 2011/last log action 28 February 2011, unanimously desysopped 3 November 2012)
22. វ័ណថារិទ្ធ – Khmer, English (last edit: 2015-01-21; last log action: 2014-06-14, desysopped 3 March 2017)
23. Dovi – English, Hebrew, basic French (last log action: 2015-11-19, desysopped 3 March 2017)
24. John Vandenberg (developer) – English – (last edit: 2016-05-26, desysopped 30 August 2018)
25. BRUTE – Georgian, English, Russian - inactive since October 2019
26. LadyInGrey – Spanish – inactive since August 2019
27. Phe – French, English – inactive since February 2018
28. अजीत कुमार तिवारी – Hindi, English, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Maithili (Basic), Bengali (Basic) - inactive since September 2020
29. User:Tpt

1. Eclecticology – (also former bureaucrat) (last edit: 2013-08-18; last log action: 2011-03-24; passed away 12 September 2016)
2. Zyephyrus (bureaucrat) – English, French, limited Spanish

Important notice: Please do not request sysop status on this site if you plan to request a subdomain, and to mainly participate in that subdomain. Please wait until your subdomain is created, and request to be an admin there.

Ternera (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights)

Hi everyone, I noticed there is a large backlog of pages tagged for deletion and vandalism/spam at Wikisource:Vandalism in progress. It seems that spam sometimes stays up for weeks without being handled. I would be happy to help out since I have experience using sysop tools and since I've helped out with some miscellaneous maintenance tasks here in the past! Thank you. Ternera (talk) 03:01, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! :) I notice that the underlying JS is pretty old here and could use a overview. Sometimes it hinders my editing (e.g. the impossibility of turning off easyLST) so I wanted to request the editing permission rights to handle those pages. I am already interface administrator on the English Wiktionary. Catonif (talk) 12:30, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support I'm a bureaucrat here, so I can make the change, but I'd like to leave this up for a bit to see if there's any other feedback. Please ping me in two weeks. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:50, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Koavf: Hi! Unfortunately there was no feedback. I have been experimenting various JS possible changes in my userspace in the meantime. Catonif (talk) 13:50, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Silence is approval. Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:38, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I've done it for six months, just to be on the safe side. If you've used the rights and continue to need them in six months, please ping me. Please also strongly consider multi-factor authentication, since if your account were compromised, someone could do a lot of damage quickly with these rights. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:39, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Thank you! :) I already have 2FA from when I got this right on en.wikt. Catonif (talk) 18:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Grazie, amico. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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