Meta:Bureaucrats
Meta bureaucrats are users who can manage permissions such as bot, administrator and other bureaucrats. Their role on Meta is limited to the assigning of the rights listed above. They may resolve disputes and determine consensus in RfCs, user right requests and user removal requests.
Appointment
Users may be nominated or nominate themselves by placing a request on Meta:Requests for permissions. Whenever the nomination is accepted (if nominated by someone else, otherwise submitting the request is immediate acceptation), a request must stay open for at least seven (7) days. During this period anyone from the Community may 
Support, 
Neutral or 
Oppose a candidate's request.
A request will be deemed successful when closed by an existing bureaucrat after achieved a 70% support ratio.
Revocation
A bureaucrat may lose their permissions if:
- a request of no confidence in opened against the user and has a more than 50% support ratio,
- the user loses their administrator status.
Re-addition
There are no clauses for re-addition except for re-appointment following the appointment criteria above.
List of bureaucrats
- Last updated: 2021-01-21
- Total number of Meta bureaucrats:: 3
| +/- | User name | Languages spoken | Other rights | Freenode nickname on IRC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | en, cy-3 | administrator, steward, system administrator | JohnLewis | |
| Reception123 | ro-N, en-4, fr-3 | administrator, interface administrator, wiki creator, global sysop, system administrator | Reception123 or Reception|away | |
| Southparkfan | nl-N, en-3 | administrator, system administrator | SPF|Cloud |
See also
- Special:ListGroupRights - list of bureaucrat rights
- Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat - automated list of Meta bureaucrats