How to Become a Wikipedia Bureaucrat
Create an account., Become an active member of the community and make good contributions., Become an administrator., Be an active administrator., Decide if you actually want to be a bureaucrat., Study old bureaucrat requests at the requests for...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Create an account.
Only registered users can become bureaucrats. -
Step 2: Become an active member of the community and make good contributions.
Make your contributions in a variety of areas such as editing articles, creating articles, participating in site discussions, and reverting vandalism. , You're not actually required to be an administrator to become a bureaucrat, but the community will look more favorably of you if you're an administrator.
You're likely to fail your nomination if you're not an administrator (and in the most likely case, your nomination will be ended early through the site's snowball clause and/or "not now" clause). , When you first start, it's a good idea to read the site's new admin school page to understand the privileges that administrators have and how to use them correctly.
While you're an administrator, you should be active in a variety of administrative tasks such as deleting bad pages, blocking users, and participating in administrator discussions.
You should be active in the administrators' noticeboard. , Being a bureaucrat is hard work, and takes more time than being an administrator.
Read the site's page on bureaucrats to see if being a bureaucrat is for you.
If you make a nomination for bureaucrat when you don't really want it, you're likely to fail your nomination. , See why people succeed and why they fail and make note of what you observe. , Click on "Nominate yourself" when you're done. , After the description, sign your nomination with four tildes (~).
Click on "Save Page" when you're done. , Click on "Save Page" when you're done. , If there are no other nominations, replace the template that says this instead.
Replace the "adminship" with "bureaucratship" and "USERNAME" with your username.
Click on "Save Page" when you're done. , Answer any questions that other users give you, and participate in discussions on the page.
After seven days of discussion, if you have enough support from other users, you'll become a bureaucrat. -
Step 3: Become an administrator.
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Step 4: Be an active administrator.
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Step 5: Decide if you actually want to be a bureaucrat.
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Step 6: Study old bureaucrat requests at the requests for adminiship board to understand what is expected of bureaucrats.
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Step 7: Go to the requests for adminship page
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Step 8: and in the box that says "Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/USERNAME
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Step 9: " replace "adminship" with "bureaucratship
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Step 10: " and "USERNAME" with your Wikipedia username.
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Step 11: Remove the requests for adminship template
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Step 12: and replace it with {{subst:RfB|User=USERNAME|Description=YOUR DESCRIPTION OF THE USER}} Put in your username where it says "USERNAME" and your description of why you want to be a bureaucrat where it says "YOUR DESCRIPTION OF THE USER."
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Step 13: Click on "Edit Page" at the top of the page
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Step 14: and answer the three standard questions.
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Step 15: Copy the code {{Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/USERNAME}} and paste it at the top of the requests for bureaucratship list.
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Step 16: Go through the process.
Detailed Guide
Only registered users can become bureaucrats.
Make your contributions in a variety of areas such as editing articles, creating articles, participating in site discussions, and reverting vandalism. , You're not actually required to be an administrator to become a bureaucrat, but the community will look more favorably of you if you're an administrator.
You're likely to fail your nomination if you're not an administrator (and in the most likely case, your nomination will be ended early through the site's snowball clause and/or "not now" clause). , When you first start, it's a good idea to read the site's new admin school page to understand the privileges that administrators have and how to use them correctly.
While you're an administrator, you should be active in a variety of administrative tasks such as deleting bad pages, blocking users, and participating in administrator discussions.
You should be active in the administrators' noticeboard. , Being a bureaucrat is hard work, and takes more time than being an administrator.
Read the site's page on bureaucrats to see if being a bureaucrat is for you.
If you make a nomination for bureaucrat when you don't really want it, you're likely to fail your nomination. , See why people succeed and why they fail and make note of what you observe. , Click on "Nominate yourself" when you're done. , After the description, sign your nomination with four tildes (~).
Click on "Save Page" when you're done. , Click on "Save Page" when you're done. , If there are no other nominations, replace the template that says this instead.
Replace the "adminship" with "bureaucratship" and "USERNAME" with your username.
Click on "Save Page" when you're done. , Answer any questions that other users give you, and participate in discussions on the page.
After seven days of discussion, if you have enough support from other users, you'll become a bureaucrat.
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