Hello Carlb. I'm bureaucrat of Japanese Uncyclopedia. We are troubled recently by appearance sock-puppetted(bad)user. If you can, please add CheckUser Extention to Japanese version and add CheckUser right and right of additional right to me, or add CheckUser right to all of japanese bureaucrats. If you have any question please talk on My japanese talk page. Thank you. -- by Muttley 12:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
* I want steward!--Nanahoshi 13:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
As far as I know, 'steward' on the Wikimedia wikis is equivalent to 'bureaucrat' on the standard MediaWiki installation - it's the ability to add or remove any user from any of the groups. Any existing bureaucrat on ja: has (and can confer) these powers, along with sysop, bot or (now that it's installed) checkuser.
The wikis will be being upgraded to MediaWiki 1.11alpha once the new server is deployed (likely a few days from now, server is here now and I just need to install programmes and data before taking it to Toronto). Perhaps the checkuser and confirmedit extensions (already in use on a few of these wikis) should be added to all of the others at that time? --Carlb 13:42, 10 May 2007 (UTC)