Stewards

Stewards are users with complete access to the wiki interface on all of the wikis hosted by Orain, including the ability to change any and all user rights and groups. They are tasked with technical implementation of community consensus, and dealing with emergencies (for example, cross-wiki vandalism). Stewards are empowered to act as a member of any permissions group on any project with no active member of that permissions group. For example: wikis without a/an active administrator(s) may call upon stewards to fulfill that role; stewards will act as a bureaucrat as needed on wikis without bureaucrats.

To get emergency help or ask a question, join the IRC channel #orain; say  in this channel to notify stewards of an emergency. For regular requests, see the list of request pages in the box on the left. To contact a steward directly, use that steward's talk page.

Stewards generally do not perform actions on wikis where local users are available to perform them, except in emergency or cross-wiki cases.

Stewards do have a rough equivalent to being global sysops - they can block and unblock users on any wiki, even without assigning themselves the local administrator permission.