* Once the user has confirmed their email, a notice of the request is sent to designated wiki users and those in the [https[MozillaWiki://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/BureaucratBureaucrats#Bureaucrats |bureaucrat]] group (a notice is also included on the RecentChanges and Watchlist pages for users who have the ability to approve).
* The bureaucrat reviews the user's account request and takes one of the following actions: approves, holds, or denies. Bureaucrats are instructed to approve all users they can reasonable verify are people with legitimate reason to edit the wiki (that is, not spammers or bots).