User rights
- Stewards
Unrestricted access to add and remove userrights.
To manipulate membership in global groups, see Special:GlobalGroupMembership.
To change membership on a wiki besides Meta, enter <username>@<dbname>, e.g. Jimbo Wales@enwiki.
Remember to advise new sysops to translate MediaWiki on translatewiki.net.
- Local bureaucrats
Add or remove the bot, central notice administrators, uploader, interface administrator and the translation administrator permissions.
Add (but not remove) administrator (sysop) and bureaucrat.
Remove the flood flag from any administrator.
After adding or removing local admins, please update MediaWiki:Gadget-markAdmins-data.json.
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Type the name of the user in the box (without the User: namespace prefix) and click the button to make the user an administrator. See also the user rights log. It is suggested that you include a link to the user's request in the comment field (like this: [[Meta:Requests for adminship/newlyMintedAdmin]]). After you make someone a sysop, please update (or ask the new admin to update) the Template:List of administrators. You can notify the newly created sysop on their talk page, and give them some good advice too, by doing this: {{subst:Template:AdminWelcome/en}}
"personal remarks" ~~~~
You should then mark the candidacy ([[Meta:Requests for adminship/newlyMintedAdmin]]) as successful by adding You will see that some candidacies have special circumstances you may want to note (second try, failed, request for 'crat, reconfirmation by the community, etc.). |
- Local administrators
Add and remove the translation administrator and the flood flag from themselves. Preferable that flood flag is set to expire as it takes relative (e.g. 1h) and set times and dates; otherwise please remember to remove the flood flag when you are finished.
Add and remove IP block exemption, MassMessage senders, Event organizers, autopatrollers and patrollers. Noting that patroller, MassMessage sender and event organizer require community requests at Meta:RfH.
To see recent rights changes, visit Special:Log/rights.
User rights log
- 18:54, 28 February 2015 Trijnstel talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from mass message sender to (none) (former staff, account locked)
- 15:18, 12 December 2013 MZMcBride talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from (none) to mass message sender (user is listed at Global message delivery/Access list (permalink))
- 15:18, 9 September 2012 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from importer to (none) (no longer needed)
- 13:21, 9 September 2012 Thehelpfulone talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from importer and translation administrator to importer (was added for staff role, no longer needed)
- 21:41, 8 September 2012 Philippe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from importer, administrator and translation administrator to importer and translation administrator (no longer staff)
- 13:24, 26 July 2012 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from flooder, importer, administrator and translation administrator to importer, administrator and translation administrator (probably already done)
- 13:19, 26 July 2012 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from importer, administrator and translation administrator to importer, administrator, translation administrator and flooder (FLOOD)
- 16:37, 8 November 2011 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from administrator and translation administrator to administrator, translation administrator and importer (Needs it)
- 00:50, 12 October 2011 Bencmq talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from administrator to administrator and translation administrator (Per staff request for fundraiser)
- 12:57, 4 September 2011 Wikitanvir talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from autopatroller and administrator to administrator (Removing redundant right)
- 06:00, 24 August 2011 Philippe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from autopatroller to autopatroller and administrator (Needed for fundraiser)
- 20:06, 11 August 2011 Jon Harald Søby talk contribs changed group membership for Jsoby from (none) to autopatroller (:-))