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
- 15:34, 25 October 2024 Samwalton9 (WMF) talk contribs was automatically promoted from mass message sender and translation administrator to mass message sender, translation administrator and temporary account IP viewer
- 08:47, 21 September 2022 ZSoo (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Samwalton9 (WMF) from translation administrator to translation administrator and mass message sender (Required for staff work, ZD#46702)
- 04:19, 10 February 2020 ~riley talk contribs changed group membership for Samwalton9 (WMF) from autopatroller and translation administrator to translation administrator (Redundant user right. Replace autopatrol if TA removed.)
- 18:51, 18 February 2019 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Samwalton9 (WMF) from IP block exempt (temporary, until 00:00, 5 June 2019) and autopatroller to IP block exempt (temporary, until 00:00, 5 June 2019), autopatroller and translation administrator (Required for staff work)
- 04:22, 21 December 2018 Xaosflux talk contribs changed group membership for Samwalton9 (WMF) from IP block exempt (temporary, until 04:16, 21 January 2019) and autopatroller to IP block exempt (temporary, until 00:00, 5 June 2019) and autopatroller (extend to match the ip block)
- 04:16, 21 December 2018 Xaosflux talk contribs changed group membership for Samwalton9 (WMF) from autopatroller to IP block exempt (temporary, until 04:16, 21 January 2019) and autopatroller (getting hit with some block)
- 17:43, 12 October 2017 Revi C. talk contribs changed group membership for Samwalton9 (WMF) from (none) to autopatroller (No need to patrol)