Bureaucrat

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Within Wikimedia projects, a bureaucrat is a user who has the technical ability to:

• Promote other users to administrator or bureaucrat;
• Grant and revoke a user's bot flag;
• Add and remove users from the interface-admin group;
• Add and remove users from custom local groups created by local consensus like account creator, deleter, etc.;
• Remove a user's administrator and/or bureaucrat flags on some projects listed below.

Stewards fulfill these roles on wikis without bureaucrats using the requests for permissions page. A small community generally doesn't require a local bureaucrat, because stewards can easily handle the low traffic of requests from that wiki with little delay; generally a user with this access is not needed until several local administrators are present. Other positions may be subject to global policies like the Checkuser policy and the Oversight policy, which define minimum community requirements. The default configuration of the MediaWiki software permits bureaucrats with access to Special:UserRights to add and remove users from all user groups. On Wikimedia projects only stewards have full access to Special:UserRights, while bureaucrats can add/remove only a subset of rights.

If you are a bureaucrat, to give or remove another user administrator, bureaucrat or bot access (or any other access), go to Special:UserRights on the wiki where you are a bureaucrat. There is a link to this on the list of special pages.

You will see the following form:

Screenshot showing the interface of Special:UserRights on a local wiki.

Type the user's name into the box, and enter a reason for the change. Choose the rights you wish to assign/remove to the user by ticking/unticking the relevant boxes. Note that if the user group has an asterisk (*) next to it, you will not be able to remove it yourself. When you are done, press the Save user groups button.

The user will gain their access immediately and the action will be recorded at the User rights log.

If you make a mistake and need to remove an access level which you cannot remove, contact a steward.

Below is a list of public wikis where bureaucrats can remove sysop and/or bureaucrat access. Normally these removals have to be done by the stewards. On all private or fishbowl wikis, bureaucrats are able to remove both administrator and bureaucrat flags.

both administrator and bureaucrat flags
Wiki	Bug	Fixed on	Notes
(削除) Meta (削除ここまで)	(削除) bug 13509 (削除ここまで)	(削除) 2008年04月24日 (削除ここまで)	Removed per phab:T106291.
(削除) ru.wikisource (削除ここまで)	(削除) bug 14568 (削除ここまで)	(削除) 2008年07月05日 (削除ここまで)	(削除) It looks like this was set inadvertently. (削除ここまで) Now removed phab:T44105
se chapter wiki	bug 14665	2008年07月05日	It looks like this was set inadvertently, but the Swedish chapter board wishes to keep this configuration.
(削除) no.wikibooks (削除ここまで)	(削除) bug 13853 (削除ここまで)	(削除) 2009年06月03日 (削除ここまで)	(削除) It looks like this was set inadvertently. (削除ここまで)Now removed bugzilla:42105
fi.wikipedia	No bug	2009年03月04日	Originally very likely to have been set inadvertently in March 2009.
	bug 42114	2013年01月04日	Local consensus reached (see bugs 42114 and 42105, and this summary).
fi chapter wiki	bug 25668	2010年10月27日
(削除) wikimania2014 wiki (削除ここまで)	(削除) bug 55480 (削除ここまで)	(削除) 2013年10月11日 (削除ここまで)	Wiki closed, reset to default.
br.wikimedia	task T65345	2014年04月17日	consensus
hu.wikipedia	bug 72055	2014年10月16日
pt.wikipedia	bug T107661	2015年08月11日	Local consensus
co.wikimedia	task T300779	2022年02月02日	Non-fishbowl chapter wiki.
only administrator flag
test.wiki
wikitech
en.wiktionary	No bug	Per a community vote and bug 42113, enwiktionary bureaucrats lost the power to remove the bureaucrat right (which was apparently never asked for).
(削除) pa-us chapter wiki (削除ここまで)	(削除) T12611 (削除ここまで)	(削除) 2008年09月16日 (削除ここまで)	Wiki was closed.
(削除) uk chapter wiki (削除ここまで)	(削除) T19388 (削除ここまで)	(削除) 2009年02月26日 (削除ここまで)	Wiki was redirected.
simple.wikipedia	T22271	2009年09月24日	Community consensus
simple.wiktionary	T24522	2010年02月22日
outreach.wiki	bug 23118	2010年04月09日	Ability to remove bureaucrat flag was removed in phab:T214133.
en.wikinews	bug 23392	2010年05月08日	Community consensus
(削除) hi.wiktionary (削除ここまで)	(削除) bug 29702 (削除ここまで)	(削除) 2011年07月11日 (削除ここまで)	Removed per task T214765.
en.wikipedia	bug 18390	2011年08月11日	Community consensus
ru.wikipedia	bug 30307	2011年08月11日	Community consensus
ba.wikipedia	bug 33769	2012年01月17日	Community consensus
fr.wikipedia	bug 35258	2012年04月12日	Community consensus
en.wikivoyage	bug 43851	2013年01月17日	Community consensus
test2.wiki	T131037	2016年04月04日
fa.wikipedia	T140810	2016年07月20日	Community consensus
nyc.wikimedia	task T226591	2019年06月26日	Wikimedia New York City Chapter wiki.
bd.wikimedia	task T251078	2020年04月28日	Wikimedia Bangladesh chapter wiki
commons	task T261481	2020年10月06日	Community consensus
de.wikipedia	task T331921	2023年04月20日	Community consensus
foundationwiki	task T370097	2024年07月18日	Wikimedia Foundation managed wiki
wikidata	task T379635	2024年11月14日	Community consensus

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