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.
- Local bureaucrats
Add or remove the bot, central notice administrators, confirmed, uploader, interface administrator and the translation administrator permissions.
Add (but not remove) administrator (sysop) and bureaucrat.
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, temporary account IP viewer, autopatrollers and patrollers. Noting that patroller, MassMessage sender, temporary account IP viewer and event organizer require community requests at Meta:RfH.
To see recent rights changes, visit Special:Log/rights.
User rights log
- 12:40, 27 May 2025 Maintenance script talk contribs changed group membership for Albertoleoncio: revoked temporary account IP viewer; kept steward and translation administrator unchanged (mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/Updates/2025-05 Access to IP addresses on pilot wikis)
- 17:10, 22 October 2024 Albertoleoncio talk contribs automatically changed his group membership: got checkuser-temporary-account-viewer; kept steward and translation administrator unchanged
- 01:09, 9 March 2024 Sotiale talk contribs changed group membership for Albertoleoncio: granted translation administrator; kept steward unchanged (Meta:Requests for translation adminship/Albertoleoncio)
- 16:14, 27 February 2024 Mykola7 talk contribs changed group membership for Albertoleoncio: granted steward; revoked global renamer (Elected as a steward. Congratulations!)
- 00:27, 18 November 2020 DannyS712 talk contribs changed group membership for Albertoleoncio: revoked autopatroller; kept global renamer unchanged (-autopatroller; No longer needed, redundant to +global renamer)
- 20:48, 4 November 2020 Ruslik0 talk contribs changed group membership for Albertoleoncio: granted global renamer; kept autopatroller unchanged (per request)
- 05:05, 5 October 2020 DannyS712 talk contribs changed group membership for Albertoleoncio: granted autopatroller (+autopatroller; Translator, user can be trusted, does not need to be patrolled)