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
- 17:13, 3 January 2025 DAlangi (WMF) talk contribs automatically changed his group membership: got temporary account IP viewer, kept autopatroller unchanged
- 12:56, 4 January 2022 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 13 January 2023), interface administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 13 January 2023) and translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 13 January 2023), kept autopatroller unchanged (extending rights for same usecase)
- 19:11, 1 July 2021 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 19:11, 1 January 2022), interface administrator (temporary, until 19:11, 1 January 2022) and translation administrator (temporary, until 19:11, 1 January 2022), kept autopatroller unchanged (extending rights for same usecase)
- 23:04, 6 July 2020 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): changed expiration of interface administrator (until 00:00, 1 July 2021, was: 00:00, 1 August 2020), administrator (until 00:00, 1 July 2021, was: 00:00, 1 August 2020) and translation administrator (until 00:00, 1 July 2021, was: 00:00, 1 August 2020), kept autopatroller unchanged (extending rights for same usecase)
- 22:59, 27 February 2020 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): changed expiration of interface administrator (until 00:00, 1 August 2020, was: 00:00, 29 February 2020), administrator (until 00:00, 1 August 2020, was: 00:00, 29 February 2020) and translation administrator (until 00:00, 1 August 2020, was: 00:00, 29 February 2020), kept autopatroller unchanged (extending rights for same usecase)
- 19:53, 15 January 2020 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): changed expiration of interface administrator (until 00:00, 29 February 2020, was: 00:00, 16 January 2020), administrator (until 00:00, 29 February 2020, was: 00:00, 16 January 2020) and translation administrator (until 00:00, 29 February 2020, was: 00:00, 16 January 2020), kept autopatroller unchanged (extending rights for same usecase)
- 01:18, 13 November 2019 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 16 January 2020), interface administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 16 January 2020) and translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 16 January 2020), kept autopatroller unchanged (extending rights for same usecase)
- 18:40, 13 June 2019 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 11 November 2019), interface administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 11 November 2019) and translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 11 November 2019), kept autopatroller unchanged (Required for staff work automating portals)
- 03:32, 27 May 2019 Billinghurst talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted autopatroller (no need to patrol)
- 16:59, 7 August 2018 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 16:59, 19 August 2018) and translation administrator (temporary, until 16:59, 19 August 2018) (needs a bit more time)
- 23:18, 10 July 2018 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 4 August 2018) and translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 4 August 2018) (readd rights needed for work given extended contract)
- 19:04, 1 June 2018 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2018), kept administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2018) unchanged (Also approved by manager until July 1)
- 23:04, 31 May 2018 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2018) (Approved by manager through July 1.)
- 20:44, 21 March 2018 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): changed expiration of translation administrator (until 00:00, 26 May 2018, was: 18:08, 21 September 2018), kept administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 22 May 2018) unchanged ((approved by manager for staff work through May 26))
- 18:08, 21 March 2018 DAlangi (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 18:08, 21 September 2018), kept administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 22 May 2018) unchanged (WMF staff work)
- 19:55, 7 March 2018 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for DAlangi (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 22 May 2018) (Req for staff work on gadgets pages etc)