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
- 19:20, 8 June 2026 Gnoeee talk contribs changed group membership for Gnoeee: granted translation administrator (temporary, until 19:20, 8 December 2026); kept mass message sender (temporary, until 23:05, 13 January 2027), administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 31 December 2026) and event organizer unchanged (assigning translation admin right temporary right (self))
- 15:37, 22 March 2026 M7 talk contribs changed group membership for Gnoeee: granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 31 December 2026); revoked autopatroller; kept mass message sender (temporary, until 23:05, 13 January 2027) and event organizer unchanged (Meta:Requests for adminship, limited adminship with the scope of maintaing pages related to WikiConference India 2026)
- 12:40, 27 May 2025 Maintenance script talk contribs changed group membership for Gnoeee: revoked temporary account IP viewer; kept autopatroller, event organizer and mass message sender unchanged (mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/Updates/2025-05 Access to IP addresses on pilot wikis)
- 23:05, 13 January 2025 TenWhile6 talk contribs changed group membership for Gnoeee: granted mass message sender (temporary, until 23:05, 13 January 2027); kept autopatroller, checkuser-temporary-account-viewer and event organizer unchanged (per RFH)
- 06:25, 22 October 2024 Gnoeee talk contribs automatically changed his group membership: got checkuser-temporary-account-viewer; kept autopatroller, event organizer and mass message sender unchanged
- 14:55, 30 December 2023 Martin Urbanec talk contribs changed group membership for Gnoeee: granted mass message sender (temporary, until 14:55, 30 December 2024); kept autopatroller and campaignevents-beta-tester unchanged (per RFH request)
- 11:29, 5 September 2023 Martin Urbanec talk contribs changed group membership for Gnoeee: granted campaignevents-beta-tester; kept autopatroller unchanged (giving access to campaigns event beta per Special:permalink/25559543#Become_a_beta_test_organizer and Campaigns team request (sysadmin action))
- 20:49, 5 July 2023 Johannnes89 talk contribs changed group membership for Gnoeee: granted autopatroller (trusted user)