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
- 17:03, 14 September 2016 Stryn talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from autopatroller and administrator to autopatroller (wrong)
- 17:02, 14 September 2016 Stryn talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from autopatroller to autopatroller and administrator (per request on IRC)
- 14:09, 1 October 2014 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from administrator to autopatroller (per inactivity, see Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2014)
- 00:44, 1 March 2010 Jamesofur talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from flooder and administrator to administrator (done with the most floody stuff)
- 00:37, 1 March 2010 Jamesofur talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from administrator to administrator and flooder (I probably should have done this already)
- 23:39, 19 January 2010 M7 talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from (none) to administrator (As per unanimous vote on http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Requests_for_adminship&oldid=1811774#Jamesofur)
- 05:01, 14 January 2010 Pathoschild talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from flooder to (none) (done)
- 03:57, 14 January 2010 Pathoschild talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from (none) to flooder (updating template and tool links on Steward Election guideline translations)
- 09:57, 12 January 2010 Pathoschild talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from flooder to (none) (he thinks he's done)
- 09:12, 12 January 2010 Pathoschild talk contribs changed group membership for Jamesofur from (none) to flooder (updating links for 2010 steward elections)