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
- 23:01, 17 March 2026 Tanbiruzzaman talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: granted autopatroller (No need to patrol)
- 11:54, 12 October 2024 M7 talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: revoked translation administrator (per consensus Special:Diff/27591094#Inactivity)
- 10:03, 22 September 2017 Base talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: revoked autopatroller; kept translation administrator unchanged (duplicate right: autopatrol is included in translationadmin)
- 19:48, 26 February 2015 Stryn talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: granted autopatroller; kept translation administrator unchanged (trusted, no need to patrol)
- 14:09, 1 October 2014 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: revoked administrator; kept translation administrator unchanged (per inactivity, see Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2014)
- 17:36, 4 July 2012 Aude talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: granted translation administrator; kept administrator unchanged
- 20:52, 28 February 2011 Hoo man talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: revoked autopatroller; kept administrator unchanged (no longer needed)
- 01:08, 28 February 2011 VasilievVV talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: granted administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (Meta:Requests for adminship/Aude)
- 19:28, 1 February 2011 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: revoked administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (Temporary access expired.)
- 13:07, 15 November 2010 Barras talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: granted administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (temp; expires 31 January 2011)
- 19:41, 11 November 2010 Jon Harald Søby talk contribs changed group membership for Aude: granted autopatroller (good user)