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.

Making new local administrators

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 {{subst:closed request}} at the top to gray it out and </div> at the bottom of the subpage to let folks know it's over. You should explain your rationale if there might be any doubt about consensus. Save the change, untransclude it from Meta:Requests for adminship and add it to Meta:Requests for adminship/Archives by linking to it at the bottom.

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.

View user groups

Viewing user groups of user Johan (WMF) (talk | contribs)

Member of: Account creators, Community Wishlist managers, Event organizers, MassMessage senders, Translation administrators

Implicit member of: Autoconfirmed users

User rights log

01:52, 4 October 2025 MusikAnimal (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): granted Community Wishlist manager; kept account creator, event organizer, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (ongoing need to manage the wishlist)
12:40, 27 May 2025 Maintenance script talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): revoked temporary account IP viewer; kept account creator, event organizer, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/Updates/2025-05 Access to IP addresses on pilot wikis)
11:37, 20 May 2025 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): granted event organizer; kept account creator, mass message sender, temporary account IP viewer and translation administrator unchanged (Required for staff work to organize online events)
10:19, 23 October 2024 Johan (WMF) talk contribs automatically changed their group membership: got checkuser-temporary-account-viewer; kept account creator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged Tag: Reply
02:49, 26 September 2017 RadiX talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): revoked autopatroller; kept account creator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (redundant: not required with translation admin rights)
23:01, 12 August 2016 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): granted account creator; kept autopatroller, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (temporary 1 week to allow for emailing users affected by technical change)
07:13, 4 June 2016 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): revoked central notice administrator; kept autopatroller, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (no longer needed)
09:08, 19 April 2016 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): granted central notice administrator; kept autopatroller, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (temporary for CN translation work)
18:43, 24 August 2015 PiRSquared17 talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): granted autopatroller; kept mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (staff)
09:43, 19 June 2015 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for Johan (WMF): granted mass message sender and translation administrator (For staff work as Community Liaison)