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
- 12:23, 18 March 2026 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted flooder (temporary, until 12:33, 18 March 2026); kept global renamer, interface administrator, administrator and translation administrator unchanged (broken redirects clean up)
- 04:46, 30 December 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: revoked flooder; kept global renamer, interface administrator, administrator and translation administrator unchanged (done)
- 03:39, 30 December 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted flooder; kept global renamer, interface administrator, administrator and translation administrator unchanged (block reason cleanup per Special:Permalink/29858925#Special/MyLanguage:WM:OP/H)
- 18:22, 29 December 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted flooder (temporary, until 19:22, 29 December 2025); kept global renamer, interface administrator, administrator and translation administrator unchanged
- 14:46, 1 November 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted flooder (temporary, until 15:06, 1 November 2025); kept global renamer, interface administrator, administrator and translation administrator unchanged (Deleting RfDed pages)
- 09:17, 1 October 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted flooder (temporary, until 10:17, 1 October 2025); kept global renamer, interface administrator, administrator and translation administrator unchanged
- 08:50, 1 October 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted flooder (temporary, until 09:00, 1 October 2025); kept global renamer, interface administrator, administrator and translation administrator unchanged (Substituting {{@U4C Alert}})
- 18:00, 11 September 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted translation administrator; kept global renamer, interface administrator and administrator unchanged (to handle deletion requests)
- 17:15, 2 September 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted translation administrator (temporary, until 17:25, 2 September 2025); kept global renamer, interface administrator and administrator unchanged (for translations)
- 17:00, 2 September 2025 Max talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted translation administrator (temporary, until 17:10, 2 September 2025); kept global renamer, interface administrator and administrator unchanged
- 15:25, 2 September 2025 M7 talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted interface administrator; kept global renamer and administrator unchanged (per request Special:Diff/29212822#Requesting_IA_permission)
- 16:32, 26 August 2025 M7 talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted administrator; revoked patroller; kept global renamer unchanged (Meta:Requests for adminship/DreamRimmer)
- 12:40, 27 May 2025 Maintenance script talk contribs changed group membership for Max: revoked temporary account IP viewer; kept global renamer and patroller unchanged (mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/Updates/2025-05 Access to IP addresses on pilot wikis)
- 11:49, 17 March 2025 Max talk contribs automatically changed their group membership: got temporary account IP viewer; kept checkuser-temporary-account-viewer, global renamer and patroller unchanged
- 15:50, 21 October 2024 Max talk contribs automatically changed their group membership: got checkuser-temporary-account-viewer; kept global renamer and patroller unchanged
- 03:38, 13 January 2024 Mykola7 talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted global renamer; kept patroller unchanged (per request)
- 15:35, 25 December 2023 Xaosflux talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted patroller; revoked autopatroller (for routine stuff)
- 15:53, 25 August 2023 Johannnes89 talk contribs changed group membership for Max: granted autopatroller (no need to patrol)