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 Pcoombe (WMF) (talk | contribs)

Member of: Central notice administrators, Interface administrators, MassMessage senders, Translation administrators

Implicit member of: Autoconfirmed users

User rights log

12:40, 27 May 2025 Maintenance script talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked temporary account IP viewer; kept central notice administrator, interface administrator, 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)
10:12, 22 October 2024 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs automatically changed their group membership: got checkuser-temporary-account-viewer; kept central notice administrator, interface administrator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged
01:01, 26 January 2019 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 01:01, 26 February 2019); kept central notice administrator, interface administrator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (Required for staff work on banners; workaround as fix in progress)
12:31, 27 November 2018 Mardetanha talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 12:31, 27 December 2018); kept central notice administrator, interface administrator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (Wmf request for to help with fundraiser)
22:26, 10 September 2018 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted interface administrator; kept central notice administrator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (Required for staff work: Needed to edit banners now)
20:09, 5 September 2016 MarcoAurelio talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked autopatroller; kept central notice administrator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (redundant)
15:26, 12 December 2013 MZMcBride talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted mass message sender; kept autopatroller, central notice administrator and translation administrator unchanged (user is listed at Global message delivery/Access list (permalink))
22:03, 11 June 2013 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted central notice administrator and translation administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (For work as Fundraising Production Coordinator with CN banners and fundraising translations)
00:34, 15 February 2013 Thehelpfulone talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted autopatroller; revoked administrator (Temporary adminship expired)
23:03, 9 October 2012 Philippe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted administrator (Needed for job: to expire 2/1/2013)
01:22, 17 February 2012 Philippe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked administrator (Temporary time expired.)
04:34, 31 December 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked flooder; kept administrator unchanged
11:03, 29 November 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted flooder; kept administrator unchanged
22:50, 16 November 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked flooder; kept administrator unchanged (done)
22:02, 16 November 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted flooder; kept administrator unchanged
22:27, 2 November 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked flooder; kept administrator unchanged (dunfloodin')
21:54, 2 November 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted flooder; kept administrator unchanged (updating translation statuses)
17:07, 26 July 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked flooder; kept administrator unchanged (dunfloodin')
15:52, 26 July 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted flooder; kept administrator unchanged (moving more translations)
23:47, 25 July 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked flooder; kept administrator unchanged
19:07, 25 July 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted flooder; kept administrator unchanged (moving a mass of translations from 2010 fundraiser to 2011)
21:26, 13 June 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): revoked flooder; kept administrator unchanged (done)
20:07, 13 June 2011 Pcoombe (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted flooder; kept administrator unchanged (cleaning up Special:CentralNotice)
16:46, 6 June 2011 Dungodung talk contribs changed group membership for Pcoombe (WMF): granted administrator (temporary: WMF fundraiser contractor)