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
- 08:04, 25 December 2025 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): revoked account creator, event organizer and mass message sender; kept IP block exempt and translation administrator unchanged (Overhauling access for the T&S team)
- 13:46, 20 August 2025 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 2 November 2025); kept account creator, event organizer, IP block exempt, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (Required for staff work on election process)
- 12:40, 27 May 2025 Maintenance script talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): revoked temporary account IP viewer; kept account creator, event organizer, IP block exempt, 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)
- 14:43, 22 May 2025 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted flooder (temporary, until 00:00, 24 May 2025); kept account creator, event organizer, IP block exempt, mass message sender, temporary account IP viewer and translation administrator unchanged (Required for staff work related to mass import)
- 16:41, 21 October 2024 RamzyM (WMF) talk contribs automatically changed his group membership: got checkuser-temporary-account-viewer; kept account creator, event organizer, IP block exempt, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged
- 10:16, 11 June 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted event organizer; kept account creator, IP block exempt, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (mistakenly removed)
- 10:15, 11 June 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): revoked autopatroller and event organizer; kept account creator, IP block exempt, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (-autopatrolled, included in TA/MMS)
- 09:55, 11 June 2024 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): changed expiration of account creator (permanent, was: until 00:01, 30 June 2024), IP block exempt (permanent, was: until 05:44, 15 August 2025), mass message sender (permanent, was: until 00:00, 30 June 2024) and translation administrator (permanent, was: until 00:00, 30 June 2024); kept autopatroller and event organizer unchanged (Making permanent: Required for staff work as part of the Committee Support team)
- 17:33, 29 March 2024 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted event organizer; kept account creator (temporary, until 00:01, 30 June 2024), IP block exempt (temporary, until 05:44, 15 August 2025), mass message sender (temporary, until 00:00, 30 June 2024), translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 30 June 2024) and autopatroller unchanged (Required for staff work as part of the Committee Support team to organize conversation hours and events)
- 05:44, 15 August 2023 Billinghurst talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted IP block exempt (temporary, until 05:44, 15 August 2025); kept account creator (temporary, until 00:01, 30 June 2024), mass message sender (temporary, until 00:00, 30 June 2024), translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 30 June 2024) and autopatroller unchanged (encountering autoblock)
- 01:30, 1 July 2023 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): changed expiration of account creator (until 00:01, 30 June 2024, was: 00:00, 30 June 2024); kept mass message sender (temporary, until 00:00, 30 June 2024), translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 30 June 2024) and autopatroller unchanged ((sorry for misclick:) renewing as still performing these same tasks)
- 01:29, 1 July 2023 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): changed expiration of account creator (until 00:00, 30 June 2024, was: 10:33, 3 July 2023), mass message sender (until 00:00, 30 June 2024, was: 10:33, 3 July 2023) and translation administrator (until 00:00, 30 June 2024, was: 10:33, 3 July 2023); kept autopatroller unchanged
- 10:33, 3 January 2023 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): changed expiration of account creator (until 10:33, 3 July 2023, was: 00:00, 14 January 2023), mass message sender (until 10:33, 3 July 2023, was: 00:00, 14 January 2023) and translation administrator (until 10:33, 3 July 2023, was: 00:00, 14 January 2023); kept autopatroller unchanged (Extension)
- 20:28, 30 June 2022 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted account creator (temporary, until 00:00, 14 January 2023), mass message sender (temporary, until 00:00, 14 January 2023) and translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 14 January 2023); kept autopatroller unchanged (Required for staff work related to Movement Strategy and Governance)
- 10:23, 17 December 2021 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): changed expiration of account creator (until 00:00, 30 June 2022, was: 00:13, 22 January 2022), mass message sender (until 00:00, 30 June 2022, was: 18:18, 22 January 2022) and translation administrator (until 00:00, 30 June 2022, was: 00:00, 31 December 2021); kept autopatroller unchanged (Extending)
- 15:31, 1 June 2021 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): changed expiration of translation administrator (until 00:00, 31 December 2021, was: 00:00, 18 June 2021); kept account creator (temporary, until 00:13, 22 January 2022), mass message sender (temporary, until 18:18, 22 January 2022) and autopatroller unchanged (Extending- Required for CR&S facilitation staff work)
- 15:48, 7 April 2021 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 18 June 2021); kept account creator (temporary, until 00:13, 22 January 2022), mass message sender (temporary, until 18:18, 22 January 2022) and autopatroller unchanged (Required for UCoC staff work)
- 18:18, 22 January 2021 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted mass message sender (temporary, until 18:18, 22 January 2022); kept account creator (temporary, until 00:13, 22 January 2022) and autopatroller unchanged (Staff work - same rationale as accountcreator rights)
- 00:13, 22 January 2021 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted account creator (temporary, until 00:13, 22 January 2022); kept autopatroller unchanged (Applying account creator right to allow bypass of rate limits during outreach work)
- 00:51, 23 December 2020 Martin Urbanec talk contribs changed group membership for RamzyM (WMF): granted autopatroller (staff)