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 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk | contribs)

Member of: Central notice administrators, Event organizers, Administrators, Translation administrators

Implicit member of: Autoconfirmed users

User rights log

09:34, 5 November 2025 Minorax talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): revoked mass message sender; kept central notice administrator, event organizer, administrator and translation administrator unchanged (redundant to sysop)
21:52, 28 February 2025 SGrabarczuk (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted event organizer; kept central notice administrator, mass message sender, administrator and translation administrator unchanged
11:09, 15 December 2021 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted administrator; kept central notice administrator, mass message sender and translation administrator unchanged (Required for staff work related to Community Tech and Community Wishlist Survey)
23:13, 2 July 2021 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted central notice administrator and translation administrator; changed expiration of mass message sender (permanent, was: until 13:18, 19 November 2021) (Required for staff work)
18:02, 9 December 2020 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted central notice administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2021); kept mass message sender (temporary, until 13:18, 19 November 2021) and translation administrator (temporary, until 18:17, 1 July 2021) unchanged (Required for staff work for standard messages about Community Wishlist Surveys, server switches, etc.)
13:18, 19 November 2020 NahidSultan (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted mass message sender (temporary, until 13:18, 19 November 2021); kept translation administrator (temporary, until 18:17, 1 July 2021) unchanged (Required for staff work sending Web team and other such messages)
13:18, 19 November 2020 NahidSultan talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): revoked mass message sender (temporary, until 13:17, 19 November 2021); kept translation administrator (temporary, until 18:17, 1 July 2021) unchanged (Wrong account used, sorry)
13:17, 19 November 2020 NahidSultan talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted mass message sender (temporary, until 13:17, 19 November 2021); kept translation administrator (temporary, until 18:17, 1 July 2021) unchanged (Required for staff work sending Web team and other such messages)
18:17, 1 July 2020 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 18:17, 1 July 2021) (Renewing to allow continuation of work)
18:26, 8 May 2020 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 23 May 2020); kept mass message sender (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2020) and translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2020) unchanged (required for staff work with translation pages)
23:37, 7 April 2020 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted mass message sender (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2020); kept translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2020) unchanged (Required for staff work sending Web team and other such messages)
13:34, 8 January 2020 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 July 2020) (extending rights for same usecase)
21:21, 23 July 2019 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): changed expiration of translation administrator (until 00:01, 1 January 2020, was: 00:00, 1 January 2020) (editing to add reason: Strategy work :))
21:20, 23 July 2019 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 January 2020)
11:05, 13 July 2018 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 11:05, 13 July 2019) (For strategy work)
15:01, 2 October 2017 Steinsplitter talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): revoked autopatroller (account is locked)
20:48, 31 August 2017 JSutherland (WMF) talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted translation administrator (temporary, until 00:00, 1 October 2017); kept autopatroller unchanged (Required for staff work (strategy contractor))
16:40, 10 March 2017 NahidSultan talk contribs changed group membership for SGrabarczuk (WMF): granted autopatroller (Staff+already autopatrolled in their volunteer account)