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 Seddon (talk | contribs)

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

Implicit member of: Autoconfirmed users

User rights log

12:40, 27 May 2025 Maintenance script talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: revoked temporary account IP viewer; kept central notice administrator, interface administrator and translation administrator unchanged (mw:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/Updates/2025-05 Access to IP addresses on pilot wikis)
07:40, 21 February 2025 M7 talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: granted interface administrator; kept central notice administrator, checkuser-temporary-account-viewer and translation administrator unchanged (Meta:Requests for interface adminship/Seddon)
09:21, 20 February 2025 M7 talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: granted central notice administrator; kept checkuser-temporary-account-viewer and translation administrator unchanged (Meta:Requests for CentralNotice adminship/Seddon 2)
23:45, 11 February 2025 Seddon talk contribs automatically changed their group membership: got checkuser-temporary-account-viewer; kept translation administrator unchanged
18:59, 3 October 2024 MF-Warburg talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: revoked central notice administrator; kept translation administrator unchanged (Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity)/October 2024)
10:04, 15 April 2020 MarcoAurelio talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: granted central notice administrator; kept translation administrator unchanged (Meta:Requests for CentralNotice adminship/Seddon)
02:59, 26 September 2017 RadiX talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: revoked autopatroller; kept translation administrator unchanged (redundant: not required with translation admin rights)
21:49, 24 May 2013 MarcoAurelio talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: revoked central notice administrator; kept autopatroller and translation administrator unchanged (Temporary CNA rights expired)
00:37, 15 May 2013 Thehelpfulone talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: granted central notice administrator and translation administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (Per successful request: Meta:Requests for adminship/Seddon (Temp) 2)
21:21, 1 February 2013 Thehelpfulone talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: revoked administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (no longer needed on this account)
21:39, 31 January 2013 Thehelpfulone talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: granted administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (Temp emergency adminship for 24 hours (locked himself out of his staff account, needs for fundraising work))
22:15, 14 March 2011 MarcoAurelio talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: revoked administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (temporary administrator permissions expired cfr. request)
00:47, 18 November 2010 Cbrown1023 talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: granted administrator; kept autopatroller unchanged (Temp sysop to help with Wikimedia UK banners during the fundraiser (ref. Meta:Requests for adminship/Seddon))
00:13, 18 November 2010 Hoo man talk contribs changed group membership for Seddon: granted autopatroller (trusted user)