User rights
| The following collapsed information applies to stewards and system administrators only. |
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Unrestricted technical access to add and remove user rights. Follow the guidance below for Stewards. If someone is a new system administrator, have them email an SSH public key to you, upload the key to the server, create a Linux account on the server with sudo access for them (use sudo adduser username and sudo usermod -aG sudo username), and attach the key to the account. You may first grant the user group before doing so.
Access to add and remove the following user groups: Abuse filter administrators, Users blocked from the abuse filter, Checkusers, Interface administrators,
Stewards, and Suppressors. |
- Bureaucrats
Add or remove the bot, election administrator, interwiki administrator, administrator and bureaucrat permissions.
| Appointing new administrators |
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To add a new administrator, type the username (without the User: namespace prefix) and select the appropriate rights. See also the user rights log. It's recommended to include a link to the user's request in the comment field (like this: [[Test Wiki:Request for permissions#newlyMintedAdmin]]). You should then mark the candidacy ([[TW:Request for permissions#newlyMintedAdmin]]) as successful by adding Remember to advise new sysops to translate MediaWiki on translatewiki.net and translate pages on Test Wiki if they are fluent in a language other than English. |
- Administrators
Add or remove autopatrolled users, users blocked from chat, chat moderators, confirmed users, patrollers and translation administrators.
To see recent rights changes, visit Special:Log/rights.
User rights log
- 17:37, 19 September 2025 TheAstorPastor talk contribs changed group membership for Inactivity Bot: revoked autopatrolled, chat moderator, patroller and translation administrator; kept bot, bureaucrat, rights bot and administrator unchanged (not needed. please test on accounts like User:Example) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 17:35, 19 September 2025 Luna.t5 talk contribs changed group membership for Inactivity Bot: granted autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator and chat moderator; kept bot, bureaucrat, rights bot and administrator unchanged (bots)
- 14:47, 28 April 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Inactivity Bot: granted bot; kept bureaucrat, rights bot and administrator unchanged (To make the account appear in the list of TW:BOT)
- 21:41, 20 April 2025 Drummingman talk contribs changed group membership for Inactivity Bot: revoked bot; kept bureaucrat, rights bot and administrator unchanged (That appears to be redundant; it is already included in the rights bot.)
- 21:24, 20 April 2025 Drummingman talk contribs changed group membership for Inactivity Bot: granted bot; kept bureaucrat, rights bot and administrator unchanged (So that recent changes don't get buried)
- 16:25, 20 April 2025 Justarandomamerican talk contribs changed group membership for Inactivity Bot: granted administrator, bureaucrat and rights bot