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
- 11:11, 20 November 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted blocked from chat (temporary, until 11:11, 20 November 2025); kept bureaucrat, election administrator, interwiki administrator and administrator unchanged (inactivity buster)
- 12:07, 28 April 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted administrator, interwiki administrator and election administrator; kept bureaucrat unchanged (I wondered why I didn't have the delete option haha)
- 09:06, 27 April 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked election administrator, interwiki administrator and administrator; kept bureaucrat unchanged
- 14:52, 3 April 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator and interwiki administrator unchanged
- 14:51, 3 April 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator and interwiki administrator unchanged
- 14:51, 3 April 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted administrator and interwiki administrator; kept bureaucrat and election administrator unchanged
- 14:49, 3 April 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked interwiki administrator and administrator; kept bureaucrat and election administrator unchanged (test)
- 11:56, 17 March 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted interwiki administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator and administrator unchanged
- 11:51, 17 March 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked interwiki administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator and administrator unchanged
- 11:48, 23 February 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted interwiki administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator and administrator unchanged (is this too required?)
- 11:47, 23 February 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted election administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (yup.. you need it to create elections)
- 11:47, 23 February 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked election administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (what if I'm not election admin?)
- 08:10, 11 February 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked autopatrolled, autochecked, chat moderator, confirmed user, interwiki administrator, patroller, reviewer and translation administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator and administrator unchanged (test doe)
- 08:09, 11 February 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted confirmed user, autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator, chat moderator, interwiki administrator, reviewer and autochecked; kept bureaucrat, election administrator and administrator unchanged (test)
- 05:37, 6 February 2025 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted election administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (+election admin)
- 08:34, 15 January 2025 TenWhile6 talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted administrator and bureaucrat (restore after tool abuse)
- 07:53, 15 January 2025 DisambiguousMonths talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked bureaucrat and administrator
- 13:50, 23 December 2024 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked blocked from chat; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (test done.)
- 13:49, 23 December 2024 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted blocked from chat; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (test)
- 09:32, 22 September 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted bureaucrat; kept administrator unchanged (+ bureaucrat ; per requested at TW:RfP)
- 22:45, 24 August 2024 Renamed user 159304387 talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: revoked autopatrolled, chat moderator, confirmed user, patroller, reviewer and translation administrator; kept administrator unchanged (Bundled in the admin group.)
- 11:12, 19 August 2024 Tester talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted confirmed user, autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator, chat moderator and reviewer; kept administrator unchanged (test)
- 04:31, 18 August 2024 Gepard talk contribs changed group membership for Tester: granted administrator (+sysop; Requested at TW:RfP) Tag: userRightsManager