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
- 12:17, 15 October 2025 Bosco talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked election administrator and interwiki administrator (inactive)
- 01:11, 24 September 2025 Inactivity Bot talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked bureaucrat and administrator; kept election administrator and interwiki administrator unchanged (Automatically removed due to inactivity)
- 12:32, 30 August 2025 SaoMikoto talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked autopatrolled, chat moderator, confirmed user, patroller and translation administrator; kept bureaucrat, election administrator, interwiki administrator and administrator unchanged (redundant)
- 04:36, 22 June 2025 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted confirmed user, autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator, chat moderator, interwiki administrator, election administrator, reviewer and autochecked; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged
- 13:17, 8 May 2025 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted administrator and bureaucrat (+sysop, +bureaucrat; Requested at TW:RfP) Tag: userRightsManager
- 05:05, 22 March 2025 Renamed user 58678 talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: changed expiration of bureaucrat (until 13:59, 7 April 2025, was: permanent) and administrator (until 13:59, 7 April 2025, was: permanent) (Setting grace period for inactive user.)
- 08:29, 15 January 2025 TenWhile6 talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted administrator and bureaucrat (restore after tool abuse)
- 07:53, 15 January 2025 DisambiguousMonths talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked bureaucrat and administrator
- 05:36, 18 December 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked autopatrolled, autochecked, blocked from chat, bot, chat moderator, confirmed user, interwiki administrator, patroller, reviewer and translation administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged
- 05:35, 18 December 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted bot, confirmed user, autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator, chat moderator, interwiki administrator, reviewer, autochecked and blocked from chat; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged
- 04:44, 18 December 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked bot; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged
- 13:30, 16 December 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted bot; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (maybe this'll fix it?)
- 18:18, 5 December 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked autopatrolled, autochecked, blocked from chat, bot, chat moderator, confirmed user, interwiki administrator, patroller, reviewer and translation administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged
- 18:16, 5 December 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted bot, confirmed user, autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator, chat moderator, interwiki administrator, reviewer, autochecked and blocked from chat; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (giving myself way too much hats; testing)
- 17:30, 5 December 2024 VancityRothaug talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted administrator and bureaucrat (Test Wiki:Request permissions#CanonNi)
- 00:11, 28 September 2024 Renamed user 159304387 talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: changed expiration of bureaucrat (until 11:35, 11 October 2024, was: permanent) and administrator (until 11:35, 11 October 2024, was: permanent) (Setting grace period for inactive user.)
- 13:04, 6 July 2024 LisafBia talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted bureaucrat; kept administrator unchanged (+bureaucrat; Requested at TW:RfP) Tag: userRightsManager
- 04:01, 26 June 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: revoked autopatrolled, autochecked, blocked from chat, chat moderator, confirmed user, patroller, reviewer and translation administrator; kept administrator unchanged
- 04:01, 26 June 2024 CanonNi talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted confirmed user, autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator, chat moderator, reviewer, autochecked and blocked from chat; kept administrator unchanged (testing)
- 12:19, 25 June 2024 Justman10000 talk contribs changed group membership for CanonNi: granted administrator (+sysop; Requested at TW:RfP) Tag: userRightsManager