User rights
- System administrators
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.
- Stewards
Access to add and remove the following user groups: Abuse filter administrators, Users blocked from the abuse filter, Checkusers, Interface administrators, Non-steward suppressors,
Stewards, and Suppressors.
After making changes, please ensure to update any relevant lists or records as needed.
Do not grant suppressor (you can still grant NSS to those who meet the established criteria for the group) or CheckUser to anybody but yourself. Only grant AFA or NSS to users who have met the established criteria for the respective groups. Only make someone a steward after judging that they have consensus to be appointed.
- Bureaucrats
Add or remove the Bots, Interwiki administrators, Administrators and Bureaucrats permissions.
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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 permissions#newlyMintedAdmin]]). You should then mark the candidacy ([[TW:Requests 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 and remove Autopatrolled users, Autochecked users, Users blocked from chat, Chat moderators, Confirmed users, Patrollers, Reviewers and Translation administrators.
To see recent rights changes, visit Special:Log/rights.
User rights log
- 09:50, 29 May 2024 Drummingman talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from bureaucrat and administrator to administrator (Unnecessary)
- 08:24, 29 May 2024 Justman10000 talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from administrator to administrator and bureaucrat (System account - can safly have bureaucrat rights)
- 02:57, 14 February 2021 Naleksuh talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from bot and administrator to administrator (Blocks need to show up in recent changes for transparency)
- 14:09, 20 January 2021 Justarandomamerican talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from administrator to administrator and bot (flag as a bot so it doesn't flood recent changes with spam blocks)
- 09:23, 7 October 2020 Seemplez talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from administrator to (none) (Per the inactivity policy)
- 04:31, 27 January 2020 SRuizR talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from bot and administrator to administrator (A hidden user did this and was reverted by founder but did it again. Reverting.)
- 22:21, 17 May 2017 Amanda talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from administrator to administrator and bot (The AbuseFilter is a bot)
- 12:54, 15 April 2017 MacFan4000 talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from bot and administrator to administrator
- 02:19, 15 April 2017 Guy talk contribs changed group membership for Abuse filter from administrator to administrator and bot (The AbuseFilter is a bot)