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
- 01:27, 7 August 2025 Inactivity Bot talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: revoked bureaucrat and administrator (Automatically removed due to inactivity)
- 14:32, 15 April 2025 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: changed expiration of bureaucrat (permanent, was: until 08:18, 28 April 2025) and administrator (permanent, was: until 08:18, 28 April 2025) (restore, user returned to activity)
- 19:38, 14 April 2025 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: changed expiration of bureaucrat (until 08:18, 28 April 2025, was: permanent) and administrator (until 08:18, 28 April 2025, was: permanent) (Setting grace period for inactive user.)
- 08:29, 15 January 2025 TenWhile6 talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted administrator and bureaucrat (restore after tool abuse)
- 07:53, 15 January 2025 DisambiguousMonths talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: revoked bureaucrat and administrator
- 15:42, 14 January 2025 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: revoked blocked from chat; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (opps!)
- 15:42, 14 January 2025 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted blocked from chat; changed expiration of bureaucrat (permanent, was: until 15:15, 28 January 2025) and administrator (permanent, was: until 15:15, 28 January 2025) (reset grace setting)
- 15:15, 14 January 2025 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: changed expiration of bureaucrat (until 15:15, 28 January 2025, was: permanent) and administrator (until 15:15, 28 January 2025, was: permanent) (Setting grace period for an inactive user)
- 11:03, 23 September 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted administrator and bureaucrat (requested)
- 00:01, 21 March 2024 Renamed user 159304387 talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: revoked autopatrolled (Inactive.)
- 08:25, 18 May 2023 Bosco talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted autopatrolled (trusted user: former sysop & bureaucrat)
- 17:36, 17 May 2023 X talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: revoked bureaucrat (temporary, until 18:14, 17 May 2023) and administrator (temporary, until 18:14, 17 May 2023) (-sysop, -crat. Inactive user)
- 18:14, 3 May 2023 X talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: changed expiration of bureaucrat (until 18:14, 17 May 2023, was: permanent) and administrator (until 18:14, 17 May 2023, was: permanent) (Setting 2 week grace period for Inactive user)
- 15:31, 30 September 2022 Drummingman talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted administrator and bureaucrat (+sysop, +bureaucrat; Requested at TW:RFP)
- 17:05, 27 September 2022 AlPaD talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: revoked bureaucrat and administrator (Remove advanced permissions per inactivity policy) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 13:43, 10 April 2022 Kazrok4545 talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted administrator and bureaucrat (+sysop, +bureaucrat; Requested at TW:RFP)
- 18:40, 9 April 2022 LisafBia talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: revoked bureaucrat and administrator (Inactivity policy)
- 14:14, 9 December 2021 PorkchopGMX (on the go) talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted bureaucrat; kept administrator unchanged (Per request)
- 18:00, 6 December 2021 PorkchopGMX (on the go) talk contribs changed group membership for Brewster239: granted administrator (Per request)