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
- 11:23, 4 May 2025 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (Done)
- 11:19, 4 May 2025 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (quick test)
- 18:08, 25 March 2025 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked blocked from chat and administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (Done)
- 18:07, 25 March 2025 EPICtest talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted autopatrolled; kept blocked from chat and administrator unchanged
- 18:06, 25 March 2025 EPICtest talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted blocked from chat; revoked autopatrolled; kept administrator unchanged
- 18:05, 25 March 2025 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (temp, test)
- 08:34, 15 January 2025 DodoMan talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted autopatrolled (restore rights after abuse)
- 08:00, 15 January 2025 DisambiguousMonths talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked autopatrolled
- 20:25, 27 July 2024 EPICtest talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked bureaucrat and administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (Done)
- 20:24, 27 July 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted administrator and bureaucrat; kept autopatrolled unchanged (To unprotect userpage, doing it from test account for confirmation)
- 20:21, 27 July 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked patroller; kept autopatrolled unchanged (Done)
- 20:15, 27 July 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted patroller; kept autopatrolled unchanged (Testing)
- 23:45, 9 July 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (done)
- 23:44, 9 July 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (test)
- 20:36, 24 March 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (Done testing)
- 20:35, 24 March 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (Testing again)
- 20:35, 24 March 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked translation administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (done)
- 20:34, 24 March 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted translation administrator; kept autopatrolled unchanged (quick test)
- 22:20, 23 March 2024 EPICtest talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted autopatrolled; revoked blocked from chat and chat moderator; kept administrator (temporary, until 22:20, 23 March 2024) unchanged (Done)
- 22:20, 23 March 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted administrator (temporary, until 22:20, 23 March 2024); kept blocked from chat and chat moderator unchanged (Test)
- 22:20, 23 March 2024 EPICtest talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted blocked from chat; kept chat moderator unchanged (test)
- 22:19, 23 March 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted chat moderator (test)
- 22:40, 22 March 2024 EPIC talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: revoked autopatrolled, autochecked, blocked from chat, bot, bureaucrat, chat moderator, confirmed user, interwiki administrator, patroller, reviewer, administrator and translation administrator (done)
- 22:40, 22 March 2024 EPICtest talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted bot, translation administrator, patroller, confirmed user, chat moderator, reviewer, autochecked and blocked from chat; kept autopatrolled, bureaucrat, interwiki administrator and administrator unchanged (test)
- 22:40, 22 March 2024 EPICtest talk contribs changed group membership for EPICtest: granted administrator and interwiki administrator; kept autopatrolled and bureaucrat unchanged (test)