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
- 04:31, 15 January 2025 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: revoked autopatrolled (No longer Need)
- 04:54, 28 December 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted autopatrolled; revoked administrator
- 10:18, 22 September 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted administrator; revoked patroller (requested)
- 12:28, 31 August 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted patroller (Done)
- 23:46, 11 July 2024 Renamed user 159304387 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: revoked administrator (Per removal of admin privileges on main account.)
- 11:04, 2 June 2024 Kiteretsu-alt talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: revoked bureaucrat (temporary, until 10:58, 2 July 2024); changed expiration of administrator (permanent, was: until 05:10, 1 July 2024) (done) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 10:58, 2 June 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted bureaucrat (temporary, until 10:58, 2 July 2024); kept administrator (temporary, until 05:10, 1 July 2024) unchanged (+ bureaucrats temporary added)
- 05:10, 31 May 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted administrator (temporary, until 05:10, 1 July 2024); revoked patroller (admin privileges temporary added in personal alternate account :))
- 08:32, 14 April 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted patroller; revoked autopatrolled (redundant)
- 11:33, 12 April 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted administrator (temporary, until 11:53, 12 April 2024); kept autopatrolled unchanged (needed to be edit from alt- account ; sysop right added for 20 minutes only :))
- 15:17, 9 April 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted autopatrolled (+ Autopatrolled permission, no needed to patrolling during editing on pages)
- 14:58, 8 April 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: revoked confirmed user (No needed longer /- confirmed user permission removed)
- 18:41, 7 April 2024 Bhairava7 talk contribs changed group membership for Kiteretsu-alt: granted confirmed user (Test)