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
- 12:35, 20 September 2025 Bosco talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: revoked election administrator (inactive)
- 01:25, 1 September 2025 Inactivity Bot talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: revoked bureaucrat and administrator; kept election administrator unchanged (Automatically removed due to inactivity)
- 22:16, 23 January 2025 Sneezless talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: granted election administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged
- 08:33, 15 January 2025 TenWhile6 talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: granted administrator and bureaucrat (restore after tool abuse)
- 07:53, 15 January 2025 DisambiguousMonths talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: revoked bureaucrat and administrator
- 19:23, 8 October 2024 Justarandomamerican talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: granted administrator and bureaucrat (+sysop, +bureaucrat; Requested at TW:RfP) Tag: userRightsManager
- 02:09, 6 September 2024 Renamed user 159304387 talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: changed expiration of bureaucrat (until 20:47, 19 September 2024, was: 19:47, 19 September 2024) and administrator (until 20:47, 19 September 2024, was: 19:47, 19 September 2024) (Changed expiration date by one hour.)
- 18:33, 1 September 2024 Justman10000 talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: changed expiration of bureaucrat (until 19:47, 19 September 2024, was: permanent) and administrator (until 19:47, 19 September 2024, was: permanent) (Setting grace period for an inactive user)
- 20:40, 7 March 2024 X talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: revoked chat moderator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (chat mod is bundled in sysop)
- 20:14, 7 March 2024 Sneezless talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: granted chat moderator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (Not sure if this is bundles with crat or sysop, this is just in case it's not, since this is a useful right to have)
- 19:33, 7 March 2024 X talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: granted bureaucrat; kept administrator unchanged (+bureaucrat; Requested at TW:RfP) Tag: userRightsManager
- 17:11, 6 March 2024 Drummingman talk contribs changed group membership for Sneezless: granted administrator (Per request on TW:RFP)