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
- 02:26, 4 December 2025 Thingofme talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted election administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (test)
- 04:03, 29 November 2025 Thingofme talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: revoked autopatrolled; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (test done)
- 04:02, 29 November 2025 Thingofme talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted autopatrolled; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (test)
- 03:46, 29 November 2025 Quaille talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted administrator and bureaucrat (requested Special:Diff/68375)
- 00:20, 16 February 2024 X talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: revoked autopatrolled (Inactive user; no need to have auto patrolled)
- 13:01, 22 July 2023 Bosco talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted autopatrolled (+AP: trusted)
- 18:39, 2 July 2023 Justarandomamerican talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: revoked bureaucrat and administrator (Removing rights from [inactive user, last edit or logged action was in April)
- 20:42, 4 June 2023 MacFan4000 talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted administrator and bureaucrat (oops, sorry)
- 20:40, 4 June 2023 MacFan4000 talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: revoked bureaucrat and administrator (inactivity policy)
- 21:19, 3 June 2023 X talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: revoked translation administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged (-translation admin as redundant)
- 13:47, 11 October 2021 Q8j talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted bureaucrat; kept administrator and translation administrator unchanged (+bureaucrat : per request)
- 14:56, 2 October 2021 Thingofme talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted translation administrator; kept administrator unchanged
- 02:00, 30 September 2021 千村狐免 talk contribs changed group membership for Thingofme: granted administrator
