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
- 04:53, 7 November 2025 MacFan4000 talk contribs changed group membership for ThunderPups*: revoked autopatrolled, bureaucrat, chat moderator, confirmed user, election administrator, interwiki administrator, patroller, administrator and translation administrator (LTA)
- 21:38, 6 November 2025 ThunderPups* talk contribs changed group membership for ThunderPups*: granted confirmed user, autopatrolled, patroller, translation administrator, chat moderator, interwiki administrator and election administrator; kept bureaucrat and administrator unchanged
- 20:44, 6 November 2025 TheAstorPastor talk contribs changed group membership for ThunderPups*: granted bureaucrat; kept administrator unchanged (+bureaucrat; Requested at TW:RfP) Tag: userRightsManager
- 18:15, 6 November 2025 ThunderPups* talk contribs changed group membership for ThunderPups*: revoked patroller (temporary, until 18:02, 7 November 2025); kept administrator unchanged
- 18:02, 6 November 2025 ThunderPups* talk contribs changed group membership for ThunderPups*: granted patroller (temporary, until 18:02, 7 November 2025); kept administrator unchanged
- 17:55, 2 November 2025 Username talk contribs changed group membership for ThunderPups*: granted administrator (Requested on TW:RfP.)