User rights
- System administrators
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.
- Stewards
Access to add and remove the following user groups: Abuse filter administrators, Users blocked from the abuse filter, Checkusers, Interface administrators, Non-steward suppressors,
Stewards, and Suppressors.
After making changes, please ensure to update any relevant lists or records as needed.
Do not grant suppressor (you can still grant NSS to those who meet the established criteria for the group) or CheckUser to anybody but yourself. Only grant AFA or NSS to users who have met the established criteria for the respective groups. Only make someone a steward after judging that they have consensus to be appointed.
- Bureaucrats
Add or remove the Bots, Interwiki administrators, Administrators and Bureaucrats permissions.
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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 permissions#newlyMintedAdmin]]). You should then mark the candidacy ([[TW:Requests 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 and remove Autopatrolled users, Autochecked users, Users blocked from chat, Chat moderators, Confirmed users, Patrollers, Reviewers and Translation administrators.
To see recent rights changes, visit Special:Log/rights.
User rights log
- 04:28, 2 November 2023 Bosco talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from autopatrolled to (none) (blocked user) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- 12:22, 17 April 2023 Zippybonzo talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from autopatrolled, patroller, researcher and reviewer to autopatrolled (remove some rights.)
- 09:35, 10 April 2023 Zippybonzo talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from autopatrolled to autopatrolled, patroller, researcher and reviewer (Might need those rights)
- 18:42, 13 October 2022 Summer talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from editor to autopatrolled
- 18:49, 29 September 2022 Summer talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from autopatrolled, autochecked, chat moderator, confirmed user, editor, interwiki administrator, patroller, researcher, reviewer and translation administrator to editor (sometimes one is better than a billion :))
- 10:39, 2 May 2022 Zippybonzo (testing account) talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from autopatrolled, autochecked, bureaucrat, confirmed user, editor, patroller, researcher, reviewer and administrator to autopatrolled, autochecked, confirmed user, editor, patroller, researcher, reviewer, translation administrator, chat moderator and interwiki administrator (testing done.)
- 10:36, 2 May 2022 Zippybonzo talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from autopatrolled, autochecked, confirmed user, editor, patroller, researcher and reviewer to autopatrolled, autochecked, confirmed user, editor, patroller, researcher, reviewer, administrator and bureaucrat (about to test the abuse filter rights removal thing so I need bureaucrat and admin so I can give myself the rights back on my main account when done.)
- 07:27, 16 March 2022 Zippybonzo talk contribs changed group membership for Zippybonzo (testing account) from (none) to patroller, confirmed user, researcher, autopatrolled, editor, reviewer and autochecked (adding rights as I may need them while testing)