Unrestricted access to add and remove userrights.
To manipulate membership inglobal groups, seeSpecial:GlobalGroupMembership.
To change membership on a wiki besides Meta, enter<username>@<dbname>, e.g.Jimbo Wales@enwiki.
Remember to advise new sysops to translate MediaWiki ontranslatewiki.net.
Add or remove thebot,central notice administrators,confirmed,uploader,interface administrator and thetranslation administrator permissions.
Add (but not remove)administrator (sysop) andbureaucrat.
After adding or removing local admins, please updateMediaWiki:Gadget-markAdmins-data.json.
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Type the name of the user in the box (without the User: namespace prefix) and click the button to make the user an administrator. See alsothe user rights log. It is suggested that you include a link to the user's request in the comment field (like this: [[Meta:Requests for adminship/newlyMintedAdmin]]). After you make someone a sysop, please update (or ask the new admin to update) theTemplate:List of administrators. You can notify the newly created sysop on their talk page, and give them some good advice too, by doing this: {{subst:Template:AdminWelcome/en}}"personal remarks" ~~~~You should then mark the candidacy ([[Meta:Requests for adminship/newlyMintedAdmin]]) as successful by adding You will see that some candidacies have special circumstances you may want to note (second try, failed, request for 'crat, reconfirmation by the community, etc.). |
Add and remove thetranslation administrator and theflood flag from themselves.Preferable that flood flag is set to expire as it takes relative (e.g. 1h) and set times and dates; otherwise please remember to remove the flood flag when you are finished.
Add and removeIP block exemption,MassMessage senders,Event organizers,temporary account IP viewer,autopatrollers andpatrollers. Noting thatpatroller,MassMessage sender,temporary account IP viewer andevent organizer require community requests atMeta:RfH.
To see recent rights changes, visitSpecial:Log/rights.