Bureaucrat

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Within Wikimedia projects, a bureaucrat is a user who has the technical ability to:

• Promote other users to administrator or bureaucrat;
• Grant and revoke a user's bot flag;
• Add and remove users from custom local groups created by local consensus like account creator, deleter, etc;
• Rename a user;
• Remove a user administrator and bureaucrat flags on some projects listed below.

Stewards fulfill these roles on wikis without bureaucrats using the requests for permissions page. A small community generally doesn't require a local bureaucrat, because stewards can easily handle the low traffic of requests from that wiki with little delay; generally a user with this access is not needed until several local administrators are present. Other positions may be subject to global policies like the Checkuser policy and the Oversight policy, which define minimum community requirements.

The default configuration of the MediaWiki software permits bureaucrats with access to Special:UserRights to add and remove users from all user groups. On Wikimedia Foundation wikis only stewards have full access to Special:UserRights, while bureaucrats can add/remove only a subset of rights.

Promoting users and bots

See also a tutorial

If you are a bureaucrat, to give or remove another user administrator, bureaucrat or bot access (or any other access), go to Special:Userrights on the wiki where you are a bureaucrat. There is a link to this on the list of special pages.

You will see the following form:

Type the user's name into the box, and enter a reason for the change. Choose the rights you wish to assign/remove to the user by ticking/unticking the relevant boxes. Note that if the user group has an asterisk (*) next to it, you will not be able to remove it yourself. When you are done, press the Save user groups button.

The user will gain their access immediately and the action will be recorded at the User rights log.

If you make a mistake and need to remove an access level which you cannot remove, contact a steward.

Renaming users

See also a tutorial

The above is the current interface for renaming users. Before you rename a user, you must visit Special:Renameuser. It is fairly self-explanatory. One must simply key in the current name, the target name, and the reason for the change. The box ticked to move user and user talk pages is ticked by default, as this is the most frequent scenario.

Removing access

Below is a list of public wikis, where bureaucrats can remove sysop and bureaucrat access.

both administrator and bureaucrat flags
No	Wiki	Bug	Fixed on	Notes
1	Meta	bug 13509	24.04.2008
2	ru.wikisource	bug 14568	05.07.2008	It looks like this was set inadvertently.
3	Wikimedia Sverige	bug 14665	05.07.2008	It looks like this was set inadvertently.
4	no.wikibooks	bug 13853 ?	03.06.2009	No bug in the database. Appears to have been set inadvertenly.
5	fi.wikipedia	bug 19561	08.07.2009	It looks like this was set inadvertently.
6	Outreach wiki	bug 23118	09.04.2010
7	fi chapter wiki	bug 25668	27.10.2010
8	en.wiktionary			No bug in the database.
only administrator flag
9	pa.us chapter wiki	bug 10611	16.09.2008
10	uk chapter wiki	bug 17388	26.02.2009
11	simple.wikipedia	bug 20271	24.09.2009
12	simple.wiktionary	bug 22522	22.02.2010
13	en.wikinews	bug 23392	08.05.2010
14	hi.wikipedia	bug 24933	27.08.2010
15	hi.wiktionary	bug 29702	11.07.2011
16	en.wikipedia	bug 18390	11.08.2011
17	ru.wikipedia	bug 30307	11.08.2011
18	ba.wikipedia	bug 33769	17.01.2012
19	test.wiki

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