Global sysops

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Global sysop policy & information

This page outlines the standards and guidelines related to the use of the user rights assigned to the global sysop user group. If you need help from a sysop or a steward on your project, please see Meta:Requests and proposals and Steward requests/Miscellaneous.

Global sysops are highly trusted users with a strong track record of cross-wiki contributions that have sysop privileges on most (but not all) small wikis, for the purposes of antivandalism and routine maintenance. They are not users with sysop tools on all wikis and they have no extra editorial control over content or the local community.

Most global sysops also have global rollback. Unlike the global sysop group itself, global rollback is truly global.

Scope

By default, global sysops may use this global user group's permissions on wikis that meet one or both of the following criteria:

• fewer than ten administrators exist; or
• fewer than three administrators have made a logged action within the past two months.

Projects may opt-in or opt-out at their own discretion if they obtain local consensus. Simply inform any steward of the community's decision. A wiki set is used to specify a list of wikis where global sysops do not have access (manually edited list, automated list).

Appointment

Requests should be placed on Steward requests/Global permissions. The request will be approved by a steward if there is a consensus for the user to become a global sysop after a period of discussion of no less than two weeks. The discussion is not a vote; comments must present specific points in favor of or against the user's approval.

Removal

Continued global sysop access depends on both activity and the continued support of the Wikimedia community.

Inactivity:

Global sysops will automatically lose their access if in six months they've not used the respective rights outside of wikis on which they have local rights.

Vote of confidence:

Any steward may remove a global sysop's rights at any time if they feel the tools have been misused, or if a request for comment has shown that a significant minority does not trust the global sysop. If this occurs and the global sysop wants the tools back, a vote of confidence shall occur, where the global sysop must retain the consensus of the community in order to return their access.

Permissions

This is the list of permissions, with explanations, which global sysops have. The permissions are nearly identical to those of regular administrators; however, these permissions apply to any Wikimedia Foundation project that has not opted out of the global sysops' access list. They are not capable of changing any local userrights either (unless they also have appropriate local permissions).

Block

• Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
• Block other users from editing (block)
• Unblock themselves (unblockself)
• Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
• Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)

Delete

• Delete pages (delete)
• Mass delete pages (nuke)
• Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
• Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
• Undelete a page (undelete)
• View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
• View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
• Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
• Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)

Protect/Edit

• Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
• Edit other users' CSS and JavaScript files (editusercssjs)
• Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
• Edit the user interface (editinterface)

Abuse (Edit) Filter

• Modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
• View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)

Miscellaneous

• Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
• Auto-review on rollback (autoreviewrestore)
• Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
• Import pages from other wikis (import)
• Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
• Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
• Move files (movefile)
• Move pages (move)
• Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
• Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
• Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
• Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
• Override the title or username blacklist (tboverride)
• Overwrite existing files (reupload)
• Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
• Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
• Upload files (upload)
• Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
• View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)

Communication

Global sysops must have user pages on every wiki they use their global sysop access on, which provides contact information or links to their primary user page (creation bot available).

If a user cannot resolve a dispute by talking to the global sysop, they can place a complaint on Talk:Global sysops, or contact any steward.

Global sysops may contact each other via the private mailing list.

Users with global sysop access

• Last updated: 2013-06-19

Name	IRC nick	Languages spoken	Active from
Ajraddatz	ajr	en-ca, fr-1	2011-05-17
Érico Júnior Wouters	Erico_Wouters	pt, en-2, es-2	2012-12-19
Frigotoni	Frigotoni	it, vec, en-2, es-1	2012-11-06
Hercule		fr, en-3, es-2	2010-03-21
Hoo man	hoo	de, en-2	2010-09-17
Hosiryuhosi	Hosiryuhosi / rxy	ja, en-1	2011-12-29
Igna	Ignazio / Ignace	es, en-2	2013-02-03
Iste Praetor	Iste	de, en-3, la-3, fr-2	2013-02-22
Liliana-60	Liliana60	de, en-3, fr-1	2010-03-14
Mh7kJ	Mh7kJ	en, de-2	2013-04-17
MoiraMoira	Moira2	nl, nds-nl-4, en-3, de-2, fr-2, it-1, es-1, la-1	2010-12-23
PiRSquared17	PiRSquared / huh	en, fr-2, la-1, it-1, lt-1	2012-12-12
Pmlineditor	Pmlineditor	en-4, bn, hi-2/3, hif-2, as-1, sa-1 and most Indic languages at 0.5/1 level	2010-03-14
Ruy Pugliesi	RuyP	pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, gl-1, it-1, sk-1, sq-1, ms-1, hi-1	2012-03-08
Savh	Savh	nl, es, en-3, fr-2	2011-07-26
Shanmugamp7	shanmugamp7	ta, en-3	2013-01-15
SPQRobin	SPQRobin	nl, en-3, fr-2, de-1, af-1	2011-09-24
TBloemink	TBloemink	nl, en-4, de-1	2013-02-22
Tiptoety	Tiptoety	en	2010-03-14
Toto Azéro	Toto_Azero	fr, en-3, es-2, la-1	2012-05-03
Vogone	Vogone / eikes	de, lt-3, en-3, fr-2	2013-01-16
Zscout370	zscout370	en, ja-3, ru-1	2011-02-10

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See also

• Global sysops: global permission • global groups (toolserver) • member list • group changelog
• Special global permissions
• Previous proposals