MediaWiki:Userrights-summary

Stewards

More or less unrestricted access to add and remove userrights

To manipulate membership in global groups, see Special:GlobalGroupMembership

Please don't forget to advise new sysops on any wiki not to translate MediaWiki locally and to invite them to the admin channel.

Local Bureaucrats

Add or remove the bot, administrator (sysop), bureaucrat, and IP block exemption permissions, and add the Translation administrator permission.

Remove the flood flag from any administrator

Local Administrators

Add and remove the flood flag from themselves. Please remember to remove it when you are finished.

Add and remove IP block exemption and Autopatrollers

• To see recent rights changes, view Special:Log/rights
• To change this message, edit MediaWiki:Userrights-summary

Making new local administrators

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 also the 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): this list Meta:Administrators#List of administrators and this template: Template: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 {{subst:closed request}} at the top to gray it out and </div> at the bottom of the subpage to let folks know it's over. You should explain your rationale if there might be any doubt about consensus. Save the change, untransclude it from Meta:Requests for adminship and add it to Meta:Requests for adminship/Archives by linking to it at the bottom. 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.).