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The user access level of editors affects their abilities to perform specific actions on Wikipedia. A user's access level depends on which rights (also called permissions, user groups, bits, or flags) are assigned to accounts. There are two types of access leveling: automatic and requested.
Contents. Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Granting and revoking user rights. One of the administrative privileges is the ability to grant and revoke user groups, more commonly referred to under the misnomer permissions or rights. [1] Each user right has a set of prerequisites that candidates should generally meet.
sudo. sudo (/ suːduː / [4]) is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that enables users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. [5] It originally stood for "superuser do", [6] as that was all it did, and this remains its most common usage; [7] however, the official Sudo project page ...
Currently, there are 847 administrators on the English Wikipedia. [2] Administrators have additional technical privileges compared with other editors, such as being able to protect and delete pages and being able to block users from editing pages. On Wikipedia, becoming an administrator is often referred to as "being given [or taking up] the ...
Wikipedia's administrative tools are often likened to a janitor's mop, leading to adminship being described at times as being "given the mop".Just like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors.
Guide to requests for adminship. This is a guide to current practice at Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process, the mechanism by which editors are considered for administrator status. To become an administrator, there needs to be a clear consensus that you are committed to Wikipedia and can be trusted to know and uphold its policies ...
Because of RM/TR's page mover dominance, requests placed under "Administrator needed" often take longer to be resolved; some may sit there for extended periods while requests around them are handled. This is one reason placing things in the right section is important, as moves executable by page movers may be missed and languish.
Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request. To grant the permission: Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights.