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Remove administrator status from someone. This is done by bureaucrats or stewards, and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or by request of the administrator. Query the Wikipedia database. Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests, or download the database and run them yourself. Reassign edits or make name changes.
Defining user groups for a channel; Setting the rights a user has in respect of a given channel (custom, or via usergroups) Defining a user as being able to invite themselves into a channel manually at any time; Inviting yourself to a channel you have "self invite" access on (+i flag set in ChanServ) Adding a user to an "invite list" for ...
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. User access levels are determined by whether the Wikipedian is logged in, the account's age and edit count, and what manually assigned rights the account has.
User-Managed Access (UMA) is an OAuth-based access management protocol standard for party-to-party authorization. [1] Version 1.0 of the standard was approved by the Kantara Initiative on March 23, 2015.
The community grants administrator access to trusted users, so nominees should have been on Wikipedia long enough for people to determine whether they are trustworthy. Administrators are held to high standards of conduct because other editors often turn to them for help and advice, and because they have access to tools that can have a negative ...