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 , Global sysops/Requests and Steward requests/Miscellaneous.

Global sysops are highly trusted users with a strong track record of cross-wiki contributions that have sysop and interface administrator privileges on most public 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.

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

Bots and the abuse filter pseudo-account are not counted as administrators for the above calculations.

A wiki set is used to specify a list of wikis where global sysops do not have access (list). This wiki set was originally populated in 2010. Since then, wikis that met the criteria have been removed from the wiki set, but wikis that stopped meeting the criteria have not been added.

Projects may be added or removed at their own discretion if they obtain local consensus. Simply inform the stewards of the community's decision.

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

Check local policies

Should a wiki have an existing local policy regarding the global sysops' scope, global sysops must ensure to conform to the relevant policy before acting.

Links to existing rights policies (where known):

• Serbian Wikipedia: :w:sr:Википедија:Корисничка права на глобалном нивоу#Глобални администратори
  • A note from a local administrator: This page on sr.wiki documents certain global procedures, so it's not intended to be locally voted on. However, its English contents were specified and then approved by the local community.
• English Wikinews: n:en:Wikinews:Global rights usage#Global sysops
• English Wikibooks: b:en:Wikibooks:Global rights policy#Global sysops
  • Note: English Wikivoyage uses the same local policy: voy:en:Wikivoyage:Administrators#Non-regular administrators
• mediawiki.org: Project:Administrators
  • Note: wikitech uses the same policy: wikitech:Wikitech:Administrators

Appointment

Requests for global sysop rights 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).

User rights currently assigned to the global-sysop global group

	Right	Description	Notes
1	abusefilter-log	View the abuse log	Normally part of the autoconfirmed user group or granted to all users
2	autoconfirmed	Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
3	editsemiprotected	Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
4	flow-edit-post	Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users
5	flow-hide	Hide Structured Discussions topics and posts
6	ipinfo	Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries
7	move	Move pages
8	movestable	Move pages with stable versions
9	reupload	Overwrite existing files
10	reupload-own	Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself
11	skipcaptcha	Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
12	spamblacklistlog	View the spam block list log
13	upload	Upload files
14	abusefilter-log-detail	View detailed abuse log entries	Governed by local policies where they exist, otherwise part of the sysop user group
15	abusefilter-modify	Create or modify abuse filters
16	abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains	Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked
17	abusefilter-modify-restricted	Modify abuse filters with restricted actions
18	autopatrol	Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
19	autoreviewrestore	Auto-review on rollback
20	checkuser-temporary-account	View IP addresses used by temporary accounts
21	editautopatrolprotected	Edit pages protected as "Allow only autopatrollers"
22	ipblock-exempt	Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
23	move-categorypages	Move category pages
24	move-rootuserpages	Move root user pages
25	move-subpages	Move pages with their subpages
26	movefile	Move files
27	oathauth-enable	Enable two-factor authentication
28	patrol	Mark others' edits as patrolled
29	review	Mark revisions as being "checked"
30	rollback	Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
31	templateeditor	Edit protected templates
32	unreviewedpages	View the list of unreviewed pages
33	apihighlimits	Use higher limits in API queries	Normally part of the sysop user group
34	block	Block or unblock other users from editing
35	blockemail	Block or unblock a user from sending email
36	browsearchive	Search deleted pages
37	centralauth-createlocal	Forcibly create a local account for a global account
38	delete	Delete pages
39	deletedhistory	View deleted history entries, without their associated text
40	deletedtext	View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions
41	deletelogentry	Delete and undelete specific log entries
42	deleterevision	Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages
43	editcontentmodel	Edit the content model of a page
44	editinterface	Edit the user interface
45	editprotected	Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators"
46	editsitejson	Edit sitewide JSON
47	edituserjson	Edit other users' JSON files
48	flow-delete	Delete Structured Discussions topics and posts
49	import	Import pages from other wikis
50	ipinfo-view-full	Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries
51	markbotedits	Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits
52	mergehistory	Merge the history of pages
53	noratelimit	Not be affected by rate limits
54	nuke	Mass delete pages
55	override-antispoof	Override the spoofing checks
56	protect	Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages
57	reupload-shared	Override files on the shared media repository locally
58	sfsblock-bypass	Bypass IP restrictions issued by the StopForumSpam extension
59	stablesettings	Configure how the stable version is selected and displayed
60	suppressredirect	Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
61	tboverride	Override the disallowed titles or usernames list
62	titleblacklistlog	View the disallowed titles list log
63	undelete	Undelete a page
64	unwatchedpages	View a list of unwatched pages
65	editsitecss	Edit sitewide CSS	Normally part of the Interface administrators user group
66	editsitejs	Edit sitewide JavaScript
67	editusercss	Edit other users' CSS files
68	edituserjs	Edit other users' JavaScript files

Communication

Global sysops must have user pages on every wiki they use their global sysop access on, which provide contact information or link to their primary user page (creation bot available currently). Generally a global user page on Meta will cover that requirement, and those users are asked to include a user language declaration ("Babel").

For urgent help from a global sysop, join the IRC channel #wikimedia-gs^connect and type !gs in the channel to get the attention of global sysops.

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: 2024-12-20  [edit]

Name	IRC nick	Languages spoken	Global sysop since
1234qwer1234qwer4		ru, de-4, en-3, la-1	2022-05-28
A09	A09	sl, en-3, de-1	2024-11-16
Ameisenigel	Ameisenigel	de, en-4, nds-2, fr-1, tlh-1	2024-02-18
Amire80		ru, he-5, en-4, ca-3, eo-2, es-2, it-2, fr-1, am-1, ar-1, la-1, lt-1	2017-02-02
AramilFeraxa	AramilFeraxa	pl, en-3, de-1	2024-05-29
Billinghurst	sDrewth	en, fr-1	2017-03-01
Biplab Anand	Biplab	ne, mai, hi-4, en-2, bh-2, awa-2, dty-2, sa-2	2016-10-06
CptViraj	CptViraj	gu, hi-4, en-3	2021-02-02
Daniuu	Daniuu / Westvleteren	nl, en-4, fr-2, de-2, la-2, vls-2, li-1	2021-11-27
DARIO SEVERI		it, pt-4, en-4, es-2, fr-2, gl-2, th-1	2017-07-25
Fehufanga	Fehufanga	id, en-4, ms-2, zh-2, la-1, su-0	2024-02-01
Iluvatar	Iluvatar_	ru, en-1, be-1	2019-11-02
Infinite0694	Infinite0694	ja, en-3, de-3, fr-2, it-1	2016-01-21
LR0725		ko, en-3, ja-1	2023-11-22
M7	M7	it, en-3, es-2, fr-2, de-1, pt-1	2024-10-26
MdsShakil	MdsShakil	bn, en-3, as-1	2023-07-28
MF-Warburg	MF-W	de, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1	2019-03-07
Minorax	Minorax	en, zh, nan-2, ko-1, ms-1, fr-1, yue-1	2020-12-09
Mtarch11	Mtarch11	it, lij-2, en-1, fr-1	2021-09-01
Praxidicae	Praxidicae	en	2018-11-11
Renvoy		uk, ru-4, en-3, pl-3, lt-1	2023-07-21
SHB2000	SHB2000	en, fr-1	2024-11-16
Syunsyunminmin	SyunSyunMinMin	ja, en-3	2023-06-28
Tanbiruzzaman	Tanbiruzzaman	bn, en-4, hi-1, ur-1	2024-10-22
Teles	Teles	pt, en-3, es-2	2011-05-20
TenWhile6	TenWhile6	de, en-3	2024-11-27
TheresNoTime	TheresNoTime	en, de-3	2024-03-26
Turkmen	Turkmen	az, tr-4, en-2	2019-09-18
Uncitoyen	Uncitoyen	tr, en-2, fr-2	2021-01-29
WhitePhosphorus	WhitePhosphorus / P4-mobile	zh, en-3, ja-1, lzh-1, wuu-1, yue-1	2019-12-12
WikiBayer		bar, de, en-1	2019-08-18

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See also

• Global sysops: global permission · global groups (toolforge) · member list · group changelog
• Global groups
• Previous proposals
• Local discussions