Hello!
I have bureaucrat status on sl-wiki. Recently there was a situation in which I wanted to revoke certain person promotion to bureaucrat, because the nomination procedure was not followed. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights says that bureaucrats can change such user rights.
When I tried to visit the http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userrights, MediaWiki said that I am not authorized to do anything on this page (ie.: "You should have userrights permissions. See Wikipedia:Administrators"). Same situation is on http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userrights (I have bureaucrat status there too).
I need some clarification. Are local bureaucrats really supposed to change user rights, as written on Meta, or not? If they are, is there anything we should do before we can use them?
On 6/4/06, Roman Maurer roman.maurer@amis.net wrote:
I need some clarification. Are local bureaucrats really supposed to change user rights, as written on Meta, or not? If they are, is there anything we should do before we can use them?
In the configuration used on Wikipedia, bureaucrats can only do the following: * set sysop * set bureaucrat * set bot * remove bot
And in particular, they cannot remove sysop/bureaucrat flags.
If the community wants to revoke someone's rights, they're supposed to ask a steward. (and preferably not one involved in the project)
On the other hand, in the default MediaWiki configuration, bureaucrats can set and remove any flags they want.
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