WikiIndex:Bureaucrats
People with bureaucrat rights can manage account permissions. They can add or remove rights from people's accounts. Typically, bureaucrats are sysops additionally, because the first step to promote an account is to give them sysop rights. Bureaucrats are basically the top-tier level of administrator on a MediaWiki wiki – all other groups are technically subordinate to bureaucrats, and as such, actual numbers of bureaucrats are generally quite limited, for better or worse.
If you, as a bureaucrat, want to edit an accounts rights, go to the page "User rights management" (over Special:SpecialPages)
- Input the account name
- click [edit user groups]
- you'll se two lists:
- left: the groups the user is member of
- right: the available groups to the account
select on ore more items from one (or both) of the lists an the'll change the side if you click [Save User Groups] after having edited the "Reason for change:" field.