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The following page documents an official
cross-project policy
This page has been developed and approved by the community and its compliance is mandatory for all users. It must not be modified without prior
community approval
For legal and security reasons, the
Wikimedia Foundation
requires
two-factor authentication
for this role.
Policies and guidelines
Global sysop policy & information
Shortcut
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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.
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. Global sysops are permitted to get global rollback upon request to any steward or at
Steward requests/Global permissions
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):
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
English Wikinews:
n:en:Wikinews:Global rights usage#Global sysops
Note: Wikispecies uses the same local policy:
species:Wikispecies:Administrators#Global sysops
MediaWiki:
Project:Administrators
Note: Wikitech uses the same policy:
wikitech:Wikitech:Administrators
Serbian Wikipedia:
:w:sr:Википедија:Корисничка права на глобалном нивоу#Глобални администратори
Simple English Wiktionary:
wikt:simple:Wiktionary:Administrators#Non-regular administrators
Spanish Wikivoyage:
voy:es:Wikiviajes:Maquinistas
Note: Spanish Wikivoyage allows global sysops (and
stewards
) to carry out non-controversial admin tasks and use role permissions unless local sysops acted in the past month or it's an emergency.
Vietnamese Wikipedia:
vi:Wikipedia:Quyền truy cập của thành viên#Bảo quản viên toàn cục
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 user rights either (unless they also have appropriate local permissions).
User rights currently assigned to the global-sysop global group
Right
Description
Notes
abusefilter-log
View the abuse log
Normally part of the
autoconfirmed
user group or granted to all users
autoconfirmed
Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
editsemiprotected
Edit protected pages (semi protected)
flow-edit-post
Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users
flow-hide
Hide Structured Discussions topics and posts
ipinfo
Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries
move
Move pages
movestable
Move pages with stable versions
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
editautopatrolprotected
Edit protected pages (autopatroller protected)
21
ipblock-exempt
Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
22
move-categorypages
Move category pages
23
move-rootuserpages
Move root user pages
24
move-subpages
Move pages with their subpages
25
movefile
Move files
26
patrol
Mark others' edits as patrolled
27
review
Mark revisions as being "checked"
28
rollback
Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
29
templateeditor
Edit protected templates
30
unreviewedpages
View the
list of unreviewed pages
31
apihighlimits
Use higher limits in API queries
Normally part of the
sysop
user group
32
block
Block or unblock other users from editing
33
blockemail
Block or unblock a user from sending email
34
browsearchive
Search deleted pages
35
centralauth-createlocal
Forcibly create a local account for a global account
36
delete
Delete pages
37
deletedhistory
View deleted history entries, without their associated text
38
deletedtext
View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions
39
deletelogentry
Delete and undelete specific log entries
40
deleterevision
Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages
41
editcontentmodel
Edit the content model of a page
42
editinterface
Edit the user interface
43
editprotected
Edit protected pages (fully protected)
44
editsitejson
Edit sitewide JSON
45
edituserjson
Edit other users' JSON files
46
flow-delete
Delete Structured Discussions topics and posts
47
import
Import pages from other wikis
48
ipinfo-view-arbitrary-ip
Look up IP information for arbitrary IP addresses on Special:IPInfo
49
ipinfo-view-full
Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries
50
markbotedits
Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits
51
mergehistory
Merge the history of pages
52
noratelimit
Not be affected by rate limits
53
nuke
Mass delete pages
54
override-antispoof
Override the spoofing checks
55
protect
Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages
56
reupload-shared
Override files on the shared media repository locally
57
sfsblock-bypass
⧼Right-sfsblock-bypass⧽
58
stablesettings
Configure how the stable version is selected and displayed
59
suppressredirect
Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
60
tboverride
Override the disallowed titles or usernames list
61
titleblacklistlog
View the disallowed titles list log
62
undelete
Undelete a page
63
unwatchedpages
View a list of unwatched pages
64
editsitecss
Edit sitewide CSS
Normally part of the
Interface administrators
user group
65
editsitejs
Edit sitewide JavaScript
66
editusercss
Edit other users' CSS files
67
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
2026-04-02
edit
Name
IRC nick
Languages spoken
Global sysop since
Ameisenigel
CA
Ameisenigel
de, en-4, nds-2, fr-1, tlh-1
2024-02-18
Amire80
CA
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
Aqurs1
CA
zh, yue, en-3, ja-1, ko-0
2026-01-08
Biplab Anand
CA
Biplab
ne, mai, hi-4, en-2, bh-2, awa-2, dty-2, sa-2
2016-10-06
BRPever
CA
BRPever
ne, en-4, hi-2, dty-2, hif-1
2019-07-15
CptViraj
CA
CptViraj
gu, hi-4, en-3
2021-02-02
DARIO SEVERI
CA
it, pt-4, en-4, es-2, fr-2, gl-2, th-1
2017-07-25
DreamRimmer
CA
DreamRimmer
en-4, hi-4, sa-2, tr-2, de-1
2025-06-01
Fehufanga
CA
Fehufanga
id, en-4, ms-2, zh-2, la-1, su-0
2024-02-01
Infinite0694
CA
Infinite0694
ja, en-3, de-3, fr-2, it-1
2016-01-21
LR0725
CA
ko, en-3, ja-1
2023-11-22
MF-Warburg
CA
MF-W
de, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1, es-1
2019-03-07
Minorax
CA
Minorax
en, zh, nan-2, ko-1, ms-1, fr-1, yue-1
2020-12-09
Mtarch11
CA
Mtarch11
it, lij-2, en-1, fr-1
2021-09-01
Praxidicae
CA
Praxidicae
en
2018-11-11
Renvoy
CA
uk, ru-4, en-3, pl-3, lt-1
2023-07-21
Superpes15
CA
Superpes
it, en-2, fr-1, es-1, la-1
2022-02-22
Svartava
CA
hi, en-4, sa-2
2025-04-29
Syunsyunminmin
CA
SyunSyunMinMin
ja, en-3
2023-06-28
Tanbiruzzaman
CA
Tanbiruzzaman
bn, en-4, hi-1, ur-1
2024-10-22
TenWhile6
CA
TenWhile6
de, en-3
2024-11-27
Ternera
CA
en, rw-2, es-2
2025-01-15
WhitePhosphorus
CA
WhitePhosphorus / P4-mobile
zh, en-3, ja-1, lzh-1, wuu-1, yue-1
2019-12-12
WikiBayer
CA
bar, de, en-1
2019-08-18
Wim b
CA
it, en-2
2013-09-04
Chart
See also
Global sysops:
global permission
global groups (toolforge)
member list
group changelog
Global groups
Previous proposals
Local discussions
Statistics
User groups
Local
groups
On Meta
Without global effects
Account creators
Autopatrollers
Bots
Bureaucrats
CheckUsers
Community Wishlist managers
Confirmed users
Event organizers
Flood flag
Importers
IP block exemptions
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Oversighters
Patrollers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Uploaders
With global effects
Administrators
Central notice administrators
Global renamers
Interface administrators
MassMessage senders
OAuth administrators
Push subscription managers
Translation administrators
WMF Office IT
WMF Trust and Safety
On some wikis
Uploaders
Autopatrollers
Patrollers
Reviewers
Rollbackers
Autochecked users
Extended confirmed users
File movers
Interface editors
Abuse filter editors
Template editors
Eliminators
Translation administrators
MassMessage senders
Arbitration committee members
Extended movers
Bots with administrator rights
Flooders
Curators
Election clerks
On one wiki
(except Meta)
Noratelimit accounts
Engineers
Upload Wizard campaign editors
Image reviewers
Test wiki administrators
Property creators
Wikidata staff
Researchers
IP block exemption grantors
Movers
Functioneers
Maintainers
Wikifunctions staff
On all wikis
Blocked users
Unregistered users
Newly-registered users
Registered users
Confirmed users
Autoconfirmed users
Account creators
Bots
Administrators
Interface administrators
Bureaucrats
Oversighters
CheckUsers
IP block exemptions
Importers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Structured Discussions bots
Historical groups
Extended uploaders
Course coordinators, Instructors, Online volunteers and Campus volunteers
ZeroRatedMobileAccess administrators
WMF ops monitoring
GWToolset users
Global
groups
Locked accounts
Unified accounts
Abuse filter helpers
Abuse filter maintainers
API high limit requestors
CAPTCHA exemptions
Founder
Global bots
Global deleters
Global Flow creators
Global interface editors
Global IP block exemptions
Global rollbackers
Global sysops
Global temporary account IP viewers
New wikis importers
Ombuds
Recursive export
Staff
Stewards
System administrators
U4C members
VRT permissions agents
wmf-email-block-override
WMF researchers
Links in
italic
are separate account statuses that are not assigned through user groups.
See also:
Wikimedia user groups
Retrieved from "
Categories
Cross-project policies
User groups that require two-factor authentication
User groups
Global sysops
Global user groups
Global maintenance
Hidden categories:
Pages using the EasyTimeline extension
Indefinitely semi-protected
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