Help:Changing a User's Status to Sysop
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[edit] Overview
Sometimes it's necessary to give someone a higher level of privileges in the wiki (e.g., for advanced editing reasons). The wiki admin is not the only one that has to do this; anyone with Sysop status can give someone else Sysop status. However, just so it's somewhat regulated sensibly, the acting wiki editor (probably Ann L Wiley) should be the only one changing user roles.
[edit] Process
We assume the person already has an account.
- Go to special:Specialpages, and scroll to the very bottom to the Restricted Special Pages section. (Note: you can only see this section if you are already a wiki Sysop!) Click the User Rights Management link.
- In the User Rights Management page, enter the person's username for the account you want to upgrade. Then click the Edit User Groups button.
- In the Available groups options, click the Sysop option, and then click the Save User Groups button. (Disregard the Bureaucrat and "bot" options.)
That's it. The person is now a "Sysop" and can do advanced editing like lock pages, roll back pages, block IP addresses (as if), make other people Sysops, etc.
One of the links in special:Specialpages is the Users List page. If you click that page you'll get a list of all users (people with accounts). Anyone with "(Bureaucrat, sysop)" next to their name has Sysop status.
