User rights log
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This is a log of changes to user rights performed locally by users ("manual" changes) or by system rules ("automatic" changes). You may enter either or both of:
- Performer – the name of the user who changed the rights (just their name)
- Target – the name of the user whose rights were changed (written with the prefix User:)
The list of user groups and their associated permissions is on Special:ListGroupRights.
The log does not show:
- Changes of rights by stewards (such as checkuser and oversight user rights) – see the meta global rights log (Enter usernames like this: User:Doe@enwiki)
- Local rights changes made prior to 24 December 2004 – see Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log.
- 21:47, 16 December 2015 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for MFlaschen (WMF) from administrator to (none) (moving to other staff account, we need to clean these up/lock the extras.)
- 21:41, 16 December 2015 Jalexander-WMF talk contribs changed group membership for MFlaschen (WMF) from (none) to administrator (Temporary sysop rights to allow for debugging of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117812)