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'''Interface administrators''' are users (typically [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrators]]) who can edit the interface (pages in MediaWiki namespace). Any [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]] or [[TestWiki:Consuls|consul]] can assign this user right to any trusted user (usually an [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrator]]), including themselves, and the right can be revoked for misuse or where the user [[w:Dunning—Kruger effect|overestimates their level of competence]] and makes repeated errors in this area.
'''Interface administrators''' are users (typically [[TestWiki:Administrators|administrators]]) who can edit the interface (pages in MediaWiki namespace), including sitewide CSS/JavaScript pages and other users' CSS/JavaScript pages.


== Criteria for granting ==
For security reasons, it is granted ''only'' by [[TestWiki:Consuls|Consuls]], preferably on the user talk page of any [[TestWiki:Consuls|Consul]] or, failing that, at [[TestWiki:Request permissions]] to:
* [[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]] who are:
*# Established;
*# Highly trusted; and
*# Very active (as measured within the past thirty (30) calendar days).

In addition, the requesting <code>[[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]]</code> '''must''' have a clearly articulated ''need'' for requesting the bit.

== Criteria for revocation ==
The bit may be removed by either a [[TestWiki:Consuls|Consul]] or the Consul-operated [[TestWiki:Rightsbot|Rightsbot]], as applicable, in either of the following cases:
# The user loses their <code>[[TestWiki:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]]</code> bit for ''any'' reason, including for [[TestWiki:Inactivity|inactivity]];
# The user has misused the bit or is no longer sufficiently trusted; or
# The user is largely inactive but otherwise meets the looser [[TestWiki:Inactivity|inactivity]] policy.

== Specific user rights ==
Its full list of user group rights is as follows:
Its full list of user group rights is as follows:
* Edit other users' CSS files <code>(editusercss)</code>
* Edit other users' CSS files <code>(editusercss)</code>

Revision as of 17:53, 13 March 2021

Shortcut

Interface administrators are users (typically administrators) who can edit the interface (pages in MediaWiki namespace), including sitewide CSS/JavaScript pages and other users' CSS/JavaScript pages.

Criteria for granting

For security reasons, it is granted only by Consuls, preferably on the user talk page of any Consul or, failing that, at TestWiki:Request permissions to:

  • Bureaucrats who are:
    1. Established;
    2. Highly trusted; and
    3. Very active (as measured within the past thirty (30) calendar days).

In addition, the requesting bureaucrat must have a clearly articulated need for requesting the bit.

Criteria for revocation

The bit may be removed by either a Consul or the Consul-operated Rightsbot, as applicable, in either of the following cases:

  1. The user loses their bureaucrat bit for any reason, including for inactivity;
  2. The user has misused the bit or is no longer sufficiently trusted; or
  3. The user is largely inactive but otherwise meets the looser inactivity policy.

Specific user rights

Its full list of user group rights is as follows:

  • Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
  • Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)

List of interface administrators

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