Wikibooks:Global rights policy
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The implementation of global user rights on Wikimedia projects extends to the English Wikibooks. This policy defines their use on this wiki.
Use of rights
Global abuse filter maintainers
Global abuse filter maintainers are users who are permitted to view, and where appropriate, modify edit filters on all wikis. They are permitted to use any of the rights associated with their role on the English Wikibooks, unless otherwise requested not to by any local administrator, which can be appealed to the wider community.
In addition, global abuse filter maintainers can view temporary account IP addresses and use the IP Information tool, provided they comply with the Wikimedia Foundation's Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
- List of users with global abuse filter maintainer rights
Global bots
The English Wikibooks allows the use of global bots approved by the bot policy on Meta-Wiki, but does not allow automatic approval. With that note, users that run global bots are advised to follow Wikibooks:Bots when bots are used locally. English Wikibooks administrators may locally block (or otherwise ask to stop operating) global bots that do not conform to English Wikibooks norms and policies.
- List of bots with global bot rights
Global interface editors
Global interface editors are users who can edit all pages including the MediaWiki namespace on all wikis, and maintain templates and the site's JavaScript (*.js) and Cascading Style Sheets (*.css) resources. They are permitted to use any of the rights associated with their role on the English Wikibooks, unless otherwise requested not to by any local interface administrator, which can be appealed to the wider community.
- List of users with global interface editor rights
Global rollbackers
Global rollbackers are users who can roll back edits that are blatantly counterproductive, such as vandalism and nonsense, on all Wikimedia wikis. By default, they may use their rights on the English Wikibooks, provided they have not previously had the reviewer right removed involuntarily. If removal has previously occurred, they must request and be granted reviewer locally (which grants the use of rollback) by an English Wikibooks administrator. Furthermore, any English Wikibooks administrator can ask a global rollbacker to stop using rollback if what they deem to be misuse occurs, and the global rollbacker must comply with such a request. Such a decision by an administrator can be appealed to the wider community. Failure to comply may result in a local block.
In addition, global rollbackers can view temporary account IP addresses and use the IP Information tool, provided they comply with the Wikimedia Foundation's Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
- List of users with global rollback rights
Global sysops
Global sysops are users who have administrator and interface administrator permissions on most wikis. It is activated on the English Wikibooks as community consensus to opt in was attained. Global sysops are permitted to use any of the rights associated with their role on the English Wikibooks, unless otherwise requested not to by any local administrator, which can be appealed to the wider community.
- List of users with global sysop rights
Ombuds
The ombuds commission is tasked with investigating complaints about violations of the privacy policy (in particular concerning the use of CheckUser and oversight tools) on any Wikimedia project, for the Board in an official manner. The users who make up the ombuds commission are given the ability to run checks, view the CheckUser log, view suppressed content, and view the suppression log on every project. To file a complaint, please contact the commission privately.
The ombuds may use their global rights for investigating complaints about violations of the privacy policy. Their use of the global rights is at the discretion and restriction of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
- List of users with ombuds rights
Staff
Members of this group are paid employees of the Wikimedia Foundation. Similar to ombuds, they hold global CheckUser rights as well as global adminship and global oversight rights. They will perform office actions when needed, such as complaints related to defamation, privacy violations, or copyright infringement. Not all Foundation staff are granted access to this group; it is based upon need for access. Staff rights are not limited by decision-making processes that involve global or local communities.
- List of users with staff rights
Stewards
Stewards are a global group of users who have complete access to the wiki interface on all public Wikimedia wikis. They may use their global rollback and global sysop permissions on the English Wikibooks, and may use Special:Undelete to view deleted revisions in the course of their duties as stewards. They are also permitted to use the CheckUser tool, even in non-emergency situations (that is, even if local CheckUsers exist on this wiki). In emergency situations where local users are unable or unavailable to act, stewards are asked to use their global rights to protect the best interests of Wikibooks.
The English Wikibooks has no local suppressors (oversighters) at this time; therefore, stewards fill in this role, but they are allowed to process non-emergency oversight requests even if local oversighters are appointed on this wiki in the future.
Stewards, along with staff and system administrators, are able to delete pages with more than 5,000 revisions.
In their global role, stewards grant CheckUser and Oversight permissions to all projects, and can remove all permissions (in an emergency situation, in response to a user's self-request, or per Board decision). These actions can affect the English Wikibooks, but are done at meta:Steward requests/Permissions and are logged at meta:Special:Log/rights.
- List of users with steward rights
System administrators
Wikimedia system administrators are people who do systems administration work on the Wikimedia servers. They can change a Wikimedia site's live copy of MediaWiki, read server logs, etc. Those with server access can also carry out various non-development tasks.
The Wikimedia Foundation legally controls the servers, so the Wikimedia Board of Trustees are ultimately responsible for determining who has sysadmin access. However, they generally delegate this responsibility. On a day-to-day basis, various sysadmins with root access manage the server accounts.
System administrators may use their global rights in whatever manner they deem necessary to manage the Wikimedia Foundation's assets.
- List of users with system administrator rights
Removal of rights
A user who abuses their global rights by knowingly or recklessly using their global rights on the English Wikibooks in contravention of this policy should be reported to meta:Stewards' noticeboard or #wikimedia-stewards on IRC immediately, where the stewards will determine whether an emergency removal of tools is required. An indefinite block may also be placed on the account locally during this period if necessary to prevent further abuse (see the above section).
Additional global groups
There are additional global groups not defined in this policy. They include:
- Abuse filter helpers
- API high limit requestors
- CAPTCHA exemptions
- Founder group
- Global deleters
- Global Flow creators
- Global IP block exemptions
- Global temporary account IP viewers
- New wikis importers (not enabled on the English Wikibooks)
- Two-factor authentication testers
- Recursive export group
- U4C members
- VRT permissions agents
- wmf-email-block-override
- WMF researchers
In addition, some Meta-Wiki user groups have global effects. These include:
- Administrators
- Central notice administrators
- Global renamers
- Interface administrators
- MassMessage senders
- OAuth administrators
- Push subscription managers
- Translation administrators
- WMF Office IT
- WMF Support and Safety