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Within Wikimedia projects, a bureaucrat is a user who has the technical ability to:

• Promote other users to or bureaucrat;
• Grant and revoke a user's flag;
• Add and remove users from the group;
• Add and remove users from custom local groups created by local consensus like account creator, deleter, etc.;
• Remove a user's administrator and/or bureaucrat flags on some projects listed below.

fulfill these roles on wikis without bureaucrats using the page. A small community generally doesn't require a local bureaucrat, because stewards can easily handle the low traffic of requests from that wiki with little delay; generally a user with this access is not needed until several local administrators are present. Other positions may be subject to global policies like the and the , which define minimum community requirements. The default configuration of the software permits bureaucrats with access to Special:UserRights to add and remove users from all user groups. On only have full access to Special:UserRights, while bureaucrats can add/remove only a subset of rights.

If you are a bureaucrat, to give or remove another user administrator, bureaucrat or bot access (or any other access), go to on the wiki where you are a bureaucrat. There is a link to this on the list of .

You will see the following form:

Type the user's name into the box, and enter a reason for the change. Choose the rights you wish to assign/remove to the user by ticking/unticking the relevant boxes. Note that if the user group has an asterisk (*) next to it, you will not be able to remove it yourself. When you are done, press the Save user groups button.

The user will gain their access immediately and the action will be recorded at the .

If you make a mistake and need to remove an access level which you cannot remove, contact a .

Below is a list of public wikis where sysop and/or bureaucrat access. Normally these removals have to be done by the stewards. On all private or fishbowl wikis, bureaucrats are able to remove both administrator and bureaucrat flags.