Wikibooks:Global rights policy

This page documents an official Wikibooks policy that the Wikibooks community has accepted and Wikibookians must follow. Except for minor edits, please make use of the discussion page to propose changes to this policy.

The implementation of global user rights on Wikimedia projects extends to the English Wikibooks. This policy defines their use on this wiki.

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 may use their global rollback permission, and any of the permissions in the global sysops toolkit on the English Wikibooks. They may also use CheckUser, 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.

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 sysadmins, 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, or in response to a user request or Board decision). These actions can affect the English Wikibooks, but are done at meta:Steward requests/Permissions and logged at meta:Special:Log/rights.

• List of users with steward rights

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 sysadmin rights

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

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 rollbackers can use their rights by default, provided they have not previously had the reviewer right removed on the English Wikibooks. 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 block.

• List of users with global rollback rights

The global sysop group is activated on the English Wikibooks as community consensus to opt in was attained. Global sysops are users with global permissions associated with the fighting of vandals, especially on smaller wikis which struggle to deal with the level of vandalism. 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

Similar to interface administrators, global interface editors are able to edit sitewide CSS, JavaScript and JSON pages (pages such as MediaWiki:Common.js or MediaWiki:Vector.css, or the gadget pages listed on Special:Gadgets), CSS/JS/JSON pages in another user's userspace, and all pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Global interface editors 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

The abuse filter maintainer user group allows trusted users to view, and where appropriate, modify edit filters. Abuse filter maintainers 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 abuse filter maintainer 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:Steward requests/Permissions or #wikimedia-stewards immediately, where the stewards will determine whether an emergency removal of tools is required. An indefinite local block may also be placed on the account locally during this period if necessary to prevent further abuse.

• Wikibooks:Administrators