Being a bureaucrat here doesn't make you better than anyone else

A bureaucrat (seldom: "bureacraut," 'crat", better: "soulless functionary") is a user who, beyond having gained the trust to be an administrator, has been trusted with further responsibilities.

Just like an administrator, a bureaucrat has no formal power or leading status, but has been trusted with tools which could be dangerous in the wrong hands. The number of bureaucrats shall be kept to an absolute minimum and new bureaucrats should only be appointed if the current bureaucrats do not have time to perform their tasks or have asked to have their bureaucrat rights revoked.

Responsibilities

  • Enable administrator and interface admin privileges for a user after they've successfully gone through the nomination process
  • Enable bureaucrat privileges for a user after they've successfully gone through the nomination process
  • Remove administrator privileges for a user after a nomination for removal of privileges
  • Assign bot status to script owners
  • Assign the account creator right as appropriate

How-to for bureaucrats

Assign or remove rights at Special:UserRights

Current bureaucrats

The English Wikivoyage has 3 bureaucrats. The full automated list of bureaucrats can be found at Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat. Bureaucrats on this wiki include the following users:

UserLanguages spokenOther advanced permissions
Ikan Kekek en, ms-2, it-2, fr-2, id-1, es-1, de-1 sysop
SHB2000 en, fr-1 sysop, global rollback, global sysop, abuse filter helper
ThunderingTyphoons! en, fr-3, es-2, cy-1 sysop

Click the links below to see lists of bureaucrats for other language versions:

Logs

  • The rights log shows the assignments of administrator and bot flags, as well as autopatroller flags.

Removal

Bureaucrats who are inactive for a year and don't perform any admin or bureaucrat actions within that year will have their bureaucrat status removed due to inactivity.

Bureaucrats cannot remove the bureaucrat flag; this must be done at m:SRP on Meta by a steward.

See also