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Please help by correcting, augmenting and revising the text into an up-to-date form.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>staff group</b> is assigned to some <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/" class="extiw" title="foundationsite:role/staff-contractors/">paid employees of the Wikimedia Foundation</a>. This group has special access primarily for technical or legal purposes. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Background" data-mw-thread-id="h-Background"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Background"></span>Background<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Background"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staff_group&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Wikimedia Foundation is constantly evaluating who is a member of the staff user group in order to minimize the proliferation of this very specialized tool. Membership of the staff group is constantly re-evaluated, particularly in light of a more limited tool being available that will fit a staff member's needs, if someone is expected to not need staff rights for a period of time, or if there is something that triggers during a risk assessment. These re-evaluations are part of good security practices. </p><p>Previously, who did and did not have staff rights was relatively arbitrary, based upon asking the staff member who was in charge of these rights. The process has been subsequently formalized to protect against abuse or misuse of staff rights. In order to receive staff rights, it requires second level sign-off (meaning that for a new employee in a department, director level signoff is required and for a new manager, C-level signoff is required), a formal written use-case that is kept on file and routinely reviewed to determine whether the use-case is still met by assignment of staff rights, a brief training session explaining their appropriate and inappropriate use, and an acknowledgement (in writing) of the rights and responsibilities that come with staff rights. </p><p>Previously, there were few protections against abuse. Today, there are a number of checks and balances built into the system. On the English Wikipedia, for instance, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Audit" class="extiw" title="w:en:Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit">Arbitration Committee</a> reviews all logged actions and discusses questionable actions with <a href="/wiki/User:JEissfeldt_(WMF)" title="User:JEissfeldt (WMF)">Jan</a> (as the WMF employee responsible for approving rights assignments) to ensure they are within policy. On other wikis where there is no comparable subcommittee, the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety" title="Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety">Trust and Safety</a> (T&S) team audits and reviews employee actions. This has resulted in employee disciplinary action on occasion. These are not toothless protections. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Assignment" data-mw-thread-id="h-Assignment"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Assignment"></span>Assignment<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Assignment"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staff_group&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Assignment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Staff rights are managed by the <a href="/wiki/User:JEissfeldt_(WMF)" title="User:JEissfeldt (WMF)">Global Head of Trust and Safety</a> and the second-level Wikimedia Foundation manager of the person requesting staff rights. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Stewards" title="Special:MyLanguage/Stewards">Wikimedia stewards</a> and <a href="/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/staff" title="Special:GlobalUsers/staff">staff</a> will <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Special:GlobalUsers/staff">add or remove</a> permissions <sup>(<a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Special:GlobalUsers/Staff">former link</a>)</sup></span> from the staff global user group and they also add or remove user accounts from the staff global user group based on the requests of the Global Head of Trust and Safety or their designee. There is no requirement that community consensus be demonstrated or that the above requirements (including sign-offs) are proved. </p><p><b>Rationale and responsibility of advanced permissions assignment for Wikimedia Foundation staff are currently <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvhjkTJIpW2zdDl1bVBuOU1jQUJwOHd5YmhmSzFaZHc&single=true&gid=5&output=html">recorded in a locked Google spreadsheet</a>.</b> A mirror of that page can be found at <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMF_Advanced_Permissions" title="Special:MyLanguage/WMF Advanced Permissions">WMF Advanced Permissions</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Permissions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Permissions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Permissions"></span>Permissions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Permissions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staff_group&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Permissions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following chart lists the user rights available in the staff user group and some explanations of why these rights are necessary for staff to have. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>User right </th> <th>Purpose </th></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-access-protected-vars </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-hidden-log </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-hide-log </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-log-detail </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-log-private </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-modify </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-modify-global </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-modify-restricted </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-privatedetails </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-privatedetails-log </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-protected-vars-log </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-revert </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-view </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>abusefilter-view-private </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>apihighlimits </td> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293431" class="extiw" title="phab:T293431">phab:T293431</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>autoconfirmed </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>autopatrol </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>bigdelete </td> <td>At times, the T&S or technical team need the ability to delete pages with a high number of revisions for technical reasons, or for legal compliance reasons. </td></tr> <tr> <td>block </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>blockemail </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>browsearchive </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>centralauth-merge </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>centralauth-unmerge </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>centralnotice-admin </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>checkuser </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance (subpoena, etc.) and safety reasons (investigations of threats) </td></tr> <tr> <td>checkuser-log </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance (subpoena, etc.) and safety reasons (investigations of threats) </td></tr> <tr> <td>checkuser-temporary-account-log </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference </td> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367170" class="extiw" title="phab:T367170">T367170</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>delete </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance and copyright purposes. </td></tr> <tr> <td>deletedhistory </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance and copyright purposes. </td></tr> <tr> <td>deletedtext </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance and copyright purposes. </td></tr> <tr> <td>deletelogentry </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance purposes. </td></tr> <tr> <td>deleterevision </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance and copyright purposes. </td></tr> <tr> <td>edit </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>editcontentmodel </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>editinterface </td> <td>The T&S team uses this right for legal compliance and copyright purposes (i.e., to change the copyright notices, etc.). Other staff members use it to support the development of other projects and technical initiatives. </td></tr> <tr> <td>editprotected </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>editsemiprotected </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>editsitecss </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>editsitejs </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>editsitejson </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>editusercss </td> <td rowspan="3">This was done for a couple of reasons. <p>First, we have had times when we saw a user insert some code in their own user.js and user.css files that really shouldn't be there, and then propagate that code out to the wikis by adding a transclusion from their own user files to, for instance, Mediawiki:Common.js of a smaller wiki, and thereby add google tracking code, for instance. This allows staff to easily (and in a logged fashion) remove such code. </p><p>Second, in order to include a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jalexander-WMF/staffbackground.css" class="extiw" title="w:User:Jalexander-WMF/staffbackground.css">stylesheet</a> for those users who hold staff rights which colors red the interface buttons for things that they really shouldn't touch without a REALLY good reason (i.e., the execute checkuser button). This is a reminder for new staff who didn't come from the community that these are specialized rights, and not everyone has access to them, and serves as a mental "speedbump" against using them. </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td>edituserjs </td></tr> <tr> <td>edituserjson </td></tr> <tr> <td>extendedconfirmed </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>flow-create-board </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>flow-delete </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>flow-edit-post </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>flow-hide </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>flow-suppress </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>gadgets-definition-edit </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>gadgets-edit </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>globalblock-exempt </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>globalblock-whitelist </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>hideuser </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>import </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>importupload </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>ipblock-exempt </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>ipinfo </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>ipinfo-view-full </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>ipinfo-view-log </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>managementors </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>move </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>move-rootuserpages </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>move-subpages </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>movefile </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>movestable </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>mwoauthmanageconsumer </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>mwoauthmanagemygrants </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>mwoauthproposeconsumer </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>mwoauthsuppress </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>mwoauthupdateownconsumer </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>mwoauthviewprivate </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>mwoauthviewsuppressed </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>noratelimit </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>nuke </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>oathauth-disable-for-user </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>oathauth-enable </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>override-antispoof </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>patrolmarks </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>protect </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>purge </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>reupload </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>reupload-shared </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>review </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>rollback </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>sendemail </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>setmentor </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>skipcaptcha </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>stablesettings </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>suppressionlog </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>suppressredirect </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>suppressrevision </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>tboverride </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>tboverride-account </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>templateeditor </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>transcode-reset </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>transcode-status </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>unblockself </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> <td>undelete </td> <td>... </td></tr> <tr> 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class="extiw" title="d:Q13422647">Abuse filter editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template_editor" title="Template editor">Template editors</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10862160" class="extiw" title="d:Q10862160">Eliminators</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17587453" class="extiw" title="d:Q17587453">Translation administrators</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17587453" class="extiw" title="d:Q17587453">MassMessage senders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arbitration_Committee" title="Arbitration Committee">Arbitration committee members</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24207206" class="extiw" title="d:Q24207206">Extended movers</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39502014" class="extiw" title="d:Q39502014">Bots with administrator rights </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flooder" title="Flooder">Flooders</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56116460" class="extiw" title="d:Q56116460">Curators</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;"><div style="padding:0em 0.75em;">On one wiki<br/>(except Meta)</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Limit-Ausgenommene" class="extiw" title="de:Wikipedia:Limit-Ausgenommene">Noratelimit accounts </a></li> <li><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B" class="extiw" title="ru:Википедия:Инженеры">Engineers </a></li> <li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Upload_Wizard_campaign_editors" class="extiw" title="c:Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Upload Wizard campaign editors"> Upload Wizard campaign editors </a></li> <li><a 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