Meta:Interface administrators

The following page documents an official Meta-Wiki policy. This page has been developed and approved by the community and its compliance is mandatory for all users. It must not be modified without prior community approval.

For legal and security reasons, the Wikimedia Foundation has decided that Two factor authentication is required for this role on all projects.

Interface administrators are users who can edit CSS, JS, and JSON pages (pages such as MediaWiki:Common.js, MediaWiki:Vector.css). They can also edit users' individual CSS and JS pages which otherwise can only by edited by the users themselves. Because of the special nature of Meta-Wiki, interface administrators here also can edit CSS and JS pages which have a global effect. CSS and JS access is particularly sensitive due to the possible damage caused by intentional or accidental misuse, so it is important that interface administrators ensure they practice good account security and be careful with the changes they make.

• Requests can be made at Meta:Requests for adminship.
  • Administrators may be given the right upon request.
  • For non-administrators, the process is the same as for a normal request for adminship. (Cf. Meta:Administrators#Policy_for_requesting_adminship)

Interface administrators who are also administrators lose their access if their administrator rights are removed due to inactivity. Edits made requiring interface administrator access count as administrative actions for inactivity purposes. Other interface administrators lose their access if they have not made 10 global edits in the last six months.

Any bureaucrat may remove an interface admin's rights at any time if they feel the tools have been misused, or if a request for comment has shown that the community do not trust the interface administrator, whereby any consensus to demote of higher than about 50% is sufficient to remove. Any interface administrator that had their tools removed pursuant this section must pass a regular request for interface adminship in order to regain the tools, no matter if the user is an administrator or not.

Interface administrators must abide by the involved administrators policy.

• Automatically generated list of interface administrators