This is a log of changes to user rights performed locally by users ("manual" changes) or by system rules ("automatic" changes). You may enter either or both of:
- Performer – the name of the user who changed the rights (just their name)
- Target – the name of the user whose rights were changed (written with the prefix User:)
The list of user groups and their associated permissions is on Special:ListGroupRights.
The log does not show:
- Changes of rights by stewards (such as checkuser and oversight user rights) – see the meta global rights log (Enter usernames like this: User:Doe@enwiki)
- Local rights changes made prior to 24 December 2004 – see Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log.
- 14:12, 18 January 2011 Acalamari talk contribs changed group membership for Tim Ross from pending changes reviewer and rollbacker to pending changes reviewer, rollbacker and autopatrolled (On Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled candidates 2, seems fine)
- 17:53, 18 June 2010 Courcelles talk contribs changed group membership for Tim Ross from rollbacker to rollbacker and pending changes reviewer (User can be trusted with Reviewer)
- 12:14, 28 April 2009 Fuhghettaboutit talk contribs changed group membership for Tim Ross from (none) to rollbacker (Requested; experienced user, clean block log, seems sensible)