MEpedia talk:Bureaucrats

What is a bureaucrat, anyhow
As a small clarification--maybe it varies from wiki to wiki (I'm sure it does), but the main user right that only a bureaucrat can alter is to add users to the administrator group. If eventually more user rights are created (say, a group exempt from CAPTCHA), oftentimes it's set up so that administrators (as well as bureaucrats) have the ability to assign that user right. (Not to burrow too deep into the details, but for instance even if the CAPTCHA-exempt right is set up to be conferred automatically after 500 edits, in this hypothetical an administrator could still give it to someone sooner if they are a known quantity--say, a new MEAction staffer or a significant researcher who wants to help.) So, true for now but may not always be the case that bureaucrats are the only ones who assign user rights. We just only have one user right at the moment! Canele (talk) 23:26, 29 March 2019 (EDT)