Wikipedia:Global rights policy

Members of this group are paid employees of the . Similar to the , they hold global checkuser rights as well as global adminship and global oversight rights. They will perform office actions when needed such as complaints related to defamation, privacy violations or copyright infringement. Not all members of the Foundation staff are granted access to this group; it is based upon need for access. Staff rights are not limited by decision making processes that involve global or local communities.

The legally controls the servers, so the are ultimately responsible for determining who has developer access. However, they generally delegate this responsibility. On a day-to-day basis, various developers with root access manage the server accounts.

Users in this group are a subset of Volunteer Response Team agents. These particular users have access to the permissions queues within OTRS and assist with copyright verifications. All users with permissions access will be in the global group.

Users are in this group for identification purposes and there are no special rights associated with it. Users who add or modify OTRS permissions templates without the OTRS-member flag have their edits marked for review via an edit filter.

In addition to the above there are additional global groups not defined in this policy. They are: , , , , , , , , , , and . Two global account flags are and .

Also, some local groups have global effects. These are , , , and .

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