Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Temporary account IP viewer/Administrator instructions

Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer is a user group that allows users to view IP addresses associated with temporary accounts.

Prerequisites

To be eligible for the permission, an editor must:

1. Make a request for the permission (admins are not permitted to assign the right without a request)
2. Have a registered account for six months
3. Have made at least 300 edits to English Wikipedia
4. Agree to use the IP addresses in accordance with the Foundation's guidelines, solely for the investigation or prevention of vandalism, abuse, or other violations of Wikimedia Foundation or community policies, and understand the risks and responsibilities associated with this privilege
5. Have a demonstrated need for access. This is deliberately vague, but some examples are non-zero amounts of experience with new page patrol, counter-vandalism, or sockpuppet investigations. This is a local requirement, so it is subject to the discretion of the granting admin.

Admins are permitted to decline applicants who meet these criteria but are otherwise unsuitable for access to this tool. Stewards are authorized to make exceptions to the Foundation requirements (criteria 1–4) if warranted.

Responding to requests

Note if a request was recently declined for a given user/permission, a bot will comment with a link to that discussion. You may wish to ping the administrator who declined the previous request asking for their input before responding to the new request.

To grant the permission:

• Grant the user right(s) to the user at Special:UserRights. Indicate the request was approved at WP:PERM (or a specific page therein) in the "Reason", along with any other information you deem appropriate.
• Issue the corresponding notification template to the user for the permissions that were added:

Notification templates

Useful template notifications Template Permission {{subst:Account creator granted}} Account creator {{subst:Autopatrolled granted}} Autopatrolled {{subst:Edit filter helper granted}} Edit filter helper {{subst:Edit filter manager granted}} Edit filter manager {{subst:Event coordinator granted}} Event coordinator {{subst:File mover granted}} File mover {{subst:IP block exemption granted}} IP block exemption {{subst:Mass message sender granted}} Mass message sender {{subst:New page reviewer granted}} New page reviewer {{subst:Page mover granted}} Page mover {{subst:Pending changes reviewer granted}} Pending changes reviewer {{subst:Rollback granted}} Rollback {{subst:Rollback and reviewer granted}} Rollback and reviewer {{subst:Template editor granted}} Template editor {{subst:Temporary account IP viewer granted}} Temporary account IP viewer

To respond to the request:

• On the permissions page, mark the request as approved or denied using {{done}} or {{not done}}. Include any relevant rationale for the decision. If you are revoking a permission, use the template {{revoked}} which will archive as done. If the user has withdrawn their request, you can mark it as {{withdrawn}} which will archive as not done. For some permissions, there is a convenient template for canned responses, such as with Confirmed and Rollback.
• 36 hours after the last comment was made (or whatever is specified in the config), a bot will automatically archive the request. You can force the bot to archive as soon as possible with the code {{User:MusikBot/archivenow}}

Helper script: The above process can be expedited using the script User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. Once installed, click "assign permissions" on any PERM page, enter optional closing remarks in the popup dialog, and the script will grant the right with a permalink to the discussion, and issue the corresponding talk page template.

To override where the bot archives, use {{User:MusikBot/override|d}} for approved, or {{User:MusikBot/override|nd}} for denied. This will override any other {{done}} or {{not done}} templates, and make the bot ignore the user's rights.

To re-open a request, deactivate the resolution template using the code {{tl|template name}}, as with {{done}} or {{not done}}. Strikethroughs like <s>{{done}}</s> or other means to suppress the original resolution template will still be registered as resolved by the bot. Only deactivating or removing the template will work.

Archiving

All requests are archived at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Archive as approved or denied. This is done as a historical reference, namely so that admins can review previously declined requests.

N hours after the last comment was made on a request (as specified by the bot's config), the discussion is removed from that page and an entry containing a PermaLink to the discussion is added to the archives, noting the user and the permission. This archiving process is fully automated and should not be attempted manually.

Bot clerking

For convenience, the requests for permissions pages are clerked by MusikBot. See User:MusikBot/PermClerk for more information on the tasks and how to configure them.