Tech:Organisation

System administrators may have different access and different permissions on the farm. This page documents the roles of all groups, and their responsibilities.

Operations
Operations (ops) is the name of the group system administrators which are responsible for the technical operations at Miraheze. They have access to all servers, and are in charge of ensuring that all servers are secure and run smoothly.

Lead System Administrator
The Lead System Administrator (or Technical Lead) is an operations member that is responsible for hardware allocation, and working with hosts and Miraheze's financial management to ensure the infrastructure has the right hardware without burning the finances. They may not be so much involved in operations work like normal operations members, but still take full responsibility for the technical side of Miraheze.

MediaWiki Sysadmin
MediaWiki System Administrators (also known as 'mediawiki-admins') is the name of the group system administrators responsible for MediaWiki operations. They handle feature requests, upgrades, extensions and such. They have access to the MediaWiki servers, with some sudo access.