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StaffPowers Release status: stableCategory:Stable extensions
Implementation	User rights Category:User rights extensions
Description	Applies staff powers, like unblockableness, superhuman strength and general awesomeness to select users.
Author(s)	Łukasz Garczewski Jack Phoenix Mainframe98
Latest version	1.4 (2017-02-24)
MediaWiki	1.43+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Example	ShoutWiki
Parameters $wgStaffPowersShoutWikiMessages $wgStaffPowersStewardGroupName
Added rights unblockable Category:Extensions which add rights
Hooks used BlockIp Category:BlockIp extensions
Quarterly downloads	3 (Ranked 98th)
Public wikis using	6,569 (Ranked 37th)
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The StaffPowers extension applies staff powers, like unblockableness, superhuman strength and general awesomeness to select users.

Users who have the unblockable user right cannot be blocked by other users. Additionally, users who belong to the user group specified in $wgStaffPowersStewardGroupName cannot be blocked, except by users who have the unblockable user right. This right is assigned to the staff user group by default.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted StaffPowers folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/StaffPowers
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'StaffPowers' );
  

• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

This extension introduces two new global variables, $wgStaffPowersShoutWikiMessages and $wgStaffPowersStewardGroupName.

• $wgStaffPowersShoutWikiMessages - determines if ShoutWiki specific messages should be shown. This is true by default.
• $wgStaffPowersStewardGroupName - determines which group should be considered unblockable by all except those with the unblockable right. It is set to steward by default. To disable this function, set it to false, NULL or an empty string.