Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-24837140-20140504220842/@comment-5558012-20140505011605

Kamikaze839 wrote: Bureaucrat has the same powers as an admin plus the ability to make other users admin. Also you cannot remove someone else's bureaucrat rights easily. Tupka217 wrote: And admin can delete things, move images, block people and chatban them. I probably left out something. A bureaucrat can do all of that too, and can also promote other people to admin (and bureaucrat). This is not true. I've shown this on a past thread in detail, but Bureaucrat and Admin rights are very different, as noted on Special:ListGroupRights. Most Bureaucrats are also Admins giving them more rights, however, the two groups are not remotely the same.

Edit: Found it.

To clarify everything here, these are the important differences between the two groups:

An Admin can (a Bureaucrat cannot):


 * Delete/undelete pages
 * Protect/unprotect pages
 * Edit Theme Designer & Mediawiki pages
 * Grant/Remove Chat Mod. Rights and add Bot group
 * Act as a Chat Mod.

A Bureaucrat can (an Admin cannot):


 * Grant/Remove Rollback and Admin rights
 * Grant Bureaucrat rights

Both groups can:


 * Block/unblock users
 * Remove Bot group

There are other smaller privileges they have in common, but many of the smaller tools that Admins have Bureaucrats don't. These can also vary a little between wikis.

Refs: Help:User access levels and Special:ListGroupRights.