The following is a list of user groups defined on this wiki, with their associated access rights.
There may be additional information about individual rights.
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Granted right Revoked right Group Rights
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Automatically log in with an external user account (autocreateaccount ) Create discussion pages (createtalk ) Create new user accounts (createaccount ) Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage ) Edit pages (edit ) Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions ) Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) and request password reset emails (editmyprivateinfo ) Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist ) Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable ) Merge their account (centralauth-merge ) Read pages (read ) View abuse filters (abusefilter-view ) View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail ) View the abuse log (abusefilter-log ) View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo ) View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist ) writeapi (writeapi )
Autoconfirmed users (autoconfirmed)Create new user accounts (createaccount ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha ) Propose new OAuth consumers (mwoauthproposeconsumer ) Update OAuth consumers you control (mwoauthupdateownconsumer )
Autopatrolled users (autopatrolled)(list of members) Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol ) Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol ) Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha ) View recent changes patrol marks (patrolmarks )
Bots (bot)(list of members) Be treated as an automated process (bot ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect ) Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk ) Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha ) Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits )
Bureaucrats (bureaucrat)(list of members) Create, delete, and manage namespaces for this wiki (managewiki-namespaces ) Create, delete, and manage user groups on this wiki (managewiki-permissions ) Manage advanced settings for this wiki (managewiki-settings ) Manage core settings for this wiki (managewiki-core ) Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit ) Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof ) Add groups: Bots, Bureaucrats, Administrators and Interface administrators
Remove groups: Bots, Administrators and Interface administrators
Check users (checkuser)(list of members) Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser ) View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-privatedetails ) View the AbuseFilter private details access log (abusefilter-privatedetails-log ) View the checkuser log (checkuser-log )
Confirmed users (confirmed)(list of members) Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha )
Interface administrators (interface-admin)(list of members) Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss ) Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson ) Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs ) Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss ) Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson ) Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs ) Edit the user interface (editinterface )
Users blocked from the IP Information tool (no-ipinfo)(list of members) Access a basic view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-basic ) Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-full ) Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo ) View a log of who has accessed IP information (ipinfo-view-log )
Rollbackers (rollbacker)(list of members) Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback )
Stewards (steward)(list of members) Edit all user rights (userrights )
Suppressors (suppress)(list of members) Block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public (hideuser ) Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry ) Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision ) Hide entries in the abuse log (abusefilter-hide-log ) Search deleted pages (browsearchive ) View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory ) View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext ) View hidden abuse log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log ) View private logs (suppressionlog ) View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed ) View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision )
Administrators (sysop)(list of members) Block or unblock a user from sending email (blockemail ) Block or unblock other users from editing (block ) Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt ) Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect ) Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags ) Create new user accounts (createaccount ) Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify ) Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url ) Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags ) Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry ) Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision ) Delete pages (delete ) Delete wiki backups (delete-dump ) Disable global blocks locally (globalblock-whitelist ) Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss ) Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson ) Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss ) Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson ) Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs ) Edit the user interface (editinterface ) Generate wiki backups (generate-dump ) Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol ) Import pages from a file upload (importupload ) Import pages from other wikis (import ) Manage short URLs (urlshortener-manage-url ) Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol ) Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits ) Merge the history of pages (mergehistory ) Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted ) Move category pages (move-categorypages ) Move files (movefile ) Move pages (move ) Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages ) Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit ) Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect ) Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared ) Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof ) Overwrite existing files (reupload ) Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha ) Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback ) Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert ) Search deleted pages (browsearchive ) Unblock oneself (unblockself ) Undelete a page (undelete ) Upload files (upload ) Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url ) Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits ) View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages ) View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory ) View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext ) View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail ) View recent changes patrol marks (patrolmarks ) View short URLs management log (urlshortener-view-log ) View wiki backups (view-dump ) avatarremove (avatarremove ) awardsmanage (awardsmanage ) editothersprofiles (editothersprofiles ) giftadmin (giftadmin ) massmessage (massmessage ) nuke (nuke ) profilemanager (profilemanager ) tboverride (tboverride ) titleblacklistlog (titleblacklistlog ) Add groups: Autopatrolled users , Confirmed users and Rollbackers
Remove groups: Autopatrolled users , Confirmed users and Rollbackers
Users (user)(list of members) Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags ) Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags ) Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked ) Create discussion pages (createtalk ) Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage ) Edit pages (edit ) Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel ) Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss ) Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson ) Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs ) Manage OAuth grants (mwoauthmanagemygrants ) Mark edits as minor (minoredit ) Move category pages (move-categorypages ) Move files (movefile ) Move pages (move ) Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages ) Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages ) Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared ) Overwrite existing files (reupload ) Purge the cache for a page (purge ) Send email to other users (sendemail ) Upload files (upload ) user (user )
Namespace restrictions Namespace Right(s) allowing user to edit MediaWiki Edit the user interface (editinterface )