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
Logged Out Users(*)
Create new user accounts (createaccount ) 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 ) Read pages (read ) View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo ) View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist )
Alumni (alumni)(list of members) Block or unblock a user from sending email (blockemail ) Block or unblock other users from editing (block ) Delete pages (delete ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected ) Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol ) Move files (movefile ) Move pages (move ) Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect ) Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared ) 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 ) Search deleted pages (browsearchive ) Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url ) View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages ) View abuse filters (abusefilter-view ) 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 the abuse log (abusefilter-log ) autoreview (autoreview ) bypassakismet (bypassakismet ) editalluserpages (editalluserpages ) movestable (movestable ) patroller (patroller ) proxyunbannable (proxyunbannable ) review (review )
Autoconfirmed Users (autoconfirmed)Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) Send email to other users (sendemail ) Use of the write API (writeapi ) bypassakismet (bypassakismet ) webchat (webchat )
blocked (blocked)Block or unblock other users from editing (block ) Edit pages (edit ) Send email to other users (sendemail ) Upload files (upload ) webchat (webchat )
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 ) Use of the write API (writeapi ) masseditregex (masseditregex )
Managers (bureaucrat)(list of members) Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser ) Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets ) Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits ) Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit ) Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof ) Rename users (renameuser ) disableaccount (disableaccount ) editalluserpages (editalluserpages ) lookupuser (lookupuser ) masseditregex (masseditregex ) nuke (nuke ) passwordreset (passwordreset ) povwatch_admin (povwatch_admin ) povwatch_user (povwatch_user ) sendbatchemail (sendbatchemail ) userboard-delete (userboard-delete ) usermerge (usermerge ) userpagehits (userpagehits ) viewsystemstats (viewsystemstats ) whoiswatchingtabbed (whoiswatchingtabbed ) Add groups: Administrators , Alumni , Bots and Trusted Users
Remove groups: Administrators , Alumni , Bots and Trusted Users
Check Users (checkuser)(list of members) Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser ) View the checkuser log (checkuser-log )
Verified Email (emailconfirmed)Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage ) Edit pages (edit ) Upload files (upload ) Use of the write API (writeapi )
Executive Managers (executive)(list of members) Block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public (hideuser ) Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser ) Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify ) Create or modify global abuse filters (abusefilter-modify-global ) Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision ) Edit all user rights (userrights ) Edit user rights of users on other wikis (userrights-interwiki ) Lock and unlock the database (siteadmin ) Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted ) Rename users (renameuser ) Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert ) Send email to other users (sendemail ) Use of the write API (writeapi ) View private logs (suppressionlog ) View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision ) apc (apc ) edit-interface (edit-interface ) editalluserpages (editalluserpages ) interface-admin (interface-admin ) lookupuser (lookupuser ) maintenance (maintenance ) piggyback (piggyback ) sudo (sudo ) userrights-global (userrights-global ) Add all groups
Remove all groups
Add groups to own account: Administrators and Managers
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 )
nomove (nomove)(list of members)
Oversight (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 ) 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 ) Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags ) Delete pages (delete ) Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete ) Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson ) Edit the user interface (editinterface ) Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol ) Import pages from a file upload (importupload ) Import pages from other wikis (import ) Make string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext ) Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol ) Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits ) Merge the history of pages (mergehistory ) 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 ) 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 abuse filters (abusefilter-view ) View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private ) 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 log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private ) View the abuse log (abusefilter-log ) autoreview (autoreview ) avatarremove (avatarremove ) bypassakismet (bypassakismet ) edit-project (edit-project ) editalluserpages (editalluserpages ) interwiki (interwiki ) listnewusers (listnewusers ) movestable (movestable ) patroller (patroller ) proxyunbannable (proxyunbannable ) review (review ) Add groups: Trusted Users and nomove
Add group to own account: Bots
Remove groups from own account: Administrators , Managers and Bots
Trusted Users (trusted)(list of members) Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol ) Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol ) Move pages (move ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) 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 ) patroller (patroller )
Logged in 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 ) Create discussion pages (createtalk ) 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 ) Edit your own user JavaScript files that are redirects (editmyuserjsredirect ) Mark edits as minor (minoredit ) Move category pages (move-categorypages ) Move files (movefile ) Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared ) Overwrite existing files (reupload ) Purge the cache for a page (purge ) Read pages (read ) Upload files (upload ) View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog )
Widget editors (widgeteditor)(list of members) Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets )
Namespace restrictions Namespace Right(s) allowing user to edit MediaWiki Edit the user interface (editinterface ) Widget Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets )
