User group rights

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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.

Legend:

  • Granted right
  • Revoked right
GroupRights
(all)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)

  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)

  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)

  • Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)

  • Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (editmyprivateinfo)

  • Edit your own watchlist. Note some actions will still add pages even without this right. (editmywatchlist)

  • Read pages (read)

  • Use of the write API (writeapi)

  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)

  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)

Autoconfirmed users
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)

  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)

Bots
(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)

Bureaucrats
(list of members)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)

  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)

Check users
(list of members)
  • Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)

  • View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)

Administrators
(list of members)
  • Block a user from sending email (blockemail)

  • Block other users from editing (block)

  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)

  • Change protection levels 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' 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 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)

  • Manage message groups (translate-manage)

  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)

  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)

  • Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)

  • Mass delete pages (nuke)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

uploadaccess
(list of members)
  • Upload files (upload)

Users
(list of members)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)

  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)

  • Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)

  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)

  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)

  • Edit pages (edit)

  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)

  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)

  • Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)

  • Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)

  • Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)

  • Import offline translations (translate-import)

  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)

  • Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)

  • 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 site cache for a page without confirmation (purge)

  • Read pages (read)

  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)

  • Send email to other users (sendemail)

  • Use of the write API (writeapi)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)

Translations
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)