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.
| Group | Rights |
|---|
| (all) |
- Can create account with OpenID
(openid-create-account-with-openid)
- Can login with OpenID
(openid-login-with-openid)
- Create discussion pages
(createtalk)
- Edit your own preferences
(editmyoptions)
- Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)
(editmyprivateinfo)
- Edit your own user CSS files
(editmyusercss)
- Edit your own user JavaScript files
(editmyuserjs)
- Edit your own watchlist. Note some actions will still add pages even without this right.
(editmywatchlist)
- Read pages
(read)
- Use Special:Code
(codereview-use)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
- View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)
(viewmyprivateinfo)
- View your own watchlist
(viewmywatchlist)
|
AbuseFilter
(list of members) |
- Modify abuse filters
(abusefilter-modify)
- Modify abuse filters with restricted actions
(abusefilter-modify-restricted)
- View detailed abuse log entries
(abusefilter-log-detail)
- View private data in the abuse log
(abusefilter-private)
|
AccountCreator
(list of members) |
- Create new user accounts
(createaccount)
- Override the spoofing checks
(override-antispoof)
- View the queue with requested accounts
(confirmaccount)
|
SVN
(list of members) |
- Add comments on revisions
(codereview-post-comment)
- Add new tags to revisions
(codereview-add-tag)
- Change revisions status
(codereview-set-status)
- Link authors to wiki users
(codereview-link-user)
- Remove tags from revisions
(codereview-remove-tag)
|
addsteward
(list of members) |
|
admiral
(list of members) |
- Add groups: addsteward, delsteward, admiral and developer
- Remove groups: addsteward, delsteward, admiral and developer
|
| Autoconfirmed users |
- 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)
|
autopatrol
(list of members) |
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
(autopatrol)
|
Bots
(list of members) |
- Be treated as an automated process
(bot)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Exempted from web analytics tracking
(noanalytics)
- 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) |
- Create new user accounts
(createaccount)
- Merge the history of pages
(mergehistory)
- Not be affected by rate limits
(noratelimit)
- Override the spoofing checks
(override-antispoof)
- Rename users
(renameuser)
- View user credentials
(lookupcredentials)
- View requester's IP addresses while processing requested accounts
(requestips)
- View the queue with requested accounts
(confirmaccount)
- Add groups: Administrators, Bureaucrats, Bots, rollback and passwordreset
- Remove groups: Bots, rollback and passwordreset
|
centralnotice
(list of members) |
- Manage central notices
(centralnotice-admin)
|
Check users
(list of members) |
- Check user's IP addresses and other information
(checkuser)
- View the checkuser log
(checkuser-log)
|
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)
|
delsteward
(list of members) |
|
desysop
(list of members) |
|
developer
(list of members) |
- Lock and unlock the database
(siteadmin)
|
founder
(list of members) |
- Edit all user rights
(userrights)
- Edit interwiki data
(interwiki)
- Manage central notices
(centralnotice-admin)
- Manage code repositories
(repoadmin)
- Remove groups: Oversighters and Check users
|
Oversighters
(list of members) |
- Block a username, hiding it from the public
(hideuser)
- Delete and undelete specific log entries
(deletelogentry)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages
(deleterevision)
- Hide revisions from administrators with Extension:Oversight
(hiderevision)
- View a previously hidden revision with Extension:Oversight
(oversight)
- View private logs
(suppressionlog)
- View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user
(suppressrevision)
|
passwordreset
(list of members) |
- View password reset emails
(passwordreset)
|
patroller
(list of members) |
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
(autopatrol)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
(patrol)
|
rollback
(list of members) |
- 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)
|
steward
(list of members) |
|
sudoers
(list of members) |
- Login to another user's account
(sudo)
|
SVN admins
(list of members) |
- Manage code repositories
(repoadmin)
|
Administrators
(list of members) |
- Administrator access to the OpenID dashboard
(openid-dashboard-admin)
- Block a user from sending email
(blockemail)
- Block other users from editing
(block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
(ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies
(proxyunbannable)
- Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages
(protect)
- Create and delete tags from the database
(managechangetags)
- Delete and undelete specific log entries
(deletelogentry)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages
(deleterevision)
- Delete pages
(delete)
- Delete pages with large histories
(bigdelete)
- Edit other users' CSS files
(editusercss)
- 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)
- Exempted from web analytics tracking
(noanalytics)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
(autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload
(importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis
(import)
- Look up user preferences
(lookupuser)
- Manage central notices
(centralnotice-admin)
- Manual account creation without OpenID
(openid-create-account-without-openid)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
(patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits
(markbotedits)
- 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)
- 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)
- Standard access to the OpenID dashboard
(openid-dashboard-access)
- 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)
- Add groups: rollback, patroller, autopatrol and confirmed
- Remove groups: rollback, patroller, autopatrol and confirmed
|
Users
(list of members) |
- Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries
(changetags)
- Apply tags along with one's changes
(applychangetags)
- Can add or convert their account to use OpenID identities
(openid-converter-access)
- Create discussion pages
(createtalk)
- Create pages (which are not discussion pages)
(createpage)
- Edit pages
(edit)
- Exempted from web analytics tracking
(noanalytics)
- Manage revision associations
(codereview-associate)
- 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 site cache for a page without confirmation
(purge)
- Read pages
(read)
- Send email to other users
(sendemail)
- Sign off on revisions
(codereview-signoff)
- Upload files
(upload)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
- View abuse filters
(abusefilter-view)
- View the abuse log
(abusefilter-log)
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