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
| Group | Rights |
|---|
(all)
(*) |
- Create discussion pages
(createtalk)
- Edit your own preferences
(editmyoptions)
- Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) and request password reset emails
(editmyprivateinfo)
- Read pages
(read)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
- View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)
(viewmyprivateinfo)
|
Autoconfirmed users
(autoconfirmed) |
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
(autoconfirmed)
|
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)
- Use higher limits in API queries
(apihighlimits)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
|
Bureaucrats
(bureaucrat)
(list of members) |
- Edit all user rights
(userrights)
- Not be affected by rate limits
(noratelimit)
- Rename users
(renameuser)
|
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)
|
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Overwrite existing files
(reupload)
- 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)
|
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)
- 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)
- Edit your own user JavaScript files that are redirects
(editmyuserjsredirect)
- Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right)
(editmywatchlist)
- 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)
- Read pages
(read)
- Send email to other users
(sendemail)
- Upload files
(upload)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
- View your own watchlist
(viewmywatchlist)
|
Namespace restrictions
| Namespace | Right(s) allowing user to edit | | MediaWiki | - Edit the user interface
(editinterface)
|
