User group rights

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)
(*)
  • Automatically log in with an external user account (autocreateaccount)
  • Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
  • Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)
  • Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) and request password reset emails (editmyprivateinfo)
  • Merge their account (centralauth-merge)
  • 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)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
Automoderated users
(automoderated)
(list of members)
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)
  • Have their edits bypass moderation (skip-moderation)
  • Move pages without moderation (skip-move-moderation)
  • 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)
  • skip-move-moderationn (skip-move-moderationn)
Bureaucrats
(bureaucrat)
(list of members)
  • Batch delete pages (deletebatch)
  • Batch delete pages as "Delete page script" (deletebatch-spoof)
  • Block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public (hideuser)
  • Block or unblock other users from editing (block)
  • Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
  • Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Disable two-factor authentication for a user (oathauth-disable-for-user)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • Make string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
  • Mass delete pages (nuke)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • 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 the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
  • Rename users (renameuser)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
  • securepoll-create-poll (securepoll-create-poll)
  • suppress (suppress)
  • Add groups: protected, movedable, confirmed, Administrators, Bureaucrats, templateeditor and Moderators
  • Remove groups: protected, movedable, confirmed, Administrators, Bureaucrats, templateeditor and Moderators
checkuser
(checkuser)
(list of members)
  • See IPs of editors in the moderation interface (moderation-checkuser)
confirmed
(confirmed)
(list of members)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)
  • Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Have their edits bypass moderation (skip-moderation)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Move pages without moderation (skip-move-moderation)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
  • autoreview (autoreview)
  • extendedconfirmed (extendedconfirmed)
  • review (review)
  • skipcaptcha (skipcaptcha)
  • validate (validate)
electionadmin
(electionadmin)
(list of members)
Interface administrators
(interface-admin)
(list of members)
  • Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages (gadgets-edit)
  • Edit gadget definitions (gadgets-definition-edit)
  • 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)
Moderators
(moderator)
(list of members)
  • Moderate edits (moderation)
movedable
(movedable)
(list of members)
  • Have their edits bypass moderation (skip-moderation)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Move pages without moderation (skip-move-moderation)
  • Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
  • Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
  • Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
  • autoreviewrestore (autoreviewrestore)
  • move-rootconfirmedpages (move-rootconfirmedpages)
  • movestable (movestable)
protected
(protected)
(list of members)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Have their edits bypass moderation (skip-moderation)
  • Move pages without moderation (skip-move-moderation)
Push subscription managers
(push-subscription-manager)
(list of members)
  • Manage all push subscriptions (manage-all-push-subscriptions)
steward
(steward)
(list of members)
  • Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
  • Lock or unlock global account (centralauth-lock)
  • Suppress or hide global account (centralauth-suppress)
  • Unmerge global account (centralauth-unmerge)
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)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Block or unblock a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • 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 short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
  • 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)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Have their edits bypass moderation (skip-moderation)
  • Manage short URLs (urlshortener-manage-url)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Moderate edits (moderation)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Move pages without moderation (skip-move-moderation)
  • Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Not be tracked by Google Analytics (gtag-exempt)
  • Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
  • Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
  • Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
  • Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Query and validate OATH information for self and others (oathauth-api-all)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Unblock oneself (unblockself)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
  • Verify whether a user has two-factor authentication enabled (oathauth-verify-user)
  • View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
  • 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 private logs (suppressionlog)
  • View short URLs management log (urlshortener-view-log)
  • View the disallowed titles list log (titleblacklistlog)
  • View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)
  • abusefilter-privatedetails (abusefilter-privatedetails)
  • confirmed (confirmed)
  • movedable (movedable)
  • newsletter-create (newsletter-create)
  • newsletter-delete (newsletter-delete)
  • newsletter-manage (newsletter-manage)
  • newsletter-restore (newsletter-restore)
  • protected (protected)
  • skip-move-moderationn (skip-move-moderationn)
  • spamblacklistlog (spamblacklistlog)
  • user (user)
  • Add groups: protected, movedable, confirmed, Administrators, Bureaucrats, templateeditor and Moderators
  • Remove groups: protected, movedable, confirmed, Administrators, Bureaucrats, templateeditor and Moderators
templateeditor
(templateeditor)
(list of members)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Template (Template)
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 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)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Save books as community page (collectionsaveascommunitypage)
  • Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • Use of the write API (writeapi)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Template
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Module
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Gadget
  • Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages (gadgets-edit)
Gadget definition
  • Edit gadget definitions (gadgets-definition-edit)