Special

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)
(*)
  • 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)
  • Mark translation units as no longer outdated (unfuzzy)
  • Read pages (read)
  • View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
  • View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
Abuse Filter Admins
(abFilter)
(list of members)
  • Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
  • Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
  • Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
  • View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-privatedetails)
Archivists
(archivist)
(list of members)
  • Edit archived namespaces (archivist)
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)
  • Bypass blocked external domains (abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains)
  • 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)
Bureaucrats
(bureaucrat)
(list of members)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Merge users (usermerge)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
  • Rename users (renameuser)
Check users
(checkuser)
(list of members)
  • Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to check the preference (checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference)
  • View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
  • View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses (checkuser-temporary-account-log)
Temporary account IP viewers
(checkuser-temporary-account-viewer)
(list of members)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)
Developers
(developer)
(list of members)
  • Lock and unlock the database (siteadmin)
Editors
(editor)
(list of members)
  • Block or unblock a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • Block or unblock other users from editing (block)
  • Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Edit the Template Namespace (template-editor)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • 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)
  • Set/remove page protection level (member of Editor users) (editor)
  • Set/remove page protection level (member of JDOC Contributor users) (docwriters)
  • unprotect (unprotect)
Email Confirmed
(emailconfirmed)
(list of members)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Move pages (move)
  • writeapi (writeapi)
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)
Interwiki Editor
(interwiki)
(list of members)
  • Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
JDOC Contributors
(jdoc-contributor)
(list of members)
  • Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Edit the Template Namespace (template-editor)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • Set/remove page protection level (member of JDOC Contributor users) (docwriters)
  • unprotect (unprotect)
  • User Management - can add users to group: JDOC Contributors
Joomla Leadership
(joomla-leadership)
(list of members)
Ninjas
(ninjas)
(list of members)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
Patrollers
(patrollers)
(list of members)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
Push subscription managers
(push-subscription-manager)
(list of members)
  • Manage all push subscriptions (manage-all-push-subscriptions)
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)
  • 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)
  • Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)
  • Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
  • Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked (abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains)
  • Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Edit archived namespaces (archivist)
  • Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit rights for Joomla namespace (Leadership and Maintainers) (joomla-leadership)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit the Template Namespace (template-editor)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • 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)
  • Mass deletion of pages using DynamicPageList3 (dpl_param_delete_rules)
  • Mass update of pages using DynamicPageList3 (dpl_param_update_rules)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
  • 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)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
  • Set/remove page protection level (member of Editor users) (editor)
  • Set/remove page protection level (member of JDOC Contributor users) (docwriters)
  • 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 and create filters that use protected variables (abusefilter-access-protected-vars)
  • 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 logs related to accessing protected variable values (abusefilter-protected-vars-log)
  • View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-privatedetails)
  • View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
  • redirector (redirector)
  • writeapi (writeapi)
Template NS editor
(template-editor)
(list of members)
  • Edit the Template Namespace (template-editor)
Translation administrators
(translationadmins)
(list of members)
  • Edit the Template Namespace (template-editor)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • Manage message groups (translate-manage)
  • Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)
  • 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)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)
  • User Management - can add users to group: Translator
  • User Management - can remove users from group: Translator
Translator
(translator)
(list of members)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • 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)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)
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 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)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
  • writeapi (writeapi)
Widget editors
(widgeteditor)
(list of members)
  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Template
  • Edit the Template Namespace (template-editor)
API15
  • Edit archived namespaces (archivist)
API16
  • Edit archived namespaces (archivist)
J1.5
  • Edit archived namespaces (archivist)
Archived
  • Edit archived namespaces (archivist)
API17
  • Edit archived namespaces (archivist)
Widget
  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
Moved
  • redirector (redirector)
Joomla
  • Edit rights for Joomla namespace (Leadership and Maintainers) (joomla-leadership)
Translations
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
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