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)
  • Automatically log in with an external user account (autocreateaccount)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • 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 abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
  • View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
  • Vote pages (voteny)
Autoconfirmed users
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Block spam phrases through Special:SpamRegex (spamregex)
  • Create, modify and delete user groups (modifygroups)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Edit page or namespace meta elements (advancedmeta-edit)
  • Limit actions that can be performed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
  • Make string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Rename users (renameuser)
  • blockbatch (blockbatch)
  • smitespam (smitespam)
  • Add group: Forum administrators
  • Remove group: Forum administrators
Forum administrators
(list of members)
lookupuser
(list of members)
  • Look up user preferences (lookupuser)
staff
(list of members)
  • Block spam phrases through Special:SpamRegex (spamregex)
  • View statistics about social tools (metricsview)
Administrators
(list of members)
  • Add, edit and delete categories and forums on the discussion board (wikiforum-admin)
  • Batch delete pages (deletebatch)
  • Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • Block other users from editing (block)
  • Block spam phrases through Special:SpamRegex (spamregex)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Can add, remove and view GoogleLogin connections (managegooglelogin)
  • Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Edit and delete threads and replies on the discussion board (wikiforum-moderator)
  • Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
  • Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
  • Edit page or namespace meta elements (advancedmeta-edit)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Embed PDFs into pages (embed_pdf)
  • 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)
  • Make string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Mass delete pages (nuke)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
  • 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 title or username blacklist (tboverride)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • Perform a LinkTitles batch operation (linktitles-batch)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
  • Replace page contents using regular expressions (masseditregex)
  • Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
  • 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)
  • View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-private)
  • View statistics about social tools (metricsview)
  • View the last time a user logged in (lastlogin)
  • View title blacklist log (titleblacklistlog)
  • blockandnuke (blockandnuke)
  • blockbatch (blockbatch)
  • flow-create-board (flow-create-board)
  • managegooglelogindomains (managegooglelogindomains)
  • smitespam (smitespam)
  • stalkerlog-view-log (stalkerlog-view-log)
Users
(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)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • 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)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use of the write API (writeapi)
  • Vote pages (voteny)
  • flow-create-board (flow-create-board)
Widget editors
(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)
Widget
  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
Gadget
  • Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages (gadgets-edit)
Gadget definition
  • Edit gadget definitions (gadgets-definition-edit)