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 private data (e.g. email address, real name) (editmyprivateinfo)
  • Merge their account (centralauth-merge)
  • Read pages (read)
  • false (false)
Image-reviewer
(list of members)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Move files (movefile)
abusefilter
(list of members)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • abusefilter-hidden-log (abusefilter-hidden-log)
  • abusefilter-log (abusefilter-log)
  • abusefilter-log-detail (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • abusefilter-log-private (abusefilter-log-private)
  • abusefilter-modify (abusefilter-modify)
  • abusefilter-modify-global (abusefilter-modify-global)
  • abusefilter-modify-restricted (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
  • abusefilter-privatedetails (abusefilter-privatedetails)
  • abusefilter-privatedetails-log (abusefilter-privatedetails-log)
  • abusefilter-revert (abusefilter-revert)
  • abusefilter-view (abusefilter-view)
  • abusefilter-view-private (abusefilter-view-private)
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)
  • 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)
autopatrolled
(list of members)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • abusefilter-log (abusefilter-log)
  • abusefilter-log-detail (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • abusefilter-view (abusefilter-view)
  • autoreview (autoreview)
Bots
(list of members)
  • Be treated as an automated process (bot)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • autoreview (autoreview)
  • extendedconfirmed (extendedconfirmed)
botadmin
(list of members)
  • Block other users from editing (block)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • extendedconfirmed (extendedconfirmed)
Bureaucrats
(list of members)
  • Batch delete pages (deletebatch)
  • Batch delete pages as "Delete page script" (deletebatch-spoof)
  • Disable two-factor authentication for a user (oathauth-disable-for-user)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • Mass delete pages (nuke)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • edit-html (edit-html)
  • override-antispoof (override-antispoof)
  • renameuser (renameuser)
  • replacetext (replacetext)
  • securepoll-create-poll (securepoll-create-poll)
  • Add groups: Administrators, Bureaucrats, oversight, abusefilter, autopatrolled, botadmin, checkuser, confirmed, eliminator, import, Image-reviewer, ipblock-exempt, patroller, reviewer, rollbacker, steward, templateeditor and translationadmin
  • Remove groups: Administrators, oversight, abusefilter, autopatrolled, botadmin, checkuser, confirmed, eliminator, import, Image-reviewer, ipblock-exempt, patroller, reviewer, rollbacker, steward, templateeditor and translationadmin
checkuser
(list of members)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • abusefilter-privatedetails (abusefilter-privatedetails)
  • abusefilter-privatedetails-log (abusefilter-privatedetails-log)
  • checkuser (checkuser)
  • checkuser-log (checkuser-log)
confirmed
(list of members)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
  • collectionsaveascommunitypage (collectionsaveascommunitypage)
  • collectionsaveasuserpage (collectionsaveasuserpage)
  • flow-edit-post (flow-edit-post)
  • movestable (movestable)
electionadmin
(list of members)
eliminator
(list of members)
  • Block other users from editing (block)
  • Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
  • 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 (upload)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
  • abusefilter-log (abusefilter-log)
  • abusefilter-log-detail (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • abusefilter-view (abusefilter-view)
  • autoreview (autoreview)
  • autoreviewrestore (autoreviewrestore)
  • extendedconfirmed (extendedconfirmed)
  • review (review)
  • validate (validate)
emailconfirmed
(list of members)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
import
(list of members)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
Interface administrators
(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)
ipblock-exempt
(list of members)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked)
oversight
(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)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • View private logs (suppressionlog)
  • View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
  • View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)
  • abusefilter-hidden-log (abusefilter-hidden-log)
  • abusefilter-hide-log (abusefilter-hide-log)
  • flow-suppress (flow-suppress)
patroller
(list of members)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • abusefilter-log (abusefilter-log)
  • abusefilter-log-detail (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • abusefilter-view (abusefilter-view)
  • autoreview (autoreview)
  • review (review)
  • validate (validate)
Push subscription managers
(list of members)
  • Manage all push subscriptions (manage-all-push-subscriptions)
reviewer
(list of members)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • autoreview (autoreview)
  • review (review)
rollbacker
(list of members)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
  • autoreviewrestore (autoreviewrestore)
steward
(list of members)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
  • Lock or unlock global account (centralauth-lock)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Suppress or hide global account (centralauth-suppress)
  • Unmerge global account (centralauth-unmerge)
Suppressors
(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)
  • View private logs (suppressionlog)
  • View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
  • View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)
Administrators
(list of members)
  • Access to log of two-factor authentication changes (oathauth-view-log)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Batch-upload more files at once with Upload Wizard (mass-upload)
  • Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • Block other users from editing (block)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Change page language (pagelang)
  • Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Configure Upload Wizard campaigns (upwizcampaigns)
  • Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
  • Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • 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 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)
  • Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Manage short URLs (urlshortener-manage-url)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • 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)
  • Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)
  • Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • Purge the cache for a page (purge)
  • 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)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • 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)
  • 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 revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
  • View short URLs management log (urlshortener-view-log)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
  • View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)
  • abusefilter-privatedetails (abusefilter-privatedetails)
  • flow-create-board (flow-create-board)
  • flow-delete (flow-delete)
  • flow-edit-post (flow-edit-post)
  • flow-hide (flow-hide)
  • flow-lock (flow-lock)
  • investigate (investigate)
  • massmessage (massmessage)
  • newsletter-create (newsletter-create)
  • newsletter-delete (newsletter-delete)
  • newsletter-manage (newsletter-manage)
  • newsletter-restore (newsletter-restore)
  • override-antispoof (override-antispoof)
  • spamblacklistlog (spamblacklistlog)
  • tboverride (tboverride)
  • tboverride-account (tboverride-account)
  • titleblacklistlog (titleblacklistlog)
  • Add group: Upload Wizard campaign editors
  • Remove group: Upload Wizard campaign editors
templateeditor
(list of members)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • tboverride (tboverride)
translationadmin
(list of members)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • pagetranslation (pagetranslation)
  • translate (translate)
  • translate-groupreview (translate-groupreview)
  • translate-import (translate-import)
  • translate-manage (translate-manage)
  • translate-messagereview (translate-messagereview)
Upload Wizard campaign editors
(list of members)
  • Configure Upload Wizard campaigns (upwizcampaigns)
Users
(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 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)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • Purge the cache for a page (purge)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use of the write API (writeapi)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Campaign
  • Configure Upload Wizard campaigns (upwizcampaigns)