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.
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Revoked right
Group Rights
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Create discussion pages (createtalk ) Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage ) 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 JavaScript files (editmyuserjs ) 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 your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo ) View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist )
Autoconfirmed users Edit pages (edit ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed ) Upload files (upload )
Bots (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 ) 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) Edit all user rights (userrights ) Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit ) Rename users (renameuser )
Administrators (list of members) Block a user from sending email (blockemail ) Block other users from editing (block ) Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt ) Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable ) Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect ) Create and delete tags from the database (managechangetags ) Create new user accounts (createaccount ) Delete pages (delete ) Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete ) Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss ) Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected ) Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected ) 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 ) Mass delete pages (nuke ) 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 ) Override the title or username blacklist (tboverride ) 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 ) 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 the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog ) View title blacklist log (titleblacklistlog )
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 ) 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 ) Use of the write API (writeapi )
Namespace restrictions Namespace Right(s) allowing user to edit MediaWiki Edit the user interface (editinterface )
