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
| Group | Rights |
|---|
(all)
(*) |
- 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) and request password reset emails
(editmyprivateinfo)
- Read pages
(read)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
- View "Edit" tab for pages editable by form
(viewedittab)
- View abuse filters
(abusefilter-view)
- View the abuse log
(abusefilter-log)
- View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)
(viewmyprivateinfo)
|
Autoconfirmed users
(autoconfirmed) |
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Move pages
(move)
- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
(autoconfirmed)
- Send email to other users
(sendemail)
|
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)
- 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)
- 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
(bureaucrat)
(list of members) |
- Delete and undelete specific log entries
(deletelogentry)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages
(deleterevision)
- Edit interwiki data
(interwiki)
- Invite users to sign up
(invitesignup)
- Manage sandboxed users
(translate-sandboxmanage)
- Mark versions of pages for translation
(pagetranslation)
- Mass delete pages
(nuke)
- Not be affected by rate limits
(noratelimit)
- Rename users
(renameuser)
- View private logs
(suppressionlog)
- View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user
(suppressrevision)
- Add groups: Administrators, Translators, Bots and Offline translators
- Remove groups: Administrators, Translators, Bots and Offline translators
|
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)
|
Offline translators
(offline)
(list of members) |
- Import offline translations
(translate-import)
|
Staff
(staff)
(list of members) |
- Check users' IP addresses and other information
(checkuser)
- Manage OAuth consumers
(mwoauthmanageconsumer)
- Manage all push subscriptions
(manage-all-push-subscriptions)
- Merge users
(usermerge)
- Reset other users' passwords
(reset-passwords)
- Suppress OAuth consumers
(mwoauthsuppress)
- View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to check the preference
(checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference)
- View private OAuth data
(mwoauthviewprivate)
- View suppressed OAuth consumers
(mwoauthviewsuppressed)
- View the checkuser log
(checkuser-log)
- View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses
(checkuser-temporary-account-log)
- Add all groups
- Remove all groups
|
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) |
- Access the log of two-factor authentication changes
(oathauth-view-log)
- 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 page language
(pagelang)
- Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages
(protect)
- 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)
- Disable two-factor authentication for a user
(oathauth-disable-for-user)
- Edit other users' JSON files
(edituserjson)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators"
(editprotected)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Edit restricted form fields
(editrestrictedfields)
- Edit sitewide JSON
(editsitejson)
- Edit the user interface
(editinterface)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
(autopatrol)
- 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 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)
- 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)
- Search deleted pages
(browsearchive)
- Unblock oneself
(unblockself)
- Undelete a page
(undelete)
- Upload files
(upload)
- Use web chat
(webchat)
- Use higher limits in API queries
(apihighlimits)
- Verify whether a user has two-factor authentication enabled
(oathauth-verify-user)
- View a list of unwatched pages
(unwatchedpages)
- View abuse filters marked as private
(abusefilter-view-private)
- 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)
|
Translation administrators
(transadmin)
(list of members) |
- Import offline translations
(translate-import)
- Make string replacements on the entire wiki
(replacetext)
- Manage message groups
(translate-manage)
- Mark versions of pages for translation
(pagetranslation)
- Mass delete pages
(nuke)
- Move pages
(move)
- Move pages with their subpages
(move-subpages)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
(suppressredirect)
|
Translators
(translator)
(list of members) |
- Edit the user interface
(editinterface)
- Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
(skipcaptcha)
- Review translations
(translate-messagereview)
- Remove group from own account: Translators
|
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 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)
- 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)
- Manage OAuth grants
(mwoauthmanagemygrants)
- Mark edits as minor
(minoredit)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally
(reupload-shared)
- Overwrite existing files
(reupload)
- Propose new OAuth consumers
(mwoauthproposeconsumer)
- Read pages
(read)
- Reply to threads
(lqt-react)
- Send email to other users
(sendemail)
- Update OAuth consumers you control
(mwoauthupdateownconsumer)
- Upload files
(upload)
- Use web chat
(webchat)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
- View your own watchlist
(viewmywatchlist)
|
Namespace restrictions
| Namespace | Right(s) allowing user to edit | | MediaWiki | - Edit the user interface
(editinterface)
|
| Translations | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Voctrain | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| FreeCol | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Nocc | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Wikimedia | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| StatusNet | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Mantis | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Mwlib | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Commonist | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| OpenLayers | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| FUDforum | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Okawix | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Osm | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| WikiReader | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Shapado | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| iHRIS | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Mifos | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Wikia | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| OpenImages | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Europeana | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Pywikibot | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Intuition | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| EOL | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Kiwix | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Mozilla | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Huggle | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| EtherpadLite | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Vicuna | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| FUEL | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Blockly | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| MathJax | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| NFCRingControl | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| iNaturalist | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| EntryScape | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Hivejs | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| lib.reviews | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Oppia | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Dissemin | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Phabricator | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Ajapaik | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| LibreMesh | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| MAZI | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Wikidocumentaries | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| BitmarkInc | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| CovidRatio | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
| Projects | - Edit using the translate interface
(translate)
|
