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)
  • 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 "Edit" tab for pages editable by form (viewedittab)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
Autoconfirmed users
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
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)
  • noanalytics (noanalytics)
Bureaucrats
(list of members)
  • Add one or more users to a group or multiple groups in one action (batchuserrights)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Merge users (usermerge)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
  • Rename users (renameuser)
  • noanalytics (noanalytics)
Check users
(list of members)
  • Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
  • View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
confirmed
(list of members)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Geocode (geocode)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Purge the site cache for a page (purge)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Upload files (upload)
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)
Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki)
(list of members)
  • Access to administration tasks (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-admin)
Curators (Semantic MediaWiki)
(list of members)
  • Access information about an entity associated revision mismatch (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-viewentityassociatedrevisionmismatch)
  • Access to the job queue watchlist feature (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-viewjobqueuewatchlist)
  • Edit schema pages (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-schemaedit)
  • Edit access for Is edit protected annotated pages (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-pageedit)
  • Edit access to maintain allowed regular expressions and patterns (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-patternedit)
  • View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-vieweditpageinfo)
Editors (Semantic MediaWiki)
(list of members)
  • View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-vieweditpageinfo)
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)
  • * (*)
  • Add pages to watchlists of other users (addpagetoanywatchlist)
  • Remove pages from watchlists of other users (removepagefromanywatchlist)
  • Allowed to use web chat (webchat)
  • 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 protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Configure Upload Wizard campaigns (upwizcampaigns)
  • Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • 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 restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Import data (datatransferimport)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Save books as community page (collectionsaveascommunitypage)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • See which users are watching a page (seepagewatchers)
  • See the link to Admin links (adminlinks)
  • Set a certain revision of a wiki page as approved (approverevisions)
  • 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 "Generate pages" tab and page (generatepages)
  • 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 explanatory text at the top of pages that have an approved revision (viewlinktolatest)
  • View text showing who approved the current approved revision (viewapprover)
  • noanalytics (noanalytics)
  • viewserverstatus (viewserverstatus)
  • Add group: Upload Wizard campaign editors
  • Remove group: Upload Wizard campaign editors
Upload Wizard campaign editors
(list of members)
  • Configure Upload Wizard campaigns (upwizcampaigns)
Users
(list of members)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Allowed to use web chat (webchat)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Can view results in AJAX-based polls (ajaxpoll-view-results)
  • Can vote in AJAX-based polls (ajaxpoll-vote)
  • Create new "classes" of pages (createclass)
  • Edit multiple pages using a spreadsheet (multipageedit)
  • 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)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
  • Use of the write API (writeapi)
  • View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-vieweditpageinfo)
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)
Campaign
  • Configure Upload Wizard campaigns (upwizcampaigns)
Gadget
  • Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages (gadgets-edit)
Gadget definition
  • Edit gadget definitions (gadgets-definition-edit)