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)
  • 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)
  • viewfiles (viewfiles)
Autoconfirmed users
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
moderator
(list of members)
  • Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • Manage message groups (translate-manage)
  • Manage sandboxed users (translate-sandboxmanage)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • 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)
  • wantedarticle-suggest (wantedarticle-suggest)
Administrators
(list of members)
  • Access the review interface (workflowview)
  • 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)
  • Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)
  • Create and edit review (workflowedit)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Display BlueSpice administration pages (wikiadmin)
  • 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)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • Manage message groups (translate-manage)
  • Manage sandboxed users (translate-sandboxmanage)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)
  • 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)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
  • Review and restore revisions hidden from administrators (suppressrevision)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Unblock oneself (unblockself)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
  • Use responsible editors extension (responsibleeditors-viewspecialpage)
  • 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 list of reviews (workflowlist)
  • archiveshoutbox (archiveshoutbox)
  • flexiskinedit (flexiskinedit)
  • readshoutbox (readshoutbox)
  • responsibleeditors-changeresponsibility (responsibleeditors-changeresponsibility)
  • responsibleeditors-takeresponsibility (responsibleeditors-takeresponsibility)
  • searchfiles (searchfiles)
  • statistics (statistics)
  • viewfiles (viewfiles)
  • viewreaders (viewreaders)
  • wantedarticle-suggest (wantedarticle-suggest)
  • writeshoutbox (writeshoutbox)
Users
(list of members)
  • Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • 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)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use of the write API (writeapi)
  • readshoutbox (readshoutbox)
  • responsibleeditors-takeresponsibility (responsibleeditors-takeresponsibility)
  • viewfiles (viewfiles)
  • wantedarticle-suggest (wantedarticle-suggest)
  • writeshoutbox (writeshoutbox)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Translations
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)