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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.
| Group | Rights |
|---|
| (all) |
- Create discussion pages (createtalk)
- Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
- Read pages (read)
- Use of the write API (writeapi)
|
Users
(list of members) |
- Create discussion pages (createtalk)
- Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
- Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
- 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)
- Use of the write API (writeapi)
- talk (talk)
|
| Autoconfirmed users |
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
|
Bots
(list of members) |
- Be treated as an automated process (bot)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- 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)
|
Administrators
(list of members) |
- Block a user from sending e-mail (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 protected pages (protect)
- Create new user accounts (createaccount)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit other users' CSS and JavaScript files (editusercssjs)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- 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)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- 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)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Submit a trackback (trackback)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload files (upload)
- Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
|
Bureaucrats
(list of members) |
- Edit all user rights (userrights)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
|
editor
(list of members) |
- Edit pages (edit)
- Move pages (move)
- Upload files (upload)
|
