The following is a list of user groups defined on Wikipedia, with the rights associated with each.
| Group | Rights |
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| (all) |
- Create discussion pages (createtalk)
- Create new user accounts (createaccount)
- Edit pages (edit)
- Merge their account (centralauth-merge)
- Read pages (read)
- Use of the write API (writeapi)
- View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
- View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
- View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
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Users
(list of members) |
- Create discussion pages (createtalk)
- Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
- Edit pages (edit)
- Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
- Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation (purge)
- Read pages (read)
- Send e-mail to other users (sendemail)
- Use of the write API (writeapi)
|
| Autoconfirmed users |
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Move pages (move)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Perform captcha triggering actions without having to go through the captcha (skipcaptcha)
- Save books as community page on Wikipedia:Books (collectionsaveascommunitypage)
- Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
- Upload files (upload)
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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 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)
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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)
- Disable global blocks locally (globalblock-whitelist)
- Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
- Edit other users' JS files (edituserjs)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- Manage central notices (centralnotice-admin)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- 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)
- 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)
- Override the title 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)
- Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Show the extended software version information (versiondetail)
- Submit a trackback (trackback)
- Translate central notices (centralnotice-translate)
- 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)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
- Add groups: Rollbackers, Account creators, Edit filter managers, Autoreviewers, Confirmed users and IP block exemptions
- Remove groups: Rollbackers, IP block exemptions, Account creators, Edit filter managers, Autoreviewers and Confirmed users
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Bureaucrats
(list of members) |
|
Checkusers
(list of members) |
- Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
- View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
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Stewards
(list of members) |
- Administrate global accounts (centralauth-admin)
- Edit all user rights (userrights)
- Make global blocks (globalblock)
- Make users into Administrators or Bureaucrats (makesysop)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Remove global blocks (globalunblock)
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Account creators
(list of members) |
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
- Override the title blacklist (tboverride)
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Importers
(list of members) |
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
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Transwiki importers
(list of members) |
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
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IP block exemptions
(list of members) |
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of tor exit nodes (torunblocked)
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Oversighters
(list of members) |
- Block a username, hiding it from the public (hideuser)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
- Hide from administrators and restore elements of individual page revisions (suppressrevision)
- Hide revisions from administrators (hiderevision)
- View a previously hidden revision (oversight)
- View private logs (suppressionlog)
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Founder
(list of members) |
- Edit all user rights (userrights)
- Make users into Administrators or Bureaucrats (makesysop)
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Rollbackers
(list of members) |
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
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Confirmed users
(list of members) |
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Move pages (move)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Perform captcha triggering actions without having to go through the captcha (skipcaptcha)
- Save books as community page on Wikipedia:Books (collectionsaveascommunitypage)
- Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
- Upload files (upload)
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Autoreviewers
(list of members) |
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
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Edit filter managers
(list of members) |
- Manage edit filters (abusefilter-modify)
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