Wikipedia:User access levels
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For all user permissions see this table. For other global user groups see Wikipedia:Global rights policy and meta:User groups. |
The user access level of an editor affects their ability to perform certain actions on Wikipedia; it depends on which rights (also called permissions, user groups, bits or flags) are assigned to accounts. This is determined by whether the editor is logged into an account, and whether the account has a sufficient age and number of edits for certain automatic rights, and what additional rights have been assigned manually to the account.
Everyone is able to read Wikipedia. Unless they are blocked, they may freely edit most pages without the need to be logged in. Being logged in gives users a number of advantages, such as having their public IP address hidden, the ability to create new pages and the ability to track one's contributions. Accounts more than a certain number of days old with more than a certain number of edits automatically become autoconfirmed. Further access levels need to be assigned manually by a user with the appropriate authority. An editor with more experience and good standing can attempt to become an administrator (sysop), which provides a large number of advanced permissions. A number of other flags for specialized tasks are also available.
Overview
All visitors to the site, including unregistered users, are part of the '*' group, and all logged-in registered users are also part of the 'user' group. Users are automatically promoted into the autoconfirmed/confirmed users pseudo-group of established users when their account is more than four days old and has ten edits, and the 'extended confirmed' user group later on.
Other flags are only given upon request; some, such as 'rollbacker' or 'bot', are granted unilaterally if the user demonstrates a need for them (see Wikipedia:Requests for permissions and Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval). Others, such as 'sysop' and 'bureaucrat', are given only after community discussion and consensus at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Users are only made members of groups such as 'oversight' and 'checkuser' with the approval of the Arbitration Committee and after confirming their identity with the Wikimedia Foundation.
User groups have one or more rights assigned to them; for example the ipblock-exempt (IP block exemptions) group have the 'ipblock-exempt' and 'torunblocked' rights. All members of a particular user group will have access to these rights. The individual rights that are assigned to user groups are listed at Special:ListGroupRights. Terms like rights, permissions, bits and flags can refer to both user groups and the individual rights assigned to them.
Permissions requested at Requests for permissions only have local rights on the English Wikipedia wiki. But members of global user groups have rights across all Wikimedia Foundation wikis, although that access can sometimes be restricted by local wiki policies. Users registered at Wikimedia wikis also have registered user rights to other Wikimedia wikis if their account is a SUL or unified login account. For SUL accounts, both local and global user group membership across Wikimedia wikis can be viewed at Special:CentralAuth.
User groups
The system-generated technical permissions are listed at Special:ListGroupRights.
Unregistered (IP or not logged in) users
Contributors who are not logged in are identified by their IP address rather than a user name, whether or not they have already registered an account. They may read all Wikipedia pages (except restricted special pages), and edit pages that are not protected (including Pending changes protected/move-protected articles). They may create talk pages in any talk namespace but need to ask for help to create pages in some parts of the wiki. They cannot upload files or images. They must answer a CAPTCHA if they wish to make an edit which involves the addition of external links, and click a confirm link to purge pages. All users may also query the site API in 500-record batches.
Edit screens of unregistered users are headed by a banner that reads:
Registered (new) users
Registered users may immediately e-mail other users if they activate an email address in their user preferences. All logged-in users may mark edits as minor. They may purge pages without a confirmation step, but are still required to answer a CAPTCHA when adding external links. They may save books to their userspace but not the Books namespace. They may also customize their Wikimedia interface and its options as they wish, via Special:Preferences or by adding personal CSS or JavaScript rules to their vector.css or vector.js files.
Autoconfirmed and confirmed users
Several actions on the English Wikipedia are restricted to user accounts which were created a certain number of days ago and which have made a certain number of edits. Users who meet these requirements are considered part of the pseudo-group 'autoconfirmed'. The conditions for autoconfirmed status are checked every time a user attempts to perform a restricted action; if they are met, permission is granted automatically by the software. Although the precise requirements for autoconfirmed status vary according to circumstances, most English Wikipedia user accounts that are more than four days old and have made at least 10 edits (including deleted ones) are considered autoconfirmed. However, users with IPBE editing through the Tor network are subjected to much stricter autoconfirmed thresholds: 90 days and 100 edits.
Autoconfirmed or confirmed users can create articles, move pages, edit semi-protected pages, and upload files or upload a new version of an existing file. Autoconfirmed users are no longer required to enter a CAPTCHA for most events and they may save books to the Books namespace. In addition, the Edit filter has a number of warning settings that only affect editors who are not autoconfirmed.
In some situations, it is necessary for accounts to be exempted from the customary confirmation period. The 'confirmed' group contains the same rights as the 'autoconfirmed' pseudo-group, but can be granted by administrators as necessary. It is redundant to grant the right to an account that is already autoconfirmed, since the right provides the same abilities. To request this permission, see Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed. See Special:ListUsers/confirmed for a list of the 563 confirmed users.
As of 1 August 2014[update], there were approximately 1.4 million autoconfirmed users on English Wikipedia, of which the vast majority are inactive. See Special:ActiveUsers for recently active users.
Before 16 November 2016, autoconfirmed users could also mark new pages as patrolled. Now, this requires the new page reviewer right.
Extended confirmed users
A registered editor becomes 'extendedconfirmed' after 30 days and 500 edits.[1] This user access right allows editors to edit pages with extended confirmed protection. This access is included in the 'bot' and 'sysop' (Administrator) user groups. This group was primarily created to deal with specific arbitration remedies and community issues; the arbitration committee has left community use decisions up to the community.[2]
See Special:ListUsers/extendedconfirmed for a list of the 72521 extended confirmed users.
Administrators and bureaucrats
Administrators (admins or sysops)
Administrators are volunteer editors who are granted the rights by the community at Requests for Adminship (RfA). The RfA process involves considerable discussion and examination of the candidate's activities as an editor. Users who are members of this user group have access to a number of tools to allow them to carry out certain functions on the wiki. The tools cover processes such as page deletion, page protection, blocking and unblocking, and access to modify fully protected pages and the Mediawiki interface. Administrators also have the ability to grant and remove account creator, rollback, ipblock-exempt, confirmed user, file mover, page mover, pending changes reviewer, autopatrolled, template editor and edit filter manager rights to other users, and to their own alternate accounts. By convention, administrators also normally take responsibility for judging the outcome of certain discussions requiring these technical controls (such as deletions). Administrators are not granted special editorial control over article content. They are not employees of the Wikimedia Foundation, and should not be confused with Wikimedia system administrators ("sysadmins").
See Special:ListUsers/sysop for a list of the 839 administrators, also known as "sysops" (system operators). The two terms are used interchangeably.
Bureaucrats
Bureaucrat rights are granted by the community at Requests for Bureaucratship (RfB) to exceptionally trusted users who are allowed to perform certain actions on other users' accounts.
Bureaucrats have extended access to Special:UserRights, enabling them to add users to the 'bureaucrat' group (but not remove them),[3] and both add users to and remove users from the 'administrator'[4] and 'bot' user groups.
See Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat for a list of the 15 bureaucrats.
Other flags giving access to specialized functions
Pending changes reviewer
Members of this group can review other users' edits to articles placed under pending changes protection. This right is automatically assigned to administrators. Prior to September 2014, this right was known as "reviewer".
See Special:ListUsers/reviewer for a list of the 8012 reviewers.
Rollback
Users who are given the rollback flag ('rollbacker' user group) may revert consecutive revisions of an editor using the rollback feature. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
See Special:ListUsers/rollbacker for a list of the 6860 rollbackers.
Autopatrolled
Members of this group have 'autopatrol', which allows them to have their pages automatically patrolled on the New Pages list. This right is automatically assigned to administrators. Prior to June 2010, this right was known as "autoreviewer".
See Special:ListUsers/autoreviewer for a list of the 4821 autopatrolled users.
New page reviewer (patroller)
Members of this group have 'patrol', which allows them to mark pages created by others as patrolled or reviewed. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
See Special:ListUsers/patroller for a list of the 816 new page reviewers.
File mover
The file mover user right is intended to allow users experienced in working with files to rename them, subject to policy, with the ease that autoconfirmed users already enjoy when renaming Wikipedia articles. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
See Special:ListUsers/filemover for a list of the 386 additional filemovers.
Page mover
The page mover user right ('extendedmover' user group) is intended to allow users who have demonstrated a good understanding of the Wikipedia page naming system to rename pages and subpages without leaving redirects, subject to policy. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
See Special:ListUsers/extendedmover for a list of the 414 page movers.
Account creator
Users who are given the accountcreator flag ('accountcreator' user group) are not affected by the 6 account creation limit per day per IP, and can create accounts for other users without restriction. Users in this group can also override the anti-spoof checks on account creation. This right is automatically assigned to administrators and bureaucrats.[5] Additionally, account creators are able to create accounts with names that are otherwise blocked by the title blacklist.
See Special:ListUsers/accountcreator for a list of the 8 additional account creators.
Template editor
Members of this group ('templateeditor' user group) are allowed to edit pages protected with template protection as well as create and edit editnotices. Template protection is only applied to pages in the template and module namespaces. It is intended to allow experienced template and module coders to make changes without having to request that an administrator make the edits for them.
See Special:ListUsers/templateeditor for a list of the 193 template editors.
Ipblock-exempt
Users who are given the ipblock-exempt flag ('ipblock-exempt' user group) are not affected by autoblocks and blocks of IP addresses and ranges that are made with the "Prevent logged-in users from editing" setting. This right is automatically assigned to administrators and bots, however the flag must be added separately to enable editing from IP addresses affected by Tor blocks.
See Special:ListUsers/ipblock-exempt for a list of the 833 affected users.
Edit Filter managers
Members of this group can create, modify and delete edit filters. This flag is given and removed by administrators. It is not assigned to administrators by default.
See Special:ListUsers/abusefilter for a list of the 141 filter editors. All users can check their log entries on the Special:AbuseFilter pages.
Oversight
Users who are given the oversight flag ('oversight' user group) have access to additional functions on the deletion and block screens through which they can hide revisions of pages from all other users, and Special:Log/suppress, where they can view a log of such actions and the content of the hidden revisions. This right is only granted to exceedingly few users who are at least 18 years old and have signed the Wikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information. Oversighters are also required to have passed an "RfA or RfA-identical process".[6]
See Special:ListUsers/oversight for a list of the 0 Oversighters.
CheckUser
Users who are given the checkuser flag ('checkuser' user group) have access to Special:CheckUser. They are able to view a list of all IP addresses used by a user account to edit the English Wikipedia, a list of all edits made by an IP, or all user accounts that have used an IP address. They may also view a log of such requests. This right is only granted to exceedingly few users who are at least 18 years old and have signed the Wikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information. As Checkusers have access to deleted revisions, they are also required to have passed an "RFA or RFA-identical process".[6]
See Special:ListUsers/checkuser for a list of the 53 CheckUsers.
Course coordinator, instructor, online and campus volunteer
Members of these user groups (in addition to administrators) can manage course pages in the "Education Program:" namespace. Course coordinator rights (as well as the instructor, online volunteer and campus volunteer rights) are assigned by administrators. Course coordinators may assign "course online volunteer", "course campus volunteer", and "course instructor" rights to other users. Online and campus volunteers, respectively, can designate themselves as supporters for individual courses (whom students can turn to for help, online or in person). They do this by going to the course page and using the software interface to associate their account with the course.
See Special:ListUsers/epcampus, Special:ListUsers/epcoordinator, Special:ListUsers/epinstructor and Special:ListUsers/eponline for lists of users within these groups.
Mass message sender
Members of this group may send messages to multiple users at once. See Special:ListUsers/massmessage-sender for a list of the 54 mass message senders.
Other flagged accounts
Bots
Accounts used by approved bots to make pre-approved edits can be flagged as such. Bot accounts are automated or semi-automated, the nature of their edits is well defined, and they will be quickly blocked if their actions vary from their given tasks, so they require less scrutiny than human edits.
For this reason, contributions from accounts with the bot flag ('bot' user group) are not displayed in recent changes or watchlists to users who have opted to hide bot edits. Minor edits made by bot accounts to user talk pages do not trigger the "you have new messages" banner. Bot accounts can query the API in batches of 5,000 rather than 500.
See Special:ListUsers/bot for a list of the 296 bots.
Founder
The founder group was created on the English Wikipedia by developer Tim Starling, without community input, as a unique group for Jimmy Wales in 2001 - although Larry Sanger is a co-founder, he is no longer a member of this group.[7] The group gives Wales full access to user rights. As 'local founder actions' are usually of great interest to the local community, and are only relevant to the English Wikipedia, the local 'founder' right also has the benefit of allowing Wales' actions to be visible in the English Wikipedia rights log. Jimbo Wales is also a member of the founder global group, which has view-only rights across the Wikimedia network.
Researcher
The 'researcher' group was created in April 2010 to allow individuals explicitly approved by the Wikimedia Foundation to perform a title search for deleted pages and view deleted history entries but not to view the actual revisions of deleted pages.[8] Policies governing the access level are under development by the Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee (RCom) and being discussed here at Wikipedia talk:FAQ/Research.
See Special:ListUsers/researcher (for the list of 0 current researchers) and meta:Research:Special API permissions/Log for further details.
Importers and transwiki importers
'Transwiki importers' is a group which gives editors the (import) permission for use on Special:Import. This interface allows users to copy pages, and optionally entire page histories, from certain other Wikimedia wikis. The 'import' permission is also included in the administrators and importers user groups. There are currently 0 users in the transwiki importers group. This group is mostly deprecated and is only available for assignment by stewards following a special community approval discussion.
'Importers' is a similar group which gives editors the (importupload) permission as well as the (import) permission for use on Special:Import. Importers have the additional ability to import articles directly from XML (which may come from any wiki site). The 'importupload' permission is also included in the stewards group. See Special:ListUsers/import for the 2 importers. This access is highly restricted and is only available for assignment to a limited number of very trusted users by stewards following a special community approval discussion.
All users can use Special:Export to create an XML export of a page and its history.
See also the import log, transwiki log, Help:Import, and Wikipedia:Requests for page importation.
Indefinitely blocked users
In general, rights of editors blocked indefinitely should be left as is. Rights specifically related to the reason for blocking may be removed at the discretion of the blocking or unblocking administrators.[9]
Global rights
Global rights have effects on all public Wikimedia wikis, but their use may be restricted by local policy, see Wikipedia:Global rights policy. For an automatically generated list of global groups with all their permissions, see Special:GlobalGroupPermissions. For a list of users along with their global groups, see Special:GlobalUsers.
Stewards
Stewardship is an elected role, and stewards are appointed globally across all public Wikimedia wikis.
Users who are members of the 'steward' user group may grant and revoke any permission to or from any user on any wiki operated by the Wikimedia Foundation which allows open account creation. This group is set on MetaWiki, and may use meta:Special:Userrights to set permissions on any Wikimedia wiki; they may add or remove any user from any group configured on metawiki. Stewards generally act only when there is no user on a particular wiki that can make the necessary change. This includes granting of the 'administrator' or 'bureaucrat' access levels on wikis which do not have any local bureaucrats, and removing such flags if the user resigns or the account is acting maliciously. Stewards are also responsible for granting and revoking access levels such as 'oversight' and 'checkuser', as no other group is capable of making such changes except staff/sysadmins.
Stewards can also act as checkusers, oversighters, bureaucrats or administrators on wikis which do not have active local members of those groups. For example, if a wiki has a passing need for an edit to be oversighted, a steward can add themselves to the 'oversight' user group on that wiki, perform the necessary function, and then remove themselves from the 'oversight' group using their steward rights.
Most steward actions are logged at meta:Special:Log/rights or meta:Special:Log/gblrights (some go to meta:Stewards/Additional log for global changes). See Special:GlobalUsers/steward or meta:Special:ListUsers/steward for a list of users in this group.
Other global user groups
Other global groups include WMF staff; sysadmins (system administrators); ombudsmen; OTRS-members (Volunteer Response Team); global bots; global rollbackers; global sysops (not enabled on English Wikipedia); interface editors. See Global rights policy and meta:User groups for information on these, as well as a full list.
Table
- As a function of the Requests for adminship and Requests for Bureaucratship processes, all bureaucrats on the English Wikipedia are also administrators, and so have all the permissions of the 'sysop' user group in addition to those rights from the 'bureaucrat' group. However this is not a requirement of the MediaWiki software; it is technically possible for a user to be a bureaucrat without also being an admin.
- Deprecated permissions are either no longer assigned to any group, or the group to which they are assigned is no longer populated.
- Special:ListGroupRights is an automatically generated list of granted user group rights. The below table is manually updated, and also includes global groups with local access.
Permission |
Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed and Confirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
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| abusefilter-hidden-log | View hidden abuse log entries | OS | ||||||
| abusefilter-hide-log | Hide entries in the abuse log | |||||||
| abusefilter-log | View the abuse log | 
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| abusefilter-log-detail | View detailed abuse log entries |
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GR | |||
| abusefilter-log-private | View edit filters marked as private |
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| abusefilter-modify | Modify abuse filters | EFM | ||||||
| abusefilter-modify-restricted | Modify edit filters with restricted actions |
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| abusefilter-privatedetails | View private data (IP addresses) in the abuse log | CU | ||||||
| abusefilter-privatedetails-log | View the AbuseFilter private details access log | |||||||
| abusefilter-revert | Revert all changes by a given abuse filter |
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| abusefilter-view | View non-private abuse filters |
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| abusefilter-view-private | View edit filters marked as private | CU, EFH, EFM, OS | ||||||
| apihighlimits | Request API queries in batches of 5,000, rather than 500 |
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Researchers | ||||
| applychangetags | Apply tags along with one's changes |
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| autoconfirmed | Not be affected by IP-based rate limits |
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PCR, GR, IE | |||
| autopatrol | Automatically mark all edits made by the user as patrolled |
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AP, GR | |||||
| autoreview | Automatically mark all revisions made by the user as "accepted" |
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PCR | |||
| bigdelete | Delete pages with over 5,000 revisions | Stewards | ||||||
| block | Block an IP address, user account, or range of IP addresses, from editing |
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| blockemail | Block a user from sending email |
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| bot | Edit without their edits showing up in recent changes |
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| browsearchive | Search deleted pages |
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CU, OS, Researchers | |||||
| centralauth-merge | Merge their account[d] |
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| changetags | Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries |
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EFM | ||||
| checkuser | View all IP addresses used by a user account or show all edits from a given IP address | CU, Ombuds | ||||||
| checkuser-log | View the checkuser log | |||||||
| collectionsaveasuserpage | Save books as user subpage |
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| createaccount | Create a new user account for themselves or another user |
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| createpage | Create a new page |
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| createpagemainns | Create a new mainspace page (users without this right are redirected to the Article Creation Workflow landing page) |
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| createtalk | Create a new talk page |
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| delete | Delete a page with ≤ 5,000 revisions |
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| deletechangetags | Delete tags from the database |
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| deletedhistory | View the history of a deleted page or a user's deleted contributions, provided it is not CSS or JS |
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CU, OS, Researchers | |||||
| delete-redirect | Delete single revision redirects during page moves | PMR | ||||||
| deletedtext | View the text of deleted revisions, provided the page is not CSS or JS |
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CU, Ombuds, OS, Researchers | |||||
| deletelogentry | Access the RevisionDelete tool and change the public visibility of log entries |
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OS | |||||
| deleterevision | Access the RevisionDelete tool and change the public visibility of edit revisions |
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Permission |
Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed and Confirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
| edit | Edit any page which is not protected |
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IE | ||||
| editcontentmodel | Edit the content model of a page |
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TE, IE | |||||
| editinterface | Edit the MediaWiki namespace to affect the interface |
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IA, IE | |||||
| editmyoptions | Edit your own preferences |
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| editmyprivateinfo | Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) |
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| editmyusercss | Edit your own user .css files |
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| editmyuserjs | Edit your own user .js files |
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| editmyuserjson | Edit your own user .json files |
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| editmywatchlist | Edit your own watchlist |
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| editprotected | Edit fully-protected pages |
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IE | |||||
| editsemiprotected | Edit semi-protected pages |
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PCR, GR, IE | |||
| editsitecss | Edit sitewide .css files | IA, IE | ||||||
| editsitejs | Edit sitewide .js files | |||||||
| editsitejson | Edit sitewide .json files |
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| editusercss | Edit other users' .css files | IA, IE | ||||||
| edituserjs | Edit other users' .js files | |||||||
| edituserjson | Edit other users' .json files |
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IA | |||||
| extendedconfirmed | Edit 30/500 protected pages |
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XC, IE | ||||
| globalblock-whitelist | Disable global blocks locally |
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| hideuser | Block a username, hiding it from the public | OS | ||||||
| import | Import pages from other wikis |
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IMP, TWI | |||||
| importupload | Import pages from a locally stored XML file | IMP | ||||||
| ipblock-exempt | Be unaffected by blocks applied to the user's IP address or a range (CIDR) containing it |
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IPBE | ||||
| managechangetags | Create and (de)activate tags |
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EFM | |||||
| markbotedits | Mark rollback as bot edits, to keep them out of recent changes |
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GR[e] | |||||
| massmessage | Send a message to multiple users at once |
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MMS | |||||
| mergehistory | Merge the history of pages |
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| minoredit | Make an edit marked as 'minor' |
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| move | Change the title of a page by moving it |
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PMR, GR | ||||
| move-categorypages | Change the title of a category by moving it |
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PMR | ||||
| movefile | Change the title of a file by moving it |
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| move-rootuserpages | Move root user pages |
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| move-subpages | Move pages with their subpages |
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PMR | ||||
| movestable | Move pages under pending changes |
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GR | ||||
| mwoauthmanagemygrants | Manage OAuth grants |
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| nominornewtalk | Minor edits by this user to user talk pages do not trigger the "you have new messages" banner |
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| noratelimit | Not be affected by rate limits |
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ACCP, EVC, GR[e], Stewards | |||
Permission |
Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed and Confirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
| nuke | Mass delete pages |
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| oathauth-enable | Enable two-factor authentication |
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CU, EFM, Founder, IMP, IA, OS, TE, TWI | ||||
| override-antispoof | Allows the creation of accounts with mixed-script, confusing and similar usernames |
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ACCP | ||||
| pagetriage-copyvio | Tag pages in the Special:NewPagesFeed as likely copyright violations, through the pagetriage-tagcopyvio API | Copyright violation bots | ||||||
| patrol | State that they have checked a page that appeared in Special:Newpages |
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NPR | |||||
| protect | Change protection levels, edit and move protected pages, and edit cascade-protected pages |
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IE | |||||
| purge | Purge a page by adding &action=purge to the URL
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| read | Read pages |
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| renameuser | Change the name of an existing account | Global renamers, Stewards | ||||||
| reupload | Overwrite an existing unprotected file |
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| reupload-own | Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself |
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| reupload-shared | Override files on the shared media repository locally |
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| review | Mark revisions as being "accepted" |
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PCR | |||||
| rollback | Use a special link to more easily revert a bad edit |
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RBK, GR[e] | |||||
| sendemail | E-mail a user (using Special:EmailUser/username) who have associated an email address with themselves
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| skipcaptcha | Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA |
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GR | |||
| spamblacklistlog | View the spam blacklist log |
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EFH | |||||
| stablesettings | Configure how the latest accepted revision is selected and displayed |
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| suppressionlog | View private logs | OS | ||||||
| suppressredirect | Not create a redirect from the old name when moving a page |
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GR[e], PMR, IE | |||
| suppressrevision | Access the RevisionDelete tool and change the public and administrator visibility of edit revisions and logs | OS | ||||||
| tboverride | Override the title blacklist |
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TE, PMR, IE | ||||
| tboverride-account | Override the username blacklist | ACCP | ||||||
| templateeditor | Edit pages under template protection |
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TE, IE | |||||
| titleblacklistlog | View title blacklist log (note: the log is empty, as it has not been enabled) |
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| torunblocked | Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes | IPBE | ||||||
| transcode-reset | Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again |
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| transcode-status | View information about the current transcode activity |
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| undelete | Undelete a previously deleted page or specific revisions from it, view deleted revisions |
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| unwatchedpages | View a list of pages which are not on anyone's watchlist |
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| upload | Upload a media file |
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| urlshortener-create-url | Create short URLs |
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| userrights | Edit all user rights | Stewards | ||||||
| viewmyprivateinfo | View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) |
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| viewmywatchlist | View your own watchlist |
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Permission |
Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed and Confirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
- ^ a b c d Includes IP users. Any permission granted to all users will be inherited by the other user groups.
- ^ a b c d Any permission granted to registered accounts will be inherited by the other (registered) user groups.
- ^ a b c d Any user listed in this column has the relevant permission. Italics indicate a global permission.
- ^ Irrelevant since the SUL finalisation in 2015 where all mergeable accounts were merged.
- ^ a b c d Per Wikipedia:Global rights policy, Global rollbackers are only allowed to use this right in the context of counter-vandalism efforts.
- The userright proxyunbannable is assigned to administrators but has no effect since WMF wikis use mw:Extension:TorBlock instead of the default mediawiki proxy blocker. Administrators are not exempt from tor blocks, only users in the IP block exemptions usergroup are, due to the torunblocked userright.
- IPs and new users are limited to 8 edits per minute. Autoconfirmed or confirmed users who are in no usergroup with the noratelimit userright are limited to 8 moves per minutes. Rollbackers in the same situation are limited to 100 rollbacks per minute.[10] Account creations are subject to an IP based limit, set at 6 for WMF wikis, but users with noratelimit are unaffected.
User access level changes
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^1 Because bureaucrats were granted the ability to do this, stewards would refer most ordinary requests for removal of the sysop permission to them, but retain the right to remove the sysop permission when appropriate (such as emergencies or requests from the Arbitration Committee).
Notes
- ^ Technically, a user becomes 'extendedconfirmed' when they make their first edit after the following two conditions have become true: (a) 30 days have passed since the user registered and (b) the user has made at least 500 edits.
- ^ 28 May 2017 clarification request
- ^ MediaWiki default settings are that the 'bureaucrats' group has the userrights flag (giving access to Special:UserRights) and can add or remove any flags. However this can be modified by mw:Manual:$wgAddGroups and mw:Manual:$wgRemoveGroups to restrict adding/removing flags to specified ones. Wikimedia's settings file uses these, and by default bureaucrats can only remove bot flags and add administrator, bureaucrat and bot flags. English Wikipedia, or 'enwiki', settings additionally permit adding accountcreator and removal of ipblock-exempt and accountcreator; which administrators can do anyway, and removal of sysop.
- ^ Since August 2011, per Template:Bugzilla
- ^ "Project:Account creators". MediaWikiWiki. 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
DefaultSettings.php grants the
noratelimituser right to bureaucrats and sysops. - ^ a b The Wikimedia Foundation has stated that an "RfA or RfA-identical process" is required for users to be granted access to deleted revisions.
- ^ Although there are two co-founders, Jimbo Wales is the only member of this group. - en.wikipedia.org (March 27, 2001). "Users - Wikipedia". Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- ^ The group has access to the browsearchive and deletedhistory rights, as well apihighlimits (Wikimedia NOC)
- ^ See the RfC at Wikipedia talk:User access levels/Archive 2#Rights of indef blocked users.
- ^ The API query https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits%7Cgroups can be used to check those values.
See also
- Wikipedia:Editing restrictions: a list of users with editing restrictions that have been imposed by the Arbitration Committee
- Manual:User rights
- Meta:User groups
- Special:ListGroupRights
- User permissions API
- Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control (explains the access structure from the perspective of quality control on Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia:Requests for permissions (to request certain userrights)
- See what usergroup a user is in
- Sockpuppet investigations