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)
  • 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 watchlist. Note some actions will still add pages even without this right. (editmywatchlist)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Hide Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-hide)
  • 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)
2020 Cohort
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
2020 uiguides
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
2021 Cohort
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
2021 uiguides
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
2022 Cohort
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
2022 uiguides
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
2023 Cohort
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
2023 uiguides
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
Image-reviewer
(list of members)
  • Batch-upload more files at once with Upload Wizard (mass-upload)
Autoconfirmed users
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
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)
Bureaucrats
(list of members)
  • Create Structured Discussions boards in any location (flow-create-board)
  • Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users (flow-edit-post)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Import users in bulk (import_users)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Rename users (renameuser)
  • Send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
  • View user credentials (lookupcredentials)
  • View requester's IP addresses while processing requested accounts (requestips)
  • View the queue with requested accounts (confirmaccount)
  • addmember (addmember)
  • createcategory (createcategory)
  • createcopy (createcopy)
  • createteam (createteam)
  • edit-main (edit-main)
  • masscategory (masscategory)
  • massmove (massmove)
  • massuserrights (massuserrights)
  • resetuseremail (resetuseremail)
  • resetuserpass (resetuserpass)
  • single-account (single-account)
  • uif-massaccounts (uif-massaccounts)
  • viewread (viewread)
Structured Discussions bots
(list of members)
  • Create Structured Discussions boards in any location (flow-create-board)
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)
oversight
(list of members)
  • Suppress Structured Discussions revisions (flow-suppress)
Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki)
(list of members)
  • Access administration tasks (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-admin)
Curators (Semantic MediaWiki)
(list of members)
  • 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)
  • smw-schemaedit (smw-schemaedit)
Administrators
(list of members)
  • Access administration tasks (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-admin)
  • Add or remove publishers or subscribers from newsletters (newsletter-manage)
  • 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 Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-delete)
  • Delete newsletters (newsletter-delete)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Disable two-factor authentication for a user (oathauth-disable-for-user)
  • Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users (flow-edit-post)
  • 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)
  • Manage message groups (translate-manage)
  • Mark Structured Discussions topics as resolved (flow-lock)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)
  • 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 title or username 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)
  • Register newsletters (newsletter-create)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • Restore a newsletter (newsletter-restore)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • See the link to Admin links (adminlinks)
  • Unblock oneself (unblockself)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
  • View "Generate pages" tab and page (generatepages)
  • View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
  • 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 title blacklist log (titleblacklistlog)
  • edit-main (edit-main)
  • 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)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create new semantic classes (createclass)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit multiple pages using a spreadsheet (multipageedit)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)
  • Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)
  • Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)
  • Geocode (geocode)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • Mark Structured Discussions topics as resolved (flow-lock)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • Metadata search access (sci-metadatasearch)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • 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 (purge)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use of the write API (writeapi)
  • View the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog)
Widget editors
(list of members)
  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
(Main)
  • edit-main (edit-main)
MediaWiki
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Widget
  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
Campaign
  • Configure Upload Wizard campaigns (upwizcampaigns)
Translations
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
Gadget
  • Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages (gadgets-edit)
Gadget definition
  • Edit gadget definitions (gadgets-definition-edit)
Newsletter
  • Add or remove publishers or subscribers from newsletters (newsletter-manage)
  • Register newsletters (newsletter-create)