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.
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Granted right Revoked right Group Rights
(all)(*)
Automatically log in with an external user account (autocreateaccount ) Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url ) Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions ) Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) and request password reset emails (editmyprivateinfo ) Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist ) Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable ) Merge their account (centralauth-merge ) Read pages (read ) Use of the write API (writeapi ) View abuse filters (abusefilter-view ) View the abuse log (abusefilter-log ) View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo )
Autoconfirmed users (autoconfirmed)
Bots (bot)(list of members) Bypass blocked external domains (abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains ) Bypass the spam block list (sboverride ) Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha )
Bureaucrats (bureaucrat)(list of members) Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof )
Check users (checkuser)(list of members) Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser ) View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to check the preference (checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference ) View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-privatedetails ) View the AbuseFilter private details access log (abusefilter-privatedetails-log ) View the checkuser log (checkuser-log ) View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses (checkuser-temporary-account-log )
Push subscription managers (push-subscription-manager)(list of members) Manage all push subscriptions (manage-all-push-subscriptions )
Stewards (steward)(list of members) Edit all user rights (userrights ) Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal ) Lock or unlock global account (centralauth-lock ) Make and remove global blocks (globalblock ) Suppress or hide global account (centralauth-suppress ) Unmerge global account (centralauth-unmerge )
Suppressors (suppress)(list of members) Block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public (hideuser ) Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry ) Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision ) Hide entries in the abuse log (abusefilter-hide-log ) Search deleted pages (browsearchive ) View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory ) View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext ) View hidden abuse log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log ) View private logs (suppressionlog ) View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed ) View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision )
Administrators (sysop)(list of members) Access the log of two-factor authentication changes (oathauth-view-log ) Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify ) Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked (abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains ) Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url ) Disable global blocks locally (globalblock-whitelist ) Disable two-factor authentication for a user (oathauth-disable-for-user ) Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal ) Manage short URLs (urlshortener-manage-url ) Mass delete pages (nuke ) Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted ) Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride ) Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof ) Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha ) Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert ) Verify whether a user has two-factor authentication enabled (oathauth-verify-user ) View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private ) View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail ) View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private ) View short URLs management log (urlshortener-view-log ) View the disallowed titles list log (titleblacklistlog )
Users (user)(list of members) Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked ) Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable ) Manage OAuth grants (mwoauthmanagemygrants ) Request wikis (requestwiki ) View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog ) user (user )
Namespace restrictions Namespace Right(s) allowing user to edit MediaWiki Edit the user interface (editinterface )