User group rights

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

Group	Rights
(all)	Create discussion pages `(createtalk)` Create new user accounts `(createaccount)` 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)` Read pages `(read)` Use of the write API `(writeapi)` View "Edit" tab for pages editable by form `(viewedittab)` View abuse filters `(abusefilter-view)` View the abuse log `(abusefilter-log)` View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) `(viewmyprivateinfo)` View your own watchlist `(viewmywatchlist)`
Autoconfirmed users	Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" `(editsemiprotected)` Not be affected by IP-based rate limits `(autoconfirmed)`
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)	Edit all user rights `(userrights)` Merge users `(usermerge)` Not be affected by rate limits `(noratelimit)` Override the spoofing checks `(override-antispoof)`
Check users (list of members)	Check users' IP addresses and other information `(checkuser)` View the checkuser log `(checkuser-log)`
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)`
Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki) (list of members)	Access to administration tasks (Semantic MediaWiki) `(smw-admin)`
Curators (Semantic MediaWiki) (list of members)	Access information about an entity associated revision mismatch (Semantic MediaWiki) `(smw-viewentityassociatedrevisionmismatch)` Access to the job queue watchlist feature (Semantic MediaWiki) `(smw-viewjobqueuewatchlist)` Edit schema pages (Semantic MediaWiki) `(smw-schemaedit)` 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)` View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) `(smw-vieweditpageinfo)`
Editors (Semantic MediaWiki) (list of members)	View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) `(smw-vieweditpageinfo)`
Suppressors (list of members)	Block a username, hiding 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)` 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 (list of members)	Block a user from sending email `(blockemail)` Block other users from editing `(block)` Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks `(ipblock-exempt)` Can add, remove and view GoogleLogin connections `(managegooglelogin)` Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages `(protect)` 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 pages `(delete)` Delete pages with large histories `(bigdelete)` 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 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)` Merge the history of pages `(mergehistory)` Modify abuse filters `(abusefilter-modify)` Modify abuse filters with restricted actions `(abusefilter-modify-restricted)` 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 spoofing checks `(override-antispoof)` 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)` Unblock oneself `(unblockself)` Undelete a page `(undelete)` Upload files `(upload)` Use higher limits in API queries `(apihighlimits)` View a list of unwatched pages `(unwatchedpages)` View abuse filters marked as private `(abusefilter-view-private)` 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)` View log entries of abuse filters marked as private `(abusefilter-log-private)`
Users (list of members)	Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries `(changetags)` Apply tags along with one's changes `(applychangetags)` Create discussion pages `(createtalk)` Create new "classes" of pages `(createclass)` Edit multiple pages using a spreadsheet `(multipageedit)` Edit the content model of a page `(editcontentmodel)` Edit your own user CSS files `(editmyusercss)` Edit your own user JSON files `(editmyuserjson)` Edit your own user JavaScript files `(editmyuserjs)` Edit your own user JavaScript files that are redirects `(editmyuserjsredirect)` Mark edits as minor `(minoredit)` 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)` Send email to other users `(sendemail)` Upload files `(upload)` Use of the write API `(writeapi)` View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) `(smw-vieweditpageinfo)`
Widget editors (list of members)	Create and edit widgets in the `Widget` namespace `(editwidgets)`
Writers (list of members)	Create pages (which are not discussion pages) `(createpage)` Edit pages `(edit)` Geocode `(geocode)` Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA `(skipcaptcha)`

Namespace restrictions

Namespace	Right(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki	Edit the user interface `(editinterface)`
Widget	Create and edit widgets in the `Widget` namespace `(editwidgets)`
Gadget	Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages `(gadgets-edit)`
Gadget definition	Edit gadget definitions `(gadgets-definition-edit)`