The following is a list of user groups defined on Wikipedia, with the rights associated with each.
| Group | Rights |
|---|
| (all) |
- Add or remove yourself as reviewer from articles
(ep-bereviewer)
- Create discussion pages
(createtalk)
- Create new user accounts
(createaccount)
- Edit pages
(edit)
- Edit your own preferences
(editmyoptions)
- Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)
(editmyprivateinfo)
- Edit your own user CSS files
(editmyusercss)
- Edit your own user JavaScript files
(editmyuserjs)
- Edit your own watchlist. Note some actions will still add pages even without this right.
(editmywatchlist)
- Enroll in Education Program courses
(ep-enroll)
- Merge their account
(centralauth-merge)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- Read pages
(read)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
- Use the VIPS scaling test interface Special:VipsTest
(vipsscaler-test)
- View abuse filters
(abusefilter-view)
- View detailed abuse log entries
(abusefilter-log-detail)
- View the abuse log
(abusefilter-log)
- View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)
(viewmyprivateinfo)
- View your own watchlist
(viewmywatchlist)
|
Edit filter managers
(list of members) |
- Manage edit filters
(abusefilter-modify)
|
Account creators
(list of members) |
- Not be affected by rate limits
(noratelimit)
- Override the spoofing checks
(override-antispoof)
- Override the title or username blacklist
(tboverride)
|
afttest
(list of members) |
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Hide feedback & request oversight
(aft-monitor)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
|
afttest-hide
(list of members) |
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Hide feedback & request oversight
(aft-monitor)
- Oversight feedback
(aft-oversighter)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- See AFT on protected pages
(aft-administrator)
|
| Autoconfirmed users |
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted"
(autoreview)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
(patrol)
- Move pages
(move)
- Move pages under pending changes
(movestable)
- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
(autoconfirmed)
- Overwrite existing files
(reupload)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
(skipcaptcha)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again.
(transcode-reset)
- Save books as community page in the book namespace
(collectionsaveascommunitypage)
- Save books as user page
(collectionsaveasuserpage)
- Upload files
(upload)
- View detailed abuse log entries
(abusefilter-log-detail)
|
Autochecked users
(list of members) |
- Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted"
(autoreview)
|
Autopatrolled
(list of members) |
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
(autopatrol)
|
Bots
(list of members) |
- Be treated as an automated process
(bot)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
(ipblock-exempt)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
(autopatrol)
- Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted"
(autoreview)
- 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)
- 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) |
|
Checkusers
(list of members) |
- Check the IP addresses and other information of user accounts; see Wikipedia:CheckUser.
(checkuser)
- Search deleted pages
(browsearchive)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text
(deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions
(deletedtext)
- View the checkuser log
(checkuser-log)
|
Confirmed users
(list of members) |
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted"
(autoreview)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
(patrol)
- Move pages
(move)
- Move pages under pending changes
(movestable)
- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
(autoconfirmed)
- Overwrite existing files
(reupload)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
(skipcaptcha)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again.
(transcode-reset)
- Save books as community page in the book namespace
(collectionsaveascommunitypage)
- Save books as user page
(collectionsaveasuserpage)
- Upload files
(upload)
- View detailed abuse log entries
(abusefilter-log-detail)
|
Course campus volunteers
(list of members) |
- Add or remove yourself as campus volunteer from terms
(ep-becampus)
- Disassociate articles from students
(ep-remarticle)
- Manage Education Program courses
(ep-course)
- Manage Education Program institutions
(ep-org)
- See Education Program enrollment tokens
(ep-token)
|
Course coordinators
(list of members) |
- Add or remove campus volunteers to courses
(ep-campus)
- Add or remove instructors to courses
(ep-instructor)
- Add or remove yourself as campus volunteer from terms
(ep-becampus)
- Add or remove yourself as instructor from courses
(ep-beinstructor)
- Add or remove yourself as reviewer from articles
(ep-bereviewer)
- Bulk delete courses
(ep-bulkdelcourses)
- Disassociate articles from students
(ep-remarticle)
- Enroll in Education Program courses
(ep-enroll)
- Enroll users as student
(ep-addstudent)
- Manage Education Program courses
(ep-course)
- Manage Education Program institutions
(ep-org)
- Remove reviewers from articles
(ep-remreviewer)
- Remove students from courses
(ep-remstudent)
- See Education Program enrollment tokens
(ep-token)
- Add groups: Course online volunteers, Course campus volunteers and Course instructor
- Remove groups: Course online volunteers, Course campus volunteers and Course instructor
|
Course instructor
(list of members) |
- Add or remove yourself as instructor from courses
(ep-beinstructor)
- Disassociate articles from students
(ep-remarticle)
- Manage Education Program courses
(ep-course)
- Manage Education Program institutions
(ep-org)
- Remove students from courses
(ep-remstudent)
- See Education Program enrollment tokens
(ep-token)
|
Course online volunteers
(list of members) |
- Add or remove yourself as online volunteer from terms
(ep-beonline)
- Disassociate articles from students
(ep-remarticle)
- Manage Education Program courses
(ep-course)
- Manage Education Program institutions
(ep-org)
- See Education Program enrollment tokens
(ep-token)
|
File movers
(list of members) |
|
Founder
(list of members) |
- Edit all user rights
(userrights)
|
Importers
(list of members) |
- Import pages from a file upload
(importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis
(import)
|
IP block exemptions
(list of members) |
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
(ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of tor exit nodes
(torunblocked)
|
Oversighters
(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)
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Hide entries in the abuse log
(abusefilter-hide-log)
- Hide feedback & request oversight
(aft-monitor)
- Hide from administrators and restore elements of individual page revisions
(suppressrevision)
- Oversight feedback
(aft-oversighter)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- Search deleted pages
(browsearchive)
- See AFT on protected pages
(aft-administrator)
- View a previously hidden revision with Extension:Oversight
(oversight)
- 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)
|
Researchers
(list of members) |
- Search deleted pages
(browsearchive)
- Use higher limits in API queries
(apihighlimits)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text
(deletedhistory)
|
Reviewers
(list of members) |
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted"
(autoreview)
- Hide feedback & request oversight
(aft-monitor)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
(patrol)
- Mark revisions as being "accepted"
(review)
- Mark revisions as being "quality"
(validate)
- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
(autoconfirmed)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
|
Rollbackers
(list of members) |
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Hide feedback & request oversight
(aft-monitor)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
(rollback)
|
Stewards
(list of members) |
- Edit all user rights
(userrights)
- Lock or unlock global account
(centralauth-lock)
- Make and remove global blocks
(globalblock)
- Not be affected by rate limits
(noratelimit)
- Suppress or hide global account
(centralauth-oversight)
- Unmerge global account
(centralauth-unmerge)
|
Administrators
(list of members) |
- Add or remove campus volunteers to courses
(ep-campus)
- Add or remove instructors to courses
(ep-instructor)
- Add or remove online volunteers to courses
(ep-online)
- Add or remove yourself as campus volunteer from terms
(ep-becampus)
- Add or remove yourself as instructor from courses
(ep-beinstructor)
- Add or remove yourself as online volunteer from terms
(ep-beonline)
- Add or remove yourself as reviewer from articles
(ep-bereviewer)
- Block a user from sending email
(blockemail)
- Block other users from editing
(block)
- Bulk delete courses
(ep-bulkdelcourses)
- Bulk delete institutions
(ep-bulkdelorgs)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
(ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies
(proxyunbannable)
- Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages
(protect)
- Configure how the latest accepted revision is selected and displayed
(stablesettings)
- Create new user accounts
(createaccount)
- Delete and undelete specific log entries
(deletelogentry)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages
(deleterevision)
- Delete pages
(delete)
- Disable global blocks locally
(globalblock-whitelist)
- Disassociate articles from students
(ep-remarticle)
- Edit other users' CSS files
(editusercss)
- Edit other users' JavaScript files
(edituserjs)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
(editsemiprotected)
- Edit pages protected as "Block all non-admin users"
(editprotected)
- Edit the user interface
(editinterface)
- Enroll in Education Program courses
(ep-enroll)
- Enroll users as student
(ep-addstudent)
- Feature & resolve feedback
(aft-editor)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
(autopatrol)
- Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted"
(autoreview)
- Hide feedback & request oversight
(aft-monitor)
- Import pages from other wikis
(import)
- Manage Education Program courses
(ep-course)
- Manage Education Program institutions
(ep-org)
- Manage central notices
(centralnotice-admin)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
(patrol)
- Mark revisions as being "accepted"
(review)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits
(markbotedits)
- Mass delete pages
(nuke)
- Move files
(movefile)
- Move pages
(move)
- Move pages under pending changes
(movestable)
- 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)
- Override the title or username blacklist
(tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files
(reupload)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
(skipcaptcha)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
(rollback)
- Remove reviewers from articles
(ep-remreviewer)
- Remove students from courses
(ep-remstudent)
- Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again.
(transcode-reset)
- Revert all changes by a given abuse filter
(abusefilter-revert)
- Search deleted pages
(browsearchive)
- See AFT on protected pages
(aft-administrator)
- See Education Program enrollment tokens
(ep-token)
- Unblock themselves
(unblockself)
- Undelete a page
(undelete)
- Upload files
(upload)
- Use higher limits in API queries
(apihighlimits)
- View information about the current transcode activity
(transcode-status)
- 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)
- Add groups: Edit filter managers, Account creators, Autopatrolled, Confirmed users, File movers, Reviewers, Rollbackers, IP block exemptions, Autochecked users, Course online volunteers, Course campus volunteers, Course instructor and Course coordinators
- Remove groups: Rollbackers, Account creators, Edit filter managers, Autopatrolled, Confirmed users, Reviewers, File movers, IP block exemptions, Autochecked users, Course online volunteers, Course campus volunteers, Course instructor and Course coordinators
|
Transwiki importers
(list of members) |
- Import pages from other wikis
(import)
|
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)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-member)
- Post feedback & mark as (un)helpful
(aft-reader)
- Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation
(purge)
- Read pages
(read)
- Save books as user page
(collectionsaveasuserpage)
- Send email to other users
(sendemail)
- Use of the write API
(writeapi)
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