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Editing

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Collaboration

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Personal customization

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Wiki administration

• Sysops and permissions

The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.

• Protecting and unprotecting pages
• Deletion and undeletion
• Patrolled edits
• Blocking users
• Range IP address blocks
• User rights and groups