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User group rights

The following is a list of user groups defined on Wikipedia, with the rights associated with each.

Legend:

  • Granted right
  • Revoked right
GroupRights
(all)
(*)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)
  • Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) and request password reset emails (editmyprivateinfo)
  • Merge their account (centralauth-merge)
  • Read pages (read)
  • View detailed edit filter log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • View edit filters (abusefilter-view)
  • View the edit filter log (abusefilter-log)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
Edit filter managers
(abusefilter)
(list of members)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
  • Manage edit filters (abusefilter-modify)
  • Modify edit filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
  • View and create filters that use protected variables (abusefilter-access-protected-vars)
Edit filter helpers
(abusefilter-helper)
(list of members)
  • View and create filters that use protected variables (abusefilter-access-protected-vars)
  • View edit filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
Account creators
(accountcreator)
(list of members)
  • Create accounts with names similar to existing usernames (override-antispoof)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Override the disallowed usernames list (tboverride-account)
Autoconfirmed users
(autoconfirmed)
  • Create pages in the main namespace (createpagemainns)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access" (editsemiprotected)
  • Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted" (autoreview)
  • 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)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
  • View detailed edit filter log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
Autopatrolled
(autoreviewer)
(list of members)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
Bots
(bot)
(list of members)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Be treated as an automated process (bot)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Bypass blocked external domains (abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains)
  • Bypass the spam block list (sboverride)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access" (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require extended confirmed access" (extendedconfirmed)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted" (autoreview)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • 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)
Bureaucrats
(bureaucrat)
(list of members)
Checkusers
(checkuser)
(list of members)
  • Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-full)
  • Access personally-identifying information about voters (securepoll-view-voter-pii)
  • Automatically reveal IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account-auto-reveal)
  • Check the IP addresses and other information of user accounts; see Wikipedia:CheckUser. (checkuser)
  • Create polls (securepoll-create-poll)
  • Edit polls (securepoll-edit-poll)
  • Process checkuser suggested investigations (checkuser-suggested-investigations)
  • Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to turn on the preference (checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference)
  • View a log of who has accessed IP information (ipinfo-view-log)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
  • View edit filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
  • View logs related to accessing protected variable values (abusefilter-protected-vars-log)
  • View private data in the edit filter log (abusefilter-privatedetails)
  • View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
  • View the edit filter private details access log (abusefilter-privatedetails-log)
  • View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses (checkuser-temporary-account-log)
Confirmed users
(confirmed)
(list of members)
  • Create pages in the main namespace (createpagemainns)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access" (editsemiprotected)
  • Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted" (autoreview)
  • 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)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
  • View detailed edit filter log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
Copyright violation bots
(copyviobot)
(list of members)
  • Tag pages in the Special:NewPagesFeed as likely copyright violations, through the pagetriage-tagcopyvio API (pagetriage-copyvio)
Election clerks
(electionclerk)
(list of members)
  • Create polls (securepoll-create-poll)
  • Edit polls (securepoll-edit-poll)
Event coordinators
(eventcoordinator)
(list of members)
  • Email event participants (campaignevents-email-participants)
  • Enable event registrations (campaignevents-enable-registration)
  • Generate invitation lists (campaignevents-generate-invitation-lists)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Organize events (campaignevents-organize-events)
  • Add group: Confirmed users
Extended confirmed users
(extendedconfirmed)
(list of members)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require extended confirmed access" (extendedconfirmed)
Page movers
(extendedmover)
(list of members)
  • Delete single revision redirects (delete-redirect)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
  • Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
File movers
(filemover)
(list of members)
  • Move files (movefile)
Founder
(founder)
(list of members)
  • Read pages (read)
Importers
(import)
(list of members)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
Interface administrators
(interface-admin)
(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)
IP block exemptions
(ipblock-exempt)
(list of members)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Bypass IP restrictions issued by the StopForumSpam extension (sfsblock-bypass)
  • Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked)
Mass message senders
(massmessage-sender)
(list of members)
  • Send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
(no-ipinfo)
(list of members)
  • Access a basic view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-basic)
  • Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-full)
  • Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo)
  • View a log of who has accessed IP information (ipinfo-view-log)
Users who may use two-factor authentication
(oathauth-twofactorauth)
(list of members)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
New page reviewers
(patroller)
(list of members)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
Researchers
(researcher)
(list of members)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
Pending changes reviewers
(reviewer)
(list of members)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access" (editsemiprotected)
  • Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted" (autoreview)
  • Mark revisions as being "accepted" (review)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
Rollbackers
(rollbacker)
(list of members)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
Stewards
(steward)
(list of members)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
Oversighters
(suppress)
(list of members)
  • Automatically reveal IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account-auto-reveal)
  • 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 edit filter log (abusefilter-hide-log)
  • Hide from administrators and restore elements of individual page revisions (suppressrevision)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to turn on the preference (checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
  • View edit filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
  • View hidden edit filter log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log)
  • View private logs (suppressionlog)
  • View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
Administrators
(sysop)
(list of members)
  • Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-full)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Automatically reveal IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account-auto-reveal)
  • Block or unblock a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • Block or unblock other users from editing (block)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Configure how the latest accepted revision is selected and displayed (stablesettings)
  • Create accounts with names similar to existing usernames (override-antispoof)
  • Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked (abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains)
  • Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
  • Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
  • Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
  • Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
  • Delete event registrations (campaignevents-delete-registration)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Disable global blocks locally (globalblock-whitelist)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require administrator access" (editprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access" (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Require extended confirmed access" (extendedconfirmed)
  • Edit protected templates (templateeditor)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Email event participants (campaignevents-email-participants)
  • Enable event registrations (campaignevents-enable-registration)
  • Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
  • Generate invitation lists (campaignevents-generate-invitation-lists)
  • Have one's own revisions automatically marked as "accepted" (autoreview)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • Manage the list of mentors (managementors)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Mark revisions as being "accepted" (review)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Mass delete pages (nuke)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Modify edit filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • 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)
  • Organize events (campaignevents-organize-events)
  • Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
  • Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (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)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
  • Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo)
  • Revert all changes by a given edit filter (abusefilter-revert)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
  • Set user's mentor (setmentor)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
  • View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)
  • View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
  • View and create filters that use protected variables (abusefilter-access-protected-vars)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
  • View detailed edit filter log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • View edit filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
  • View log entries of edit filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)
  • View private event participants (campaignevents-view-private-participants)
  • View the disallowed titles list log (titleblacklistlog)
  • View the list of unreviewed pages (unused on English Wikipedia) (unreviewedpages)
  • Add groups: Edit filter managers, Edit filter helpers, Account creators, Autopatrolled, Confirmed users, Election clerks, Event coordinators, File movers, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers, Template editors, Mass message senders, Extended confirmed users, Page movers, New page reviewers, IP block exemptions and Temporary account IP viewers
  • Remove groups: Edit filter helpers, Edit filter managers, Account creators, Autopatrolled, Confirmed users, Election clerks, Event coordinators, Extended confirmed users, Page movers, File movers, Mass message senders, New page reviewers, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers, Template editors, IP block exemptions and Temporary account IP viewers
Temporary users
(temp)
Template editors
(templateeditor)
(list of members)
  • Edit protected templates (templateeditor)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
Temporary account IP viewers
(temporary-account-viewer)
(list of members)
  • Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-full)
  • Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)
Transwiki importers
(transwiki)
(list of members)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
Users
(user)
(list of members)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)
  • Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)
  • Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)
  • Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist)
  • Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
  • Manage OAuth grants (mwoauthmanagemygrants)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • View blocked external domains hit log (abusefilter-blocked-external-domains-log)
  • View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
MediaWiki
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)