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.

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Granted right
Revoked right

Group	Rights
(all)	Create discussion pages `(createtalk)` Create pages (which are not discussion pages) `(createpage)` Edit your own preferences `(editmyoptions)` Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) `(editmyprivateinfo)` Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) `(editmywatchlist)` Read pages `(read)` Use of the write API `(writeapi)` 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)` Use higher limits in API queries `(apihighlimits)` Use of the write API `(writeapi)`
Bureaucrats (list of members)	Edit all user rights `(userrights)` Not be affected by rate limits `(noratelimit)`
comments-editors (list of members)	comments-edit `(comments-edit)`
Interface administrators (list of members)	Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages `(gadgets-edit)` Edit gadget definitions `(gadgets-definition-edit)` Edit other users' CSS files `(editusercss)` Edit other users' JSON files `(edituserjson)` Edit other users' JavaScript files `(edituserjs)` Edit pages `(edit)` Edit sitewide CSS `(editsitecss)` Edit sitewide JSON `(editsitejson)` Edit sitewide JavaScript `(editsitejs)` Edit the user interface `(editinterface)` main-edit `(main-edit)`
moderators (list of members)	Create new user accounts `(createaccount)` Edit all user rights `(userrights)` Edit pages `(edit)` comments-edit `(comments-edit)` main-edit `(main-edit)` normative-edit `(normative-edit)` press-edit `(press-edit)` research-edit `(research-edit)` term-edit `(term-edit)`
normative-editors (list of members)	normative-edit `(normative-edit)`
press-editors (list of members)	press-edit `(press-edit)`
research-editors (list of members)	research-edit `(research-edit)`
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)` 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)` Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages `(protect)` Create and (de)activate tags `(managechangetags)` 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 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)` 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)` Overwrite existing files `(reupload)` Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page `(rollback)` 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 deleted history entries, without their associated text `(deletedhistory)` View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions `(deletedtext)` main-edit `(main-edit)`
term-editors (list of members)	comments-edit `(comments-edit)` normative-edit `(normative-edit)` press-edit `(press-edit)` research-edit `(research-edit)` term-edit `(term-edit)`
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 pages (which are not discussion pages) `(createpage)` Edit pages `(edit)` 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 cache for a page `(purge)` Read pages `(read)` See real names in Special:ListUsers `(showrealname)` Send email to other users `(sendemail)` Upload files `(upload)` Use of the write API `(writeapi)`

Namespace restrictions

Namespace	Right(s) allowing user to edit
(Main)	main-edit `(main-edit)`
(Main)	main-edit `(main-edit)`
User	main-edit `(main-edit)`
My wiki	main-edit `(main-edit)`
MediaWiki	Edit the user interface `(editinterface)`
Template	main-edit `(main-edit)`
Help	main-edit `(main-edit)`
Category	main-edit `(main-edit)`
Gadget	Edit gadget JavaScript and CSS pages `(gadgets-edit)`
Gadget definition	Edit gadget definitions `(gadgets-definition-edit)`
Term	term-edit `(term-edit)`
Term talk	term-edit `(term-edit)`
Normative	normative-edit `(normative-edit)`
Normative talk	normative-edit `(normative-edit)`
Research	research-edit `(research-edit)`
Research talk	research-edit `(research-edit)`
Press	press-edit `(press-edit)`
Press talk	press-edit `(press-edit)`
Comments	comments-edit `(comments-edit)`
Comments talk	comments-edit `(comments-edit)`

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