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User group rights

From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history

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
GroupRights
(all)
(*)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • 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)
  • Read pages (read)
  • View "Edit" tab for pages editable by form (viewedittab)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
Autoconfirmed users
(autoconfirmed)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only established/autoconfirmed users (semi-protection)" (editsemiprotected)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
Bots
(bot)
(list of members)
  • Be treated as an automated process (bot)
  • Bypass the spam block list (sboverride)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only established/autoconfirmed users (semi-protection)" (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)
Bureaucrats
(bureaucrat)
(list of members)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Make string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Rename users (renameuser)
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)
Moderated users
(moderated)
(list of members)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only established/autoconfirmed users (semi-protection)" (editsemiprotected)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • writeapi (writeapi)
Push subscription managers
(push-subscription-manager)
(list of members)
  • Manage all push subscriptions (manage-all-push-subscriptions)
Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki)
(smwadministrator)
(list of members)
  • Access to administration tasks (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-admin)
Curators (Semantic MediaWiki)
(smwcurator)
(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)
(smweditor)
(list of members)
  • View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-vieweditpageinfo)
Staff
(staff)
(list of members)
  • Edit other users' information (editaccount)
Suppressors
(suppress)
(list of members)
  • 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)
  • View private logs (suppressionlog)
  • View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
  • View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)
Administrators
(sysop)
(list of members)
  • Administer SmiteSpam (smitespam)
  • 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 page language (pagelang)
  • Change protection settings 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 interwiki data (interwiki)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit other users' information (editaccount)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators (full protection)" (editprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only established/autoconfirmed users (semi-protection)" (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)
  • Make string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Rename users (renameuser)
  • 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)
Users
(user)
(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)
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
  • Edit multiple pages using a spreadsheet (multipageedit)
  • 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)
  • Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist)
  • 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)
  • Read pages (read)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • View edit help (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-vieweditpageinfo)
  • View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
users
(users)
(list of members)
  • Move pages (move)

Namespace restrictions

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