Wikipedia:User access levels
 | This is aninformation page. It is not anencyclopedic article,nor one ofWikipedia's policies or guidelines;rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels ofconsensusandvetting. |
| To find the permissions for your account, go toSpecial:Preferences.Your permissions are listed in the user profile tab under "Member of groups". |
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| Administrators and bureaucrats |
| Other flags giving access to specialized functions |
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For all user permissions seethis table. For other global user groups seeWikipedia:Global rights policyandmeta:User groups. |
Theuser access levelof editors affects their abilities to perform specific actions on Wikipedia. A user's access level depends on which rights (also called permissions,user groups,bits,orflags) are assigned to accounts. There are two types of access leveling: automatic and requested. User access levels are determined by whether theWikipedianis logged in, the account's age and edit count, and what manually assigned rights the account has.
Anyone can use the basic functionalities of Wikipedia even if they are not logged in. Unless they areblocked,they may freely editmost pages.Being logged in gives users many advantages, such as having their publicIP addresshidden and the ability to track one's own contributions. Furthermore, once user accounts are more than a certain number of days old and have made more than a certain number of edits, they automatically become autoconfirmed or extended confirmed, allowing the direct creation of articles, the ability to move pages, to edit semi-protected and extended-protected pages, and upload files. Further access levels need to be assigned manually by a user with the appropriate authority. An editor with more experience and in good standing canattempt to becomeanadministrator,which provides a large number of advanced permissions. Many different flags for specialized tasks are also available.
Overview
All visitors to the site, includingunregisteredusers, are part of the*group, and all logged-in registered users are also part of theusergroup. Users are automatically promoted into theautoconfirmed/confirmed userspseudo-group of established users when their account is more than four days old and has ten edits, and theextended confirmeduser group later on, at 30 days of age and 500 edits.
Other flags are only given upon request; some, such asrollbacker,pending changes reviewer,orbot,are granted unilaterally if the user demonstrates a need for them (seeWikipedia:Requests for permissionsandWikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval). Others, such assysopandbureaucrat,are given only after community discussion and consensus atWikipedia:Requests for adminship.Users are made members of such groups asoversightandcheckuseronly with the approval of theArbitration Committee,after signing theWikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.
User groups have one or more rights assigned to them; for example, the IP block-exempt (IP block exemptions) group has the 'ipblock-exempt' and 'torunblocked' rights. All members of a particular user group will have access to these rights. The individual rights that are assigned to user groups are listed atSpecial:ListGroupRights.Terms likerights,permissions,bitsandflagscan refer to both user groups and the individual rights assigned to them.
Permissions requested atRequests for permissionsonly have local rights on theEnglish Wikipediawiki. Members ofglobal user groupshave rights across allWikimedia Foundationwikis, although that access can sometimes be restricted bylocal wiki policies.Users registered at Wikimedia wikis also have registered user rights to other Wikimedia wikis if their account is aSUL or unified login account.Both local and global user group membership acrossWikimedia wikiscan be viewed atSpecial:CentralAuth.
Unregistered (IP or not logged in) users
Users who are notlogged inare identified by theirIP addressrather than ausername,whether or not they have alreadyregistered an account.They may read all Wikipedia pages (except restrictedspecial pages), and edit pages that are notprotected(includingpending changes protected/move-protectedarticles). They may createtalk pagesin any talknamespace,but need to ask for help to create pages in some parts of the wiki. Furthermore, they cannotuploadfiles or images. They must answer aCAPTCHAif they wish to make an edit which involves the addition ofexternal links,and click a confirmation link topurgepages. All users may also query thesite APIin 500-record batches.
Edit screens of unregistered users are headed by a banner displaying theAnoneditwarningsystem message.
User groups granted to accounts
Standard user rights
Each of Wikipedia's account permissions - whether systematically-granted (automatically applied), or approved and granted by anadministratororbureaucrat- are listed and described in-depth. This information can be located by clickinghere.
Registered (new) users
Youare not logged in or registered.You can log in or create an accounthere.Youare logged in.
Registered users may immediately e-mail other users if they activate an email address in theiruser preferences.All logged-in users may mark edits asminor.They may purge pages without a confirmation step, but are still required to answer aCAPTCHAwhen adding external links. They may customize their Wikimedia interface and its options as they wish—either viaSpecial:Preferences,or by addingpersonalCSSorJavaScriptrules to theircommon.cssorcommon.jsfiles. They may create and maintain awatchlist.
Autoconfirmed and confirmed users
You are not logged in, so youare not autoconfirmed.Your accountis autoconfirmedis not autoconfirmed.
Several actions on the English Wikipedia (such asarticle creation) are restricted to user accounts that are at least 4 days oldandhave made at least 10 edits. Users who meet these requirements are considered part of the pseudo-groupautoconfirmed.The conditions for autoconfirmed status are checked every time a user attempts to perform a restricted action; if they are met, permission is granted automatically by the MediaWiki software. Although the precise requirements for autoconfirmed status vary according to circumstances, most English Wikipedia user accounts that are at least 4 days oldandhave made at least 10 edits (including deleted edits) are considered autoconfirmed. However, users with theIP block exemptionflag and who are editing through theTornetwork are subjected to much stricter autoconfirmed thresholds: 90 days and 100 edits.[1]
Autoconfirmed/confirmed users cancreate articles(except forcreate-protected pages),move pages(except formove-protected pages), editsemi-protected pages,andupload files(including new versions of existing files, except forupload-protected files). Edits that they make to a page that is underpending changes protectionwill be accepted and will immediately be visible to people who are not logged in without requiring revieworapproval (unless there are prior pending changes awaiting approval, in which case edits not made by reviewers or administrators will not become visible until the prior pending changes are accepted).
Autoconfirmed users are no longer required to enter aCAPTCHAfor most edits, including, but not limited to, adding external links. Autoconfirmed users may email users that have their "allow emails from brand-new users" checkbox off. In addition, theedit filterhas a number of warning settings that will no longer affect editors who are autoconfirmed. Autoconfirmed/confirmed users gain access to additional tools such asWikipedia:Twinkle.
As of April 2024[update],there were approximately 2.38 million autoconfirmed users on the English Wikipedia, of which the vast majority were inactive. SeeSpecial:ActiveUsersfor a list of recently active users.
Before 16 November 2016, confirmed and autoconfirmed users could also mark new pages as patrolled. This has been changed and now requires thenew page reviewerright to do so.
Confirmed users
Sometimes, it is necessary for accounts to skip the customary confirmation period and to be confirmed right away. Theconfirmedgroup contains the exact same rights as theautoconfirmedpseudo-group, but can be granted by administrators and event coordinators[2]as necessary. It is redundant to grant theconfirmedright to an account that is already autoconfirmed since it provides the exact same abilities. To request this permission, seeWikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed.SeeSpecial:ListUsers/confirmedfor a list of the 579 confirmed users.
Extended confirmed users
You are not logged in, so youare not extended confirmed.Your accountis extended confirmed.does not have the extended confirmed flag,but youare an administrator,so your account is extended confirmed by default.
A registered editor becomesextendedconfirmedautomatically one edit after the account has existed for at least 30 daysandhas made at least 500 edits.[3][4]This user access right allows editors to edit and create pages that are underextended confirmed protection.The English Wikipedia also enables editors to use theContent Translation toolto create articles andthe INDEX template on user pages.This access is included and bundled in thebotandsysop(administrator) user groups. This group was primarily created to deal with specific arbitration remedies and community issues; the Arbitration Committee has since left community-use decisions up to the community.[5]
Membership in theextendedconfirmedgroup is revoked if a user is in another group with which it is redundant, and in rare cases may be revoked for other reasons, such as if a usergames the system by making many trivial edits.If extended confirmed is revoked, it may be re-granted atWikipedia:Requests for permissions/Extended confirmed.That page may also be used to request early grants of the group, but requests are almost never accepted except forlegitimate alternate accountsof users who are extended confirmed on other accounts.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/extendedconfirmedfor a list of the 73,847 extended confirmed users.
Flags granted to users after approval by anadministratororbureaucrat
Unless otherwise noted, seeWikipedia:Requests for permissionsto request the following rights. Some of these rights are automatically assigned to administrators.
Pending changes reviewer
Members of this group can review other users' edits to articles placed underpending changes protection.This right is automatically assigned to administrators. Prior to September 2014, this right was known asreviewer.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/reviewerfor a list of the 8,068 reviewers.
Rollback
Users who are given the rollback flag (rollbackeruser group) mayrevertconsecutive revisions of an editor using therollbackfeature. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/rollbackerfor a list of the 6,898 rollbackers.
Autopatrolled
Members of this group haveautopatrol,which allows them to have their pages automatically patrolled on theNew Pages list.Prior to June 2010, it was known asautoreviewer.Before December 2021, it was automatically assigned to administrators, but followingan RFC,it was removed from the default toolkit. The 2021 RFC concluded that administrators are allowed to grant the user right to themselves without approval or a discussion beforehand, similar to theedit filter manageruser right.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/autoreviewerfor a list of the 4,857 autopatrolled users.
New page reviewer (patroller)
Members of this group havepatrol,which allows them to mark pages created by others aspatrolledorreviewed.This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/patrollerfor a list of the 817 new page reviewers.
File mover
The file mover right is intended to allow users experienced in working with files to rename them, subject to policy, with the ease that autoconfirmed users already enjoy when renaming Wikipedia articles. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/filemoverfor a list of the 389 file movers.
Page mover
The page mover user right (extendedmoveruser group) is intended to allow users who have demonstrated a good understanding of the Wikipedia page naming system to rename pages and subpages without leaving redirects, subject to policy. They are also able to create and editeditnoticesas well as move categories. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/extendedmoverfor a list of the 416 page movers.
Account creator
The account creator user right (accountcreatoruser group) is intended for users involved in therequest an account process(ACC), and so have signed theWikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.They are not affected by the 6 account creation limit per day per IP, and can create accounts for other users without restriction. Users in this group can also override the anti-spoof checks on account creation. Additionally, account creators are able to create accounts with names that are otherwise blocked by thetitle blacklist.This right is automatically assigned to administrators and bureaucrats.[6]
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/accountcreatorfor a list of the 7 account creators.
Event coordinator
The event coordinator flag (eventcoordinatoruser group) is intended for individuals involved with off-wiki outreach events to create accounts for their attendees. Event coordinators are not affected by the 6 account creation limit per day per IP. In addition, they can allow their event attendees to create new articles by temporarily adding newly created accounts toconfirmeduser group. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/eventcoordinatorfor a list of the 125 event coordinators.
Template editor
Users who are given the template editor flag (templateeditoruser group) are allowed to edit pages that aretemplate-protected,as well as create and editeditnotices.Template protection is only applied to pages in thetemplateandmodulenamespaces, as well as a few pages in the Wikipedia namespace. This right is intended to allow experienced template and module coders to make changes without having to request that an administrator make the edits for them. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/templateeditorfor a list of the 188 template editors.
IP block exemption
Users who are given the ipblock-exempt flag (ipblock-exemptuser group) are not affected byautoblocks,blocks of IP addresses and ranges that are made with the "Prevent logged-in users from editing" option enabled,[7]and byTor blocks.
The flag is intended for trusted users in good standing who are unfortunately affected by such blocks. Requests for this permission may be included with yourunblock request.If you are affected by an IP address range block, you must send your unblock request using theUnblock Ticket Request System.If you are trying to edit through a blocked anonymous proxy or a VPN service, you must instead send your request tocheckuser-en-wp
wikipedia.org,or contact aCheckUserdirectly.
This right is automatically assigned to administrators and bots.[8]Administrators are also free to grant the right to good-faith editors known to be affected by IP blocks, without waiting for an unblock request.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/ipblock-exemptfor a list of the 807 affected users.
Edit filter managers
Members of the edit filter manager group can view, create, modify, enable, disable, and deleteedit filters,including private edit filters that are hidden from public view. They can also view any associated logs that are generated by any edit filter. This right is not assigned to administrators by default, but they are allowed to grant the user right to themselves without approval or a discussion beforehand. The edit filter manager user right can also be granted to non-administrators following a successful request at theedit filter noticeboard.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/abusefilterfor a list of the 147 edit filter managers.
Edit filter helpers
Members of the edit filter helper group have the ability to view alledit filters(including private edit filters that are hidden from being publicly viewed), as well as view their associated logs. It doesnotgrant them the ability to modify or make any changes to edit filters. The user right is intended for editors who are interested in helping with edit filters or have demonstrated experience with helping with public edit filters on appropriate discussion pages, but do not yet meet the thresholds required to be able to modify them. The user right is also intended for users who are currently active administrators or edit filter managers on otherWikimediawikis who would like to learn from the English Wikipedia, as well as, at the discretion of any checkuser,sockpuppet investigation (SPI) clerksand trainee clerks.
This access is also included in the administrator groups. These capabilities can also be granted to non-administrators following a successful request at theedit filter noticeboard.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/abusefilter-helperfor a list of the 23 edit filter helpers.
Mass message sender
Members of this group may send messages to multiple users at once. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/massmessage-senderfor a list of the 52 mass message senders.
Interface administrators
Users who are given the interface administrator flag (interface-adminuser group) have the ability to edit site-wideCSS,JavaScript,andJSONpages (pages such asMediaWiki:Common.jsorMediaWiki:Vector.css,or the gadget pages listed onSpecial:Gadgets), all CSS, JavaScript, and JSON pages regardless of location[9],and pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Interface administrator access, along with access to another group that hasundeleteaccess, is required to view deleted versions of pages only editable by this group. Because it provides the potential to send malicious CSS, JS, and JSON code to execute in other users' browsers, this right may only be granted to existing administrators[10]withtwo-factor authenticationenabled on their accounts.[11]These capabilities can be granted following a successful request atWikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/interface-adminfor a list of the 13 interface administrators.
Functionary user levels
CheckUser
Users who are granted and possess the CheckUser flag (checkuseruser group) have access toSpecial:CheckUser,afunction pagethat allows them to view a list of allIP addressesthat have been used by a user account to edit the English Wikipedia, an extended list ofall editsmade from an IP address or range (which includes edits that were made by any user accounts while using the specific IP or range), or a list of all user accounts that have used a given IP address or range to edit the English Wikipedia. They also have access to theCheckuser log,which logs each time a Checkuser uses their tools to view any of the information listed. This user right is only granted toexceedingly few usersand after a high level of scrutiny and review by the community, and after review and the support of theArbitration Committee,typically around once a year (seeWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight § Appointments). Users must also be at least 18 years old and have signed theWikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.As CheckUsers have access to deleted revisions, they are also required to have passed an "RfA or RfA-identical process" first.[12]
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/checkuserfor a list of the 54 CheckUsers.
Oversight
Users who are granted and possess the Oversight flag (suppressuser group[13]) have access to additional options on the page deletion, revision deletion, and blockfunction pagesthrough which they can hide logs or revisions of pages (partially or entirely) from any form of usual access by all other users, includingadministrators.They also have access to thesuppression log,where they can view actions made by other oversighters, as well as the content of the hidden revisions. This user right is only granted toexceedingly few usersand after a high level of scrutiny and review by the community, and after review and the support ofArbitration Committee,typically around once a year (seeWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight § Appointments). Users must also be at least 18 years old and have signed theWikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.Oversighters are also required to have passed a "RfA or RfA-identical process" first.[12]
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/suppressfor a list of the 42 Oversighters.
Other flagged accounts
Bots
Accounts used by approvedbotsto make pre-approved edits can be flagged as such. Bot accounts are automated or semi-automated, the nature of their edits is well defined, and they will be quickly blocked if their actions vary from their given tasks, so they require less scrutiny than human edits.
For this reason, contributions from accounts with the bot flag (botuser group) are not displayed inrecent changesorwatchliststo users who have opted to hide bot edits. Minor edits made by bot accounts to user talk pages do not trigger the"you have new messages"banner. Bot accounts can query theAPIin batches of 5,000 rather than 500.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/botfor a list of the 299 bots.
Copyright violation bots
Acopyviobotis an approved bot that is given the(pagetriage-copyvio)permission, allowing it to use theAPIto tag pages listed onSpecial:NewPagesFeedas likelycopyright violations.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/copyviobotfor a list of the 2 copyviobots.
Founder
Thefoundergroup was created on the English Wikipedia by developerTim Starling,without community input, as a unique group forJimmy "Jimbo" Wales—althoughLarry Sangeris aco-founder,hehas never beena member of this group—seeSpecial:ListUsers/founder.The group formerly gave Wales full access touser rights,and no longer has any function but continues to exist as a courtesy. Wales is also a member of the founderglobal group,which grants several more rights across the Wikimedia network.
Researchers
Theresearchergroup allows individuals approved by the Wikimedia Foundation to perform a title search for deleted pages, view deleted history entries, and view deleted contents. It was created in 2010 and expanded in 2020.[14][15]
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/researcherfor a list of the 0 current researchers andmeta:Research:Special API permissions/Logfor further details.
Importers and transwiki importers
TheTranswiki importersgroup gives editors theimportpermission for use onSpecial:Import.This interface allows users to copy pages, and optionally entire page histories, from certain otherWikimediawikis. Theimportpermission is also included in the administrators and importers user groups. There are currently1user in the transwiki importers group. This group is only available for assignment by stewards following a special community approval discussion.
Importersis a similar group which gives editors theimportuploadpermission as well as theimportpermission for use onSpecial:Import.Importers have the additional ability to import articles directly from XML (which may come from any wiki site), as well as to merge the history of pages together using themergehistoryright (seeWP:HMfor more information). Theimportuploadpermission is also included in the stewards group. There are currently2user(s) in the importer group. This access is highly restricted and is only available for assignment to a limited number of very trusted users by stewards following a special community approval discussion.
All users can useSpecial:Exportto create an XML export of a page and its history.
See also theimport log,transwiki log,Help:Import,andWikipedia:Requests for page importation.
Blocked users
Any user account can be blocked, regardless of which user group(s) it belongs to. While the account is blocked, the blocking flag disables the user or IP's existing editing privileges depending on whichblock optionsare set by the administrator. Apartial blockstill allows some parts of Wikipedia to be edited.
Blocked users are listed onSpecial:BlockList.
Indefinitely blocked users
If an editor isblocked indefinitelybut notsite-banned,their rights should generally be left as is. Rights specifically related to the reason for blocking may be removed at administrators' discretion;[16]certain rights might also later be removed under applicable inactivity rules.
When an editor is indefinitely site-banned by the community, their granted permissions should be removed. If the ban is reversed due to actual error (e.g. votestacking in the ban thread), the rights should be restored, but otherwise a user who successfully appeals their ban is not automatically entitled to regain the rights.[17]
Global rights
Global rights have effects on all publicWikimediawikis, but their use may be restricted by local policy, seeWikipedia:Global rights policy.For an automatically generated list of global groups with all their permissions, seeSpecial:GlobalGroupPermissions.For a list of users along with their global groups, seeSpecial:GlobalUsers.
Stewards
Stewardship is an elected role, and stewards are appointed globally across all public Wikimedia wikis.
Users who are members of thestewarduser group may grant and revoke any permission to or from any user on any wiki operated by theWikimedia Foundationwhich allows open account creation. This group is set onMetaWiki,and may usemeta:Special:Userrightsto set permissions on any Wikimedia wiki; they may add or remove any user fromany group configured on metawiki.Stewards generally act only when there is no user on a particular wiki that can make the necessary change. This includes granting of theadministratororbureaucrataccess levels on wikis which do not have any local bureaucrats, and removing such flags if the user resigns or the account is acting maliciously. Stewards are also responsible for granting and revoking access levels such asoversightandcheckuser,as no other group is capable of making such changes exceptFoundation sysadminsandTrust and Safetystaff.
Stewards can also act ascheckusers,oversighters,bureaucratsoradministratorson wikis which do not have active local members of those groups. For example, if a wiki has a passing need for an edit to be oversighted, a steward can add themselves to theoversightuser group on that wiki, perform the necessary function, and then remove themselves from theoversightgroup using their steward rights.
Most steward actions are logged atmeta:Special:Log/rightsormeta:Special:Log/gblrights(some go tometa:Stewards/Additional log for global changes). SeeSpecial:GlobalUsers/stewardormeta:Special:ListUsers/stewardfor a list of users in this group.
Other global user groups
Other global groups include WMF staff, sysadmins (system administrators), ombuds,Volunteer Response Team (VRT) members,global bots, global rollbackers, global sysops (not enabled on English Wikipedia), and interface editors. SeeGlobal rights policyandmeta:User groupsfor information on these, as well as a full list.
Table
- Generally, bureaucrats on the English Wikipedia are also administrators, and so have all the permissions of thesysopuser group in addition to those rights from thebureaucratgroup. However, this is not a requirement of theMediaWikisoftware nor is it a formal requirement of theRequests for Bureaucratshipprocess; it is technically possible for a user to be a bureaucrat without also being an admin.
- Deprecated permissions are either no longer assigned to any group or the group to which they are assigned is no longer populated.
- Special:ListGroupRightsis an automatically generated list of granted user group rights. The below table is manually updated, and also includesglobal groupswith local access.
Permission |
Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed andConfirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
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| abusefilter-access-protected-vars | View and create filters that use protected variables |  |
EFM,EFH | |||||
| abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains | Bypass blocked external domains | |
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| abusefilter-hidden-log | View hidden abuse log entries | OS | ||||||
| abusefilter-hide-log | Hide entries in the abuse log | |||||||
| abusefilter-log | View theabuse log |
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| abusefilter-log-detail | View detailed abuse log entries |
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GR | |||
| abusefilter-log-private | View edit filters marked as private |
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| abusefilter-modify | Modifyabuse filters | EFM | ||||||
| abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains | Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked |
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| abusefilter-modify-restricted | Modify edit filters with restricted actions | |||||||
| abusefilter-privatedetails | View private data (IP addresses) in the abuse log | CU | ||||||
| abusefilter-privatedetails-log | View the AbuseFilter private details access log | |||||||
| abusefilter-protected-vars-log | View logs related to accessing protected variable values | |||||||
| abusefilter-revert | Revert all changes by a given abuse filter |
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| abusefilter-view | View non-private abuse filters |
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| abusefilter-view-private | View edit filters marked as private | CU,EFH,EFM,OS | ||||||
| apihighlimits | RequestAPIqueries in batches of 5,000, rather than 500 |
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Researchers | ||||
| applychangetags | Apply tags along with one's changes |
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| autoconfirmed | Not be affected by IP-based rate limits |
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PCR,GR,IE | |||
| autopatrol | Automatically mark all edits made by the user aspatrolled |
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| autoreview | Automatically mark all revisions made by the user as "accepted" |
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| bigdelete | Delete pages with over 5,000 revisions | Stewards | ||||||
| block | Block an IP address, user account, or range of IP addresses, from editing |
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| blockemail | Block a user from sending email |
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| bot | Edit without their edits showing up in recent changes |
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| browsearchive | Search deleted pages |
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| centralauth-create-local | Forcibly create a local account for a global account | |
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| centralauth-merge | Merge their account[d] |
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| changetags | Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries |
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EFM | ||||
| checkuser | View all IP addresses used by a user account or show all edits from a given IP address | CU,Ombuds | ||||||
| checkuser-log | View the checkuser log | |||||||
| checkuser-temporary-account | View IP addresses used by temporary accounts |
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TAIPV,Ombuds,GTAIPV | ||||
| checkuser-temporary-account-log | View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses | CU,Ombuds | ||||||
| checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference | View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to check the preference | |||||||
| collectionsaveasuserpage | Save books as user subpage |
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| createaccount | Create a new user account for themselves or another user |
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| createpage | Create a new page |
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| createpagemainns | Create a newmainspacepage(users without this right are redirected to the Article Creation Workflow landing page) |
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| createtalk | Create a new talk page |
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| delete | Delete a page with ≤ 5,000 revisions |
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| deletechangetags | Delete tags from the database |
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| deletedhistory | View the history of a deleted page or a user'sdeleted contributions,provided it is not CSS or JS |
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CU,OS,Researchers | |||||
| delete-redirect | Delete single revision redirects during page moves | PMR | ||||||
| deletedtext | View the text of deleted revisions, provided the page is not CSS or JS |
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CU,Ombuds,OS,Researchers | |||||
| deletelogentry | Access theRevisionDeletetool and change the public visibility of log entries |
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OS | |||||
| deleterevision | Access theRevisionDeletetool and change the public visibility of edit revisions |
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| Permission | Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed andConfirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
| edit | Edit any page which is not protected |
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IE | ||||
| editcontentmodel | Edit the content model of a page |
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TE,IE | |||||
| editinterface | Edit theMediaWiki namespaceto affect the interface |
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IA,IE | |||||
| editmyoptions | Edit your own preferences |
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| editmyprivateinfo | Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) |
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| editmyusercss | Edit your own user.css files |
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| editmyuserjs | Edit your own user.js files |
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| editmyuserjson | Edit your own user.json files |
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| editmywatchlist | Edit your own watchlist |
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| editprotected | Edit fully-protected pages |
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| editsemiprotected | Edit semi-protected pages |
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| editsitecss | Edit sitewide.css files | IA,IE | ||||||
| editsitejs | Edit sitewide.js files | |||||||
| editsitejson | Edit sitewide.json files |
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| editusercss | Edit other users'.css files | IA,IE | ||||||
| edituserjs | Edit other users'.js files | |||||||
| edituserjson | Edit other users'.json files |
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IA | |||||
| extendedconfirmed | Edit30/500protected pages |
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XC,IE | ||||
| globalblock-whitelist | Disable global blocks locally |
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| hideuser | Block a username, hiding it from the public | OS | ||||||
| import | Import pages from other wikis |
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IMP,TWI | |||||
| importupload | Importpages from a locally storedXMLfile | IMP | ||||||
| ipblock-exempt | Be unaffected by blocks applied to the user's IP address or a range (CIDR) containing it |
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IPBE | ||||
| managechangetags | Create and (de)activate tags |
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EFM | |||||
| managementors | Manage the list of mentors | |
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| markbotedits | Mark rollback as bot edits, to keep them out ofrecent changes |
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| massmessage | Send a message to multiple users at once |
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MMS | |||||
| mergehistory | Merge the history of pages |
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IMP | |||||
| minoredit | Make an edit marked as 'minor' |
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| move | Change the title of a page by moving it |
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PMR,GR | ||||
| move-categorypages | Change the title of a category by moving it |
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PMR | ||||
| movefile | Change the title of a file by moving it |
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FMV | |||||
| move-rootuserpages | Move root user pages |
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| move-subpages | Move pages with their subpages |
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PMR | ||||
| movestable | Move pages under pending changes |
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GR | ||||
| mwoauthmanagemygrants | Manage OAuth grants |
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| nominornewtalk | Minor edits by this user to user talk pages do not trigger the "you have new messages" banner |
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| noratelimit | Not be affected by rate limits |
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| Permission | Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed andConfirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
| nuke | Mass delete pages |
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| oathauth-enable | Enabletwo-factor authentication |
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CU,EFM,Founder,IMP,IA,OS,TE,TWI | ||||
| override-antispoof | Allows the creation of accounts with mixed-script, confusing and similar usernames |
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| pagetriage-copyvio | Tag pages in theSpecial:NewPagesFeedas likely copyright violations, through the pagetriage-tagcopyvio API | Copyright violation bots | ||||||
| patrol | State that they have checked a page that appeared inSpecial:Newpages |
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NPR | |||||
| protect | Change protection levels, edit and move protected pages, and edit cascade-protected pages |
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IE | |||||
| purge | Purgea page by adding&action=purgeto the URL
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| read | Read pages |
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| renameuser | Change the name of an existing account | Global renamers,Stewards | ||||||
| reupload | Overwrite an existing unprotected file |
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| reupload-own | Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself |
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| reupload-shared | Override files on the shared media repository locally |
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| review | Mark revisions as being "accepted" |
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| rollback | Use a special link to more easily revert a bad edit |
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RBK,GR[e] | |||||
| sboverride | Bypass the spam block list | |
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| sendemail | E-mail a user(usingSpecial:EmailUser/username) who have associated an email address with themselves
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| setmentor | Set user's mentor | |
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| skipcaptcha | Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA |
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| spamblacklistlog | View the spam blacklist log |
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EFH | |||||
| stablesettings | Configure how the latest accepted revision is selected and displayed |
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| suppressionlog | View private logs | OS | ||||||
| suppressredirect | Not create a redirect from the old name when moving a page |
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| suppressrevision | Access theRevisionDeletetool and change the public and administrator visibility of edit revisions and logs | OS | ||||||
| tboverride | Override the title blacklist |
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| tboverride-account | Override the username blacklist | ACCP | ||||||
| templateeditor | Edit pages undertemplate protection |
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| titleblacklistlog | View title blacklist log (note: the log is empty, as it has not been enabled) |
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| torunblocked | Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes | IPBE | ||||||
| transcode-reset | Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again |
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| transcode-status | View information about the current transcode activity |
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| undelete | Undelete a previously deleted page or specific revisions from it, view deleted revisions |
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| unwatchedpages | View a list of pages which are not on anyone's watchlist |
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| upload | Upload a media file |
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| urlshortener-create-url | Create short URLs |
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| userrights | Edit all user rights | Stewards | ||||||
| viewmyprivateinfo | View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) |
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| viewmywatchlist | View your own watchlist |
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| viewsuppressed | View revisions hidden from any user | OS | ||||||
| vipsscaler-test | Use theVIPS scaling test interface |
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| writeapi | Use of the write API |
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| Permission | Allows user(s) to… | All users[a] |
Registered accounts[b] | Autoconfirmed andConfirmed |
Bots | Administrators | Bureaucrats | other groups[c] |
- ^abcdIncludes IP users. Any permission granted to all users will be inherited by the other user groups.
- ^abcdAny permission granted to registered accounts will be inherited by the other (registered) user groups.
- ^abcdAny user listed in this column has the relevant permission. Italics indicate a global permission.
- ^Irrelevant since theSUL finalisationin 2015 where all mergeable accounts were merged.
- ^abcdPerWikipedia:Global rights policy,Global rollbackers are only allowed to use this right in the context of counter-vandalism efforts.
- IPs and new users are limited to 8 edits per minute. Autoconfirmed or confirmed users who are in no usergroup with thenoratelimituserright are limited to 8 moves per minute, except that those granted thepage moverusergroup are subject to an increased limit of 16 moves per minute[18].Rollbackers in the same situation are limited to 100 rollbacks per minute.[19]Account creations are subject to an IP based limit,set at 6for WMF wikis, but users withnoratelimitare unaffected.
| Group | Count | % held indirectly |
|---|---|---|
| Edit filter manager
(abusefilter) |
147 | 0% |
| Account creator
(accountcreator) |
854 | 99.2% |
| Autopatrolled
(autoreviewer) |
4,857 | 0% |
| Bot
(bot) |
299 | 0% |
| Bureaucrat
(bureaucrat) |
15 | 0% |
| CheckUser
(checkuser) |
54 | 0% |
| Event coordinator
(eventcoordinator) |
972 | 87.1% |
| Extended confirmed
(extendedconfirmed) |
74,694 | 1.1% |
| File mover
(filemover) |
1,236 | 68.5% |
| Founder
(founder) |
1 | 0% |
| Importer
(import) |
2 | 0% |
| Interface administrator
(interface-admin) |
13 | 0% |
| IP block exemption
(ipblock-exempt) |
807 | 0% |
| Mass message sender
(massmessage-sender) |
899 | 94.2% |
| Page mover
(extendedmover) |
1,263 | 67.1% |
| New page reviewer
(patroller) |
1,664 | 50.9% |
| Researcher
(researcher) |
0 | 0% |
| Pending changes reviewer
(reviewer) |
8,915 | 9.5% |
| Rollbacker
(rollbacker) |
7,745 | 10.9% |
| Oversight
(suppress) |
42 | 0% |
| Administrator
(sysop) |
847 | 0% |
| Template editor
(templateeditor) |
1,035 | 81.8% |
User access level changes
| Yes | No |
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| Local | Global |
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| Event coord. | Administrator | Bureaucrat | Steward | ||
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| Confirmed | give | |
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| Autopatrolled | |
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| Edit Filter helper, Edit Filter manager |
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| Event coordinator | |
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| Page mover, File mover |
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| Template editor | |
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| Mass message sender | |
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| IP Block Exempt | give | |
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| Pending changes reviewer | |
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| Account Creator | |
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| Bot, Copyright violation bot |
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| Administrator, Interface Administrator |
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| Bureaucrat | give | |
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| Checkuser, Oversight |
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| Import |
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| Event coord. | Administrator | Bureaucrat | Steward | ||
^1Because bureaucrats weregrantedthe ability to do this, stewards would refer most ordinary requests for removal of the sysop permission to them, but retain the right to remove the sysop permission when appropriate (such as emergencies or requests from theArbitration Committee).
Former levels
- Course coordinator, instructor, online and campus volunteer
- Enabled users to manage course pages in the "Education Program:" namespace, which wasshut down in June 2018.
- Afttest and Afttest-hide
- Only granted by WMF staff, these enabled users to delete and/or hidearticle feedback.Removed in March 2014 after one year as the article feedback feature was discontinued.
- EP staff, administrator, campus-ambassador, online-ambassador, and instructor
- Used by users to coordinate and work with students, instructors, and institutions as part of theeducation program.Deprecated since 2013.
See also
- Meta:User groups
- Manual:User rightsonMediaWiki
- Special:ListGroupRights
- See what usergroup a user is in
- Wikipedia:Editing restrictions
- Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control(explains the access structure from the perspective of quality control on Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia User permissions API
- Wikipedia:Requests for permissions(to request certain userrights)
- Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations
Notes
- ^See wgTorAutoConfirmAge and wgTorAutoConfirmCount inhttps://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.txt
- ^In accordance withthis RfC,event coordinators may only grant theconfirmedflag to editors who actually participate in an outreach event.
- ^The edit total includes both live and deleted edits
- ^Must have at least one edit after the creation of theextendedconfirmeduser access level on 5 April 2016(followingthis discussion).
- ^28 May 2017 clarification request
- ^"Project:Account creators".MediaWikiWiki.2015.Retrieved2015-02-01.
DefaultSettings.phpgrants the
noratelimituser righttobureaucratsandsysops. - ^This flag only grants the exempted user toeditbehind the IP address. IP block exempt users are not able to create accounts while behind an IP address that is also blocked with the "Prevent account creation" option enabled.
- ^Administrators and bots are not affected byautoblocksandhard IP address blocks.However, the ipblock-exempt flagmustbe added to the administrator or bot account as a separate user right to allow them to edit from IP addresses affected byTor blocks.
- ^Specifically, they can edit these pages - even if they're located within the user space of another account.
- ^See this RfC atWikipedia talk:Interface administrators/Archive 3 § Allow non-admins to request access?
- ^WMF 2FA requirement as published on Meta-Wiki
- ^abThe Wikimedia Foundation hasstatedthat an "RfA or RfA-identical process" is required for users to be granted access to deleted revisions.
- ^The user group was namedoversightuntil February of 2022.
- ^Phabricator Task T253420: Add 'deletedtext' right to user group 'researchers'
- ^The group has access to thebrowsearchive,deletedhistoryanddeletedtextrights, as well asapihighlimits(Special:ListGroupRights § researcher)
- ^See the RfC atWikipedia talk:User access levels/Archive 2 § Rights of indef blocked users.
- ^See2023 RfC.There isno consensus for or againstapplying this consensus retroactively. Administrators should use their discretion.
- ^Per consensus inthis RfC.
- ^The API queryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=ratelimits%7Cgroupscan be used to check those values.