Help:Group rights
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MediaWiki uses role-based access control (RBAC), which assigns privileges (rights) to roles (groups). Users who are members of a group then have all the rights assigned to the group. Users can be members of multiple groups. Note that this page documents the default configuration and individual wikis may have changes to it. The special page ListGroupRights lists an automatically-generated list of user groups and their rights.
Implicit groups
Users are members of some groups automatically. Users cannot be removed from implicit groups.
Default
Every user, including anonymous users, is a member of the default group, sometimes designated the (all) group or * group.
On a public wiki, all users can:
- Read pages
- Edit pages
- Create pages
- Create accounts
On a school wiki, all users can read pages, but they must be members of other groups to edit pages, create pages, or create accounts.
On a private wiki, all users have no rights by default. They must be members of other groups to do anything.
Users
Every registered user is a member of the Users group.
Registered users, on public wikis, can:
- Read pages
- Edit pages
- Create pages
- Move pages
- Create accounts
- Upload files
On a private wiki, depending on the configuration of the wiki, registered users may have the rights listed above, may be restricted to reading only, or may have no rights by default.
Autoconfirmed
Registered users whose accounts satisfy certain minimum age or edit count criteria are members of the Autoconfirmed group. At ShoutWiki, every registered user is autoconfirmed by default.
Autoconfirmed users, on all wiki types, can edit semi-protected pages.
Emailconfirmed
Registered users whose email address has been confirmed are members of the Emailconfirmed group.
Emailconfirmed users can create new wikis.
Invited users
The Invited users group exists only on private wikis.
Invited users can:
- Read pages
- Edit pages
- Create pages
- Create accounts
- Upload files
Bot
Bot is intended for high-volume, automated tasks. Typically users create an alternate account for running automated tasks.
Users in the Bot group can:
- Have higher limits while using the MediaWiki API
- Have their edits hidden on Special:RecentChanges
Rollback
Rollback is intended to be used exclusively for reverting vandalism.
Users in the Rollback group can:
- Revert multiple changes to a page by the same user
Administrator
Users in the Sysop group can:
- Block users
- Protect pages and edit protected pages
- Import pages
- Delete pages
- View previously deleted pages and files
- Merge page histories
- Edit default system messages to add new translations or to update out-of-date English messages
- Patrol edits of others, if patrolling has been enabled
- Revert multiple changes to a page by the same user
- Have those reversions hidden from Special:RecentChanges as if done by a bot
Bureaucrat
Users in the Bureaucrat group can:
- Grant user membership in the Bot, Rollback, Sysop, and Bureaucrat groups
- Revoke user membership in the Bot, Rollback, and Sysop groups
- Refresh expensive maintenance reports
Steward
Users in the Steward group can:
- Grant and revoke user membership in the Bot, Rollback, Sysop, and Bureaucrat groups
On private wikis, users in the Steward group can:
- Grant and revoke user membership in the Invited users group
Staff
ShoutWiki staff can:
- Alter the interwiki table
- Block users across all wikis
- Change the author of a page edit
- Check a user's IP addresses
- Check a user's preferences
- Configure a wiki's settings
- Hide certain revisions (versions) of an article from all non-staff users (oversighting)
- Lock the wiki's database
