Help:User rights
Users can be assigned into different groups and these groups can be given different rights. User rights allow things such as viewing the site, creating new accounts, deleting pages and so on. This page explains the default user groups and the rights they have. You can also see the special page Special:ListGroupRights for an automatically-generated list of user groups and their respective rights.
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Anonymous users
On a public wiki, anonymous users can:
- Create accounts
- Create content and talk pages
- Edit the wiki
- Read the wiki
They cannot do anything of the above on a private wiki.
On a school wiki, anonymous users can read the wiki, but not edit it in any way or create accounts.
Registered users
Normal registered users can:
- Create accounts
- Create content and talk pages
- Edit the wiki
- Mark edits as minor
- Read the wiki
- Upload media
- Upload multiple media items through Special:MultipleUpload
This is true for all wiki types, unless configured differently.
Autoconfirmed users
By default, autoconfirmed users (users, whose accounts are older than 4 days) can move pages in addition to the normal user rights registered users get.
This is true for all wiki types, unless configured differently.
Bots
Accounts marked as bots can:
- Have higher limits while using the MediaWiki API
- Have their edits hidden on recent changes list
- Not alert users on minor talk page edits
This is true for all wiki types, unless configured differently.
Administrators
Administrators, alternatively admins or sysops can:
- Block harmful / disrupting users
- Delete pages, even large ones
- Import pages by using Special:Import, either from another wiki or from a file
- Mass delete pages by using Special:Nuke
- Merge articles' histories
- Protect pages
- Patrol edits, if recent changes patrolling has been turned on
- Rollback bad edits
- View previously deleted pages and media
- View the list of unwatched pages
This is true for all wiki types, unless configured differently.
Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats can:
- Grant and revoke some user rights to users through Special:UserRights
- Refresh expensive special page reports, such as Special:WantedPages or Special:ShortPages through Special:RefreshSpecial
This is true for all wiki types, unless configured differently.
Stewards
Stewards can grant and revoke bot, bureaucrat, sysop and rollback rights through Special:UserRights.
Staff
In addition to the normal user, administrator and bureaucrat features, ShoutWiki staff can:
- Alter the interwiki table
- Block disrupting users globally
- Change the author of a revision
- Check users' IP addresses
- Check a user's preferences
- Configure the wiki's settings
- Edit default system messages to add new translations or to update out-of-date English messages
- Hide certain revisions (versions) of an article from all non-staff users (this is called oversighting)
- Lock the wiki's database