Help:Group rights

There exist various user groups on the wiki. Here is an overview about what they do. There are following automatically assigned user groups:

• (all) *: all users, including both registered users and IP users (however IP editing is disabled on this wiki, since you require a confirmed E-Mail to edit).
• Users user: all registered users.
• Autoconfirmed users autoconfirmed: is automatically assigned to users with more than 10 edits and an account age of 4 days. This group comes with a superset of permissions that come with confimed users, allowing editing semiprotected pages, skipping captchas, being exempt from IP-based rate limits, as well as being able to propose and manage OAuth consumers.

In addition, there are following manually assigned permissions:

• Confirmed users confirmed: can be manually assigned by sysops to give people who are not autoconfirmed yet a subset of rights the autoconfirmed group has, namely editing semiprotected pages, skipping captchas, and exemption from IP-based rate limits.
• Autopatrolled users autopatrolled: edits by those users get automatically patrolled, and they can patrol other user's edits (see Help:Page validation). They can also skip captchas.
• Rollbackers rollbacker: these users can rollback edits by a user on a certain page with a single click (useful for fighting vandalism and spam).
• Autochecked users autoreview: edits by those users get automatically flagged as spot checked (see Help:Page validation).
• Editors editor: superset of rights given to autochecked users. Edits by those users get automatically flagged as spot checked, but they can also spot check other's edits. They can also edit semiprotected pages, and are exempt from IP-based rate limits.
• Administrators sysop: a very powerful group. Has all the permissions that the above manually asisgned groups have. In addition they have various vast powers and access to administrative tools. For example, they can edit fully protected pages, change a page's protection, move pages without leaving behind a redirect, delete pages and revisions, view and restore deleted pages and revisions, block users. They can assign all of the above manually assigned groups, and have higher API limits as well as not being affected by any rate limits.

There are a few specialized groups that have permissions that administrators do not. These can be only assigned by bureaucrats:

• Bots bot: superset of rights given to confirmed and autochecked users. Their edits are also automatically marked as patrolled, as well as flagged as bot edits, so they can be filtered from logs. They may move pages without leaving behind a redirect, can edit talk pages without triggering a message, and, of course, have higher API limits.
• Reviewers reviewer: superset of rights given to editors. The only difference is that they can also flag revisions as "accurate" and "well sourced", unlike editors or even sysops.
• Interface administrators interface-admin: can edit the wiki's interface (pages in the MediaWiki namespace), and edit sitwide and other user's JSON files. Unlike sysops, they can also edit sitewide and other user's CSS and JavaScript files.
• Bureaucrats bureaucrat: another very powerful group. Can edit the wiki's settings, including editing permissions given to user groups. They aren't affected by rate limits either. More importantly, they can assign those groups listed here that the administrators can't assign.

Finally there are special groups not even bureaucrats can assign, which are used only in exceptional circumstances when Miraheze has to intervene in local wiki affairs (often there are equivalent global groups):

• Users blocked from the IP Information tool no-ipinfo: users in this group cannot use the IP info tool.
• Check users checkuser: can view registered user's IP addresses and other sensitive and private information. Typically use when investigating sockpuppets.
• Suppresors suppress: can deleted and view various things. Not even stewards or local administrators and bureaucrats can view things suppressors have deleted. This is to deal with leaks of sensitive information.
• Stewards steward: stewards can asisgn themselves this group, in order to edit all local user rights.

For more details, see Special:ListGroupRights and user groups on Miraheze Meta.