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A new feature of MediaWiki 1.5 allows user groups to be created which include users at different levels.
Each group can be assigned a mixture of the following rights.
| Permission | Description | Access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All users | Registered | Admins | Bureaucrats | Stewards | Individually assigned | Disabled | ||
| asksql | Allows user to query the database using SQL | X | ||||||
| block | Allows user to block an IP address, user name, or range of IPs, from editing | X | ||||||
| boardvote | Allows users to check IPs and strike out votes during Board elections | X |
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| bot | Allows user to edit without their edits showing up in recent changes (usually only used for mass edits by bots) | X | ||||||
| checkuser | Allows user to see all IP addresses used by a registered user or to show all edits from a given IP address, including those made by logged in users. See meta:CheckUser for a discussion of this. | X | ||||||
| createaccount | Allows user to create a user account for themselves or another user | X | ||||||
| 'Create article' | Allows user to create a new article | X | ||||||
| delete | Allows user to delete a page | X | ||||||
| deletedhistory | Allows user to view the history of a deleted page | X | ||||||
| developer | Deprecated: no longer assigned | X | ||||||
| edit | Allows user to edit any page which is not protected | X | ||||||
| editinterface | Allows user to edit the MediaWiki namespace to affect the interface | X | ||||||
| import | Allows user to import pages from a locally stored XML file | X | X |
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| makebot | Allows user to set bot flags for accounts | X | ||||||
| makesysop | Allows user to give admin/bureaucrat abilities to another | X | ||||||
| move | Allows user to change the title of a page by moving it | X | ||||||
| oversight | Allows user to delete individual revisions of pages | X | ||||||
| patrol | Allows user to state that they have checked an edit that appeared in recent changes | X | ||||||
| protect | Allows user to lock or unlock a page, and edit locked pages | X | ||||||
| read | Allows user to read pages (other than whitelisted pages if that option is on) | X | ||||||
| renameuser | Allows user to change the name of an existing account | X | ||||||
| rollback | Allows user to use a special link to more easily revert a bad edit. | X | ||||||
| siteadmin | Allows user to change settings that affect the whole site | X | ||||||
| undelete | Allows user to view deleted versions, undelete a previously deleted page, or undelete specific revisions of a deleted page | X | ||||||
| unwatchedpages | Allows user to view a list of pages not on anyone's watchlist | X | ||||||
| upload | Allows user to upload an image or other file to the wiki, or to overwrite an existing non-protected file | X | ||||||
| userrights | Allows user to change the access levels of another user (more advanced than 'makesysop') | X | ||||||
There has been discussion of making some of the abilities available individually, but there has been no consensus to do this as yet.
Access to some features for this group are not immediately granted.
See also
- Administrators
- Requests for adminship
- Bureaucrats
- Oversight permission
- Requests for checkuser
- CheckUser policy