User:Chris Key/Sandbox/Userrights

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Permission

Ver

(all)

User

Editor

MC

EC

EPA

Constable

Tech Staff

Interface Dev

Founder

Description

read

Yes

allows viewing pages (when set to false, override for specific pages with $wgWhitelistRead).

edit

1.5+

Yes

allows editing unprotected pages.

createpage

1.6+

Yes

allows the creation of new pages (requires the edit right).

createtalk

1.6+

Yes

allows the creation of new talk pages (requires the edit right).

move

1.5+

Yes

allows renaming the titles of unprotected pages (requires the edit right).

createaccount

1.5+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows the creation of new user accounts.

upload

1.5+

Yes

allows the creation of new images and files.

reupload

1.6+

Yes

allows overwriting existing images and files (requires the upload right).

reupload-own

1.11+

Yes

allows overwriting existing images and files uploaded by oneself (requires the upload right).

reupload-shared

1.6+

Yes

allows replacing images and files from a shared repository (if one is set up) with local files (requires the upload right).

upload_by_url

1.8+

Yes

allows uploading by entering the URL of an external image (requires the upload right).

editprotected

1.13+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows to edit protected pages (without cascading protection).

delete

1.5-1.11

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows the deletion or undeletion of pages.

bigdelete

1.12+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows deletion of pages with larger than $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit revisions

deletedhistory

1.6+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows viewing deleted revisions, but not restoring.

undelete

1.12+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows the undeletion of pages.

browsearchive

1.13+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows prefix searching for titles of deleted pages through Special:Undelete.

mergehistory

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows access to Special:MergeHistory, to merge non-overlapping pages.

protect

1.5+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows locking a page to prevent edits and moves, and editing or moving locked pages.

block

1.5+

Yes

Yes

allows the blocking of IP addresses, CIDR ranges, and registered users. Block options include preventing editing and registering new accounts, and autoblocking other users on the same IP address.

blockemail

1.11+

Yes

Yes

allows preventing use of the Special:Emailuser interface when blocking.

hideuser

1.10+

allows hiding the user/IP from the block log, active block list, and user list when blocking. (not available by default)

userrights

Yes

Yes – Editor only

Yes

Yes

allows the use of the user rights interface, which allows the assignment or removal of all* groups to any user.

userrights-interwiki

1.12+

allows changing user rights on other wikis.

rollback

1.5+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows one-click reversion of edits.

markbotedits

1.12+

allows rollback to be marked as bot edits (see Manual:Administrators#Rollback).

patrol

1.5+

allows marking edits as legitimate ($wgUseRCPatrol must be true).

editinterface

1.5+

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows editing the MediaWiki namespace, which contains interface messages.

editusercssjs

1.12+

Yes

Yes

allows editing *.css / *.js subpages of any user.

suppressrevision

1.6+

Yes

Yes

allows preventing deleted revision information from being viewed by sysops and prevents sysops from undeleting the hidden info. Prior to 1.13 this right was named hiderevision (not available by default)

deleterevision

1.6+

Yes

Yes

Yes

allows deleting/undeleting information (revision text, edit summary, user who made the edit) of specific revisions (not available by default)

siteadmin

1.5+

allows locking and unlocking the database (which blocks all interactions with the web site except viewing). Deprecated by default.

import

1.5+

allows user to import one page per time from another wiki (\"transwiki\").

importupload

1.5+

allows user to import several pages per time from XML files. This right was called \'importraw\' in and before version 1.5.

trackback

1.7+

allows removal of trackbacks (if $wgUseTrackbacks is true).

unwatchedpages

1.6+

Yes

allows access to Special:Unwatchedpages, which lists pages that no user has watchlisted.

bot

1.5+

hides edits from recent changes lists and watchlists by default (can optionally be viewed).

purge

1.10+

allows purging a page without a confirmation step (URL parameter \"&action=purge\").

minoredit

1.6+

Yes

allows marking an edit as \'minor\'.

nominornewtalk

1.9+

blocks new message notification when making minor edits to user talk pages (requires minor edit right).

noratelimit

1.13+

not affected by rate limits (prior to the introduction of this right, the configuration variable $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups was used for this purpose)

ipblock-exempt

1.9+

makes user immune to blocks applied to his IP address or a range (CIDR) containing it.

proxyunbannable

1.7+

makes user immune to the open proxy blocker, which is disabled by default ($wgBlockOpenProxies).

autopatrol

1.9+

automatically marks all edits by the user as patrolled ($wgUseRCPatrol must be true).

apihighlimits

1.12+

allows user to use higher limits for API queries

writeapi

1.13+

controls access to the write API ($wgEnableWriteAPI must be true)

suppressredirect

1.12+

Allows moving a page without automatically creating a redirect.

checkuser

CZ Specific

Yes

Yes

Part of account creation

confirmaccount

CZ Specific

Yes

Yes

Part of account creation

setwpfrom

CZ Specific

Yes

Mark an article as containing WP content

requestips

CZ Specific

Yes

Yes

Part of account creation

renameuser

CZ Specific

Yes

Yes

Rename a user