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User groups (also sometimes referred to as flags) are bundles which contain user permissions assigned to them. Users can then be promoted to these user groups to allow them to use all the permissions within the user group.

This article covers the default user groups on SkyWiki wikis and the permissions they have assigned to them. Some wikis may choose to add or remove permissions from a group or completely delete a user group, so this guide may not be indicative or accurate on some wikis which have chosen to deviate from the default user groups and permissions. No wiki, however, can delete a restricted local group or a global group.

Local groups

Local groups are all groups which only have power on one wiki, their local wiki. Unlike global groups which can do certain actions on all SkyWiki wikis, local groups only have power on one wiki.

Below is a list of all local groups as they are by default and includes restricted user groups which only Stewards can assign.

Bureaucrats

Bureaucrat is the highest local group a user can obtain by default. Bureaucrats can promote and demote administrators and interface administrators. Additionally, bureaucrats are not affected by rate limits, can override local account spoofing checks in AntiSpoof, can access ManageWiki, and can edit interwiki data.

By default, bureaucrats cannot be demoted by other bureaucrats, only Stewards may do that. Bureaucrats also hold an immense amount of power locally. Only promote trusted users to bureaucrat. If you are a bureaucrat, you can request other bureaucrats be demoted on the Steward requests/Permissions (granted you have a good reason for it such as bureaucrat or community consensus, resignation, or another good reason).

The bureaucrat group alone does not give users the ability to do many tasks often associated with being an administrator, such as banning users and deleting pages. To achieve all of that, you must also be an administrator.

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# Permission Description: 1 noratelimit Not be affected by rate limits 2 override-antispoof Override the spoofing checks 3 managewiki ⧼right-managewiki⧽ 4 interwiki Edit interwiki data

Administrators

Administrator (in the "sysop" group) is the second-highest local group a user can obtain by default. Administrators can block users, protect or delete pages, among many other administrative duties.

By default, administrators may only be demoted by bureaucrats and may not demote or promote others to administrator. Administrators can promote and demote users to autopatrolled, confirmed or rollbacker.

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# Permission Description: 1 apihighlimits Use higher limits in API queries 2 autoconfirmed Not be affected by IP-based rate limits 3 autopatrol Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled 4 block Block or unblock other users from editing 5 blockemail Block or unblock a user from sending email 6 browsearchive Search deleted pages 7 createaccount Create new user accounts 8 delete Delete pages 9 deletechangetags Delete tags from the database 10 deletedhistory View deleted history entries, without their associated text 11 deletedtext View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions 12 deletelogentry Delete and undelete specific log entries 13 deleterevision Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages 14 editinterface Edit the user interface 15 editprotected Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" 16 editsemiprotected Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" 17 editsitecss Edit sitewide CSS 18 editsitejson Edit sitewide JSON 19 editsitejs Edit sitewide JavaScript 20 editusercss Edit other users' CSS files 21 edituserjson Edit other users' JSON files 22 edituserjs Edit other users' JavaScript files 23 import Import pages from other wikis 24 importupload Import pages from a file upload 25 ipblock-exempt Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks 26 managechangetags Create and (de)activate tags 27 markbotedits Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits 28 mergehistory Merge the history of pages 29 move Move pages 30 movefile Move files 31 move-categorypages Move category pages 32 move-rootuserpages Move root user pages 33 move-subpages Move pages with their subpages 34 noratelimit Not be affected by rate limits 35 patrol Mark others' edits as patrolled 36 patrolmarks View recent changes patrol marks 37 protect Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages 38 reupload Overwrite existing files 39 reupload-shared Override files on the shared media repository locally 40 rollback Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page 41 suppressredirect Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages 42 unblockself Unblock oneself 43 undelete Undelete a page 44 unwatchedpages View a list of unwatched pages 45 upload Upload files 46 upload_by_url Upload files from a URL 47 abusefilter-modify Create or modify abuse filters 48 abusefilter-log-detail View detailed abuse log entries 49 abusefilter-modify-restricted Modify abuse filters with restricted actions 50 abusefilter-revert Revert all changes by a given abuse filter 51 override-antispoof Override the spoofing checks 52 skipcaptcha Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA 53 generate-dump Generate wiki backups 54 delete-dump Delete wiki backups 55 view-dump View wiki backups 56 globalblock-whitelist Disable global blocks locally 57 nuke Mass delete pages 58 tboverride ⧼right-tboverride⧽ 59 massmessage ⧼right-massmessage⧽

Interface administrators

Interface administrator (in the "interface-admin" group) is a group which allows users to edit the MediaWiki namespace (which contains all system messages) along with sitewide and personal CSS, JavaScript, and JSON. Because editing the interface for the entire wiki or for certain users can lead to potential security issues, you should be careful who you give this to! Only give it to trusted users.

By default, interface administrators may be promoted or demoted by bureaucrats only.

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# Permission Description: 1 editinterface Edit the user interface 2 editsitecss Edit sitewide CSS 3 editsitejson Edit sitewide JSON 4 editsitejs Edit sitewide JavaScript 5 editusercss Edit other users' CSS files 6 edituserjson Edit other users' JSON files 7 edituserjs Edit other users' JavaScript files

Bots

Bot (in the "bot" group) is a group which classifies a user as an automated process or bot. These users have their edits hidden in the Recent Changes by default to prevent them from clogging the page (though you can view their recent actions by removing the "Human (not bot)" filter in Special:RecentChanges). In addition to that, they have certain other permissions assigned to them to prevent them from getting caught in the CAPTCHAs, prevent them from getting caught in IP-based rate limits, among a few other permissions to prevent any interference for legitimate bots.

By default, bots may be promoted or demoted by bureaucrats only.

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# Permission Description: 1 apihighlimits Use higher limits in API queries 2 autoconfirmed Not be affected by IP-based rate limits 3 autopatrol Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled 4 bot Be treated as an automated process 5 editsemiprotected Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" 6 nominornewtalk Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt 7 suppressredirect Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages 8 skipcaptcha Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA

Rollbackers

Rollbacker (in the "rollback" group) is a group which allows users to quickly revert all the edits made by the last user who edited a certain page. The ability to rollback is already included in the administrator toolset so you do not need to promote administrators to this group for them to be able to roll back edits.

By default, rollbackers may be promoted or demoted by administrators.

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# Permission Description: 1 rollback Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page

Autopatrolled users

Autopatrolled (in the "autopatrolled" group) is a group which allows users' edits to be automatically 'patrolled' (marked as "reviewed") and prevent their edits from appearing with a red exclamation point in Recent Changes. These users can also mark other's edits as reviewed. This permission is typically granted to users who have shown that they don't need to be monitored.

By default, autopatrolled users may be promoted or demoted by administrators.

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# Permission Description: 1 autopatrol Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled 2 patrol Mark others' edits as patrolled 3 patrolmarks View recent changes patrol marks 4 skipcaptcha Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA

Confirmed users

Confirmed users (in the "confirmed" group) are users who can bypass certain restrictions set on new accounts, such as CAPTCHAs, and can edit pages protected against non-(auto)confirmed users. This is done to prevent spam.

By default, confirmed users may be promoted or demoted by administrators.

Confirmed users are granted these permissions by default:

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# Permission Description: 1 autoconfirmed Not be affected by IP-based rate limits 2 editsemiprotected Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" 3 skipcaptcha Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA

Autoconfirmed users

Autoconfirmed users (in the "autoconfirmed" group) are users who can bypass certain restrictions set on new accounts such as CAPTCHAs, and can edit pages protected against non-autoconfirmed users just as those in the "confirmed" group, except that they are, by default, automatically promoted to autoconfirmed after their account reaches 4 days of existence and 10 edits made. If you don't wish to wait that long, you can forcefully promote a user to confirmed to allow them to bypass CAPTCHAs and edit semi-protected pages without meeting the threshold for automatic promotion to autoconfirmed. This is done to prevent spam.

In addition to the above, autoconfirmed users are also given these permissions:

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# Permission Description: 1 createaccount Create new user accounts 2 mwoauthproposeconsumer Propose new OAuth consumers 3 mwoauthupdateownconsumer Update OAuth consumers you control

Members

Member (in the "member" group) is a group given to users on private wikis which allows them to read a wiki. Apart from being able to read the wiki, they hold no other special permission.

By default, members may be promoted or demoted by administrators.

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# Permission Description: 1 read Read pages

Users

User (in the "user" group) is a group that is made up of all registered users, whether they have any advanced group or not.

No one can revoke the user user group from a user. Though they can be banned, they can never lose their user group.

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# Permission Description: 1 applychangetags Apply tags along with one's changes 2 changetags Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries 3 createpage Create pages (which are not discussion pages) 4 createtalk Create discussion pages 5 edit Edit pages 6 editcontentmodel Edit the content model of a page 7 editmyusercss Edit your own user CSS files 8 editmyuserjson Edit your own user JSON files 9 editmyuserjs Edit your own user JavaScript files 10 minoredit Mark edits as minor 11 move Move pages 12 movefile Move files 13 move-categorypages Move category pages 14 move-rootuserpages Move root user pages 15 move-subpages Move pages with their subpages 16 purge Purge the cache for a page 17 reupload Overwrite existing files 18 reupload-shared Override files on the shared media repository locally 19 sendemail Send email to other users 20 upload Upload files 21 torunblocked Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes

(everyone)

(everyone) (in the "*" group) is a group that is composed of all registered and non-registered users. This means that this includes both users and IP editors.

Removing permissions from this group is useful to prevent IP editors from doing certain actions. If you remove a permission from this group, you should ideally move it to the "user" group to allow users to be able to do the action (such as editing).

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# Permission Description: 1 createaccount Create new user accounts 2 createpage Create pages (which are not discussion pages) 3 createtalk Create discussion pages 4 edit Edit pages 5 abusefilter-log-detail View detailed abuse log entries 6 abusefilter-view View abuse filters 7 abusefilter-log View the abuse log

Restricted local user groups

On all wikis, a few groups exist which are not assignable by bureaucrats. These groups are only assignable by users in global groups with the userrights/userrights-interwiki permission in their toolset as all these user groups wield an immense amount of power locally.

Check users

For more information (including how to request one), please see CheckUser.

CheckUser is a special group and tool which allows its wielders (called Check users) to check users' IP addresses, user-agents, along with some other information. This permission is only used when investigating sockpuppetry or platform abuse and is not assignable by local bureaucrats. CheckUser is restricted for use only by Stewards

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# Permission Description: 1 checkuser Check users' IP addresses and other information 2 checkuser-log View the checkuser log

Suppressors

For more information, please see Suppression

Suppressor is a special group which allows its wielders (called ⧼Group-Suppressor⧽) to completely suppress and hide log entries and revisions from everyone who is not an ⧼Group-Suppressor⧽, including local administrators and even Stewards themselves when they do not have the Suppressor flag on. It is typically only used to hide personal information and is not assignable by local bureaucrats. Oversight is restricted for use only by Stewards

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# Permission Description: 1 abusefilter-hidden-log View hidden abuse log entries 2 abusefilter-hide-log Hide entries in the abuse log 3 browsearchive Search deleted pages 4 deletedhistory View deleted history entries, without their associated text 5 deletedtext View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions 6 deletelogentry Delete and undelete specific log entries 7 deleterevision Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages 8 hideuser Block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public 9 suppressionlog View private logs 10 suppressrevision View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user