Vlad26t Wiki:User access levels
The user access level of editors affects their abilities to perform certain actions on this wiki; it depends on which rights (also called permissions, user groups, bits or flags) are assigned to accounts. This is determined by whether the editor is logged into an account, and whether the account has a sufficient age and number of edits for certain automatic rights, and what additional rights have been assigned manually to the account.
Overview
All visitors to the site, including unregistered users, are part of the *
group, and all logged-in registered users are also part of the user
and autoconfirmed
groups. Users can be promoted by a steward into the invited
group of established users, allowing them to edit and create pages.
Other flags are only given upon request; some, such as rollback
or bot
, are granted unilaterally if the user demonstrates a need for them (see Vlad26t Wiki:Requests for permissions). Others, such as sysop
and bureaucrat
, are given only after community discussion and consensus at Vlad26t Wiki:Requests for permissions. Users are made members of such groups as steward
and checkuser
only with the approval of the ShoutWiki Staff.
User rights
Local
Unregistered (not logged in) users
Users who are not logged in to a user account are identified by their IP address. These users can read all articles and can create a user account through Special:CreateAccount.
Registered (logged in) users
Users who are logged in with a registered user account have the same rights as users who are not logged in when it comes to reading articles.
Autoconfirmed users
Registered users whose accounts satisfy certain minimum age or edit count criteria are considered to be autoconfirmed
. At ShoutWiki, every registered user is autoconfirmed.
Emailconfirmed users
A registered editor is emailconfirmed
if they have set a valid email address in their user preferences and who have followed an automatic link to confirm that they own it. Emailconfirmed status is required to be able to internally email other users on the wiki. Additionally, emailconfirmed status is required to be able to create your own project from the ShoutWiki Hub main project.
Invited users
A registered editor becomes invited
by appointing that by a steward via Special:Invite, and is demoted via Special:Uninvite. They can edit or create pages, move pages, and upload files.
See Special:ListUsers/invited for a full list of the 1 Vlad26t Wiki invited users.
Administrators
Administrators, sometimes referred to as “admins” or “sysops” (system operators) are trusted users in good standing who have been granted the ability to perform many advanced technical actions on the wiki. Many of these actions do not directly affect editing, rather they deal with maintenance and housekeeping of the project in general. Users with administrator permissions can:
- Block and unblock user accounts or IP addresses from editing
- Protect pages from editing and edit protected pages
- Delete and undelete pages
- Edit both the common user interface (the MediaWiki namespace) and an individual user’s interface (custom css or js pages)
- Move (rename) pages without leaving a redirect
- Manage problem reports
- Search and view deleted pages
- View the spam and title blacklists, and their associated logs
Note that the above list is not exahustive - a full list of administrator permissions can be viewed here.
Administrator access is granted at the discretion of a bureaucrat or the project founder, usually upon request from a user. Requests from users with very little experience or recent blocks will likely be declined.
See Special:ListUsers/sysop for a full list of the 2 Vlad26t Wiki administrators.
Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats are administrators who have been granted a few extra abilities, primarily the ability to add and remove user rights from other accounts. Bureaucrats can add all local user rights except checkuser to an account, and can remove all local user rights except bureaucrat and checkuser from an account.
See Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat for a list of the 2 bureaucrats.
Interface administrators
Users within the 'interface-admin'
user group have the ability to edit site-wide CSS, JavaScript and JSON pages (pages such as MediaWiki:Common.js or MediaWiki:Vector.css), CSS/JS/JSON pages in another user's userspace, and pages in the Mediawiki namespace. All interface administrator access is automatically assigned to administrators.
See Special:ListUsers/interface-admin for a list of the 1 Interface administrators.
Bots
Bots are authorized alternate accounts of a user in good standing that are responsible for performing repeative or automated tasks/edits that would be extremely tedious to perform manually. The bot flag allows bot accounts to have their edits hidden from Special:RecentChanges by default. It also gives the bot the ability to move pages without leaving a redirect, which is otherwise only granted to administrators. Bot status is granted by a bureaucrat or the project founder after a review of the requested bot and what tasks said bot will perform, as well as a review of the bot operator.
See Special:ListUsers/bot for a list of the 1 bot-accounts.
Rollbackers
Users with the 'rollback'
permission flag are known as rollbackers. Rollbackers have access to an enhanced reversion tool that allows them to revert all consecutive edits made by a single user to a single page in one click. This is extremely useful for reverting mass vandalism, as it does not require individual reversions of each page. Rollback rights are granted by either a bureaucrat or the project founder, usually after a request by the user in question. The user requesting rollback rights must have demonstrated a clear understanding of what is and isn’t vandalism, and be active in vandalism reversion. Since rollback does not allow the user to leave an edit summary, it must never be used to revert good-faith edits or other edits that are not obvious vandalism. Doing so may lead to immediate removal of the rollback flag.
See Special:ListUsers/rollback for a list of the 0 rollbackers.
Checkusers
Checkusers are administrators who have been granted the ability to view private details about user accounts. These details include the user’s IP address, User Agent string, DNS hostmask, and operating system information. The tool is only used to verify whether or not two or more accounts are being operated maliciously by the same person (known as sock puppetry), or to verify whether or not an account has been compromised. Abusive use of the tool, referred to as “fishing” will be grounds for immediate removal of rights, and, depending on the severity of the abuse, possibly a ban from the project altogether. The checkuser group is only granted and removed by the ShoutWiki staff.
See Special:ListUsers/checkuser for a list of the 0 checkusers.
Stewards
The 'steward'
user group is automatically granted to a project's founder. This group gives a user full access to local user rights, including the ability to remove bureaucrat rights from a user, which standard admins and bureaucrats cannot. The steward flag does not have any additional permissions that are not included in either administrator or bureaucrat rights, with the exception of removing bureaucrat rights. The steward flag is only granted and removed by the ShoutWiki staff.
See Special:ListUsers/steward for a list of the 1 stewards.
Global
Staff
Staff are users with complete access to the MediaWiki interface on all ShoutWiki projects. Staff members will almost always be vetted global community helpers or staff members. Staff members have access to all features included in the administrator and bureaucrat permission sets, but also have access to several features not available to local users. These include:
- Immunity to account blocks
- Changing the author of a page revision or the performer of a log entry
- Deleting specific page revisions from public view, without deleting the entire page
- Adding, removing, or modifying any and all user rights
- Modifiying the interwiki table
- Globally blocking IP addresses from editing on all wikis
- Importing pages from another wiki
- Performing database maintenance
- Looking up user preferences
- Suppressing deleted pages or revisions from administrators (known as oversighting)
- Viewing cross-wiki contributions of IP addresses and user accounts
- Global Checkuser access
- Tagging edits as official actions
Note that the above list is not exahustive - a full list of staff permissions can be viewed here.
See Special:ListUsers/staff for a list of the 4 ShoutWiki staff members.
Interns
'Interns' are users who have been approved by the staff to have administrator access on all ShoutWiki projects. These users have all of the rights that local administrators have, with the exception of two additional rights that are otherwise staff-only; these are the ability to import pages and the ability to view a user’s cross-wiki contributions. Like with staff members, interns should never use their rights except in the event of an emergency.
See Special:ListUsers/intern for a list of the 1 ShoutWiki intern.
Global bots
Global bots are bot accounts approved by the ShoutWiki Staff to have bot status on all ShoutWiki projects. This group is typically reserved for maintenance bots that need to make small changes on multiple wikis at once. Global bots that appear to be operating in an unauthorized manner may be indefinitely blocked.
See Special:ListUsers/globalbot for a list of the 2 global bots.
Table
- As a function of the Requests for permissions process, all administrators/bureaucrats on the Vlad26t Wiki are also invited users, and so have all the permissions of the
'invited'
user group in addition to those rights from the'sysop'
/'bureaucrat'
groups. However, this is not a requirement of the MediaWiki software; it is technically possible for a user to be an admin without also being an invited user. - Deprecated permissions are either no longer assigned to any group or the group to which they are assigned is no longer populated.
- Special:ListGroupRights is an automatically generated list of granted user group rights. The below table is manually updated, and also includes global groups with local access.
Granted | Inherited | Denied | Revoked | Depends | Limited | Deprecated |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Permission | Allows user(s) to… | Unregistered users |
Registered/ Autoconfirmed |
Invited | Administrators | Bureaucrats | Stewards | other groups |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
abusefilter-log | View the abuse log | |||||||
abusefilter-log-detail | View detailed abuse log entries | |||||||
abusefilter-view | View abuse filters | |||||||
abusefilter-modify | Modify abuse filters | Staff | ||||||
abusefilter-private | View private data (IP addresses) in the abuse log | |||||||
abusefilter-private-log | View the AbuseFilter private details access log | |||||||
abusefilter-revert | Revert all changes by a given abuse filter | Staff | ||||||
apihighlimits | Request API queries in batches of 5,000, rather than 500 | Bots, Global bots, Interns, Staff | ||||||
autoconfirmed | Not be affected by IP-based rate limits | Bots, Global bots, Interns, Staff | ||||||
autopatrol | Automatically mark all edits made by the user as patrolled | Bots, Global bots, Interns, Staff | ||||||
block | Block an IP address, user account, or range of IP addresses, from editing | Interns, Staff | ||||||
bot | Edit without their edits showing up in recent changes | Bots, Global bots | ||||||
checkuser | View all IP addresses used by a user account or show all edits from a given IP address | CheckUsers, Staff | ||||||
checkuser-log | View the checkuser log | |||||||
createaccount | Create a new user account for themselves or another user | Interns, Staff | ||||||
createpage | Create a new page | Interns, Staff | ||||||
createtalk | Create a new talk page | |||||||
delete | Delete a page with ≤ 5,000 revisions | Interns, Staff | ||||||
deletedhistory | View the history of a deleted page or a user's deleted contributions | |||||||
deletedtext | View the text of deleted revisions | |||||||
deleterevision | Access the RevisionDelete tool and change the public visibility of edit revisions and logs | Staff | ||||||
edit | Edit any page which is not protected | Interns, Staff | ||||||
editinterface | Edit the MediaWiki namespace to affect the interface | Interface administrators, Interns, Staff | ||||||
editusercss | Edit the .css files of other users | |||||||
edituserjs | Edit the .js files of other users | |||||||
edituserjson | Edit the .json files of other users | |||||||
editsitecss | Edit sitewide .css files | |||||||
editsitejs | Edit sitewide .js files | |||||||
editsitejson | Edit sitewide .json files | |||||||
editprotected | Edit protected pages | Interns, Staff | ||||||
import | Import pages from other wikis | Interns, Staff | ||||||
importupload | Import pages from a locally stored XML file | |||||||
ipblock-exempt | Be unaffected by blocks applied to the user's IP address or a range (CIDR) containing it | Interns, Staff | ||||||
markbotedits | Mark rollback as bot edits, to keep them out of recent changes | Interns, Staff | ||||||
minoredit | Make an edit marked as 'minor' | Staff | ||||||
move | Change the title of a page by moving it | Interns, Staff | ||||||
move-categorypages | Change the title of a category by moving it | |||||||
movefile | Change the title of a file by moving it | |||||||
move-rootuserpages | Move root user pages | |||||||
move-subpages | Move pages with their subpages | |||||||
nominornewtalk | Minor edits by this user to user talk pages do not trigger the "you have new messages" banner | Bots, Global bots | ||||||
Permission | Allows user(s) to… | Unregistered users |
Registered/ Autoconfirmed |
Invited | Administrators | Bureaucrats | Stewards | other groups |