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Users can be organized by the kinds of rights and access levels that have on the wiki.
Regular user groups
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Unregistered users
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Users who are not logged in are called unregistered users, or temporary account users. These users can edit pages that are outside the main namespace and which are not protected or semi-protected. These users' edits will appear in page histories alongside the temporary account from which their edits were made.
Registered users
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Registered users are users who have signed up for an account and have logged in to a Wikimedia project. In addition to what an unregistered user can do, a registered user can: create pages, edit and create abstract articles, edit their own preferences, edit their own watchlist, and mark edits as minor.
Autoconfirmed and confirmed users
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A registered user automatically becomes autoconfirmed after 4 days and at least 1 edit. Confirmed users are users who have been given access to the same permissions as autoconfirmed users before their account has reached the threshold to be automatically added to the autoconfirmed user group. Notably, users with this group can move pages and edit semi-protected pages themselves without making an edit request.
Administrators
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Administrators (also known as admins or sysops) are experienced and trusted users who are able to complete maintenance tasks for Abstract Wikipedia to function properly. These tasks include deleting pages, protecting pages, blocking users and granting users additional user groups. Users can only apply for adminship at
Abstract Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
Interface administrators
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Interface administrators are highly trusted users with the ability to edit all pages in the MediaWiki namespace, including sitewide CSS, JavaScript and JSON pages. These pages are executed by the browser of wiki editors and readers as code, which can be used to change how content is styled. They also have the ability to edit user CSS, JavaScript and JSON pages. Users can only apply for interface adminship at
Abstract Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
Translation administrators
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Translation administrators are users who set up pages using the
translation extension
and mark them for translation so that pages can be translated by users into any supported language. Users can only apply for translation adminship at
Abstract Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
Bureaucrats
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Bureaucrats (also known as 'crats') are experienced and trusted users who are able to assign and remove advanced user groups including Administrators, Translation administrators, Interface administrators, and bots. Users can only apply for bureaucratship at
Abstract Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
Specialised user groups
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IP block exemptions
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Users who are given the IP block exemption are not affected by autoblocks, blocks of IP addresses and rangeblocks (both global and local). They are also exempt from proxy blocks and Tor blocks.
Check users
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A user with the checkuser permission on a wiki can, in particular, check if a user is a sockpuppet of another user on that wiki (not on all wikis).
Suppressors
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Oversight or suppression refers to hiding revisions, edit summaries, usernames, or log entries from the public. Suppressed data can only be viewed and restored by users in these groups.
Bots
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Bots (also known as robots) are automated tools used to make edits without the necessity of human decision-making.
Importers
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There are two types of Importers: importers and transwiki importers. Both can perform transwiki import however only importers can perform upload import.
Functioneers and Maintainers
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See
f:Wikifunctions:Functioneers
and
f:Wikifunctions:Maintainers
These user groups are only for Wikifunctions and shouldn't be given out on Abstract Wikipedia.
Global user groups
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Global sysops
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Global sysops are users that have sysop and interface administrator privileges on
most public wikis
, for the purposes of antivandalism and routine maintenance. They are not users with sysop tools on all wikis and they have no extra editorial control over content or the local community.
Stewards
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Stewards are a global group of users with complete access to the wiki interface on all public Wikimedia wikis. They have the technical ability to modify all local and global user rights, change the status and name of global accounts, and access any of the permissions available to administrators and bureaucrats.
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