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The
user access level
of editors affects their abilities to perform specific actions on Wikimania wiki. A user's access level depends on which rights (also called permissions,
user groups
bits
, or
flags
) are assigned to accounts. There are two types of access leveling: automatic and requested. User access levels are determined by whether the user is logged in, the account's age and edit count, and what manually assigned rights the account has.
Anyone can use the basic functionalities of Wikimania even if they are not logged in. Being logged in gives users many advantages, such as having their public
IP address
hidden and the ability to track one's own contributions. Furthermore, once user accounts are more than a certain number of days old and have made more than a certain number of edits, they automatically become autoconfirmed or extended confirmed, allowing the direct creation of articles, the ability to move pages, to edit semi-protected and extended-protected pages, and upload files. Further access levels need to be assigned manually by a user with the appropriate authority. Administrator rights are assigned on an as-needed basis, usually to the members of current Core Organising Team, WMF staffers supporting Wikimania, Wikimania steering committee members, and other Wikimedia community members who have demonstrated a need for the tool.
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
group. Users are automatically promoted into the
autoconfirmed/confirmed users
pseudo-group of established users when their account is more than four days old and has ten edits, and the
extended confirmed
user group later on, at 30 days of age and 500 edits.
Other flags are only given upon request at
Wikimania:Requests for rights
bot
sysop
, and
bureaucrat
User groups have one or more rights assigned to them; for example, the IP block-exempt (IP block exemptions) group has the '
ipblock-exempt
' and '
torunblocked
' rights. All members of a particular user group will have access to these rights. The individual rights that are assigned to user groups are listed at
Special:ListGroupRights
. Terms like
rights
permissions
bits
and
flags
can refer to both user groups and the individual rights assigned to them.
Permissions requested at
Requests for rights
only have local rights on the Wikimania wiki. Members of
global user groups
have rights across all
Wikimedia Foundation
wikis. Users registered at Wikimedia wikis also have registered user rights to other Wikimedia wikis if their account is a
SUL or unified login account
. Both local and global user group membership across
Wikimedia wikis
can be viewed at
Special:CentralAuth
Unregistered (IP or not logged in) users
Shortcuts
WP:IP
en
WP:UNREGISTERED
"WP:IP" redirects here. For intellectual property, see
Wikipedia:Copyrights
Users who are not
logged in
are identified by their
IP address
rather than a
username
, whether or not they have already
registered an account
. They may read all Wikipedia pages (except restricted
special pages
), and edit pages that are not
protected
(including
pending changes protected
move-protected
articles). They may create
talk pages
in any talk
namespace
, but need to ask for help to create pages in some parts of the wiki. Furthermore, they cannot
upload
files or images. They must answer a
CAPTCHA
if they wish to make an edit which involves the addition of
external links
, and click a confirmation link to
purge
pages. All users may also query the
site API
in 500-record batches.
Edit screens of unregistered users are headed by a banner displaying the
Anoneditwarning
system message.
User groups granted to accounts
Standard user rights
Each of Wikipedia's account permissions - whether systematically granted (automatically applied), or approved and granted by an
administrator
or
bureaucrat
- are listed and described in-depth. This information can be located by clicking
here
Registered (new) users
Shortcut
WP:REGISTERED
See also:
Wikipedia:Why create an account?
You
are not logged in or registered
. You can log in or create an account
here
You
are logged in
Registered users may immediately e-mail other users if they activate an email address in their
user preferences
. All logged-in users may mark edits as
minor
. They may purge pages without a confirmation step, but are still required to answer a
CAPTCHA
when adding external links. They may customize their Wikimedia interface and its options as they wish—either via
Special:Preferences
, or by adding
personal
CSS
or
JavaScript
rules to their
common.css
or
common.js
files. They may create and maintain a
watchlist
Autoconfirmed and confirmed users
Shortcuts
WM:AUTOCONFIRM
en
WM:CONFIRM
en
WM:AUTOC
You are not logged in, so you
are not autoconfirmed.
Your account
is autoconfirmed
is not autoconfirmed
Several actions on the Wikimania wiki (such as creating and editing pages in the 'years' and Template namespaces) are restricted to user accounts that are at least 4 days old
and
have made at least 10 edits. Users who meet these requirements are considered part of the pseudo-group
autoconfirmed
. The conditions for autoconfirmed status are checked every time a user attempts to perform a restricted action; if they are met, permission is granted automatically by the MediaWiki software. Although the precise requirements for autoconfirmed status vary according to circumstances, most Wikimania wiki user accounts that are at least 4 days old
and
have made at least 10 edits (including deleted edits) are considered autoconfirmed. However, users with the
IP block exemption
flag and who are editing through the
Tor
network are subjected to much stricter autoconfirmed thresholds: 90 days and 100 edits.
Autoconfirmed users are no longer required to enter a
CAPTCHA
for most edits, including, but not limited to, adding external links. Autoconfirmed users may email users that have their "allow emails from brand-new users" checkbox off. In addition, the
edit filter
has a number of warning settings that will no longer affect editors who are autoconfirmed.
Confirmed users
Sometimes, it is necessary for accounts to skip the customary confirmation period and to be confirmed right away. The
confirmed
group contains the exact same rights as the
autoconfirmed
pseudo-group, but can be granted by administrators. It is redundant to grant the
confirmed
right to an account that is already autoconfirmed since it provides the exact same abilities. To request this permission, see
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed
. See
Special:ListUsers/confirmed
for a list of the
17
confirmed users.
Pending: a bot will be created to automatically elevate new accounts upon edit as an non-autoconfirmed editor to confirmed users for a period of three months if the editors are established editors in any of Wikimedia wikis (10 global edits, 4 days old).
Extended confirmed users
"WP:EXTENDEDCONFIRMED" redirects here. For extended confirmed protection, see
Wikipedia:Protection policy §
Extended confirmed protection
Shortcuts
WP:XC
en
WP:XCON
en
WP:EXTENDED
You are not logged in, so you
are not extended confirmed
Your account
is extended confirmed
does not have the extended confirmed flag
, but you
are an administrator
, so your account is extended confirmed by default
A registered editor becomes
extendedconfirmed
automatically one edit after the account has existed for at least 30 days
and
has made at least 500 edits.
This user access right allows editors to edit and create pages that are under
extended confirmed protection
. This access is included and bundled in the
bot
translationadmin
, and
sysop
administrator
) user groups. This group was primarily created to allow administrators for a more targeted remedy, i.e. allow edits to highly visible pages or templates to a larger group of users than just administrators.
Membership in the
extendedconfirmed
group is revoked if a user is in another group with which it is redundant, and in rare cases may be revoked for other reasons, such as if a user
games the system by making many trivial edits
. If extended confirmed is revoked, it may be re-granted at
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Extended confirmed
. That page may also be used to request early grants of the group, but requests are almost never accepted except for
legitimate alternate accounts
of users who are extended confirmed on other accounts or in other Wikimedia wikis.
Pending: a bot will be created to autopromote extended-confirmed editors for a period of 3 months upon request at
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Extended confirmed
if the editor is an extended confirmed editor on another Wikimedia wiki and is not blocked on that wiki as well as not being blocked on more than 2 wikis.
See
Special:ListUsers/extendedconfirmed
for a list of the
138
extended confirmed users.
Flags granted to users after approval by an
administrator
or
bureaucrat
Unless otherwise noted, see
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
to request the following rights. Some of these rights are automatically assigned to administrators.
IP block exemption
See also:
Wikipedia:IP block exemption
Users who are given the ipblock-exempt flag (
ipblock-exempt
user group) are not affected by
autoblocks
, blocks of IP addresses and ranges that are made with the "Prevent logged-in users from editing" option enabled,
and by
Tor blocks
The flag is intended for trusted users in good standing who are unfortunately affected by such blocks. Requests for this permission may be included with your
unblock request
. If you are affected by an IP address range block, you must send your unblock request using the
Unblock Ticket Request System
. If you are trying to edit through a blocked anonymous proxy or a VPN service, you must instead send your request to
checkuser-en-wp
wikipedia.org
, or contact a
CheckUser
directly.
This right is automatically assigned to administrators and bots.
Administrators are also free to grant the right to good-faith editors known to be affected by IP blocks, without waiting for an unblock request.
See
Special:ListUsers/ipblock-exempt
for a list of the
21
affected users.
Other flagged accounts
Bots
Template:Seealso
Accounts used by approved
bots
to make pre-approved edits can be flagged as such. Bot accounts are automated or semi-automated, the nature of their edits is well defined, and they will be quickly blocked if their actions vary from their given tasks, so they require less scrutiny than human edits.
For this reason, contributions from accounts with the bot flag (
bot
user group) are not displayed in
recent changes
or
watchlists
to users who have opted to hide bot edits. Minor edits made by bot accounts to user talk pages do not trigger the
"you have new messages"
banner. Bot accounts can query the
API
in batches of 5,000 rather than 500.
See
Special:ListUsers/bot
for a list of the
bots.
Blocked users
Template:See
Any user account can be blocked, regardless of which user group(s) it belongs to. While the account is blocked, the blocking flag disables the user or IP's existing editing privileges depending on which
block options
are set by the administrator. A
partial block
still allows some parts of Wikipedia to be edited.
Blocked users are listed on
Special:BlockList
Indefinitely blocked users
Shortcuts
WP:INDEFRIGHTS
en
WP:BANNEDRIGHTS
If an editor is
blocked indefinitely
but not
site-banned
, their rights should generally be left as is. Rights specifically related to the reason for blocking may be removed at administrators' discretion;
certain rights might also later be removed under applicable inactivity rules.
When an editor is indefinitely site-banned by the community, all manually-granted permissions should be removed. If the ban is reversed due to actual error (e.g. votestacking in the ban thread), the rights should be restored, but otherwise a user who successfully appeals their ban is not automatically entitled to regain the rights.
Global rights
Global rights have effects on all public
Wikimedia
wikis, but their use may be restricted by local policy, see
Wikipedia:Global rights policy
. For an automatically generated list of global groups with all their permissions, see
Special:GlobalGroupPermissions
. For a list of users along with their global groups, see
Special:GlobalUsers
Stewards
Template:Seealso
Stewardship is an elected role, and stewards are appointed globally across all public Wikimedia wikis.
Users who are members of the
steward
user group may grant and revoke any permission to or from any user on any wiki operated by the
Wikimedia Foundation
which allows open account creation. This group is set on
MetaWiki
, and may use
meta:Special:Userrights
to set permissions on any Wikimedia wiki; they may add or remove any user from
any group configured on metawiki
. Stewards generally act only when there is no user on a particular wiki that can make the necessary change. This includes granting of the
administrator
or
bureaucrat
access levels on wikis which do not have any local bureaucrats, and removing such flags if the user resigns or the account is acting maliciously. Stewards are also responsible for granting and revoking access levels such as
oversight
and
checkuser
, as no other group is capable of making such changes except
Foundation sysadmins
and
Trust and Safety
staff.
Stewards can also act as
checkusers
oversighters
bureaucrats
or
administrators
on wikis which do not have active local members of those groups. For example, if a wiki has a passing need for an edit to be oversighted, a steward can add themselves to the
oversight
user group on that wiki, perform the necessary function, and then remove themselves from the
oversight
group using their steward rights.
Most steward actions are logged at
meta:Special:Log/rights
or
meta:Special:Log/gblrights
(some go to
meta:Stewards/Additional log for global changes
). See
Special:GlobalUsers/steward
or
meta:Special:ListUsers/steward
for a list of users in this group.
Other global user groups
Main articles:
Wikipedia:Global rights policy
and
meta:User groups
Other global groups include WMF staff, sysadmins (system administrators), ombuds,
Volunteer Response Team (VRT) members
, global bots, global rollbackers, global sysops (not enabled on English Wikipedia), and interface editors. See
Global rights policy
and
meta:User groups
for information on these, as well as a full list.
See wgTorAutoConfirmAge and wgTorAutoConfirmCount in
The edit total includes both live and deleted edits
Must have at least one edit after the creation of the
extendedconfirmed
user access level on 15
April
2025
This flag only grants the exempted user to
edit
behind the IP address. IP block exempt users are not able to create accounts while behind an IP address that is also blocked with the "Prevent account creation" option enabled.
Administrators and bots are not affected by
autoblocks
and
hard IP address blocks
. However, the ipblock-exempt flag
must
be added to the administrator or bot account as a separate user right to allow them to edit from IP addresses affected by
Tor blocks
See the RfC at
Template:Slink
See
2023 RfC
. There is
no consensus for or against
applying this consensus retroactively. Administrators should use their discretion.
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