Editing Manual/User rights (section)

== List of permissions == <!--T:56-->
</translate>
<translate><!--T:57--> The following user rights are available in the latest version of MediaWiki.</translate>
<translate><!--T:58--> If you are using an older version, look at <tvar name=1>[[Special:Version]]</tvar> on your wiki and see if your version is covered in the "Versions" column.</translate>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! | <translate><!--T:59--> Right</translate>
! | <translate><!--T:60--> Description</translate>
! | <translate><!--T:208--> User groups that have this right by default</translate>
! | <translate><!--T:61--> Versions</translate>
|-style="text-align:center"
| colspan="4"|''''''
|- 
|style="vertical-align:top"|read
| – <translate><!--T:63--> when set to <tvar name=1></tvar>, override for specific pages with <tvar name=WhitelistRead></tvar></translate>
----

| *, user
| [[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-style="text-align:center"
| colspan="4"|''''''
|-
|applychangetags
| – <translate><!--T:263--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user
|1.25+
|-
|autocreateaccount
| - <translate><!--T:210--> a more limited version of <tvar name=1><code>createaccount</code></tvar></translate>
|—
|1.27+
|-
|createaccount
| – <translate><!--T:278--> register / registration</translate>
|*, sysop
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|createpage
| – <translate><!--T:66--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|*, user
|[[rev:11973|1.6+]]
|-
|createpreviouslyrenamedaccount
| – requires the <code>createaccount</code> right
|sysop
|[[gerrit:1271055|1.47+]]
|-
|createtalk
| – <translate><!--T:67--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|*, user
|[[rev:11973|1.6+]]
|-
|createwithcontentmodel
| – requires the <code>createpage</code> right
|user
|[[gerrit:1222750|1.46+]]
|-
|delete-redirect
| <translate><!--T:258--> (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=1><code>delete</code></tvar> right)</translate>
|—
|[[gerrit:559622|1.36+]]
|-
|edit
| – <translate><!--T:279--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>read</code></tvar> right</translate>
|*, user
|[[rev:9632|1.5+]]
|-
|editsemiprotected
| – <translate><!--T:79--> without cascading protection</translate> – <translate><!--T:280--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|autoconfirmed, bot, sysop
|1.22+
|-
|editprotected
| – <translate><!--T:78--> without cascading protection</translate> – <translate><!--T:281--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:32164|1.13+]]
|-
|minoredit
| – <translate><!--T:264--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user
|[[rev:12359|1.6+]]
|-
|move
| – <translate><!--T:68--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user, sysop
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|move-categorypages
| – <translate><!--T:209--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>move</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user, sysop
|[[gerrit:111096|1.25+]]
|-
|move-rootuserpages
| – <translate><!--T:71--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>move</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user, sysop
|[[rev:41961|1.14+]]
|-
|move-subpages
| – <translate><!--T:70--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>move</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user, sysop
|[[rev:35213|1.13+]]
|-
|movefile
| – <translate><!--T:69--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>move</code></tvar> right as well</translate>
|user, sysop
|[[rev:45276|1.14+]]
|-
|reupload
| – <translate><!--T:74--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>upload</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user, sysop
|[[rev:10906|1.6+]]
|-
|reupload-own
| – <translate><!--T:75--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>upload</code></tvar> right (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=reupload><code>reupload</code></tvar> right)</translate>
|—
|[[rev:21943|1.11+]]
|-
|reupload-shared
| – <translate><!--T:76--> (if one is set up) with local files</translate> <translate><!--T:211--> (requires the <tvar name=1><code>upload</code></tvar> right)</translate>
|user, sysop
|[[rev:10906|1.6+]]
|-
|sendemail
|
|user
|[[rev:56962|1.16+]]
|-
|upload
| – <translate><!--T:73--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right and <tvar name=2></tvar> to be <tvar name=3></tvar></translate>
|user, sysop
|[[rev:9499|1.5+]]
|-
|upload_by_url
| – <translate><!--T:77--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>upload</code></tvar> right</translate> <translate><!--T:218--> (Prior to 1.20 it was given to sysops)</translate>
|—
|[[rev:16162|1.8+]]
|-style="text-align:center"
| colspan="4"|''''''
|-
|autopatrol
| <translate><!--T:282--> Modifies certain actions performed by the permission holder, automatically marking them as </translate> – <translate><!--T:283--> Depends on <tvar name=1>|UseRCPatrol|UseNPPatrol|UseFilePatrol}}</tvar></translate>
|bot, sysop
|[[rev:18496|1.9+]]
|-
|bigdelete
| (<translate><!--T:226--> as determined by <tvar name=1></tvar></translate>) – <translate><!--T:235--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>delete</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:29872|1.12+]]
|-
|block
| – <translate><!--T:92--> Block options include preventing editing and registering new accounts, and autoblocking other users on the same IP address</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|blockemail
| – <translate><!--T:93--> allows preventing use of the <tvar name=1>[[Special:Emailuser]]</tvar> interface when blocking</translate> – <translate><!--T:284--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>block</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:22827|1.11+]]
|-
|browsearchive
| – <translate><!--T:89--> through <tvar name=1>[[Special:Undelete]]</tvar></translate> – <translate><!--T:236--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>deletedhistory</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:32456|1.13+]]
|-
|changetags
| – <translate><!--T:104--> currently unused by extensions</translate>
|user
|1.25+
|-
|delete
|<br /><translate><!--T:82--> allows the deletion or undeletion of pages</translate><br /><translate><!--T:83--> allows the deletion of pages</translate> <translate><!--T:84--> (for undeletions, there is now the <tvar name=1><code>undelete</code></tvar> right, see below)</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|deletedhistory
|
|sysop
|[[rev:12241|1.6+]]
|-
|deletedtext
| – <translate><!--T:291--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>deletedhistory</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|1.16+
|-
|deletelogentry
| – <translate><!--T:121--> allows deleting/undeleting information (action text, summary, user who made the action) of specific log entries – requires the <tvar name=1><code>deleterevision</code></tvar> right</translate>
|suppress
|[[gerrit:12889|1.20+]]
|-
|deleterevision
| – <translate><!--T:122--> allows deleting/undeleting information (revision text, edit summary, user who made the edit) of specific revisions</translate> (<translate><!--T:123--> Split into <tvar name=1><code>deleterevision</code></tvar> and <tvar name=2><code>deletelogentry</code></tvar> in 1.20</translate>)
|suppress
|[[rev:13224|1.6+]]
|-
|editcontentmodel
| – <translate><!--T:237--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user
|[[gerrit:176201|1.23.7+]]
|-
|editinterface
| – <translate><!--T:106--> contains [[<tvar name=man>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface</tvar>|interface messages]].</translate> <translate><!--T:221--> For editing sitewide CSS/JSON/JS, there are now segregate rights, see below.</translate> – <translate><!--T:238--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop, interface-admin
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|editmyoptions
|
|*
|[[gerrit:67876|1.22+]]
|-
|editmyprivateinfo
| – <translate><!--T:262--> also hides the "Change Password", but not other ways to change the password</translate> – <translate><!--T:265--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>viewmyprivateinfo</code></tvar> right</translate>
|*
|[[gerrit:67876|1.22+]]
|-
|editmyusercss
| – <translate><!--T:222--> prior to 1.31 it was assigned to everyone (i.e. <tvar name=1><code>*</code></tvar>) (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=editusercss><code>editusercss</code></tvar> right)</translate> – <translate><!--T:239--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user
|[[gerrit:67874|1.22+]]
|-
|editmyuserjs
| – <translate><!--T:223--> prior to 1.31 it was assigned to everyone (i.e. <tvar name=1><code>*</code></tvar>) (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=edituserjs><code>edituserjs</code></tvar> right)</translate> – <translate><!--T:240--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user
|[[gerrit:67874|1.22+]]
|-
|editmyuserjsredirect
| <translate><!--T:259--> (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=edituserjs><code>edituserjs</code></tvar> right)</translate> – <translate><!--T:260--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|—
|[[gerrit:502667|1.34+]]
|-
|editmyuserjson
| <translate><!--T:224--> (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=edituserjson><code>edituserjson</code></tvar> right)</translate> – <translate><!--T:241--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user
|[[gerrit:408940|1.31+]]
|-
|editmywatchlist
| – <translate><!--T:266--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>viewmywatchlist</code></tvar> right</translate>
|user
|[[gerrit:67875|1.22+]]
|-
|editsitecss
| – <translate><!--T:242--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>editinterface</code></tvar> right</translate>
|interface-admin
|[[gerrit:421121|1.32+]]
|-
|editsitejs
| – <translate><!--T:243--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>editinterface</code></tvar> right</translate>
|interface-admin
|[[gerrit:421121|1.32+]]
|-
|editsitejson
| – <translate><!--T:244--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>editinterface</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop, interface-admin
|[[gerrit:421121|1.32+]]
|-
|editusercss
| – <translate><!--T:245--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|interface-admin
|[[rev:54153|1.16+]]
|-
|edituserjs
| – <translate><!--T:246--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|interface-admin
|[[rev:54153|1.16+]]
|-
|edituserjson
| – <translate><!--T:247--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop, interface-admin
|[[gerrit:408940|1.31+]]
|-
|hideuser
| – <translate><!--T:212--> Only users with 1000 edits or less can be suppressed by default</translate> – <translate><!--T:261--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>block</code></tvar> right</translate>
<translate><!--T:213--> Use <tvar name=HideUserContribLimit></tvar> to disable.</translate>
|suppress
|[[rev:20446|1.10+]]
|-
|ignore-restricted-groups
| – <translate><!--T:277--> Only applies to groups the user would be otherwise able to change, based on <tvar name=1><code>userrights</code></tvar> right and the contents of <tvar name=2></tvar>.</translate>
|—
|[[gerrit:1200077|1.46+]]
|-
|markbotedits
| – <translate><!--T:101--> see <tvar name=1></tvar></translate> – <translate><!--T:248--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>rollback</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:27658|1.12+]]
|-
|mergehistory
| – <translate><!--T:249--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:27823|1.12+]]
|-
|pagelang
| – <translate><!--T:214--> <tvar name=1></tvar> must be <tvar name=2></tvar></translate>
|—
|[[gerrit:135312|1.24+]]
|-
|patrol
| <translate><!--T:276--> Mark certain actions as </translate> – <translate><!--T:285--> depends on <tvar name=1>|UseRCPatrol|UseNPPatrol|UseFilePatrol}}</tvar></translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|patrolmarks
| (<translate><!--T:286--> note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=1><code>patrol</code></tvar> right</translate>)
|—
|[[rev:54153|1.16+]]
|-
|protect
| – <translate><!--T:250--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|rollback
|[[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Rollback|MyLanguage/Manual:Rollback]] – <translate><!--T:251--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|suppressionlog
|
|suppress
|[[rev:13224|1.6+]]
|-
|suppressrevision
| – '''<translate><!--T:119--> Prior to <tvar name=1>[[rev:35303|1.13]]</tvar> this right was named <tvar name=2><code>hiderevision</code></tvar></translate>''' – <translate><!--T:252--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>deleterevision</code></tvar> right</translate>
|suppress
|[[rev:13224|1.6+]]
|-
|unblockself
| – <translate><!--T:96--> Without it, an administrator that has the capability to block cannot unblock themselves if blocked by another administrator</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:64228|1.17+]]
|-
|undelete
| – <translate><!--T:253--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>deletedhistory</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:28151|1.12+]]
|-
|userrights
| – <translate><!--T:97--> allows the assignment or removal of all(*) groups to any user.</translate><br />
<small><translate><!--T:98--> (*)With <tvar name=AddGroups></tvar> and <tvar name=RemoveGroups></tvar> you can set the possibility to add/remove certain groups instead of all</translate></small>
|bureaucrat
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|userrights-interwiki
| – <translate><!--T:287--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>userrights</code></tvar> right</translate>
|—
|[[rev:28650|1.12+]]
|-
|viewmyprivateinfo
|
|*
|[[gerrit:67876|1.22+]]
|-
|viewmywatchlist
|
|user
|[[gerrit:67875|1.22+]]
|-
|viewsuppressed
| – <translate><!--T:120--> i.e. a more narrow alternative to <tvar name=1><code>suppressrevision</code></tvar> (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=2><code>suppressrevision</code></tvar> right)</translate>
|suppress
|[[gerrit:139277|1.24+]]
|-style="text-align:center"
| colspan="4"|''''''
|-
|deletechangetags
| – <translate><!--T:132--> currently unused by extensions</translate>
|sysop
|[[gerrit:286282|1.28+]]
|-
|import
| – <translate><!--T:126--> "transwiki"</translate> – <translate><!--T:254--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:9498|1.5+]]
|-
|importupload
| – <translate><!--T:128--> This right was called <tvar name=1><code>importraw</code></tvar> in and before version 1.5</translate> – <translate><!--T:255--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>edit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:9499|1.5+]]
|-
|managechangetags
| – <translate><!--T:225--> currently unused by extensions</translate>
|sysop
|1.25+
|-
|renameuser
| (<translate><!--T:288--> formerly was part of the Renameuser extension</translate>)
|bureaucrat
|1.40+
|-
|siteadmin
| – <translate><!--T:124--> which blocks all interactions with the web site except viewing.</translate> (''<translate><!--T:219--> not available by default</translate>'')
|—
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|unwatchedpages
| – <translate><!--T:131--> lists pages that no user has watchlisted</translate>
|sysop
|[[rev:12196|1.6+]]
|-style="text-align:center"
| colspan="4"|''''''
|-
|apihighlimits
|
|bot, sysop
|[[rev:27949|1.12+]]
|-
|autoconfirmed
| – <translate><!--T:145--> used for the <tvar name=1><code>autoconfirmed</code></tvar> group; see the other table below for more information</translate> <translate><!--T:289--> (note that this is not needed if the group already has the <tvar name=2><code>noratelimit</code></tvar> right)</translate>
|autoconfirmed, bot, sysop
|[[rev:12207|1.6+]]
|-
|bot
| – <translate><!--T:290--> edits and logged actions are hidden from recent changes, can optionally be viewed</translate>
|bot
|[[rev:9367|1.5+]]
|-
|ipblock-exempt
|
|sysop
|[[rev:18904|1.9+]]
|-
|nominornewtalk 
| – <translate><!--T:137--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>minoredit</code></tvar> right</translate>
|bot
|[[rev:17281|1.9+]]
|-
|noratelimit
| – <translate><!--T:138--> not affected by [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgRateLimits</tvar>|rate limits]] (''prior to the introduction of this right, the configuration variable <tvar name=RateLimitsExcludedGroups></tvar> was used for this purpose'')</translate>
|sysop, bureaucrat
|[[rev:35908|1.13+]]
|-
|override-export-depth
|<br /><small><translate><!--T:234--> With this right, you can define the depth of linked pages at <tvar name=link1>[[Special:Export]]</tvar>. Otherwise, the value of <tvar name=link2></tvar>, which is 0 by default, will be used.</translate></small>
|—
|1.15+
|-
|suppressredirect
| – <translate><!--T:256--> requires the <tvar name=1><code>move</code></tvar> right</translate>
|bot, sysop
|[[rev:27774|1.12+]]
|}
{{Note|1=<translate><!--T:149--> Although these permissions all control separate things, sometimes to perform certain actions you need multiple permissions.</translate> <translate><!--T:150--> For example allowing people to edit but not read pages doesn't make sense, since in order to edit a page you must first be able to read it (Assuming no pages are allowlisted).</translate> <translate><!--T:151--> Allowing uploads but not editing does not make sense, since in order to upload an image you must implicitly create an image description page, etc.</translate>}}

<translate>