User:Buggie111/Adopt/Userrights

Access to some tools on wikipedia are restricted to only specific userrights. These userrights are added by admins/bureaucrats after successfully passing a request for the tool (held at WP:RFP in most cases), or are given automatically after passing some criteria. Bot flags are iven by the bot requests for approval group.

Unregistered users
Contributors who have not created an account or logged in are identified by their IP address rather than a user name, and may read all Wikipedia pages (except restricted special pages), and edit pages that are not protected or semi-protected. They may create talk pages in any talk namespace but may need to ask for help to create pages in some parts of the wiki. They cannot upload files or images.

New users
A user who edits through an account they have registered, may immediately create pages in any namespace (except the MediaWiki namespace, and limited to 8 per minute) and may also 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 also customize their Wikimedia interface and its options as they wish, via Special:Preferences or by adding personal CSS or JavaScript rules to their vector.css or vector.js files.

Autoconfirmed users
A number of actions on the English Wikipedia are restricted to user accounts that pass certain thresholds of age (time passed since the first edit) and edit count: users who meet these requirements are considered part of the pseudo-group 'autoconfirmed'. Autoconfirmed status is checked every time a user performs a restricted action: it is then granted automatically by the software. The precise requirements for autoconfirmed status vary according to circumstances: for most users on en.wiki, accounts that are both more than four days old and have made at least 10 edits are considered autoconfirmed.

Autoconfirmed status is required to move pages, edit semi-protected pages, and upload files or upload a new version of an existing file.

Administrators
Administrator rights are granted by the community to users requesting them. The process involves considerable discussion and examination of their activities as an editor. Users who are members of the 'administrator' user group have access to a number of tools to allow them to carry out certain functions on the wiki. The tools cover processes such as page deletion, page protection, blocking and unblocking, access to modify fully protected pages and the Mediawiki interface. Administrators also have the ability to grant and remove account creator, rollback, ipblock-exempt rights, confirmed user, auto-reviewer, and edit filter manager rights to other users, and to their own alternate accounts. Administrators are otherwise no different from any other editor. Ad,ins are also known as sysops (for system operators).

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrat rights are granted by the community to exceptionally trusted users who are allowed to perform certain actions on other users' accounts. Bureaucrats have extended access to Special:UserRights, enabling them to add users to the 'sysop' and 'bureaucrat' groups (but not remove them), and both add users to and remove users from the 'bot' user group. Bureaucrats can use Special:RenameUser to rename users (including themselves).

Stewards
Stewardship is an elected role, and stewards are appointed globally across all Wikimedia Foundation wikis. They are able to add/revoke any userright. All steward actions are logged at meta:Special:Log/rights.

Reviewer
This usergroup is used in the pending changes trial. Members of this group can review other user's edits to articles placed under pending changes.

Rollback
Users who are given the rollback flag ('rollbacker' user group) may revert revisions using the rollback feature. This right is automatically assigned to administrators. They may use HUGGLE.

Autopatrolled
Members of this group have 'autopatrol', which allows them to have their pages automatically patrolled on the New Pages list. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.

Confirmed users
In some situations, it is necessary for accounts to be exempted from the autoconformation process. This userright is granted by administrators at requests for protection.

File mover
The file mover user right is intended to allow users experienced in working with files to rename them, subject to policy, with the ease that autoconfirmed users already enjoy when renaming Wikipedia articles. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.

Accountcreator
Users who are given the accountcreator flag ('accountcreator' user group) are not affected by the 6 account creation limit per day per IP, and can create accounts for other users without restriction.

Ipblock-exempt
Users who are given the ipblock-exempt flag ('ipblock-exempt' user group) are not affected by autoblocks and blocks of IP addresses and ranges that aren't made with the "anonymous users only" setting.

Edit Filter managers
Members of this group can create, modify and delete edit filters. This flag is given and removed by administrators.

Oversight
Users who are given the oversight flag (<tt>'oversight'</tt> user group) have access to Special:HideRevision, through which they can permanently hide revisions of pages from all users, and Special:Oversight, where they can view a log of such actions and the content of the hidden revisions. This right is only granted to exceedingly few users who are at least 18 years of age and have identified themselves to the Wikimedia Foundation.

CheckUser
Users who are given the checkuser flag (<tt>'checkuser'</tt> user group) have access to Special:CheckUser. They are able to view a list of all IP addresses used by a user account to edit the English Wikipedia, a list of all edits made by an IP, or all user accounts that have used an IP address. They may also view a log of such requests. This right has the same type of restrictions as Oversight.

Importers and Transwiki
Transwiki and Importers are flags which give permissions on Special:Import. This interface allows users to move pages between Wikimedia wikis (for instance, to copy an article written in English on a foreign-language wiki, while preserving full edit history). Although Mediawiki software provides the ability to import articles directly from XML (which may come from any wiki site), this is disabled on en.wikipedia as well as most other Wikimedia projects.

Bots
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 need less scrutiny than human edits.

Founder
The <tt>'founder'</tt> group was created on the English Wikipedia by developer Tim Starling, without community support, as a unique group for Jimmy Wales. The group gives Wales full access to Special:UserRights.

Researcher
The <tt>'researcher'</tt> group was created in April 2010 to allow individuals explicitly approved by the Wikimedia Foundation to search deleted pages and view deleted history entries without their associated text.

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 * As a function of the Requests for adminship and Requests for Bureaucratship processes, all bureaucrats on the English Wikipedia are also administrators, and so have all the permissions of the <tt>'sysop'</tt> user group in addition to those rights from the <tt>'bureaucrat'</tt> group. However this is not a requirement of the MediaWiki software; it is technically possible for a user to be a bureaucrat without also being an admin.

Assignment
Replace "USER" with your username.