User:Mythio/sandbox


 * 1) What is a permission?
 * A permission is a right that can be given to an account/user to perform certain (extra) functionalities on Wikipedia
 * 1) What pages are un-registered users able to edit?
 * They can edit all unprotected pages and create (which can be thought of as a kind of edit) pages within the Talk: namespace or their own namespace.
 * 1) What is an auto confirmed account?
 * An auto confirmed account is a registered user account that has been created at least 4 days earlier and has 10 edits.
 * 1) What is a confirmed account?
 * A confirmed account is an account that does not meet the auto confirmed requirements, but are nonetheless granted permission to upload files and edit semi-protected pages. This right is normally given for specific reasons only, e.g. a veteran editor on nl wiki who wants to make a change on en wiki when the page is protected.
 * 1) What permissions do autoconfirmed accounts have?
 * Permissions to edit any page on Wikipedia, with the exception of fully protected pages. They can also move pages and upload files. Furthermore, auto confirmed accounts have permissions to customize their Wikipedia interface and can save books to wiki.
 * 1) Who can grant rollback?
 * Rollback can be granted to non-administrator users by administrators. Administrators themselves have the right include in the admin tool package.
 * 1) What does rollback enable you to do?
 * Enable you to rollback the edits until a revision made by a different user than the current version, i.e. you can revert several vandalism edits from one user at once.
 * 1) What should you not use rollback for?
 * Reverting anything other than vandalism.
 * 1) What does the account creator allow you to do?
 * The account creator permission allows a user to create more than 6 accounts from a single IP per day and can override anti-spoof checks imposed on creating new accounts.
 * 1) If you have the IP block exemption user right, what does it allow you to do?
 * It will make sure your account is not affected by autoblocks and blocks of IP ranges/addresses. It allows users to evade the block opposed on other users that affect them because of shared IPs or dynamic IPs.
 * 1) What does the autopatrolled user right allow you to do?
 * When a user with the autopatrolled right creates a new page, this page is automatically listed as patrolled in Special:NewPages. It saves the New Page patrollers time, but is only granted to users who are trusted not to create pages in violation of policies.
 * 1) What are administrators able to do?.
 * Administrators can:
 * Delete/restore pages
 * Protect/unprotect pages and edit fully protected pages
 * Grant rollbacker, account creator, IP block exemption, confirmed user, auto-reviewer and edit filter manager status to other users
 * Block/unblock users
 * View deleted contributions (not deleted with oversight)
 * Change the MediaWiki interface
 * 1) How do you request adminship?
 * You have to file an RfA and get a clear consensus based on votes from the community.
 * 1) What are bureaucrats main duties?
 * Deal with renaming users based on their own good judgement
 * Control permissions and can grant a variety of rights including promoting users to administrator or bureaucrat status
 * 1) What does checkuser enable a user to check?
 * Checkuser accounts can view information about the IP's related to an account, generate lists of all edits from an IP and see which accounts used a certain IP. It is useful in the investigation of sock-puppetry and other issues that need IP data to be investigated.
 * 1) What is oversight?
 * Oversight is an enhanced form of deletion, which removes content from access even by administrators. The right is granted to a very restricted group of users.
 * 1) What type of a user must you be to be granted oversight?
 * An exceptionally trusted user of the community, who is highly available. Generally, Arbitration Committee members are granted the right, and ArbCom can also grant the right to non-ArbCom users at their own discretion.