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Template:User access levels

* Special:ListGroupRights is an automatically generated list of granted user group rights. The below table is manually updated, and also includes global groups with local access.

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! {{navbar|User access levels|mini=1|nodiv=1}}
User right

! Allows user(s) to…

! All
users{{efn|name=all|Includes IP users. Any permission granted to all users will be inherited by the other user groups.}}

! Registered accounts{{efn|name=reg|Any permission granted to registered accounts will be inherited by the other (registered) user groups.}}

! Autoconfirmed
and Confirmed

! Bots

! Administrators

! Bureaucrats

! other groups{{efn|name=other|Any user listed in this column has the relevant permission. Italics indicate a global permission.}}

{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-access-protected-vars}}

| View and create filters that use protected variables

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}| style="text-align:center;" | EFM, EFH
{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains}}

| Bypass blocked external domains

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}
{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-hidden-log}}

| View hidden abuse log entries

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | OS
{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-hide-log}}

| Hide entries in the abuse log

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-log}}

| View the abuse log

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-log-detail}}

| View detailed abuse log entries

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | GR

{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-log-private}}

| View edit filters marked as private

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-modify}}

| Modify abuse filters

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| style="text-align:center;" | EFM
{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains}}

| Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-modify-restricted}}

| Modify edit filters with restricted actions

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-privatedetails}}

| View private data (IP addresses) in the abuse log

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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3 | CU
{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-privatedetails-log}}

| View the AbuseFilter private details access log

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-protected-vars-log}}

| View logs related to accessing protected variable values

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-revert}}

| Revert all changes by a given abuse filter

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-view}}

| View non-private abuse filters

| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | abusefilter-view-private}}

| View edit filters marked as private

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| style="text-align:center;" | CU, EFH, EFM, OS
{{Visible anchor | apihighlimits}}

| Request API queries in batches of 5,000, rather than 500

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | Researchers

{{Visible anchor | applychangetags}}

| Apply tags along with one's changes

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | autoconfirmed}}

| Not be affected by IP-based rate limits

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | PCR, GR, IE

{{Visible anchor | autopatrol}}

| Automatically mark all edits made by the user as patrolled

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | AP, GR

{{Visible anchor | autoreview}}

| Automatically mark all revisions made by the user as "accepted"

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | PCR

{{Visible anchor | bigdelete}}

| Delete pages with over 5,000 revisions

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| style="text-align:center;" | Stewards
{{Visible anchor | block}}

| Block an IP address, user account, or range of IP addresses, from editing

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | blockemail}}

| Block a user from sending email

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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WP:Bot

| Edit without their edits showing up in recent changes

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | browsearchive}}

| Search deleted pages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | CU, OS, Researchers

{{Visible anchor | centralauth-create-local}}

| Forcibly create a local account for a global account

|style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}
{{Visible anchor | centralauth-merge}}

| Merge their account{{efn|name=accountmerge|Irrelevant since the SUL finalisation in 2015 where all mergeable accounts were merged.}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | changetags}}

| Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | EFM

WP:CheckUser

| View all IP addresses used by a user account or show all edits from a given IP address

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | CU, Ombuds
{{Visible anchor | checkuser-log}}

| View the checkuser log

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{{Visible anchor | checkuser-temporary-account}}

| View IP addresses used by temporary accounts

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | TAIPV, Ombuds, GTAIPV

{{Visible anchor | checkuser-temporary-account-log}}

| View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | CU, Ombuds
{{Visible anchor | checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference}}

| View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to check the preference

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{{Visible anchor | collectionsaveasuserpage}}

| Save books as user subpage

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | createaccount}}

| Create a new user account for themselves or another user

| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | ACCP

{{Visible anchor | createpage}}

| Create a new page

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | createpagemainns}}

| Create a new mainspace page (users without this right are redirected to the Article Creation Workflow landing page)

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | createtalk}}

| Create a new talk page

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | delete}}

| Delete a page with ≤ 5,000 revisions

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | deletechangetags}}

| Delete tags from the database

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | deletedhistory}}

| View the history of a deleted page or a user's deleted contributions, provided it is not CSS or JS

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | CU, OS, Researchers

{{Visible anchor | delete-redirect}}

| Delete single revision redirects during page moves

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| style="text-align:center;" | PMR
{{Visible anchor | deletedtext}}

| View the text of deleted revisions, provided the page is not CSS or JS

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | CU, Ombuds, OS, Researchers

{{Visible anchor | deletelogentry}}

| Access the RevisionDelete tool and change the public visibility of log entries

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | OS

{{Visible anchor | deleterevision}}

| Access the RevisionDelete tool and change the public visibility of edit revisions

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | edit}}

| Edit any page which is not protected

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center" | IE
{{Visible anchor | editcontentmodel}}

| Edit the content model of a page

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | TE, IE

{{Visible anchor | editinterface}}

| Edit the MediaWiki namespace to affect the interface

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | IA, IE

{{Visible anchor | editmyoptions}}

| Edit your own preferences

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | editmyprivateinfo}}

| Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | editmyusercss}}

| Edit your own user .css files

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | editmyuserjs}}

| Edit your own user .js files

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | editmyuserjson}}

| Edit your own user .json files

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | editmywatchlist}}

| Edit your own watchlist

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style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | editprotected}}

| Edit fully-protected pages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center" | IE

{{Visible anchor | editsemiprotected}}

| Edit semi-protected pages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | PCR, GR, IE

{{Visible anchor | editsitecss}}

| Edit sitewide .css files

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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | IA, IE
{{Visible anchor | editsitejs}}

| Edit sitewide .js files

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{{Visible anchor | editsitejson}}

| Edit sitewide .json files

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | editusercss}}

| Edit other users' .css files

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | IA, IE
{{Visible anchor | edituserjs}}

| Edit other users' .js files

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{{Visible anchor | edituserjson}}

| Edit other users' .json files

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | IA

{{Visible anchor | extendedconfirmed}}

| Edit 30/500 protected pages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | XC, IE

{{Visible anchor | globalblock-whitelist}}

| Disable global blocks locally

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | hideuser}}

| Block a username, hiding it from the public

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| style="text-align:center;" | OS
{{Visible anchor | import}}

| Import pages from other wikis

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | IMP, TWI

{{Visible anchor | importupload}}

| Import pages from a locally stored XML file

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| style="text-align:center;" | IMP
{{Visible anchor | ipblock-exempt}}

| Be unaffected by blocks applied to the user's IP address or a range (CIDR) containing it

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | IPBE

{{Visible anchor | managechangetags}}

| Create and (de)activate tags

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | EFM

{{Visible anchor | managementors}}

| Manage the list of mentors

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}
{{Visible anchor | markbotedits}}

| Mark rollback as bot edits, to keep them out of recent changes

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | GR{{efn|name=GRP|Per Wikipedia:Global rights policy, Global rollbackers are only allowed to use this right in the context of counter-vandalism efforts.}}

{{Visible anchor | massmessage}}

| Send a message to multiple users at once

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center" | MMS

{{Visible anchor | mergehistory}}

| Merge the history of pages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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style="text-align:center" | IMP
{{Visible anchor | minoredit}}

| Make an edit marked as 'minor'

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | move}}

| Change the title of a page by moving it

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | PMR, GR

{{Visible anchor | move-categorypages}}

| Change the title of a category by moving it

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center" | PMR

{{Visible anchor | movefile}}

| Change the title of a file by moving it

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | FMV

{{Visible anchor | move-rootuserpages}}

| Move root user pages

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" |{{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | move-subpages}}

| Move pages with their subpages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | PMR, TE

{{Visible anchor | movestable}}

| Move pages under pending changes

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | GR

{{Visible anchor | mwoauthmanagemygrants}}

| Manage OAuth grants

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | nominornewtalk}}

| Minor edits by this user to user talk pages do not trigger the "you have new messages" banner

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | noratelimit}}

| Not be affected by rate limits

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | ACCP, EVC, GR{{efn|name=GRP}}, Stewards

{{Visible anchor | nuke}}

| Mass delete pages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | oathauth-enable}}

| Enable two-factor authentication

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | CU, EFM, Founder, IMP, IA, OS, TE, TWI

{{Visible anchor | override-antispoof}}

| Allows the creation of accounts with mixed-script, confusing and similar usernames

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | ACCP

{{Visible anchor | pagetriage-copyvio}}

| Tag pages in the Special:NewPagesFeed as likely copyright violations, through the pagetriage-tagcopyvio API

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| style="text-align:center;" | Copyright violation bots
{{Visible anchor | patrol}}

| State that they have checked a page that appeared in Special:Newpages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | NPR

{{Visible anchor | protect}}

| Change protection levels, edit and move protected pages, and edit cascade-protected pages

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center" | IE

{{Visible anchor | purge}}

| Purge a page by adding &action=purge to the URL

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | read}}

| Read pages

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | renameuser}}

| Change the name of an existing account

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| style="text-align:center;"|Global renamers, Stewards
{{Visible anchor | reupload}}

| Overwrite an existing unprotected file

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | reupload-own}}

| Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | reupload-shared}}

| Override files on the shared media repository locally

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | review}}

| Mark revisions as being "accepted"

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | PCR

{{Visible anchor | rollback}}

| Use a special link to more easily revert a bad edit

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | RBK, GR{{efn|name=GRP}}

{{Visible anchor | sboverride}}

| Bypass the spam block list

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}
{{Visible anchor | sendemail}}

| E-mail a user (using Special:EmailUser/username) who have associated an email address with themselves

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | setmentor}}

| Set user's mentor

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}
{{Visible anchor | skipcaptcha}}

| Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center" | GR

{{Visible anchor | spamblacklistlog}}

| View the spam blacklist log

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | EFH
{{Visible anchor | stablesettings}}

| Configure how the latest accepted revision is selected and displayed

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | suppressionlog}}

| View private logs

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| style="text-align:center;" | OS
{{Visible anchor | suppressredirect}}

| Not create a redirect from the old name when moving a page

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | GR{{efn|name=GRP}}, PMR, IE

WP:Oversight

| Access the RevisionDelete tool and change the public and administrator visibility of edit revisions and logs

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| style="text-align:center;" | OS
{{Visible anchor | tboverride}}

| Override the title blacklist

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | TE, PMR, IE

{{Visible anchor | tboverride-account}}

| Override the username blacklist

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| style="text-align:center;" | ACCP
{{Visible anchor | templateeditor}}

| Edit pages under template protection

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | TE, IE

{{Visible anchor | titleblacklistlog}}

| View title blacklist log (note: the log is empty, as it has not been enabled)

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | torunblocked}}

| Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes

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| style="text-align:center;" | IPBE
{{Visible anchor | transcode-reset}}

| Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | transcode-status}}

| View information about the current transcode activity

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | undelete}}

| Undelete a previously deleted page or specific revisions from it, view deleted revisions

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | unwatchedpages}}

| View a list of pages which are not on anyone's watchlist

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | upload}}

| Upload a media file

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | urlshortener-create-url}}

| Create short URLs

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | userrights}}

| Edit all user rights

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| style="text-align:center;" | Stewards
{{Visible anchor | viewmyprivateinfo}}

| View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name)

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | viewmywatchlist}}

| View your own watchlist

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style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | viewsuppressed}}

| View revisions hidden from any user

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| style="text-align:center;" | OS
{{Visible anchor | vipsscaler-test}}

| Use the VIPS scaling test interface

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

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{{Visible anchor | writeapi}}

| Use of the write API

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | {{tick}}

{{notelist}}

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This template holds the table of user access levels referenced in Wikipedia:User access levels.

Category:Wikipedia user groups

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