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The Wikibooks community allowsadministrators and bureaucrats to grant and revoke permissions.[1] For administrator, bureaucrat and CheckUser access, seeWikibooks:Administrators. For bot access, seeWikibooks:Bots.
Administrators and bureaucrats have the trust of the community, and use their discretion when granting or revoking these rights. Requests are made atWB:RFP, where any administrator or bureaucrat can grant the right if they choose to. Requests are archived; declined requests should be explained. Administrators and bureaucrats are responsible for making good decisions regarding which users get the tools. Administrators and bureaucrats are absolutely not to wheel war with user rights - those which do so will not be permitted to change user rights.
Users who do not log in are said to beunregistered users, also referred to asanonymous users oranons. These users may edit pages which are not protected or semi-protected; their edits will appear inpage histories. They can also create new pages.
Unregistered users cannot move pages, upload media, or maintain awatchlist. They also are not able to select the option ofminor edit as this could allow a bad-faith user to make undesirable changes without being spotted for some time.
Each of the English Wikibooks' permissions, which are approved by an administrator or a bureaucrat, are listed and described here. The information is located atSpecial:ListGroupRights.
Aregistered user is a user who has signed up for an account and has logged in to a Wikimedia project. In addition to what an unregistered user can do, a newly registered user can set theirpreferences, register pages for "watching", mark edits as minor, and create their own user page. However, they cannot edit semi-protected pages, move pages, and create pages in the File:, Template:, Help:, Transwiki:, and Subject:namespaces.
Some actions are restricted to user accounts that pass certain thresholds of age: users who meet these requirements are considered part of the pseudo-group "autoconfirmed users". Autoconfirmed status is checked every time a user performs an action and it is granted automatically by the software. Autoconfirmed status is granted to users who have registered for 4 daysand have made at least 5 edits.
Autoconfirmed users canmove pages and editsemi-protected pages, and are no longer required to enter aCAPTCHA for most events.
In some situations, it is necessary for accounts to be exempted from the customary confirmation period newly registered accounts are subject to. The'confirmed' group contains the same rights as the'autoconfirmed' group.
The following user groups are typically requested atWikibooks:Requests for permissions.
Autoreviewed users have the ability to mark their own edits as being automatically reviewed and patrolled.
Reviewers, on the other hand, can alsoreview pending changes, use therollback tool to combat vandalism, and also use other abilities. These permissions are automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/autoreview for the list of the 78 autoreviewed users on the English Wikibooks, as well asSpecial:ListUsers/editor for the list of the 1,008 reviewers.
Importers canimport pages by usingSpecial:Import, which allows them to copy pages, and optionally their page histories, from a limited group of certain Wikimedia wikis to the English Wikibooks. They can also performhistory merges by usingSpecial:MergeHistory, and optionally enableenable two-factor authentication (2FA).
Theimport uploader user group has the same rights as an importer, but also holds theimportupload user right. This allows them to import pages using XML from any MediaWiki installations, including wikis not hosted by the WMF.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/transwiki for the list of the 14 importers on the English Wikibooks. Currently, there are no import uploaders.
See also theimport log,Help:Importing, andWikibooks:Requests for import.
Uploaders are able to upload files and images on the English Wikibooks by usingSpecial:Upload, and can also overwrite existing files. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/uploader for the list of the 18 uploaders on the English Wikibooks.
Account creators are not affected by the 6 account creation limit per day per IP, and can create accounts for other users without restriction. Users in this group can also override the anti-spoof checks on account creation. Users in this group can also override the anti-spoof checks on account creation. Additionally, account creators are able to create accounts with names that are otherwise blocked by thetitle blacklist. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators and bureaucrats.
Currently, there are no account creators on the English Wikibooks.
Users in this 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,[2] and byTor blocks. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators and bots.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/ipblock-exempt for the list of the 6 affected users.
Temporary account IP viewers are permitted to view IP addresses used by temporary accounts, as well as able to access a full view of theIPInfo tool. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators.
Currently, there are no temporary account IP viewers on the English Wikibooks.
Administrators, also referred as "admins" or "sysops", are Wikibookians who can perform certain special actions such as deleting pages, blocking users, and the ability to edit fully protected pages. Administrators can also grant theimport uploader,importer,uploader,pseudo-bot,IP block exempt,temporary account IP viewer,reviewer andautoreviewed user user groups.
Administrators are not granted any additional authority; they must follow allpolicies. Administrators are not employees of the Wikimedia Foundation and should not be confused withsystem administrators ("sysadmins").
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/sysop for the list of the 12 administrators on the English Wikibooks.
Bureaucrats are administrators with extra tools responsible for judging community consensus in the granting of advanced access rights. They are able to grant theaccount creator,administrator,interface administrator,bureaucrat,bot andconfirmed user groups.
Currently, there are no bureaucrats on the English Wikibooks.
CheckUsers have access toSpecial:CheckUser, which allows them to view a list of IP addresses that have been used by an account, or a list of user accounts that have been used by a given IP address or range to edit the English Wikibooks. They also have access to theCheckUser log, which logs each time a CheckUser uses their tools to view any of the information listed. This permission is granted tovery few users who are currently administrators, are over 18 years old and have signed theWikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/checkuser for the list of 2 CheckUsers on the English Wikibooks.
Interface administrators are users who can edit sitewideCSS,JS, andJSON pages (pages such asMediaWiki:Common.js orMediaWiki:Vector.css, or the gadget pages listed onSpecial:Gadgets), CSS/JS/JSON pages in another user's userspace, and all pages in the MediaWiki namespace. Because it provides the potential to send malicious CSS, JS, and JSON code to execute in other users' browsers, this right may only be granted to existing administrators withtwo-factor authentication enabled on their accounts.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/interface-admin for the list of 4 interface administrators on the English Wikibooks.
Suppressors, also known asoversighters, have access to additional options on the page deletion, revision deletion, and block function pages in which they can hide logs or revisions from pages (partially or entirely) from all users, including administrators. They also have access to thesuppression log, where they can view actions made by other suppressors, as well as the content of the hidden revisions. This permission is granted tovery few users who are currently administrators, are over 18 years old and have signed theWikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.
Currently, there are no suppressors on the English Wikibooks.
Accounts used by approvedbots 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 inrecent changes orwatchlists 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 theAPI in batches of 5,000 rather than 500.
SeeSpecial:ListUsers/bot for the list of 10 bots on the English Wikibooks.
Thepseudo-bot user group, also known asflooder or theflood flag, is used by administrators to avoid flushing therecent changes feed when making repetitive actions.