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User rights anduser groups form the backbone of MediaWiki's user permissions system.
User rights give you permission to do certain tasks—for example, theedit right allows you to edit unprotected pages, and thedelete right allows you to delete pages.User rights are bundled intouser groups, which correspond to the various roles on the wiki—for example, Users, Administrators, and Bots.
All registered users on a wiki belong to the "Users" group by default.Privileged users (normally bureaucrats) may assign users to one or more additional user groups.
For information about default user rights and groups and how to customize them, seeManual:User rights.
By default, MediaWiki wikis come with the following user groups:
The first three groups are "implicit" groups, which are assigned to users automatically as required.Only the last five groups can be manually assigned or revoked.
TheSpecial:ListGroupRights special page lists the user groups that exist on a wiki, and lists the rights that are assigned to those groups.
To check which user groups your account belongs to, do one of the following:
The latter two techniques can also be used to view the user groups of other users.
For regular users, the "View user groups" section in theSpecial:UserRights page is read-only.
To create new user groups or change the rights that are assigned to a group, it is necessary to change the wiki's configuration, which can only be done by server administrators.Contact your site's server administrator for more information, or visitManual:User rights.
Adding and removing user groups is done using theSpecial:UserRights special page.
After a user's groups are changed, the logs are available in the "User rights log" section of theSpecial:UserRights page.
If you would like to join a new group or leave one you are already in, contact a bureaucrat on your wiki.A list of bureaucrats can be found atSpecial:ListUsers/bureaucrat.
You will be able to assign or revoke user groups when at least one of the following applies:
userrights right. This right is assigned to bureaucrats on most wikis.See the pageManual:Setting user groups in MediaWiki for further details.
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A user may be assigned to a user group for a limited duration.This can be done by selecting a duration from the "Expires:" drop-down menu.Alternatively, you can select "Other time:" and enter your own time period in the box.Relative periods like "10 weeks", as well as absolute dates or times like "2020-12-31", are accepted.
When the expiry time arrives, the user is no longer considered to be a member of that group.No log entry is written at that time, similar to what happens when a user's block or a page's protection expires.
If you have permission to add a certain user group, but not to remove it, you may only move that group's expiry time further into the future (that is, lengthen the user's membership of that group).This is to prevent the circumvention of restrictions on removing groups by changing the expiry to (say) 1 second.When this restriction exists, the "#" symbol appears next to the name of the user group.
You may alter the groups this user is in:
- A checked box means the user is in that group.
- An unchecked box means the user is not in that group.
- A * indicates that you cannot remove the group once you have added it, or vice versa.
- A # indicates that you can only put back the expiration time of this group membership; you cannot bring it forward.