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The Scratch Wiki is split up into various group rights which different Scratch Wiki users can be in. Each group has different 'rights' or privileges that users in the group have. For example, the Experienced Wikian user group, and the sysop right have the delete right, which allows them to delete wiki pages. A full list of rights and groups can be found here.
User Groups
(all)
The usergroup "(all)" applies to all users. All users have all of the rights that this usergroup has unless a different usergroup's rights override it.
Experienced Wikians
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:Experienced Wikians
Experienced Wikians are wiki users who have been granted more rights on their account. Experienced Wikians are elected periodically, when deemed necessary. Some rights that they are granted, which users in the User group are not, include:
- Deleting pages: the ability to delete wiki articles
- Marking people's edits as patrolled: the ability to mark other people's edits as patrolled
- Rollback an edit: revert consecutive edits from users on a particular page
- View and accept requested accounts: accept (or deny) requested wiki accounts
- Edit at the EWplus permission level.
A list of users with this group can be found here.
New Wikians
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:New Wikians
This usergroup is granted the editsemiprotected right, which allows them to edit semi-protected pages.
Bots
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:Bots
Bots are tools that are owned by users, which do tasks on the wiki, such as making minor edits to pages and posting on user talk pages. These users are, however, not human, and computer-generate edits. Bots have rights that no other user group has, such as:
- Be treated as an automatic process
- Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt
And some extra rights that bots have, but the user group "Users" do not are:
- Edit semi-protected pages (but Autoconfirmed users can)
- Have higher limits in API queries
Bureaucrats
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats have the most rights on the wiki. They can:
- Block a user from sending e-mails (already disabled by Scratch)
- Block people from editing
- Create new user accounts
- Edit user group rights
- Edit interwiki data
- Not be affected by rates limit
- View User credentials (obsolete)
- View requester's IP addresses while processing requested accounts
- View and accept requested accounts: accept (or deny) requested wiki accounts
- Rename user accounts
The main thing that Bureaucrats can do, which 'sysops' cannot, is change peoples' user group.
Administrators
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:Administrators
Administrators, also called sysops (which stands for system operators), are elected and have more rights than Users. Admins are highly trusted and given lots of privileges. The main rights admins are granted are:
- Deleting pages
- Have their edits automatically marked as patrolled
- Patrol other peoples' edits
- Not be affected by rate limits
- Rollback an edit: revert consecutive edits from users on a particular page
- Undeleting pages
- Deleting individual edits and log entries
- Viewing deleted edits and log entries
- Edit locked pages
- Protecting pages
- Manually creating accounts
Users
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:Users
Any logged in user has the "user" usergroup.
Users make up the bulk of the Scratch Wiki. They have the power of editing pages and creating them. They also can upload files, move unprotected files, and can use the write API. However, they cannot delete pages, or block people. A list of wiki users can be found here.
Wikian
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:Wikians
A Wikian is a user whose account is over 1 month old and has over 50 edits. They can edit pages at the wikian level.
Unused and Removed Groups
Check users
Check users are a MediaWiki built-in group and can access IP addresses of users. The group's rights are given to Bureaucrats.
Editlockedpages
- Main page: Scratch Wiki:editlockedpages
Users in this group could edit locked pages. Locked pages are a special type of protecting pages, that allows this usergroup to edit them, but not normal users in the User group. Some other types of protection are semi-protection (where autoconfirmed and other higher levels can edit) and fully-protected pages (where only admins and bureaucrats can edit them). Currently, no members are in this group, as it has been fully removed.
Interface administrators
The group is built-in to MediaWiki and allowed members to edit CSS and JavaScript of both the site and other users.
The group is unused and its privileges are in other user groups.
Suppressors
The group, which is built into MediaWiki, could remove data from logs and edit histories. The rights in the group are part of Administrators and Bureaucrats.
Table
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| Right | Description | (all) | Experienced Wikians | Autoconfirmed users | Bots | Bureaucrats | editlockedpages | Administrators | Users |
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| apihighlimits | Use higher limits in API queries | ||||||||
| applychangetags | Apply tags along with one's changes | ||||||||
| autoconfirmed | Not be affected by IP-based rate limits | ||||||||
| autopatrol | Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled See: Help:Patrolled edits |
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| bigdelete | Delete pages with large histories See: Help:Deleting a page |
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| block | Block other users from editing See: Help:Blocking users |
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| blockemail | Block a user from sending e-mail | ||||||||
| bot | Be treated as an automated process See: Scratch Wiki:Bots |
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| botplus | Edit pages marked as bot-protected See: Scratch Wiki:Bots |
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| browsearchive | Search deleted pages | ||||||||
| changetags | Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries | ||||||||
| confirmaccount | View the queue with requested accounts Confirm accounts: Special:ConfirmAccounts (admin use only) |
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| createaccount | Create new user accounts | ||||||||
| createpage | Allows users to create a new article See: Help:Starting a New Page and Scratch Wiki:Create an article |
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| createtalk | Allows users to create new talk pages | ||||||||
| delete | Can delete pages See: Help:Deleting a page |
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| deletechangetags | Delete tags from the database | ||||||||
| deletedhistory | View deleted history entries, without their associated text | ||||||||
| deletedtext | View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions | ||||||||
| deletelogentry | Delete log entries See: Scratch Wiki:Logs |
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| deleterevision | Delete revisions to pages | ||||||||
| edit | Allows users to edit a page See: Help:Editing Pages |
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| editcontentmodel | Edit the content model of a page | ||||||||
| editinterface | Edit the user interface | ||||||||
| editlockedpages | Edit locked pages See: Scratch Wiki:editlockedpages |
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| editmyoptions | Edit your own preferences See: Special:Preferences |
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| editmyprivateinfo | Edit your own private information (such as your name, email, etc.) See: Special:Preferences |
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| editmyusercss | Edit your own CSS page See: Help:CSS |
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| editmyuserjs | Edit your own JavaScript page See: MediaWiki:Common.js for a better idea |
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| editmywatchlist | Edit your own watchlist See: Help:Watchlist |
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| editprotected | Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" See: Help:Protected pages |
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| editsemiprotected | Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" See: Help:Protected pages |
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| editusercss | Edit other users' CSS files | ||||||||
| edituserjs | Edit other users' JavaScript files | ||||||||
| EWplus | Edit pages protected for Experienced Wikians and above See: Scratch Wiki:Experienced Wikians |
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| handle-reports | Allows users to handle revision reports | ||||||||
| import | Import pages from other wikis | ||||||||
| importupload | Import pages from a file upload | ||||||||
| interwiki | Edit interwiki data | ||||||||
| ipblock-exempt | Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks See: Help:Blocking users |
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| lookupcredentials | View user credentials Note: only bureaucrats can actually see user credentials. Others granted this right can only see accepted accounts' request notes. |
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| managechangetags | Create and (de)activate tags | ||||||||
| markbotedits | Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits See: Scratch Wiki:Bots |
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| mergehistory | Merge the history of pages | ||||||||
| minoredit | Mark edits as minor | ||||||||
| move | Move pages See: Help:Moving a Page |
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| move-categorypages | Move category pages | ||||||||
| move-rootuserpages | Move root user pages | ||||||||
| move-subpages | Move pages with their subpages | ||||||||
| movefile | Can move files | ||||||||
| nominornewtalk | Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt | ||||||||
| noratelimit | Not be affected by rate limits | ||||||||
| patrol | Can mark other's edits as patrolled See: Help:Patrolled edits |
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| protect | Change protection levels and edit protected pages See: Help:Protected pages |
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| purge | Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation See: Hard Refresh |
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| read | Allows users to read an article | ||||||||
| report | Allows users to report revisions | ||||||||
| requestips | View requester's IP addresses while processing requested accounts | ||||||||
| reupload | Overwrite existing files | ||||||||
| reupload-shared | Override files on the shared media repository locally | ||||||||
| rollback | Rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page See: Help:Rollback |
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| sendemail | Send e-mail to other users | ||||||||
| suppressredirect | Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages See: Help:Moving a Page and Help:Redirects |
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| unblockself | Unblock themselves See: Help:Blocking users |
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| undelete | Undelete a page See: Help:Deleting a page and Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting |
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| unwatchedpages | View a list of unwatched pages See: Help:Watchlist and Help:Tracking Changes |
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| upload | Upload files See: Help:Managing Files |
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| userrights | Edit all user rights | ||||||||
| viewmyprivateinfo | Edit your own private information (such as your name, email, etc.) See: Special:Preferences |
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| writeapi | Use of the write API |
