Help:User access levels

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The user access level of a user determines their ability to perform certain actions on a MediaWiki-based website like K6ka's Wiki. The access level of a user depends on 1) Whether or not the user is logged in or not; and 2) The user flags (Also known as user permissions or user rights) that have been assigned to the user's account.

By default, everyone can read K6ka's Wiki, even if they do not have an account. Unless they are blocked, everyone can edit most pages on the wiki as well. Having an account is a technical prerequisite for certain advanced permissions, such as being granted the ability to quickly rollback a disruptive user's edits, or being granted administrator access to the wiki.

This page will only cover the user groups that are available on K6ka's Wiki. K6ka's Wiki is a public wiki, meaning that there are no restrictions on who can access the wiki. For information on all the user groups offered by ShoutWiki, see this page.

Overview[edit source]

All visitors to the site, including those who are not logged in, are automatically part of the '*' (asterisk) group. Everyone who is logged in is part of the 'user' and 'autoconfirmed' groups. Other groups and flags are only granted manually upon request, or after a community discussion.

Each user group comes bundled with a set of rights that grant access to certain features on the website. A list of all user groups, along with the rights that they provide, can be found here.

User groups[edit source]

Implicit groups[edit source]

Unregistered users[edit source]

Unregistered users, also known as IP or anonymous users, are users who are not currently logged in to the website. They are identified by their IP address as opposed to a username. They can read all pages on K6ka's Wiki (except for certain restricted special pages) and edit any page that is not currently protected. They may also create pages in any namespace (except the MediaWiki namespace), but cannot upload files. They may need to answer a CAPTCHA in order to perform certain actions. All users may also query the site API in batches of 500.

Unregistered users will see the following message when they try to edit a page:

You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you [$1 log in] or [$2 create an account], your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits. (Why should I create an account?)

Registered users[edit source]

Users who log in are identified by a username that they can choose, hiding their IP address from most users. They may upload files and move pages. They may mark their own edits as minor. They may also customize their browsing and editing experience through their user preferences, or by adding JavaScript and CSS rules to their common.js and Special:MyPage/common.css pages.

Autoconfirmed users[edit source]

Autoconfirmed users are generally registered users that have met or exceeded certain edit count and account age requirements (For example, accounts must be at least four days old and have made at least ten edits in order to become autoconfirmed[1]). These users can edit semi-protected pages and no longer have to answer CAPTCHAs. On most wikis, the majority of registered users who spend at least some time on the site are autoconfirmed.

On ShoutWiki, all registered users are automatically considered to be autoconfirmed, meaning that there is no distinction between newly registered and autoconfirmed users.

Emailconfirmed users[edit source]

This user group is automatically assigned to users who have confirmed their email address through their user preferences. While accounts do not need to have an email account attached to them, having an email address allows users to reset their password in the event they get locked out of their account, and to email other users if they have that option enabled in their preferences. Most email features require that the user confirm their email address before being available for the user. To confirm one's email, one must go to their preferences and scroll down to the "Email options". If no email address is set, the user will be given the option to set one. Once this is done, a confirmation email will be sent to that address, which contains a link that the user must click in order to confirm their address. Users can check to see if their email address has been confirmed by viewing Special:ConfirmEmail.

Having an email set offers no additional on-site privileges on K6ka's Wiki, but it is required to create new wikis on ShoutWiki.

Administrators and bureaucrats[edit source]

Administrators[edit source]

Administrators on K6ka's Wiki are highly trusted users that are able to perform a wide variety of tasks, such as blocking disruptive users, protecting pages from editing, and deleting inappropriate pages. They may also edit the MediaWiki namespace, changing the text of the site interface. Despite their name, administrators are volunteer users, just like everyone else, and may not use their tools to gain advantage in a dispute they are involved in. Administrators are considered to be equal to other users on the wiki, and are expected to be leaders by example rather than bosses.

Bureaucrats[edit source]

Users in the bureaucrat user group can change the user groups of most other users. Specifically, they can add users to the administrator, bot, rollback, and bureaucrat groups. They can also remove users from the same groups, although they cannot remove the bureaucrat flag. While it is technically possible to grant the bureaucrat flag to a non-administrator, K6ka's Wiki requires that all bureaucrats also be administrators.[n 1]

Other flags[edit source]

Bots[edit source]

Main articles: K6ka's Wiki:Bots and Help:Bots

A bot is a piece of software or a computer program that can perform automated or semi-automated tasks on a wiki. Bots can edit pages, leave messages on user talk pages, or simply monitor the wiki and generate logs and graphs. Bots that have been approved for use on the wiki can be given the 'bot' flag by a bureaucrat, which will hide its edits from recent changes by default. They may also query the API in batches of 5,000 rather than 500.

Rollback[edit source]

Main article: K6ka's Wiki:Rollback

Rollbacks, also known as rollbackers, are users who have been entrusted with the rollback tool. This right is automatically assigned to administrators.

Advanced flags[edit source]

Stewards[edit source]

Main article: K6ka's Wiki:Stewards

Stewards are able to grant and remove users from the administrator, bureaucrat, bot, and rollback groups.

On ShoutWiki, the founder of a wiki is automatically given the steward flag. The founder of K6ka's Wiki is K6ka. The steward flag cannot be given to anyone else, nor can it be removed from the founder, except by ShoutWiki Staff.

Staff[edit source]

The Staff flag is given to all ShoutWiki Staff, and gives them full administrator access to all ShoutWiki wikis. In addition, they may also perform CheckUsers and hide specific revisions from the page history.

K6ka's Wiki does not manage users in the Staff group, and the Staff flag cannot be added or removed by local bureaucrats and stewards. To contact ShoutWiki Staff, please use this page.

Global bots[edit source]

Global bots are a special category of users that automatically have the bot flag on all ShoutWiki wikis. These bots can generally operate on all or most wikis. This flag can only be granted by ShoutWiki Staff.

Global bot status should not be requested for bots that are only intended to operate on K6ka's Wiki. In these cases, a local bot flag will suffice.

See also[edit source]

Notes[edit source]

  1. A user that is given the bureaucrat flag but not the administrator flag will not have the administrator tools, although they can grant themselves the administrator flag to unlock the tools.

References[edit source]