Help:Group rights

This pages provides a quick overview on the different types of user rights.

• IP addresses: editors who haven't logged in. When they make an edit, their IP is saved.
• Users: editors who have an account.
• Autoconfirmed users: users that have an account "confirmed" to be non-destructive. They are given a few more powers over newly-created accounts.
• Autopatrolled users: users whose edits are automatically marked as "patrolled" for the wiki's patrollers.
• Patrollers: users tasked with confirming if an edit is good or not. If it is, they mark the edit as "patrolled".
• Rollbackers: users that have the ability to instantly undo an edit.
• Administrators: users that can block pages, block users, delete pages, and perform other maintenance operations.
• Bureaucrats: users that have administrator powers, plus the ability to change other users' rights.
• Bots: user accounts that are not used by humans, but rather, by bots that perform automated tasks. These users have special rights to help with their tasks.
• Developers: users that can read and write the wiki's database.