Wikibooks:User groups
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The Wikibooks community allows administrators and bureaucrats to grant and revoke permissions.[1] For administrator, bureaucrat and CheckUser access, see Wikibooks:Administrators. For bot access, see Wikibooks:Bots.
Administrators and bureaucrats have the trust of the community, and use their discretion when granting or revoking these rights. Requests are made at WB: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.
- User groups are requested at Wikibooks:Requests for permissions
- The full list of rights available to user groups is at Special:ListGroupRights
- Users in the various user groups are listed at Special:ListUsers
- Changes in user rights are logged at Special:Log/rights
User groups available to all users
Unregistered users
Users who do not log in are said to be unregistered users, also referred to as anonymous users or anons. These users may edit pages which are not protected or semi-protected; their edits will appear in page histories. They can also create new pages.
Unregistered users cannot move pages, upload media, or maintain a watchlist. They also are not able to select the option of minor edit as this could allow a bad-faith user to make undesirable changes without being spotted for some time.
User groups automatically assigned to registered users
Each of the English Wikibooks' permissions, which are approved by an administrator or a bureaucrat, are listed and described here. The information is located at Special:ListGroupRights.
User groups that are usually conferred automatically
Registered users
A registered 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 their preferences, 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.
Confirmed and autoconfirmed accounts
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 on Wikibooks occurs after four days of registration.
Autoconfirmed status is required to move pages and edit semi-protected pages. Autoconfirmed users are no longer required to enter a CAPTCHA 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.
User groups that are typically requested at WB:RFP
The following user groups are typically requested at Wikibooks:Requests for permissions.
Autoreviewed users and reviewers
Autoreviewed users have the ability to mark their own edits as being automatically reviewed and patrolled.
Reviewers, on the other hand, can also review pending changes, use the rollback tool to combat vandalism, and also use other abilities. These permissions are automatically assigned to administrators.
See Special:ListUsers/autoreview for the list of the 91 autoreviewed users on the English Wikibooks, as well as Special:ListUsers/editor for the list of the 1,011 reviewers.
Importers and import uploaders
Importers can import pages by using Special: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 perform history merges by using Special:MergeHistory, and optionally enable enable two-factor authentication (2FA).
The import uploader user group has the same rights as an importer, but also holds the importupload user right. This allows them to import pages using XML from any MediaWiki installations, including wikis not hosted by the WMF.
See Special:ListUsers/transwiki for the list of the 13 importers on the English Wikibooks. Currently, there are no import uploaders.
See also the import log, Help:Importing, and Wikibooks:Requests for import.
Uploaders
Uploaders are able to upload files and images on the English Wikibooks by using Special:Upload, and can also overwrite existing files. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators.
See Special:ListUsers/uploader for the list of the 18 uploaders on the English Wikibooks.
Account creators
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 the title blacklist. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators and bureaucrats.
Currently, there are no account creators on the English Wikibooks.
IP block exempt
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 by Tor blocks. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators and bots.
See Special:ListUsers/ipblock-exempt for the list of the 6 affected users.
Temporary account IP viewers
Temporary account IP viewers are permitted to view IP addresses used by temporary accounts, as well as able to access a full view of the IPInfo tool. This permission is automatically assigned to administrators.
Currently, there are no temporary account IP viewers on the English Wikibooks.
User groups that are assigned non-locally
Administrators
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 the import uploader, importer, uploader, pseudo-bot, IP block exempt, temporary account IP viewer, reviewer and autoreviewed user user groups.
Administrators are not granted any additional authority; they must follow all policies. Administrators are not employees of the Wikimedia Foundation and should not be confused with system administrators ("sysadmins").
See Special:ListUsers/sysop for the list of the 12 administrators on the English Wikibooks.
Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats are administrators with extra tools responsible for judging community consensus in the granting of advanced access rights. They are able to grant the account creator, administrator, interface administrator, bureaucrat, bot and confirmed user groups.
Currently, there are no bureaucrats on the English Wikibooks.
CheckUsers
CheckUsers have access to Special: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 the CheckUser log, which logs each time a CheckUser uses their tools to view any of the information listed. This permission is granted to very few users who are currently administrators, are over 18 years old and have signed the Wikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.
See Special:ListUsers/checkuser for the list of 2 CheckUsers on the English Wikibooks.
Interface administrators
Interface administrators are users who can edit sitewide CSS, JS, and JSON pages (pages such as MediaWiki:Common.js or MediaWiki:Vector.css, or the gadget pages listed on Special: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 with two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts.
See Special:ListUsers/interface-admin for the list of 4 interface administrators on the English Wikibooks.
Suppressors
Suppressors, also known as oversighters, 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 the suppression log, where they can view actions made by other suppressors, as well as the content of the hidden revisions. This permission is granted to very few users who are currently administrators, are over 18 years old and have signed the Wikimedia Foundation's confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information.
Currently, there are no suppressors on the English Wikibooks.
Other user groups
Bots
Accounts used by approved bots 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 in recent changes or watchlists 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 the API in batches of 5,000 rather than 500.
See Special:ListUsers/bot for the list of 10 bots on the English Wikibooks.
Pseudo-bots
The pseudo-bot user group, also known as flooder or the flood flag, is used by administrators to avoid flushing the recent changes feed when making repetitive actions.
References
- ↑ http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Reading_room/General&oldid=1087292#Consensus_check
- ↑ This flag only grants the exempted user to edit behind the IP address. IP block exempt users are not able to create accounts while behind an IP address that is also blocked with the "Prevent account creation" option enabled.