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== User groups ==
The user groups administrators are able to grant and revoke include the following:
* [[Wikipedia:Reviewing|Pending changes reviewer]] – accept/reject pending changes to articles under [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending changes protection]]
* [[Wikipedia:Account creator|Account creator]] – make a large number of accounts for other people who request them, for the purposes of the [[WP:ACC|account creation program]], [[Wikipedia:Education program|education program]], or an [[edit-a-thon]]
* [[Wikipedia:IP block exemption|IP block exempt]] – exempts the users from [[WP:HARDBLOCK|hardblocks]] on affecting their IP address
* [[Wikipedia:Rollback|Rollback]] – revert the last user's consecutive edits on a given page to be undone with a single mouse click
* [[Wikipedia:Autopatrolled|Autopatrolled]] – automatically set page creations by the user as [[WP:NPPLOG|patrolled]]
* [[Wikipedia:File mover|File mover]] – rename [[WP:CMF|media]] in the File [[Wikipedia:Namespace|namespace]]
* [[Wikipedia:Template editor|Template editor]] – allow coders to edit [[Help:Template|templates]] and [[Wikipedia:Lua|modules]] that have been [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|protected]] with the "protected template" protection level
* [[Wikipedia:Mass message senders|Mass message sender]] – send messages to multiple users at once via [[Special:MassMessage]]
* [[Wikipedia:Edit filter|Edit filter manager]] – create and modify filters that are run against all edits
* [[Wikipedia:Confirmed|Confirmed]] – edit articles that are [[WP:SEMI|semi-protected]], [[WP:MOVE|move pages]] and [[WP:UPLOAD|upload files]] (automatically granted to accounts that are over 4 days old and with 10 edits)
And rights specific to the [[Wikipedia:Education program|education program]]:
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