Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Granting and revoking user rights: Difference between revisions

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The following are user groups administrators are able to grant and revoke. Note the granting guidelines may link to the admin instructions at [[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions]]. You can refer to these pages for the accepted prerequisites of a given permission.

* [[Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes|Pending changes reviewer]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Pending changes reviewer/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – accept/reject pending changes to articles under [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending changes protection]]

* [[Wikipedia:Account creator|Account creator]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – 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]] ('''[[Wikipedia:IP block exemption#Administrator's guide|granting guideline]]''') – exempts the users from [[WP:HARDBLOCK|hardblocks]] on affecting their IP address

* [[Wikipedia:Rollback|Rollback]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – revert the last user's consecutive edits on a given page to be undone with a single mouse click

* [[Wikipedia:Autopatrolled|Autopatrolled]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – automatically set page creations by the user as [[WP:NPPLOG|patrolled]]

* [[Wikipedia:Confirmed|Confirmed]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – 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)

* [[Wikipedia:IP block exemption|IP block exempt]] ('''[[Wikipedia:IP block exemption#Administrator's guide|granting guideline]]''') – exempts the users from [[WP:HARDBLOCK|hardblocks]] on affecting their IP address

* [[Wikipedia:Edit filter|Edit filter manager]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Edit_filter#User_right|granting guideline]]''') – create and modify filters that are run against all edits. This right has extreme potential for (accidental) abuse and should '''never''' be granted to non-admins without prior discussion at the [[WP:EFN|edit filter noticeboard]]

* [[Wikipedia:RollbackEvent coordinator|RollbackEvent coordinator]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/RollbackEvent coordinator/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – revertallows theeditors lastto user'screate consecutivemultiple editsnew onaccounts, aand givento pagetemporarily toconfirm accounts beso undonethat withthey acan singlecreate mousenew clickarticles.

* [[Wikipedia:Extended confirmed|Extended confirmed]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Extended confirmed/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – edit articles that are [[WP:ECP|extended confirmed protected]] (automatically granted to accounts that are over 30 days old and with 500 edits)

* [[Wikipedia:File mover|File mover]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/File mover/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – rename [[WP:CMF|media]] in the File [[Wikipedia:Namespace|namespace]]

* [[Wikipedia:Template editor|Template editor]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Template editor/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – 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]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Mass message sender/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – send messages to multiple users at once via [[Special:MassMessage]]

* [[Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes|Pending changes reviewer]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Pending changes reviewer/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – accept/reject pending changes to articles under [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending changes protection]]

* [[Wikipedia:Edit filter|Edit filter manager]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Edit_filter#User_right|granting guideline]]''') – create and modify filters that are run against all edits. This right has extreme potential for (accidental) abuse and should '''never''' be granted to non-admins without prior discussion at the [[WP:EFN|edit filter noticeboard]]

* [[Wikipedia:ConfirmedRollback|ConfirmedRollback]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/ConfirmedRollback/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – editrevert articlesthe thatlast areuser's [[WP:SEMI|semi-protected]],consecutive [[WP:MOVE|moveedits pages]]on anda [[WP:UPLOAD|uploadgiven files]] (automatically grantedpage to accountsbe thatundone arewith overa 4single daysmouse old and with 10 edits)click

* [[Wikipedia:Template editor|Template editor]] ('''[[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Template editor/Administrator instructions|granting guideline]]''') – allow coders to edit [[Help:Template|templates]] and [[Wikipedia:Lua|modules]] that have been [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|protected]] with the "protected template" protection level

And rights specific to the [[Wikipedia:Education program|education program]] (handled at the [[Wikipedia:Education noticeboard|education noticeboard]]):