Manual:User rights/mnw

User rights are permissions (like the ability to edit pages or to block users) that can be assigned to different user groups. MediaWiki ships with a default set of user rights and user groups, but these can be customized. This page explains the default rights and groups and how to customize them.

A default MediaWiki installation assigns certain rights to default groups (see below). You can change the default rights by editing the $wgGroupPermissions array in LocalSettings.php with the syntax.

$wgGroupPermissions['group']['right'] = true /* or false */;

If a member has multiple groups, they get all the permissions from each of the groups they are in. All users, including anonymous users, are in the '*' group; all registered users are in the 'user' group. In addition to the default groups, you can arbitrarily create new groups using the same array.

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
# The following line is not actually necessary, since it's in the defaults. Setting '*' to false doesn't disable rights for groups that have the right separately set to true!
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['read'] = true;

# Disable for everyone.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
# Disable for users, too: by default 'user' is allowed to edit, even if '*' is not.
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
# Make it so users with confirmed email addresses are in the group.
$wgAutopromote['emailconfirmed'] = APCOND_EMAILCONFIRMED;
# Hide group from user list.
$wgImplicitGroups[] = 'emailconfirmed';
# Finally, set it to true for the desired group.
$wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['edit'] = true;

• MediaWiki:Group-<group-name> (content: Name of the group)
• MediaWiki:Group-<group-name>-member (content: Name of a member of the group)
• MediaWiki:Grouppage-<group-name> (content: Name of the group page)

By default, bureaucrats can add users to, or remove them from, any group. However, if you are using Manual:$wgAddGroups and Manual:$wgRemoveGroups , you may need to customize those instead.

$wgGroupPermissions['projectmember']['bot'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['projectmember']['block'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['projectmember']['delete'] = true;

• MediaWiki:Group-projectmember (content: Project members)
• MediaWiki:Group-projectmember-member (content: Project member)
• MediaWiki:Grouppage-projectmember (content: Project:Project Members)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['writer']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['writer']['createpage'] = true;

• MediaWiki:Group-writer (content: Writers)
• MediaWiki:Group-writer-member (content: Writer)
• MediaWiki:Grouppage-writer (content: Project:Write)

MediaWiki out of the box comes with a number of predefined groups. Most of these groups can be removed by unsetting the according array keys, among them $wgGroupPermissions[ '<group-name>' ]. For details, see below.

This example will eliminate the bureaucrat group entirely. It is necessary to ensure that all six of these variables are unset for any group that one wishes to remove from being listed at Special:ListGroupRights; however, merely unsetting $wgGroupPermissions will suffice to remove it from Special:UserRights. This code should be placed after any require_once lines that add extensions, such as Extension:AntiSpoof containing code that gives bureaucrats group permissions by default.

unset( $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat'] );
unset( $wgRevokePermissions['bureaucrat'] );
unset( $wgAddGroups['bureaucrat'] );
unset( $wgRemoveGroups['bureaucrat'] );
unset( $wgGroupsAddToSelf['bureaucrat'] );
unset( $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf['bureaucrat'] );

$wgExtensionFunctions[] = function() use ( &$wgGroupPermissions ) {
    unset( $wgGroupPermissions['oversight'] );
    unset( $wgGroupPermissions['flow-bot'] );
};

With the above mechanism, you can remove the groups sysop, bureaucrat and bot, which - if used - can be assigned through the usual user permission system. However, it is currently impossible to remove the user group. This group is not assigned through the usual permission system. Instead, every registered user automatically is a member of that group. This is hardcoded in MediaWiki and currently cannot be changed easily.

The following user rights are available in the latest version of MediaWiki. If you are using an older version, look at Special:Version on your wiki and see if your version is covered in the "Versions" column.

ပုၚ်	ပွံက်	User groups that have this right by default	Versions
ပွမဗှ်ဒၟံၚ်
read	မုက်လိက်ဍာံတအ် - when set to false, override for specific pages with $wgWhitelistRead Warning: Setting the user right read (allow viewing pages) to false will only protect wiki (article, talk, ...) pages, but uploaded files (images, files, docs... in the $wgUploadPath subdirectories) will always remain readable via direct access by default. Use the information from Manual:Image authorization and img_auth.php pages when you have the need to restrict image views and file download access to only logged-in users.	*, user	1.5+
ပလေဝ်ဒါန်ဒၟံၚ်
applychangetags	Apply tags along with one's changes - requires the edit right	user	1.25+
autocreateaccount	ပြင်ပအသုံးပြုသူ အကောင့်တစ်ခုဖြင့် အလိုအလျောက် အကောင့်ထဲ ဝင်ရန် - a more limited version of createaccount	—	1.27+
createaccount	ခၞံကၠောန် အကံက် ညးလွပ်ဏအ် - register / registration	*, sysop	1.5+
createpage	စာမျက်နှာများကို ဖန်တီးရန် (ဆွေးနွေးချက်စာမျက်နှာများမဟုတ်) - မနွံပၟိက်ကဵု edit အခေါၚ်	*, user	1.6+
createtalk	ခၞံကၠောန်မုက်လိက်မသဳကၠဳတအ် - မနွံပၟိက်ကဵု edit အခေါၚ်	*, user	1.6+
delete-redirect	Delete single revision redirects (note that this is not needed if the group already has the delete right)	—	1.36+
edit	မုက်လိက်မဒါန်တအ်	*, user	1.5+
editsemiprotected	"Allow only autoconfirmed users" အဖြစ်ကာကွယ်ထားသော စာမျက်နှာများကိုပြင်ဆင်ရန် - without cascading protection - requires the edit right	autoconfirmed, bot, sysop	1.22+
editprotected	"Allow only administrators" အဖြစ်ကာကွယ်ထားသော စာမျက်နှာများကိုပြင်ဆင်ရန် - without cascading protection - requires the edit right	sysop	1.13+
minoredit	သမ္တီညးဒါန်ဂမၠိုၚ် နဒဒှ်အပဓာန - requires the edit right	user	1.6+
move	ပဆုဲမုက်လိက်ဂမၠိုၚ် - requires the edit right	user, sysop	1.5+
move-categorypages	ပဆုဲမုက်လိက်ကဏ္ဍတအ် - requires the move right	user, sysop	1.25+
move-rootuserpages	ပဆုဲတမ်ရိုဟ်မုက်လိက်ညးလွပ် - requires the move right	user, sysop	1.14+
move-subpages	ပဆုဲမုက်လိက်ဂမၠိုၚ်သီုကဵုမုက်လိက်လစှ်ေဍေံတအ်ဂမၠိုၚ် - requires the move right	user, sysop	1.13+
movefile	ပဆုဲဝှာၚ်တအ် - requires the move right and $wgAllowImageMoving to be true	user, sysop	1.14+
reupload	ထပ်ချူအာ ဝှာၚ်နွံမံင်တုဲဏအ် - requires the upload right	user, sysop	1.6+
reupload-own	သင်ကိုယ်တိုင် Upload တင်ထားခဲ့သည့် ရှိပြီးသားဖိုင်ကို ထပ်ရေးရန် - requires the upload right (note that this is not needed if the group already has the reupload right)	—	1.11+
reupload-shared	Override files on the shared media repository locally - (if one is set up) with local files (requires the upload right)	user, sysop	1.6+
sendemail	အခြားအသုံးပြုသူများကို အီးမေးပို့ရန်	user	1.16+
upload	ပတိုန်ပၠောပ် ဝှာင် - requires the edit right and $wgEnableUploads to be true	user, sysop	1.5+
upload_by_url	ပတိုန်ပၠောပ် ဝှာၚ် နူ URL - requires the upload right (Prior to 1.20 it was given to sysops)	—	1.8+
<span id="Management">Management
bigdelete	လွန်စွာများပြားသော ရာဇဝင်များရှိသည့် စာမျက်နှာများကို ဖျက်ရန် (as determined by $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit ) - requires the delete right	sysop	1.12+
block	အခြားအသုံးပြုသူများ တည်းဖြတ်ခြင်းမှ ပိတ်ပင်ရန် - Block options include preventing editing and registering new accounts, and autoblocking other users on the same IP address	sysop	1.5+
blockemail	အီးမေးပို့ခြင်းမှ အသုံးပြုသူကို တားဆီးရန် သို့မဟုတ် တားဆီးထားခြင်း ပြန်ဖွင့်ပါ - allows preventing use of the Special:Emailuser interface when blocking - requires the block right	sysop	1.11+
browsearchive	ဖျက်ပစ်လိုက်သော စာမျက်နှာများကို ရှာရန် - through Special:Undelete - requires the deletedhistory right	sysop	1.13+
changetags	Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries - currently unused by extensions	user	1.25+
delete	မုက်မပလီုလဝ် 1.5–1.11: allows the deletion or undeletion of pages. 1.12+: allows the deletion of pages. For undeletions, there is now the 'undelete' right, see below	sysop	1.5+
deletedhistory	View deleted history entries, without their associated text	sysop	1.6+
deletedtext	View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions	sysop
deletelogentry	Delete and undelete specific log entries - allows deleting/undeleting information (action text, summary, user who made the action) of specific log entries - requires the deleterevision right	suppress	1.20+
deleterevision	Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages - allows deleting/undeleting information (revision text, edit summary, user who made the edit) of specific revisions Split into deleterevision and deletelogentry in 1.20	suppress	1.6+
editcontentmodel	စာမျက်နှာ၏ မာတိကာမော်ဒယ်ကို ပြင်ဆင်ရန် - requires the edit right	user	1.23.7+
editinterface	Edit the user interface - contains interface messages. For editing sitewide CSS/JSON/JS, there are now segregate rights, see below. - requires the edit right	sysop, interface-admin	1.5+
editmyoptions	သင်၏ကိုယ်ပိုင် အပြင်အဆင်များကို ပြင်ရန်	*	1.22+
editmyprivateinfo	သင်၏ကိုယ်ပိုင် ပုဂ္ဂလိကဒေတာကို ပြင်ရန် (ဥပမာ - အီးမေးလ်လိပ်စာ၊ နာမည်ရင်း) နှင့် စကားဝှက်ပြန်လည်သတ်မှတ်သည့် အီးမေးလ် တောင်းဆိုရန် - also hides the "Change Password", but not other ways to change the password - requires the viewmyprivateinfo right	*	1.22+
editmyusercss	Edit your own user CSS files - prior to 1.31 it was assigned to everyone (i.e. "*") (note that this is not needed if the group already has the editusercss right) - requires the edit right	user	1.22+
editmyuserjs	Edit your own user JavaScript files - prior to 1.31 it was assigned to everyone (i.e. "*") (note that this is not needed if the group already has the edituserjs right) - requires the edit right	user	1.22+
editmyuserjsredirect	Edit your own user JavaScript files that are redirects (note that this is not needed if the group already has the edituserjs right) - requires the edit right	—	1.34+
editmyuserjson	Edit your own user JSON files (note that this is not needed if the group already has the edituserjson right) - requires the edit right	user	1.31+
editmywatchlist	သင့်ကိုယ်ပိုင် စောင့်ကြည့်စာရင်းကို တည်းဖြတ်ခြင်း (အချို့သောလုပ်ဆောင်ချက်များသည် ဤအခွင့်အရေးမရှိဘဲ စာမျက်နှာများကို ဆက်လက်ထည့်သွင်းနေမည်ကို သတိပြုပါ) - requires the viewmywatchlist right	*	1.22+
editsitecss	Edit sitewide CSS - requires the editinterface right	interface-admin	1.32+
editsitejs	Edit sitewide JavaScript - requires the editinterface right	interface-admin	1.32+
editsitejson	Edit sitewide JSON - requires the editinterface right	sysop, interface-admin	1.32+
editusercss	အခြားအသုံးပြုသူများ၏ CSS ဖိုင်ကို တည်းဖြတ်ရန် - requires the edit right	interface-admin	1.16+
edituserjs	အခြားအသုံးပြုသူများ၏ JavaScript ဖိုင်ကို တည်းဖြတ်ရန် - requires the edit right	interface-admin	1.16+
edituserjson	အခြားအသုံးပြုသူများ၏ JSON ဖိုင်ကို တည်းဖြတ်ရန် - requires the edit right	sysop, interface-admin	1.31+
hideuser	အသုံးပြုသူအမည်ကို ပိတ်ပင်ရန် သို့ မပိတ်ပင်တော့ရန်နှင့် ယင်းအမည်ကို အများမမြင်နိုင်အောင် ဝှက်ထားရန် သို့ မဝှက်တော့ရန် - Only users with 1000 edits or less can be suppressed by default - requires the block right Use $wgHideUserContribLimit to disable.	suppress	1.10+
markbotedits	နောက်ပြန်ပြင်သော တည်းဖြတ်မှုများကို ဘော့တည်းဖြတ်မှုအဖြစ် မှတ်သားရန် - see Manual:Rollback - requires the rollback right	sysop	1.12+
mergehistory	စာမျက်နှာများ၏ရာဇဝင်များကို ပေါင်းရန် - requires the edit right	sysop	1.12+
pagelang	စာမျက်နှာ ဘာသာစကား ပြောင်းလဲရန် - $wgPageLanguageUseDB must be true	—	1.24+
patrol	အခြားသူများ၏ တည်းဖြတ်မှုများကို စောင့်ကြပ်စစ်ဆေးပြီးကြောင်း မှတ်သားခြင်း - $wgUseRCPatrol must be true	sysop	1.5+
patrolmarks	View recent changes patrol marks	—	1.16+
protect	ကာကွယ်မှုအပြင်အဆင် ပြောင်းလဲရန်နှင့် သွယ်ဖြာ-ကာကွယ်ထားသည့် စာမျက်နှာများကို တည်းဖြတ်ရန် - requires the edit right	sysop	1.5+
rollback	Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page - requires the edit right	sysop	1.5+
suppressionlog	ကိုယ်ပိုင်မှတ်တမ်းများကို ကြည့်ရန်	suppress	1.6+
suppressrevision	View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user - Prior to 1.13 this right was named hiderevision - requires the deleterevision right	suppress	1.6+
unblockself	ကိုယ့်ကိုကိုယ် ပြန်မပိတ်ပင်ရန် - Without it, an administrator that has the capability to block cannot unblock themselves if blocked by another administrator	sysop	1.17+
undelete	စာမျက်နှာတစ်ခုကို မဖျက်တော့ရန် - requires the deletedhistory right	sysop	1.12+
userrights	ဒါန် အခေါၚ်အရာညးလွဟ်တအ်အလုံဖအိုတ် - allows the assignment or removal of all(*) groups to any user. (*)With $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups you can set the possibility to add/remove certain groups instead of all	bureaucrat	1.5+
userrights-interwiki	အခြားဝီကီများမှ အသုံးပြုသူများ၏ အသုံးပြုသူအခွင့်အရေးများကို တည်းဖြတ်ရန် - requires the userrights right	—	1.12+
viewmyprivateinfo	သင်၏ကိုယ်ပိုင် ပုဂ္ဂလိကဒေတာကို ကြည့်ရန် (ဥပမာ - အီးမေးလ်လိပ်စာ၊ နာမည်ရင်း)	*	1.22+
viewmywatchlist	သင်၏ကိုယ်ပိုင် စောင့်ကြည့်စာရင်းကို ကြည့်ရန်	*	1.22+
viewsuppressed	View revisions hidden from any user - i.e. a more narrow alternative to "suppressrevision" (note that this is not needed if the group already has the suppressrevision right)	suppress	1.24+
<span id="Administration">Administration
autopatrol	တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး၏ တည်းဖြတ်မှုများအား စောင့်ကြပ်ကြည့်ရှုပြီးကြောင်း အလိုအလျောက်မှတ်သားခြင်း - $wgUseRCPatrol must be true	bot, sysop	1.9+
deletechangetags	Delete tags from the database - currently unused by extensions	sysop	1.28+
import	အခြားဝီကီများမှ စာမျက်နှာများကို ထည့်သွင်းရန် - "transwiki" - requires the edit right	sysop	1.5+
importupload	Upload တင်လိုက်သော ဖိုင်တစ်ခုမှ စာမျက်နှာများကို ထည့်သွင်းရန် - This right was called 'importraw' in and before version 1.5 - requires the edit right	sysop	1.5+
managechangetags	Create and (de)activate tags - currently unused by extensions	sysop	1.25+
siteadmin	Lock and unlock the database - which blocks all interactions with the web site except viewing. (not available by default)	—	1.5+
unwatchedpages	စောင့်မကြည့်သော စာမျက်နှာများ၏ စာရင်းကို ကြည့်ရန် - lists pages that no user has watchlisted	sysop	1.6+
<span id="Technical">Technical
apihighlimits	Use higher limits in API queries	bot, sysop	1.12+
autoconfirmed	အိုင်ပီအခြေပြု ကန့်သတ်ချက်များကို အကျိုးမသက်ရောက်ပါ - used for the 'autoconfirmed' group, see the other table below for more information (note that this is not needed if the group already has the noratelimit right)	autoconfirmed, bot, sysop	1.6+
bot	အလိုအလျောက်ပြုမူသော ဖြစ်စဉ်အဖြစ်ဆောင်ရွက်ရန် - can optionally be viewed	bot	1.5+
ipblock-exempt	Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks	sysop	1.9+
nominornewtalk	Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt - requires the minoredit right	bot	1.9+
noratelimit	Not be affected by rate limits - not affected by rate limits (prior to the introduction of this right, the configuration variable $wgRateLimitsExcludedGroups was used for this purpose)	sysop, bureaucrat	1.13+
override-export-depth	Export pages including linked pages up to a depth of 5 With this right, you can define the depth of linked pages at Special:Export. Otherwise, the value of $wgExportMaxLinkDepth , which is 0 by default, will be used.	—	?
suppressredirect	စာမျက်နှာများကို ရွှေ့သောအခါ မူရင်းစာမျက်နှာတို့မှ ပြန်ညွှန်းများ မဖန်တီးရန် - requires the move right	bot, sysop	1.12+

The following groups are available in the latest version of MediaWiki. If you are using an older version then some of these may not be implemented.

From MW 1.12, you can create your own groups into which users are automatically promoted (as with autoconfirmed and emailconfirmed) using $wgAutopromote . You can even create any custom group by just assigning rights to them.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/master/includes/MainConfigSchema.php

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_42/includes/MainConfigSchema.php

Information for coders only follows.

If you're adding a new right in core, for instance to control a new special page, you are required to add it to the list of available rights in PermissionManager.php , $coreRights (example). If you're doing so in an extension , you instead need to use $wgAvailableRights .

// create projectmember-powers right
$wgAvailableRights[] = 'projectmember-powers';

// add projectmember-powers to the projectmember-group
$wgGroupPermissions['projectmember']['projectmember-powers'] = true;

// add projectmember-powers to the 'basic' grant so we can use our projectmember powers over an API request
$wgGrantPermissions['basic']['projectmember-powers'] = true;

You also need to add right-[name] and action-[name] interface messages to /languages/i18n/en.json (with documentation in qqq.json). The right-* messages can be seen on Special:ListGroupRights and the action-* messages are used in a sentence like "You do not have permission to ...".

• Special:ListGroupRights – Links to this help page and might contain not yet documented rights
• Help:User rights and groups – Help page describing use of the Special:Userrights interface (for bureaucrats)
• Manual:Setting user groups in MediaWiki – Information about managing and the assignment of user groups.
• Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection
• Manual:$wgAutopromote
• Manual:$wgAddGroups , Manual:$wgRemoveGroups
• Manual:Preventing access – ဥပမာဂမၠိုၚ်
• Manual:Establishing a hierarchy of bureaucrats
• Category:User rights extensions – Many extensions relating to user rights