Noisebridge:Administrators

Category:Wiki/Todo -- update with wiki/docs wg -- permissions / wiki meta-data header

Permissions to grief the culture, Excellence and Consensus, & almost all other users -- not needed for many tasks.

As a reminder:

• sidebar Tools > Special pages
• header Admin links

Wiki permission for WP:WP:ADMIN / WP:WP:SYSOP / WP:WP:MOP.

See Special:ListGroupRights

• Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
• Block other users from editing (block)
• Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
• Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
• Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
• Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
• Create new user accounts (createaccount)
• Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
• Delete pages (delete)
• Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
• Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
• Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
• Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
• Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
• Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
• Edit the user interface (editinterface)
• Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
• Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
• Import pages from other wikis (import)
• Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
• Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
• Mass delete pages (nuke)
• Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
• Move category pages (move-categorypages)
• Move files (movefile)
• Move pages (move)
• Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
• Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
• Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
• Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
• Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
• Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
• Overwrite existing files (reupload)
• Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
• Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
• Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
• See the link to Admin links (adminlinks)
• Unblock oneself (unblockself)
• Undelete a page (undelete)
• Upload files (upload)
• Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
• View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
• View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
• View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
• View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
• checkuser-temporary-account (checkuser-temporary-account)
• investigate (investigate)