Help:Group rights

The Scratch Wiki is split up into different group rights which different Scratch Wiki users can be in. Each group has different 'rights' or privileges that users in the group has. For example, the Experienced Wikian user group, and the sysop right have the  right, which allows them to delete wiki pages. A full list of rights and groups can be found here.

(all)
The usergroup "(all)" applies to all users, including anonymous users. All users have all of the rights that this usergroup has unless a different usergroup's rights override it.

Experienced Wikians
Experienced Wikians are wiki users who have been granted more rights on their account. Experienced Wikians are elected periodically, when deemed necessary. Some rights that they are granted, which users in the User group are not, are:
 * Deleting pages: the ability to delete wiki articles
 * Marking people's edits as patrolled: the ability to mark other people's edits as patrolled
 * Rollback an edit: revert consecutive edits from users on a particular page
 * View and accept requested accounts: accept (or deny) requested wiki accounts
 * Edit at the EWplus permission level.

A list of users with this group can be found here.

New Wikians
This usergroup is granted the  right, which allows them to edit semi-protected pages.

Bots
Bots are tools that are owned by users, which do tasks on the wiki, such as editing pages and posting on user talk pages. These users are, however, not human, and computer-generate edits. Bots have rights that no other user group has, such as: And some extra rights that bots have, but the user group "Users" do not are:
 * Be treated as an automatic process
 * Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt
 * Edit semi-protected pages (but Autoconfirmed users can)
 * Have higher limits in API queries

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats have the most rights on the wiki. They can: The main thing that Bureaucrats can do, which 'sysops' cannot, is changing peoples' user group.
 * Block a user from sending e-mails (already disabled by Scratch)
 * Block people from editing
 * Create new user accounts
 * Edit user group rights
 * Edit interwiki data
 * Not be affected by rates limit
 * View User credentials
 * View requester's IP addresses while processing requested accounts
 * View and accept requested accounts: accept (or deny) requested wiki accounts

editlockedpages
Users in this group can edit locked pages. Locked pages are a special type of protecting pages, that allows this usergroup to edit them, but not normal users in the User group. Some other types of protection are semi-protection (where autoconfirmed and other higher levels can edit) and fully-protected pages (where only admins and bureaucrats can edit them). Currently, only a few Scratch Team members are in this group.

Administrators
Administrators, also called sysops, are elected, and have lots more rights than Users. Admins are highly trusted, and given lots of privileges. The main rights admins are granted are:
 * Deleting pages
 * Have their edits automatically marked as patrolled
 * Patrol other peoples' edits
 * Not be affected by rate limits
 * Rollback an edit: revert consecutive edits from users on a particular page
 * Undeleting pages
 * Deleting individual edits and log entries
 * Viewing deleted edits and log entries
 * Edit locked pages
 * Protecting pages
 * Manually creating accounts

Users
Any logged in user has the "user" usergroup.

Users make up the bulk of the Scratch Wiki. They have the power of editing pages, and creating them. They also can upload files, move unprotected files, and can use the write API. However, they cannot delete pages, or block people. A list of wiki users can be found here.

Wikian
A Wikian is a user whose account is over 1 month old and has over 50 edits. They can edit pages at the  level.