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The following is a list of grants with their associated access to user rights. Users can authorize applications to use their account, but with limited permissions based on the grants the user gave to the application. An application acting on behalf of a user cannot actually use rights that the user does not have however. There may be additional information about individual rights.

GrantRights
Basic rights (basic)
  • Useless: Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Modify pages using the write API (writeapi)
  • Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)
  • Perform captcha triggering actions without having to go through the captcha (skipcaptcha)
  • Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation (purge)
  • Read pages (read)
  • View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
  • View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • View recent changes patrol marks (patrolmarks)
  • View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
High-volume editing (highvolume)
  • Be treated as an automated process (bot)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
Edit existing pages (editpage)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users (flow-edit-post)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Hide Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-hide)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
Edit protected pages (editprotected)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Create Structured Discussions boards in any location (flow-create-board)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
Edit your user CSS/JSON/JavaScript (editmycssjs)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)
  • Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)
  • Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
Edit your user preferences (editmyoptions)
  • Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)
Edit the MediaWiki namespace and user CSS/JSON/JavaScript (editinterface)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
Create, edit, and move pages (createeditmovepage)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Create non-talk pages (createpage)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
Upload new files (uploadfile)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
  • Upload files (upload)
Upload, replace, and move files (uploadeditmovefile)
  • Useless: Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
  • Useless: Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Option to supress redirects when moving pages and files (suppressredirect)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
  • Upload files (upload)
Patrol changes to pages (patrol)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
Rollback changes to pages (rollback)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
  • Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
Block and unblock users (blockusers)
  • Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • Block other users from editing (block)
View deleted files and pages (viewdeleted)
  • Search archive of deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • View deleted revisions (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
View restricted log entries (viewrestrictedlogs)
  • View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
  • View hidden abuse log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log)
  • View private logs (suppressionlog)
  • View the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog)
  • View title blacklist log (titleblacklistlog)
Delete pages, revisions, and log entries (delete)
  • Useless: Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Delete Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-delete)
  • Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
  • Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • Search archive of deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Suppress Structured Discussions revisions (flow-suppress)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • View deleted revisions (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
Protect and unprotect pages (protect)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Edit pages (edit)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Mark Structured Discussions topics as resolved (flow-lock)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
View your watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
Edit your watchlist (editmywatchlist)
  • Edit your own watchlist. Note some actions will still add pages even without this right. (editmywatchlist)
Send email to other users (sendemail)
  • Send email to other users (sendemail)
Create accounts (createaccount)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
Access private information (privateinfo)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)