Minecraft Wiki:User rights

User rights give users the ability to perform certain actions. Some of these are automatically granted, e.g. by creating an account or making a certain number of edits, but most have to be manually granted by an administrator or a bureaucrat.

This page is meant to serve as a guide to the purpose of the user rights listed here; for a complete list of every specific right of each user group, see Special:UserGroupRights.

One of the key features of a wiki is that in most cases, anybody can edit it. Therefore, all users, whether logged in or out, have the ability to edit pages. There are a few exceptions, however; most notably, pages that are high traffic or a heavy vandalism target may be protected so that only certain users can edit them. Also, filters exist that prevent edits with a certain number of characters or certain words from being made to a page (e.g. edits containing profanity).

Any user who has created an account has the ability to create non-talk pages, upload new files (but not override existing files) and mark their own edits as minor.

There are currently 599,428 registered user accounts, of which the vast majority (99.6%) are inactive. A list of the 2,520 recently active registered users can be found here.

Users who have been registered for at least 3 days and have made 5 or more edits are automatically added to the autoconfirmed user group. They gain additional rights such as re-uploading files, editing semi-protected pages, and moving pages.

Autopatrolled users have their edits automatically marked as patrolled. This means that when a patroller or an administrator is viewing the recent changes or the history of a page, their edit(s) will be automatically marked as "checked" for any issues, so the patroller will know to skip over them. Unlike most user rights, a user can be granted the "autopatrol" right by any administrator, not just a bureaucrat. This right is typically given to users who are known to make constructive edits that are free of significant factual or grammatical errors.

Autopatrolled users are also able to move pages without leaving redirects behind, and move root user pages.

A list of all 201 autopatrolled users can be found here; recently active autopatrolled users can be found here.

Patrollers have the ability to mark an edit as patrolled and quickly rollback a user's previous consecutive contributions to a page. This right is typically granted to users who are not only trusted and constructive, but also have demonstrated a need for this right, usually by checking over the edits of other users and acting on them as necessary. Only bureaucrats can give a user the patroller right.

A list of all 29 patrollers can be found here.

Administrators are users with the ability to block users, protect pages, delete pages, edit fully-protected pages, edit the MediaWiki interface, grant users the "autopatrol" right, hide revisions from public history, and more. A user can only be granted this right by a bureaucrat. Administrator rights are granted after a discussion on the Forum.

Bureaucrats have the ability to add or remove any user right that can be granted locally to/from a user, including the bureaucrat right itself. Bureaucrat permissions are granted after a forum discussion, and have usually already been an admin for a decent period of time.

Directors is a locally-created user right given to users who are admins on any of the foreign-language Minecraft Wikis. They have the ability to edit director-protected pages – a special protection level granted to certain vulnerable pages such as the main page. Any bureaucrat, but not an administrator, can grant users this right.

The Bots user right allows the edits of an account to be marked as bot edits, meaning they won't show up by default in recent changes. This is useful when the same edit needs to be made to a mass number of pages and if performed by a normal user would be tedious and clutter recent changes unnecessarily. Instead of granting a user the "Bot" role temporarily to perform a mass edit, this right is typically given to the alt account of a trusted user who has demonstrated a long-term need for a bot. Note that wanting to perform one type of mass edit is generally not a sufficient reason to be granted this right; in a case like this, reach out to the owner of one of the current bots.

Bot users use various programs to perform mass edits, AutoWikiBrowser being one of the most common.

A list of all 25 bots can be found here.

Global user groups are effective across all language versions of the Minecraft Wiki.

CATS (CATS Attack The Spam) members are trusted community members specializing in removing spam and vandalism across all language wikis. They are able to block users and delete pages, etc. Notably, those rights can be only used to assist in removal of spam and vandalism.

Global interface maintainers are trusted community members specializing in improving and implementing fixes to user interface, especially CSS and JS across all language wikis. They are able to edit these pages and all protected pages.