Grants

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)
  • Automatically log in with an external user account (autocreateaccount)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked)
  • Bypass global IP blocks (globalblock-exempt)
  • Correcturam API uti (writeapi)
  • Edit pages protected as "Sinere solum usores adfirmati automaticale" (editsemiprotected)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Indicem paginarum non observandarum inspicere (unwatchedpages)
  • Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)
  • Paginas legere (read)
  • Paginas semiprotectas recensere (autoconfirmed)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • 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 (bot) access (highvolume)
  • Be treated as an automated process (bot)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
Import revisions (import)
  • Paginas ex fasciculo imponendo importare (importupload)
  • Paginas ex vicis aliis importare (import)
Edit existing pages (editpage)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Change Item terms (labels, descriptions, aliases) (item-term)
  • Change Property terms (labels, descriptions, aliases) (property-term)
  • Create Item redirects (item-redirect)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Merge Items (item-merge)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Recensiones minores designare (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)
  • Bypass blocked external domains (abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains)
  • Bypass the spam block list (sboverride)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autopatrollers" (editautopatrolprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autopatrollers" (editextendedsemiprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoreviewers" (editautoreviewprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only editors" (editeditorprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only trusted users" (edittrustedprotected)
  • Edit pages with potential legal consequences (edit-legal)
  • Edit protected templates (templateeditor)
  • Edit restricted pages (extendedconfirmed)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Move pages with stable versions (movestable)
  • Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
  • Paginas protectas recensere (sine protectione defluente quasi cataracta) (editprotected)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Recensiones minores designare (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 the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)
  • Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)
  • Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Recensiones minores designare (minoredit)
Edit your user preferences and JSON configuration (editmyoptions)
  • Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)
  • Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)
Edit the MediaWiki namespace and sitewide/user JSON (editinterface)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Paginas JSON aliorum usorum recensere (edituserjson)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Recensiones minores designare (minoredit)
Edit sitewide and user CSS/JS (editsiteconfig)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Paginas CSS aliorum usorum recensere (editusercss)
  • Paginas JS aliorum usorum recensere (edituserjs)
  • Paginas JSON aliorum usorum recensere (edituserjson)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Recensiones minores designare (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 Properties (property-create)
  • Delete single revision redirects (delete-redirect)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Non creare redirectiones ex titulis veteribus paginas movendo (suppressredirect)
  • Paginas creare (sine paginis disputationis) (createpage)
  • Paginas disputationis creare (createtalk)
  • Paginas movere (move)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Paginas una cum subpaginis movere (move-subpages)
  • Paginas usorum movere (move-rootuserpages)
  • Recensiones minores designare (minoredit)
Upload new files (uploadfile)
  • Fasciculos imponere (upload)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
Upload, replace, and move files (uploadeditmovefile)
  • Fasciculos imponere (upload)
  • Fasciculos movere (movefile)
  • Fasciculum imponere ex inscriptione URL (upload_by_url)
  • Non creare redirectiones ex titulis veteribus paginas movendo (suppressredirect)
  • Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
  • Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
Patrol changes to pages (patrol)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
Rollback changes to pages (rollback)
  • Cito reverti recensiones proximas usoris cuiuslibet paginae (rollback)
Block and unblock users (blockusers)
  • Usorem obstruere ne litteras electronicas mittere potest (blockemail)
  • Usores alios obstruere ne recensere possunt (block)
View deleted files and pages (viewdeleted)
  • Paginas deletas quaerere (browsearchive)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
View restricted log entries (viewrestrictedlogs)
  • Acta privata inspicere (suppressionlog)
  • View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
  • View hidden abuse log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log)
  • View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)
  • View the disallowed titles list log (titleblacklistlog)
  • View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog)
Delete pages, revisions, and log entries (delete)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Mass delete pages (nuke)
  • Paginam restituere (undelete)
  • Paginas delere (delete)
  • Paginas deletas quaerere (browsearchive)
  • Paginas magnarum historiarum delere (bigdelete)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Quasdam paginarum redactiones delere vel restituere (deleterevision)
  • Recensiones minores designare (minoredit)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
Hide users and suppress revisions (oversight)
  • Hide entries in the abuse log (abusefilter-hide-log)
  • Quasvis redactiones cuiuscumque conlatoris inspicere nec non celare vel visibiles reddere (suppressrevision)
  • View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
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)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Paginas protectas recensere (sine protectione defluente quasi cataracta) (editprotected)
  • Paginas recensere (edit)
  • Protectionem mutare vel paginas protectas recensere (protect)
  • Recensiones minores designare (minoredit)
View your watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
  • View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
Edit your watchlist (editmywatchlist)
  • Edit your own watchlist (note that 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)
  • Nova nomina sibi imponere (createaccount)
  • Override the disallowed usernames list (tboverride-account)
  • Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
Access private information (privateinfo)
  • View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
Merge page histories (mergehistory)
  • Historias paginarum confundere (mergehistory)
Create short URLs (shortenurls)
  • Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
Globally block or unblock a user (globalblock)
  • Make and remove global blocks (globalblock)
Manage global account status (setglobalaccountstatus)
  • Lock or unlock global account (centralauth-lock)
  • Suppress or hide global account (centralauth-suppress)
Forcibly create a local account for a global account (createlocalaccount)
  • Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
Manage your OAuth clients (oauthmanageownclient)
  • Manage OAuth grants (mwoauthmanagemygrants)
  • Propose new OAuth consumers (mwoauthproposeconsumer)
  • Update OAuth consumers you control (mwoauthupdateownconsumer)
Access two-factor authentication (OATH) information for self and others (oath)
  • Query and validate OATH information for self and others (oathauth-api-all)
  • Verify whether a user has two-factor authentication enabled (oathauth-verify-user)
Access checkuser data (checkuser)
  • Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
  • View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
Access checkuser data for temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)
  • View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to check the preference (checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference)
  • View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses (checkuser-temporary-account-log)

OAuth-specific grants

These additional grants are applicable to OAuth consumers.

GrantRights
User identity verification only, no ability to read pages or act on a user's behalf.
User identity verification only with access to real name and email address, no ability to read pages or act on a user's behalf.