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.
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Basic rights (basic) |
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High-volume editing (highvolume) |
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Import revisions (import) |
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Edit existing pages (editpage) | |
Edit protected pages (editprotected) |
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Edit your user CSS/JSON/JavaScript (editmycssjs) |
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Edit your user preferences and JSON configuration (editmyoptions) |
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Edit the MediaWiki namespace and sitewide/user JSON (editinterface) |
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Edit sitewide and user CSS/JS (editsiteconfig) |
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Create, edit, and move pages (createeditmovepage) |
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Upload new files (uploadfile) |
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Upload, replace, and move files (uploadeditmovefile) |
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Patrol changes to pages (patrol) |
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Rollback changes to pages (rollback) |
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Block and unblock users (blockusers) |
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View deleted files and pages (viewdeleted) |
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View restricted log entries (viewrestrictedlogs) |
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Delete pages, revisions, and log entries (delete) |
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Hide users and suppress revisions (oversight) |
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Protect and unprotect pages (protect) |
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View your watchlist (viewmywatchlist) |
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Edit your watchlist (editmywatchlist) |
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Send email to other users (sendemail) |
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Create accounts (createaccount) |
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Access private information (privateinfo) |
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Merge page histories (mergehistory) |
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