ArchWiki:Access levels and roles

ArchWiki
differentiates two types of
groups
in order to independently define access levels and user roles. Compared to the convention, popular in other MediaWiki projects, where each role is represented by a group with its own set of rights, this approach is more flexible, allowing to fine-tune the access level for each user regardless of their roles.
Access levels
Access levels are groups with a non-empty set of granted rights: their purpose is to define the extent of the
permissions
that users have in the wiki.
The following access levels are assigned automatically by MediaWiki:
user
is the default group for all users, which grants the basic read/write permissions.
autoconfirmed
is a group for users with at least 20 edits and 3 days since their account creation
[1]
. Before these thresholds are reached, user actions are subject to some restrictions aimed at preventing spam attacks.
The following access levels can be assigned manually by a
bureaucrat
. Members of specific roles may request
temporary
or
permanent
assignment of these levels, for example following the acquisition or change of a role, or to address specifically-justified individual needs. Permanent assignments are possible only after internal discussion and approval by the
Administrators
.
privileged
is a group for trusted community members with the purpose of allowing to edit most protected pages, such as those in the DeveloperWiki namespace.
cosysop
is a group for users who have been trusted to partake in wiki maintenance. They are also able to edit most protected pages.
sysop
is a group for highly trusted users who are responsible for critical wiki-administrative tasks like page deletion or user blocking, thus requiring the demonstration of extensive knowledge of how the wiki is organized. They also have all rights of the
checkuser
,
interface-admin
and
suppress
groups which are created automatically by MediaWiki.
bureaucrat
is a group for sysops who can grant access levels and roles to other users.
bot
is a group for
ArchWiki:Bots
.
Roles
Roles are groups with an empty set of granted rights: their purpose is to clarify the
function
of wiki users within the Arch community. In general, roles are not removed from users who may become inactive. The
Administrators
reserve the right to make per-user variations to the default access levels for each role.
Maintainers
(
maintainer
) is a group for the
ArchWiki:Maintenance Team
members.
All maintainers are given the
cosysop
access level by default. Maintainers with the
sysop
access level are called
Administrators
. There is also an
Administrator fellows
(
administrator_fellow
) group for retired Administrators.
Translators
(
translator
) is a group for the most productive members of an
ArchWiki Translation Team
or individual translators.
Arch Linux Developers
(
archdev
) is a group for Arch
Developers
.
All Arch Linux Developers are given the
privileged
access level by default.
Arch Linux Package Maintainers
(
archpackager
) is a group for Arch
Package Maintainers
.
Arch Linux Support Staff
(
archstaff
) is a group for users with other roles within the Arch Linux community:
The
Arch Testing Team
makes sure that packages submitted to the
testing
repositories are functional.
The
Arch Security Team
tracks security issues with packages on
security.archlinux.org
.
Forum moderators moderate the
Arch Linux Forums
.
IRC channel operators moderate the main
IRC channels
.
Arch Linux Mirrorlist administrators
See also
Original pull request
Special:ListGroupRights