Wikipedia:Global groups

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Stewards are now members of "global group" who have "global permissions".

The list of global permissions are below.

  • Use higher limits in API queries
  • Edit semi-protected pages
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
  • Delete pages with large histories
  • Block other users from editing
  • Block a user from sending email
  • Administer elections
  • Be treated as an automated process
  • Search deleted pages
  • Administrate global accounts
  • Merge their account
  • Check user's IP addresses and other information
  • Create new user accounts
  • Create pages (which are not discussion pages)
  • Create discussion pages
  • Delete pages
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text
  • Edit pages
  • Edit the user interface
  • Edit other users' CSS and JS files
  • Edit membership to global groups
  • Manage global groups
  • Review and restore revisions hidden from Sysops
  • Import pages from other wikis
  • Import pages from a file upload
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
  • Grant and revoke bot flags
  • Make users into sysops or bureaucrats
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits
  • Mark edits as minor
  • Move pages
  • Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt
  • nuke
  • Override the spoofing checks
  • View a previously hidden revision
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled
  • Change protection levels and edit protected pages
  • Bypass automatic blocks of proxies
  • Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation
  • Read pages
  • Rename users
  • Overwrite an existing file
  • Override files on the shared media repository locally
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
  • Perform captcha triggering actions without having to go through the captcha
  • Not create a redirect from the old name when moving a page
  • Override the title blacklist
  • Submit a trackback
  • Override the username blacklist
  • Undelete a page
  • View a list of unwatched pages
  • Upload files
  • Upload a file from a URL address
  • Edit all user rights

[edit] Links

  • Small wiki monitoring team:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Monitoring_Team

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/steward

[edit] Sources and notes