Wikipedia talk:User access levels
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Permissions table - watchlists
The permissions table lists all users as having watchlist permissions, yet the software doesn't support watchlists for IP users. Is this a mistake? OXYLYPSE (talk) 09:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Probably. Will have to look into it and get back to you. Primefac (talk) 12:23, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
Fixed, thanks. Primefac (talk) 16:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
Admins and Extended Confirmed
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Should_admins_be_extended_confirmed? about making admins keep Extended confirmed by default. Editors here may be interested in that discussion. Soni (talk) 07:06, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Requested move 7 May 2025
Wikipedia:User access levels → Wikipedia:User groups – The English Wikipedia term "user access level" seems to be a synonym of the MediaWiki term "user group". It is always good to use standard terminology rather than make up our own. See mw:Help:User rights and groups, Special:UserGroupRights, and mw:Manual:User rights for examples of MediaWiki using the term "user group".
Quick recap: in MediaWiki (the software that powers Wikipedia), we have "user rights" such as block
, and these user rights are assigned to "user groups" such as sysop
. Each user group can be masked with a more readable name in the local language, and that more readable name is set at pages such as MediaWiki:Group-sysop. In this case, the mask of sysop
is "Administrators". –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:39, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support. We'd also need to rename categories such as Category:Wikipedians by Wikipedia user access level. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:44, 7 May 2025 (UTC)