Group Rights

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The following is a list of the various user groups and their associated rights.

Legend:

  • Granted right
  • Revoked right
GroupRights
Visitors
  • Comment where enabled (comment)
  • Edit discussion pages (edit)
  • Read public pages (read)
  • Submit inquiry directly to an attorney (inquiry)
  • Submit question directly to the editor (question)
  • Use the site's public API (writeapi)
Attorneys
(members)
  • Approve revisions where applicable (approverevisions)
  • Bypass CAPTCHA test where enabled (skipcaptcha)
  • Create account for another person (createaccount)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Edit semiprotected pages (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit the Article namespace (editarticle)
  • Edit the Attorney Directory namespace (editdirectory)
  • Edit the Category namespace (editcategory)
  • Edit the Court Opinion namespace (editopinion)
  • Edit the Estates Code namespace (editestcode)
  • Edit the File namespace (editfile)
  • Edit the Help namespace (edithelp)
  • Edit the Historic Courthouse namespace (edithistoric)
  • Edit the Legal Definition namespace (editdefinition)
  • Edit the Legal Question namespace (editquestion)
  • Edit the Nonpublic Pages namespace (editnonpublic)
  • Edit the TLG namespace (editproject)
  • Edit the Texas Constitution namespace (edittexcon)
  • Edit the User namespace (edituser)
  • Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
  • Modify the protection level for a page (protect)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Search for deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Use the site's public API (writeapi)
  • View deleted history entries (deletedhistory)
  • View link to latest revision (viewlinktolatest)
  • View link to name of approver (viewapprover)
  • View text of deleted revisions (deletedtext)
Autoconfirmed users
Bots
  • Bypass CAPTCHA test where enabled (skipcaptcha)
Bureaucrats
  • Change usernames (renameuser)
Administrators
(members)
  • Approve revisions where applicable (approverevisions)
  • Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • Block a username, hiding it from the public (hideuser)
  • Block other users from editing (block)
  • Bypass CAPTCHA test where enabled (skipcaptcha)
  • Bypass various system blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Change usernames (renameuser)
  • Create account for another person (createaccount)
  • Create database tags (managechangetags)
  • Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
  • Delete and undelete specific revisions (deleterevision)
  • Delete database tags (deletechangetags)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Edit all user rights (userrights)
  • Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
  • Edit protected pages (editprotected)
  • Edit semiprotected pages (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit the Article namespace (editarticle)
  • Edit the Attorney Directory namespace (editdirectory)
  • Edit the Category namespace (editcategory)
  • Edit the Court Opinion namespace (editopinion)
  • Edit the Estates Code namespace (editestcode)
  • Edit the File namespace (editfile)
  • Edit the Help namespace (edithelp)
  • Edit the Historic Courthouse namespace (edithistoric)
  • Edit the Legal Definition namespace (editdefinition)
  • Edit the Legal Question namespace (editquestion)
  • Edit the MediaWiki namespace (editinterface)
  • Edit the Nonpublic Pages namespace (editnonpublic)
  • Edit the TLG namespace (editproject)
  • Edit the Template namespace (edittemplate)
  • Edit the Texas Constitution namespace (edittexcon)
  • Edit the User namespace (edituser)
  • Edit the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
  • Edit the sitewide CSS file (editsitecss)
  • Edit the sitewide JavaScript file (editsitejs)
  • Have edits automatically marked patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Hide specific revisions from any user (suppressrevision)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other MediaWiki sites (import)
  • Make sitewide text replacements (replacetext)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Mass delete pages (nuke)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Merge users (usermerge)
  • Modify the protection level for a page (protect)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
  • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
  • Override files on the shared repository (reupload-shared)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Review user information and preferences (lookupuser)
  • Rollback changes of last user who edited a page (rollback)
  • Search for deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Suppress creation of redirects (suppressredirect)
  • Unblock oneself (unblockself)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use the site's public API (writeapi)
  • View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
  • View deleted history entries (deletedhistory)
  • View link to latest revision (viewlinktolatest)
  • View link to name of approver (viewapprover)
  • View private logs (suppressionlog)
  • View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
  • View text of deleted revisions (deletedtext)
Non-attorneys
(members)
  • Bypass CAPTCHA test where enabled (skipcaptcha)
  • Create content pages (createpage)
  • Create discussion pages (createtalk)
  • Edit discussion pages (edit)
  • Edit one's own information (editmyprivateinfo)
  • Edit one's own preferences (editmyoptions)
  • Edit one's own watchlist (editmywatchlist)
  • Edit the Category namespace (editcategory)
  • Edit the File namespace (editfile)
  • Edit the Help namespace (edithelp)
  • Edit the Historic Courthouse namespace (edithistoric)
  • Edit the Nonpublic Pages namespace (editnonpublic)
  • Edit the TLG namespace (editproject)
  • Edit the User namespace (edituser)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Purge page cache without confirmation (purge)
  • Read public pages (read)
  • Rollback changes of last user who edited a page (rollback)
  • Send message directly to another user (sendemail)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use the site's public API (writeapi)
  • View link to latest revision (viewlinktolatest)
  • View link to name of approver (viewapprover)
  • View one's own information (viewmyprivateinfo)
  • View one's own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
Widget editors
  • Edit the Widget namespace (editwidgets)

Namespace restrictions

NamespaceRight(s) allowing user to edit
Article
  • Edit the Article namespace (editarticle)
User
  • Edit the User namespace (edituser)
TLG
  • Edit the TLG namespace (editproject)
File
  • Edit the File namespace (editfile)
MediaWiki
  • Edit the MediaWiki namespace (editinterface)
Template
  • Edit the Template namespace (edittemplate)
Help
  • Edit the Help namespace (edithelp)
Category
  • Edit the Category namespace (editcategory)
Attorney Directory
  • Edit the Attorney Directory namespace (editdirectory)
Texas Constitution
  • Edit the Texas Constitution namespace (edittexcon)
Court Opinion
  • Edit the Court Opinion namespace (editopinion)
Legal Question
  • Edit the Legal Question namespace (editquestion)
Legal Definition
  • Edit the Legal Definition namespace (editdefinition)
Nonpublic Pages
  • Edit the Nonpublic Pages namespace (editnonpublic)
Estates Code
  • Edit the Estates Code namespace (editestcode)
Historic Courthouse
  • Edit the Historic Courthouse namespace (edithistoric)
Widget
  • Edit the Widget namespace (editwidgets)