User groups and rights on the wiki
Here is the description of what each user group can/can't do. This info was compiled using the information available at
and reading through the documentation for the plugins installed.
sysop - A user marked as 'sysop' can delete and undelete pages, protect and unprotect pages, block and unblock IPs, issue read-only SQL queries to the database, and use a shortcut revert-to-previous- contributor's-revision feature in contribs.
restrict/viewrestrict - These options don't do much on the current system. They are intended to be used with plugins not being used by any of your wikis.
approved - Users approved can move, read, edit, create pages, and upload files.
bureaucrat - This is a user that is allowed to turn other users into sysops via the aforementioned Special:Userrights page.
bot - A registered bot account. Edits by an account with this set will not appear by default in Recent Changes, this is intended for mass imports of data without flooding human edits from view.