Commons:User access levels
Shortcut: COM:UAL
User groups[edit]
Unregistered IP users[edit]
Unregistered IP users cannot upload files, but can make most other edits.
AbuseFilter/105 (as proposed in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 39#Proposed Change of Rules) prevents some page creation by anonymous users. The relevant MediaWiki message is MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-new-pages-by-anon-users.
- As soon as IPs create an account, they can create pages.
- Only page creation is prevented. Edits to existing pages are possible.
- Talk namespaces are not affected (they can be created by IPs).
- IPs can create category-pages, timed-text and deletion request subpages.
Registered users[edit]
- See also: Commons:Users
Autoconfirmed users[edit]
- See also: Commons:Autoconfirmed users
Administrators[edit]
- See also: Commons:Administrators
Bureaucrats[edit]
- See also: Commons:Bureaucrats
Stewards[edit]
- See also: Meta:Stewards
Specialised rights[edit]
Rollback[edit]
- See also: Commons:Rollback
Patrol[edit]
- See also: Commons:Patrol
Filemovers[edit]
- See also: Commons:File mover
GWToolset users[edit]
- See also: Commons:GWToolset users
License reviewers[edit]
- See also: Commons:License review
OTRS members (removed)[edit]
- See also: Commons:OTRS members
This flag used to be given to all admins. However not all admins are OTRS members so in about mid-2012, Special:AbuseFilter/69 was changed so that users who do not have the OTRS flag have their OTRS edits marked in the history logs as "(OTRS permission added by non-OTRS member)". This will occur even if a valid OTRS member adds OTRS templates to files but that member has not been given the OTRS flag yet.
Checkusers[edit]
- See also: Commons:Checkusers
Oversighters[edit]
- See also: Commons:Oversighters
Account creators[edit]
- See also: Commons:Account creators
Other flags[edit]
Bots[edit]
- See also: Commons:Bots
IP block exemptions[edit]
- See also: Commons:IP block exemption
Upload Wizard campaign editors[edit]
- See also: Commons:Upload Wizard campaign editors
Requesting permissions[edit]
Most rights are requested at Commons:Requests for rights. Admin, bureaucrat, checkuser and oversight rights are requested at Commons:Requests and votes. Steward rights are handled at meta.wikimedia (stewards).
