Editing Brighter Shores:Access levels

{{Nutshell|All users on the Brighter Shores Wiki have the ability to view and read pages. A number of special user roles exist, with advanced rights.}}
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A contributor's ability to perform certain actions on the [[Brighter Shores:About|Brighter Shores Wiki]] depends on their '''access level'''. This is determined by whether the editor is logged into an account, whether the account has a sufficient age, and what additional rights have been assigned to the account.

Everyone is able to read the Brighter Shores Wiki. Unless they are [[Brighter Shores:Block policy|blocked]], they may freely edit most pages without the need to be logged in. Further access levels need to be assigned manually by a user with the appropriate authority. Editors with more experience and good standing can request advanced permissions.

This page provides a summary for each usergroup. For a full list of abilities available to usergroups, see [[Special:ListGroupRights]].
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==Overview==
All visitors to the site, including unregistered users, are part of the <code>'*'</code> group, and all logged-in users are also part of the <code>'user'</code> group. Others, such as <code>'sysop'</code> and <code>'bureaucrat'</code>, are given only after community discussion and consensus.

===Unregistered users===
Contributors who have not [[Special:CreateAccount|created an account]] or [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]] are identified by their IP address rather than a username, and may read all pages (except restricted [[Help:Special page|special pages]]), and edit pages that are not [[Brighter Shores:Protection policy|protected or semi-protected]]. They cannot upload files or images. They must answer a CAPTCHA if they wish to make an edit which involves the addition of one or more external links, and click a confirm link to purge pages.

===Registered users===
Users who've signed in can do everything IP addresses can do, but they can also upload files, move pages, maintain a watchlist, set preferences, and mark edits as minor. Users are automatically promoted into the <code>'autoconfirmed'</code> pseudo-group when their account is more than four days old and has at least five edits, giving them the ability to edit semi-protected pages.

==Local level==
===Bots===
{{Main|Brighter Shores:Bots}}
Bots are automated accounts that perform certain tasks on the wiki. Bots have their edits flagged with a '''b''' in Special:RecentChanges, and have their edits hidden by default. A minor edit made by a bot to a user talk page will not trigger any notifications.

See [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] for a list of the wiki's {{NUMINGROUP:bot}} bots.

===Administrators===
{{Main|Brighter Shores:Administrators}}
Adminstrators have access to a number of tools to allow them to carry out certain functions on the wiki. The tools cover processes such as deletion, protection, blocking, and access to the MediaWiki interface. Administrators also take responsibility for judging the outcome of discussions on the [[BS:FG|Forum Grove]]. Administrator rights are granted by the community through [[Brighter Shores:Requests for adminship|Requests for adminship]].

See [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] for a list of the wiki's {{NUMINGROUP:sysop}} administrators.

===Bureaucrats===
Bureaucrat rights are granted by the community to exceptionally trusted users who are allowed to perform certain actions on other users' accounts. Bureaucrats have all rights available to administrators, as well as extended access to [[Special:UserRights]], enabling them to add users to the <code>'bureaucrat'</code> group (but not remove them), and both add and remove users from the <code>'administrator'</code> and <code>'bot'</code> user groups.

See [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] for a list of the wiki's {{NUMINGROUP:bureaucrat}} bureaucrats.

===CheckUsers===
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Users who are in the <code>'checkuser'</code> usergroup have access to [[Special:CheckUser]]. They are able to view a list of all IP addresses used by a user account to edit the Brighter Shores Wiki, a list of all edits made by an IP, or all user accounts that have used an IP address. They may also view a log of such requests. As process for granting CheckUser has not yet been formalised, there are no local CheckUsers.

See [[Special:ListUsers/checkuser]] for a list of the wiki's {{NUMINGROUP:checkuser}} CheckUsers.

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