Global group management

Permissions for wmf-researcher

Name of group:

wmf-researcher

Localised name of group:

WMF researchers

Localised name of group members:

WMF researcher

Member list:

List of users with WMF researcher rights

Set of wikis where this group is active:

None, applies to all wikis.

Assigned permissions:

View and create filters that use protected variables (abusefilter-access-protected-vars)
View blocked external domains hit log (abusefilter-blocked-external-domains-log)
Bypass blocked external domains (abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains)
View hidden abuse log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log)
Hide entries in the abuse log (abusefilter-hide-log)
View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)
Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked (abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains)
Create or modify global abuse filters (abusefilter-modify-global)
Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-privatedetails)
View the AbuseFilter private details access log (abusefilter-privatedetails-log)
View logs related to accessing protected variable values (abusefilter-protected-vars-log)
Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
Automatically log in with an external user account (autocreateaccount)
Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
Have one's own edits automatically marked as "checked" (autoreview)
Auto-review on rollback (autoreviewrestore)
Protect translatable messages handled by the Translate extension and included in CentralNotice banners (banner-protect)
Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
Block or unblock other users from editing (block)
Block or unblock a user from sending email (blockemail)
Be treated as an automated process (bot)
Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
Delete event registrations (campaignevents-delete-registration)
Email event participants (campaignevents-email-participants)
Enable event registrations (campaignevents-enable-registration)
Generate invitation lists (campaignevents-generate-invitation-lists)
Organize events (campaignevents-organize-events)
View private event participants (campaignevents-view-private-participants)
Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)
Lock or unlock global account (centralauth-lock)
Merge their account (centralauth-merge)
Rename global accounts (centralauth-rename)
Suppress or hide global account (centralauth-suppress)
Unmerge global account (centralauth-unmerge)
Manage central notices (centralnotice-admin)
Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
Process checkuser suggested investigations (checkuser-suggested-investigations)
View IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)
Automatically reveal IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account-auto-reveal)
View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses (checkuser-temporary-account-log)
View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to turn on the preference (checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference)
Save books as community page (collectionsaveascommunitypage)
Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
Create new user accounts (createaccount)
Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
Create accounts with usernames previously used by renamed accounts (createpreviouslyrenamedaccount)
Create discussion pages (createtalk)
Create pages with non-default content models (createwithcontentmodel)
Delete pages (delete)
Delete single revision redirects (delete-redirect)
Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
Send notifications to others (echo-create)
Read my notifications (echo-read-notifications)
Edit pages (edit)
Edit all user pages (editalluserpages)
Edit protected pages (autopatroller protected) (editautopatrolprotected)
Edit protected pages (autoreviewer protected) (editautoreviewprotected)
Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
Edit protected pages (editor protected) (editeditorprotected)
Edit protected pages (autopatroller protected) (editextendedsemiprotected)
Edit the user interface (editinterface)
Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)
Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) and request password reset emails (editmyprivateinfo)
Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)
Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)
Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)
Edit your own user JavaScript files that are redirects (editmyuserjsredirect)
Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist)
Edit protected pages (patroller protected) (editpatrolprotected)
Edit protected pages (fully protected) (editprotected)
Edit protected pages (semi protected) (editsemiprotected)
Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss)
Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs)
Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
Edit protected pages (trusted users protected) (edittrustedprotected)
Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
Enroll as a mentor (enrollasmentor)
Edit restricted pages (extendedconfirmed)
Create Structured Discussions boards in any location (flow-create-board)
Delete Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-delete)
Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users (flow-edit-post)
Hide Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-hide)
Suppress Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-suppress)
Make and remove global blocks (globalblock)
Bypass global IP blocks (globalblock-exempt)
Change local status of global blocks (globalblock-local-status)
Edit membership to global groups (globalgroupmembership)
Manage global groups (globalgrouppermissions)
Block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public (hideuser)
Bypass conditions on editing certain restricted user groups (ignore-restricted-groups)
Import pages from other wikis (import)
Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo)
Look up IP information for arbitrary IP addresses on Special:IPInfo (ipinfo-view-arbitrary-ip)
Access a basic view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-basic)
Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-full)
View a log of who has accessed IP information (ipinfo-view-log)
Import log entries (logentryimport)
Log yourself out (logout)
Manage all push subscriptions (manage-all-push-subscriptions)
Manage the Community Wishlist without restrictions (manage-wishlist)
Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
Manage the list of mentors (managementors)
Manually edit Community Wishlist wishes and focus areas without a form (manually-edit-wishlist)
Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
Send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
Move pages (move)
Move category pages (move-categorypages)
Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
Move files (movefile)
Move pages with stable versions (movestable)
Manage OAuth consumers (mwoauthmanageconsumer)
Manage OAuth grants (mwoauthmanagemygrants)
Propose new OAuth consumers (mwoauthproposeconsumer)
Suppress OAuth consumers (mwoauthsuppress)
Update OAuth consumers you control (mwoauthupdateownconsumer)
View private OAuth data (mwoauthviewprivate)
View suppressed OAuth consumers (mwoauthviewsuppressed)
Register newsletters (newsletter-create)
Delete newsletters (newsletter-delete)
Add or remove publishers or subscribers from newsletters (newsletter-manage)
Restore a newsletter (newsletter-restore)
Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)
Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
Mass delete pages (nuke)
Disable two-factor authentication for a user (oathauth-disable-for-user)
Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
Recover two-factor authentication for a user (oathauth-recover-for-user)
Verify whether a user has two-factor authentication enabled (oathauth-verify-user)
Access the log of two-factor authentication changes (oathauth-view-log)
Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
Export pages including linked pages up to a depth of 5 (override-export-depth)
Change page language (pagelang)
Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)
Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
View recent changes patrol marks (patrolmarks)
Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
Read pages (read)
Rename users (renameuser)
Global rename users (renameuser-global)
Overwrite existing files (reupload)
Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
Mark revisions as being "checked" (review)
Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
Bypass the spam block list (sboverride)
Create polls (securepoll-create-poll)
Edit polls (securepoll-edit-poll)
Access personally-identifying information about voters (securepoll-view-voter-pii)
Send email to other users (sendemail)
Set user's mentor (setmentor)
Lock and unlock the database (siteadmin)
Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog)
Configure how the stable version is selected and displayed (stablesettings)
View private logs (suppressionlog)
Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)
Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
Override the disallowed usernames list (tboverride-account)
Edit protected templates (templateeditor)
View the disallowed titles list log (titleblacklistlog)
Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked)
Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)
Edit using the translate interface (translate)
Create translation units for empty categories (translate-empty-category)
Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)
Import offline translations (translate-import)
Manage message groups (translate-manage)
Review translations (translate-messagereview)
Unblock oneself (unblockself)
Undelete a page (undelete)
Mark translation units as no longer outdated (unfuzzy)
View the list of unreviewed pages (unreviewedpages)
View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
Upload files (upload)
Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
Manage short URLs (urlshortener-manage-url)
View short URLs management log (urlshortener-view-log)
Edit all user rights (userrights)
Edit user rights of users on other wikis (userrights-interwiki)
Mark revisions as being "quality" (validate)
View files and pages in the File and File talk namespaces that are deleted (viewdeletedfile)
View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)
View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)
View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)
Manage the list of local articles opted in to Abstract Wikipedia content (wikilambda-abstract-optin)

Global rights log

16:33, 24 March 2026 EPIC talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-researcher: added (none); removed oathauth-enable (phab:T421141)
08:14, 2 December 2021 Martin Urbanec talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-researcher: added spamblacklistlog, abusefilter-log-detail, abusefilter-view, abusefilter-log, abusefilter-view-private, abusefilter-log-private; removed (none) (adding passive abusefilter permissions, per WMF T&S request)
11:55, 4 March 2021 Martin Urbanec talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-researcher: added viewsuppressed; removed (none) (per T&S request)
10:22, 4 March 2021 Vituzzu talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-researcher: added (none); removed suppressrevision (not actually needed #23977)
23:10, 31 August 2017 Vituzzu talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-researcher: added oathauth-enable; removed (none) (per James' request)
21:21, 8 June 2016 DerHexer talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-researcher: added suppressrevision; removed (none) (per request of Jalexander on IRC)
15:26, 24 August 2014 SPQRobin talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-researcher: added apihighlimits, browsearchive, deletedhistory, deletedtext, suppressionlog, undelete; removed (none) (rename group per https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156041/)
15:26, 24 August 2014 SPQRobin talk contribs renamed group Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/WMF Researcher to Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/wmf-researcher (rename group per https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156041/)