Forum:Special:User Rights Questions

Three Questions 1.Is it possible to adjust a particular User's Rights? For instance if I have a Rollback User on my wiki that I wanted to grant the right to use the Delete function without giving him Blocking abilities and Administrator status is that possible?

2.If my first question is possible, would I have to give those rights to every rollback user or could I centralize it to that particular user.

3.Can I create my own category in Special:Listusers? Like if I wanted to have regular users that are involved in my wikis projects labeled as something on Special:Listusers would that be possible?

Thanks in advance for any help.

1. Not possible with the way user rights function on wikia.

3. You can Special:Contact and ask for a new user right group to be created. I forget if this is something they do commonly or not though.--

Thanks.


 * I don't think it's common for them to create new groups, but they definitely have in the past. I believe Avatar Wiki has some custom groups.

Ah, then I really hope they consider it, and thanks to the both of you for your answers.


 * (edit conflict, may be irrelevant now)
 * Adjusting rights for a single user is not technically possible in MediaWiki &mdash; unless, of course, a whole user rights group is created just for that person. ;)
 * It is possible in MediaWiki to add or remove rights from an existing group, and to create new groups with a custom set of rights. For example, rollback users have the ability to delete on Avatar Wiki, and there are also "fanon admins" who have some abilities normally associated with administrators. Not commonly done, but if there's a very good reason for it, this can be requested through Special:Contact.
 * Not possible, unfortunately. ListUsers only looks at groups, and also can't be adjusted for individuals. Technically, it is possible to create a global group like Wikia did with "Community council", but of course a request to create another one for individual convenience would reasonably fall on deaf ears. :P The 888th Avatar   (talk)  02:56, June 11, 2011 (UTC)

Nope, still relevant. Thanks for your help also, it is well appreciated.