Editing Meta:User groups

{{Meta policy}}
'''User groups''' on Meta give additional local privileges to users. They apply only on Meta.

== Administrators ==
:''See [[Meta:Administrators]]''

[[Administrators]] are trusted users who have several additional technical abilities, such as blocking users and deleting pages. This group can be assigned by bureaucrats and removed by [[Stewards]].

== Autopatrolled ==
[[Autopatrolled]] users have their changes automatically marked as patrolled. They gain no other privileges.

Administrators have this privilege automatically. This group can be assigned and removed by administrators.

== Autoconfirmed users ==
[[Autoconfirmed users]] can edit semi-protected pages and are considered "trusted" by the software in certain ways. Users are automatically autoconfirmed with a 3-day-old account and 5 edits. This group cannot be manually assigned.

== Confirmed users ==
This group is identical to the "autoconfirmed" group, except that it can be manually assigned and removed by administrators.

== IP block exemptions ==
Users in the [[IP block exemptions]] group can bypass automatic and manual blocks of IP addresses. Administrators have this privilege automatically. This group can be assigned and removed by administrators.

== Account creators ==
[[Account creators]] can create many accounts without rate limits. Administrators have this privilege automatically. This group can be assigned and removed by bureaucrats.

== Bots ==
:''See [[Meta:Bots]]''

[[Bots]] are automated processes whose edits are hidden from [[Special:RecentChanges]] by default. This group can be assigned and removed by bureaucrats.

== Bureaucrats ==
:''See [[Meta:Bureaucrats]]''

Bureaucrats have the technical ability to change membership in certain groups. The bureaucrat group can be assigned by other bureaucrats and removed by Stewards.

== Interface administrators ==
:''See [[Meta:Interface administrators]]''

[[Interface administrators]] are highly trusted users with the technical ability to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages. This group can be assigned and removed by Stewards.

== Checkusers ==
Checkusers have local access to the CheckUser tool. Use of CheckUser is governed by the [[CheckUser policy]]. This group can be assigned and removed by Stewards.

== Suppressors ==
Suppressors have local access to the suppression tool. Use of suppression is governed by the [[suppression policy]]. This group can be assigned and removed by Stewards.

== Transwiki importers ==
[[Transwiki importers]] can import pages from certain other wikis. Administrators have this privilege automatically. This group can be assigned and removed by bureaucrats.

== XML importers ==
[[XML importers]] can import pages from certain other wikis and from arbitrary XML files. This group can be assigned and removed by Stewards.