Wikipedia:User rights

All visitors to the site, including unregistered users, are part of the '*' group, and all logged-in registered users are also part of the 'user' group. Users are automatically promoted into the pseudo-group of established users when their account is more than four days old and has ten edits, and the 'extended confirmed' user group later on.

Other flags are only given upon request; some, such as 'rollbacker' or 'bot', are granted unilaterally if the user demonstrates a need for them (see and ). Others, such as 'sysop' and 'bureaucrat', are given only after community discussion and consensus at . Users are only made members of groups such as 'oversight' and 'checkuser' with the approval of the Arbitration Committee and after confirming their identity with the .

User groups have one or more rights assigned to them; for example the ipblock-exempt (IP block exemptions) group have the 'ipblock-exempt' and 'torunblocked' rights. All members of a particular user group will have access to these rights. The individual rights that are assigned to user groups are listed at . Terms like rights, permissions, bits and flags can refer to both user groups and the individual rights assigned to them.

The system-generated technical permissions are listed at .

Edit screens of unregistered users are headed by a banner that reads:

You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you or , your edits will be attributed to a user name, among other benefits.

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