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-There are a number of user categories on MozillaWiki, some of which have additional duties to creating new content and editing existing pages. The categories are mostly additive.
+== Requesting Group Membership ==
-==Users==
+If you would like to become more involved in the curation of MozillaWiki, or if your work requires that you have access to the rights of one of these groups, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Websites&component=wiki.mozilla.org file a bug] to request that you be added.
+In the bug, please include:
+# your MozillaWiki username
+# which rights you need and why (e.g. which actions you need to perform)
+# what your previous mediawiki experience has been (either on MozillaWiki or elsewhere)
+== Active groups ==
+There are a number of user groups on MozillaWiki, some of which have additional duties to creating new content and editing existing pages. The categories are mostly additive.
+===Users===
 Everyone becomes a MozillaWiki User when they register and confirm their email address. You will be able to edit existing pages but not create them until you have been [[MozillaWiki:Account_confirmation|confirm]]ed.
-==Autoconfirmed users==
+===Autoconfirmed users===
-This is a default option on MediaWiki but is not presently used by MozillaWiki.
+Users become autoconfirmed once their account is 5 days old and they have made 10 or more edits. Autoconfirmed users can move pages and files, and see which pages have been patrolled.
-==confirm==
+A user's autoconfirmed status is determined automatically, but a Bureaucrat can give someone implicit autoconfirmed status by adding them to the confirmed users group.
-Because of a history of spamming on MozillaWiki we are considering switching to a method of checking users before allowing them to edit anything other than their userpage. Once we have reckoned that someone is probably not a spammer or vandal we will set this flag on which will let you create new pages and upload images and files.
-==Bots==
+===Confirmed users===
+Confirmed users are those generally recognized as Mozillians who have made valid contributions to MozillaWiki. Users who belong to this group are able to edit semiprotected pages, move root user pages, mark edits as minor and view the delete history.
+=== Account confirmers ===
+Users belonging to the account confirmers group review and then approve or deny requests for user accounts.
+* [{{SERVER}}/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=accountapprovers List members]
+=== Anti-spam Team ===
+Users belonging to this group  help fight spam on the wiki. They are able to delete one or more pages at once, rollback several edits at once, ban users, and ban a user from sending email. They are not subject to ipblocks or ratelimits.
+* [{{SERVER}}/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=antispam List members]
+===Bots===
 Some maintenance tasks can be carried out via small programs. Such programs have to be registered as 'bots' to be allowed access.
-==Administrators==
+===Bureaucrats===
-Someone has to do the maintenance tasks. Administrators do that on MozillaWiki
+Bureaucrats are primarily responsible for managing MozillaWiki users. They have the ability to create accounts, block users, edit a user's css and javascript, rename users, and add and remove users from Confirmed users and Bots groups.
+* [{{SERVER}}/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=bureaucrat List members]
+===Administrators (sysops)===
+Administrators, also known as sysops, are users with the ability to perform some special actions on MozillaWiki, including deleting and undeleting pages, protecting and unprotecting pages, editing protected pages, and editing the user interface.
+* [{{SERVER}}/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop List members]
+===MozillaWiki Team===
+This group identifies those who are an active part of the MozillaWiki team.
+* [{{SERVER}}/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=team List members]
+===Module owners and peers===
+This group identifies current MozillaWiki module owners and peers. Members of this group are able to adjust all user group rights and suppress revisions (hide deleted revisions from all users).
+* [{{SERVER}}/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=module List members]
+===Bureaucrats and Sysops emeriti===
+This group is symbolic and recognizes those who have served as Bureaucrats and Sysops in the past.
-* [[Special:ListUsers&group=sysop|List of Administrators]]
+== Retired groups ==
-==canmove==
-Moving pages on a wiki tends to surprise people who expected an article to stay where it was. Because MozillaWiki tries to maintain pages where they are created only some people are authorised to move stuff around.
-==Bureaucrats==
+=== Canmove ===
-A different category of people doing maintenance tasks for MozillaWiki there are fewer of them than Administrators as they need to do these extra tasks less often.
-* [[Special:ListUsers&group=bureaucrat|List of Bureaucrats]]
+This group has been retired. Previously, the ability to move a page was restricted to users who belonged to this group.