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Accessing the Permission manager

To manage permissions, you use the Permission manager. It is located under Global actions > Management > Permission manager. This links to the page Special:PermissionManager.

Permission types

An administrator can select between three permission settings.By default, the wiki is set to be private.

Permission manager settings
Permission manager settings


Permission type Description
Protected wiki The wiki is visible to anyone. Only logged-in users can edit the wiki.
Private wiki Only logged-users can view and edit the wiki.
Custom setup Roles and groups are assigned by an administrator.

Custom Setup

The following user groups and roles are assigned by default when saving the custom setup:

User group Roles Description
anonymous users (*) reader Users who are not logged in can view the wiki.
user reader, editor
autoreview (inherited from user)
bot (inherited from user)
bureaucrat (inherited from user).

accountmanager

editor (inherited from user)
interface-admin (inherited from user)
reviewer (inherited from user),

reviewer

smwadministrator (inherited from user)
smwcurator (inherited from user)
smweditor (inherited from user)
suppress (inherited from user)
sysop (inherited from user),

admin

widgeteditor (inherited from user)

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