Global group management

Permissions for founder

Name of group:	founder
Localised name of group:	Jimbo Wales's group
Localised name of group members:	founder
Member list:	List of users with founder rights
Set of wikis where this group is active:	None, applies to all wikis.
Assigned permissions:	Bypass blocked external domains (abusefilter-bypass-blocked-external-domains)  View hidden abuse log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log)  Hide entries in the abuse log (abusefilter-hide-log)  View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)  View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)  View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)  Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)  Create or modify what external domains are blocked from being linked (abusefilter-modify-blocked-external-domains)  Create or modify global abuse filters (abusefilter-modify-global)  Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)  View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-privatedetails)  View the AbuseFilter private details access log (abusefilter-privatedetails-log)  Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)  View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)  View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)  Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)  Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)  Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)  Automatically log in with an external user account (autocreateaccount)  Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)  Have one's own edits automatically marked as "checked" (autoreview)  Auto-review on rollback (autoreviewrestore)  Protect translatable messages handled by the Translate extension and included in CentralNotice banners (banner-protect)  Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)  Block or unblock other users from editing (block)  Block or unblock a user from sending email (blockemail)  Be treated as an automated process (bot)  Search deleted pages (browsearchive)  Delete event registrations (campaignevents-delete-registration)  Email event participants (campaignevents-email-participants)  Enable event registrations (campaignevents-enable-registration)  Organize events (campaignevents-organize-events)  Forcibly create a local account for a global account (centralauth-createlocal)  Lock or unlock global account (centralauth-lock)  Merge their account (centralauth-merge)  Rename global accounts (centralauth-rename)  Suppress or hide global account (centralauth-suppress)  Unmerge global account (centralauth-unmerge)  Manage central notices (centralnotice-admin)  Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)  Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)  View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)  View IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)  View the log of access to temporary account IP addresses (checkuser-temporary-account-log)  View IP addresses used by temporary accounts without needing to check the preference (checkuser-temporary-account-no-preference)  Save books as community page (collectionsaveascommunitypage)  Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)  Create new user accounts (createaccount)  Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)  Create discussion pages (createtalk)  Delete pages (delete)  Delete single revision redirects (delete-redirect)  Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)  View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)  View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)  Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)  Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)  Edit pages (edit)  Edit pages protected as "Allow only autopatrollers" (editautopatrolprotected)  Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoreviewers" (editautoreviewprotected)  Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)  Edit pages protected as "Allow only editors" (editeditorprotected)  Edit pages protected as "Allow only autopatrollers" (editextendedsemiprotected)  Edit the user interface (editinterface)  Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions)  Edit your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) and request password reset emails (editmyprivateinfo)  Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)  Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)  Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)  Edit your own user JavaScript files that are redirects (editmyuserjsredirect)  Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist)  Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)  Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)  Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss)  Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs)  Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)  Edit pages protected as "Allow only trusted users" (edittrustedprotected)  Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)  Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)  Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)  Enroll as a mentor (enrollasmentor)  Edit restricted pages (extendedconfirmed)  Create Structured Discussions boards in any location (flow-create-board)  Delete Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-delete)  Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users (flow-edit-post)  Hide Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-hide)  Suppress Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-suppress)  Make and remove global blocks (globalblock)  Bypass global IP blocks (globalblock-exempt)  Disable global blocks locally (globalblock-whitelist)  Edit membership to global groups (globalgroupmembership)  Manage global groups (globalgrouppermissions)  Block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public (hideuser)  Import pages from other wikis (import)  Import pages from a file upload (importupload)  Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)  Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo)  Access a basic view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-basic)  Access a full view of the IP information attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo-view-full)  View a log of who has accessed IP information (ipinfo-view-log)  Manage all push subscriptions (manage-all-push-subscriptions)  Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)  Manage the list of mentors (managementors)  Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)  Send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)  Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)  Mark edits as minor (minoredit)  Move pages (move)  Move category pages (move-categorypages)  Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)  Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)  Move files (movefile)  Move pages with stable versions (movestable)  Manage OAuth consumers (mwoauthmanageconsumer)  Manage OAuth grants (mwoauthmanagemygrants)  Propose new OAuth consumers (mwoauthproposeconsumer)  Suppress OAuth consumers (mwoauthsuppress)  Update OAuth consumers you control (mwoauthupdateownconsumer)  View private OAuth data (mwoauthviewprivate)  View suppressed OAuth consumers (mwoauthviewsuppressed)  Register newsletters (newsletter-create)  Delete newsletters (newsletter-delete)  Add or remove publishers or subscribers from newsletters (newsletter-manage)  Restore a newsletter (newsletter-restore)  Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)  Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)  Mass delete pages (nuke)  Query and validate OATH information for self and others (oathauth-api-all)  Disable two-factor authentication for a user (oathauth-disable-for-user)  Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)  Verify whether a user has two-factor authentication enabled (oathauth-verify-user)  Access the log of two-factor authentication changes (oathauth-view-log)  Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)  Export pages including linked pages up to a depth of 5 (override-export-depth)  Change page language (pagelang)  Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)  Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)  View recent changes patrol marks (patrolmarks)  Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)  Purge the cache for a page (purge)  Read pages (read)  Rename users (renameuser)  Overwrite existing files (reupload)  Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)  Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)  Mark revisions as being "checked" (review)  Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)  Bypass the spam block list (sboverride)  Create polls (securepoll-create-poll)  Access personally-identifying information about voters (securepoll-view-voter-pii)  Send email to other users (sendemail)  Set user's mentor (setmentor)  Bypass IP restrictions issued by the StopForumSpam extension (sfsblock-bypass)  Lock and unlock the database (siteadmin)  Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)  View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog)  Configure how the stable version is selected and displayed (stablesettings)  View private logs (suppressionlog)  Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)  View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)  Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)  Override the disallowed usernames list (tboverride-account)  Edit protected templates (templateeditor)  View the disallowed titles list log (titleblacklistlog)  Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked)  Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)  View information about the current transcode activity (transcode-status)  Edit using the translate interface (translate)  Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)  Import offline translations (translate-import)  Manage message groups (translate-manage)  Review translations (translate-messagereview)  Unblock oneself (unblockself)  Undelete a page (undelete)  View the list of unreviewed pages (unreviewedpages)  View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)  Upload files (upload)  Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)  Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)  Manage short URLs (urlshortener-manage-url)  View short URLs management log (urlshortener-view-log)  Edit all user rights (userrights)  Edit user rights of users on other wikis (userrights-interwiki)  Mark revisions as being "quality" (validate)  View files and pages in the File and File talk namespaces that are deleted (viewdeletedfile)  View your own private data (e.g. email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo)  View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist)  View revisions hidden from any user (viewsuppressed)  Use the VIPS scaling test interface Special:VipsTest (vipsscaler-test)  Use of the write API (writeapi)

Global rights log

• 00:29, 8 May 2023 Superpes15 talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added sfsblock-bypass; removed (none) (+Adding "sfsblock-bypass" (already part of IPBE/GIPBE set) - Uncontroversial (see also T273211))
• 18:19, 13 April 2023 Martin Urbanec talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added (none); removed apihighlimits, browsearchive, deletedhistory, deletedtext, import, importupload, noratelimit, titleblacklistlog, abusefilter-view-private, abusefilter-log-private, mwoauthviewprivate (Updating at Jimbo’s request to improve overall site security)
• 14:27, 13 April 2021 Martin Urbanec talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added (none); removed suppressionlog, viewsuppressed, abusefilter-hidden-log, mwoauthviewsuppressed, checkuser-log (Updating at Jimbo’s request to improve overall site security)
• 15:39, 12 November 2016 Bsadowski1 talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added oathauth-enable; removed (none) (Per WMF Security Team)
• 14:50, 31 March 2015 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, spamblacklistlog, titleblacklistlog, viewdeletedfile, mwoauthviewsuppressed, mwoauthviewprivate; removed (none) (Updating to add more recently created "view-only" settings, in line with Jimbo's 2010 request to remove "active" privs and maintain "reading" privs in Founder flag)
• 01:51, 7 August 2014 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added viewsuppressed; removed suppressrevision (Now that the viewing of suppressions has been separated from the ability to suppress, adjusting privileges in line with Jimbo's 2010 request to remove "action" privs and retain the "viewing" privileges.)
• 09:12, 24 January 2013 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added abusefilter-log-private; removed (none) (Another view-type privilege that does not allow hiding or unhiding. In line with Jimbo's request from 2010 to remove "active" privs and just keep the passive "viewing" privs.)
• 19:17, 29 August 2010 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added abusefilter-hidden-log; removed (none) (This is anoversight-type view privilege which is applicable to the founder group. It does /not/ allow the hiding of logs.)
• 12:28, 11 May 2010 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added (none); removed autoconfirmed (Per specific request of Jimbo: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Wales&diff=361433015)
• 04:18, 11 May 2010 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added (none); removed abusefilter-private (This allows viewing of IP information in edit-filter results, which is akin to a CU privilege, not a regular view privilege. So removed per Jimbo's initial request absent any special request to restore.)
• 22:14, 10 May 2010 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added (none); removed tboverride (This is an admin level privilege (override local blacklist) and pending special request from Jimbo is removed per Jimbo's initial request to remove global admin+ level action privileges)
• 18:53, 9 May 2010 Avraham talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added autoconfirmed, minoredit, proxyunbannable, read, suppressrevision, globalblock-exempt, torunblocked; removed protect (Adding view privs and regular editing privs, check to remove other admin-type privs)
• 15:58, 28 February 2009 DerHexer talk contribs changed global group permissions for Special:GlobalUsers/founder: added apihighlimits, autoconfirmed, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, browsearchive, createaccount, createpage, createtalk, delete, deletedhistory, edit, editinterface, editusercssjs, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, move, noratelimit, protect, purge, rollback, suppressredirect, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload, checkuser-log, tboverride, globalblock, globalunblock, globalblock-whitelist, renameuser, nuke, oversight, centralauth-merge, globalgroupmembership, abusefilter-modify, abusefilter-log-detail, abusefilter-view, abusefilter-log, abusefilter-modify-restricted, abusefilter-revert; removed (none) (http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1410666#Founder_group_name)