TestWiki:Autoconfirmed users: Difference between revisions

'''Autoconfirmed users''' is a user group that is automatically assigned by the [[<tvar|mw>mw:MediaWiki</>|MediaWiki]] software to any user account that is at least four (4) days old and has made at least ten (10) ''edits''. It cannot be assigned manually via [[<tvar|ur>Special:UserRights</>|Special:UserRights]], and promotions to this user group are not logged. Only the [[<tvar|abuse>User:Abuse filter</>|abuse filter]] user can revoke [[<tvar|acu>TestWiki:Autoconfirmed users</>|autoconfirmed]] rights, and only then in exceptional cases.

As a result of a [[<tvar|meta>mh:meta</>|Miraheze]]-specific [[<tvar|phab>phab:T5940|</>|MediaWiki configuration issue]] having to do with [[<tvar|user>TestWiki:Users</>|users]] who were previously either an [[<tvar|autop>TestWiki:Autopatrolled</>|autopatrolled]] user or an [[<tvar|admin>TestWiki:Administrators</>|administrator]] and subsequently lost that user group saw their edits made while they were a member of either of those user groups became unpatrolled, which thus created an unneeded patrol backlog, a [[<tvar|diff>Special:Diff/27347</>|community proposal]] was launched by an active [[<tvar|bc>TestWiki:Bureaucrats</>|bureaucrat]] to add the <code>autopatrol</code> user group right to the [[<tvar|acu>TestWiki:Autoconfirmed users</>|autoconfirmed]] user group indefinitely. It was added indefinitely for two reasons, namely that (a) there was no known date for when the configuration issue/software bug would be fixed and (b) any [[<tvar|users>TestWiki:Users</>|registered user]] who is logged in can request [[<tvar|sysop>TestWiki:Administrators</>|administrator]] tools.

* [[<tvar|listconf>Special:ListUsers/confirmed</>]], an autoaticallyautomatically generally list of all registered users who have been granted the <code>confirmed</code> user group as they don't otherwise qualify for the [[TestWiki:Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed]] implicit user group (commonly approved bot accounts and legitimate alternate accounts of existing users)