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<p>Created page with &quot; &#039;&#039;&#039;Users&#039;&#039;&#039; User rights give you permission to do certain tasks—for example, the &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; right allows you to edit unprotected pages, and the &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; right allows you to delete pages. User rights are bundled into &#039;&#039;user groups&#039;&#039;, which correspond to the various roles on the wiki—for example, Users, Administrators, and Bots. All registered users on a wiki belong to the &quot;Users&quot; group by default. Privileged users (normally bureaucrats) may assig...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Users&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> User rights give you permission to do certain tasks—for example, the &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; right allows you to edit unprotected pages, and the &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; right allows you to delete pages. User rights are bundled into &#039;&#039;user groups&#039;&#039;, which correspond to the various roles on the wiki—for example, Users, Administrators, and Bots.<br /> <br /> All registered users on a wiki belong to the &quot;Users&quot; group by default. Privileged users (normally bureaucrats) may assign users to one or more additional user groups.<br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Namespaces&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Pages on a MediaWiki wiki are grouped into collections called “&#039;&#039;&#039;namespaces&#039;&#039;&#039;” which differentiate between the purpose of the pages at a high level. Pages in certain namespaces can also have special properties or behave differently when they interact with other pages.<br /> <br /> Namespaces are indicated in page titles by prefixing the page name with &lt;code&gt;&lt;namespace&gt;:&lt;/code&gt;, so the prefix &lt;code&gt;Help:&lt;/code&gt; in this page&#039;s title (&lt;code&gt;Help:Namespaces&lt;/code&gt;) indicates that this page is in the &lt;code&gt;Help&lt;/code&gt; namespace. Each namespace is identified by a number and a name, which can be translated and can also have some aliases.<br /> <br /> A page whose name is &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; prefixed by a namespace lies in the mainspace. <br /> <br /> We use the namespaces primarily to manage access rights and moderation.</div>

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