Manual:$wgPrivilegedGroups

<translate> User rights, access control and monitoring</translate>: $wgPrivilegedGroups
List of groups which should be considered privileged (user accounts belonging in these groups can be abused in dangerous ways).
<translate> Introduced in version:</translate>	1.40.1 (Gerrit change 482589; git #7a21b9a0)
<translate> Removed in version:</translate>	<translate> still in use</translate>
<translate> Allowed values:</translate>	(array)
<translate> Default value:</translate>	[ 'bureaucrat', 'interface-admin', 'suppress', 'sysop' ]
<translate> Other settings:</translate> <translate> Alphabetical</translate> | <translate> By function</translate>

Details

List of groups which should be considered privileged (user accounts belonging in these groups can be abused in dangerous ways). This is used for some security checks, mainly logging.

This was introduced in MediaWiki 1.41.0 (Gerrit change 482589). It was backported to 1.40.1 (Gerrit change 954628). It was backported to 1.39.5 (Gerrit change 954629).

See also

• UserPrivilegedGroups hook
• $wgRevokePermissions
• $wgGrantPermissions
• Manual:User rights
• Manual:Preventing access