Global groups/ha

Global groups are user permissions groups that apply across a set of wikis for global (Wikimedia wiki-wide) accounts. Some global groups are not truly global.

Current groups

Group	Scope	Policy/Discussion
Mataimakan mata masu zagi	All wikis	Appointment, Spam blacklist/Log
Masu kula da matattara	All wikis	RfC/Zabe
API high limit requestors	All wikis	API high limit requestors
CAPTCHA exempt	All wikis	CAPTCHA exemptions
Jimbo Wales' group (founder)	All wikis	Founder
Global bots	Dukkan wiki sai fayyace wiki	Global bots
Global deleters	All wikis	Global deleters
Global flow creators	All wikis	Global Flow creator
Global interface editors	All wikis	Global Interface editors group policy
Global IP block exemptions	All wikis	Global IP block exemptions
Global rollbackers	All wikis	Global rollback
Global sysops	All wikis except specified wikis	Global sysops
New wikis importers	Newly created wikis	New wikis importer
Two-factor authentication tester (oathauth-tester)	All wikis	Taimako: Tantance al’amura-biyu
Ombuds	All wikis	Hukumar masu shigar da baki
Recursive export	All wikis	Recursive export
Ma'aikata	All wikis	RfC; Ma'aikata
Stewards	All wikis	Stewards policy ; Stewards
System administrators	All wikis	System administrators
VRT permissions agents	All wikis	RfC; VRT (formerly OTRS)
WMF researcher	All wikis	WMF Researchers
wmf-email-block-override	All wikis	wmf-email-block-override

Further reading

• Special:GlobalGroupPermissions – dynamic list of global groups
• Steward handbook#Managing groups – how to manage global groups
• Special:GlobalUsers – dynamic list of global (Help:Unified login ) users
• Global rights – further information about global groups and rights
• Special:CentralAuth – retrieve information about a specific global account