Subsistence:Directors

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Rights and Privileges

A Director can do most things that an Editor and an Administrator can do, plus additional things in boldface.

• Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
• Block a username, hiding it from the public (hideuser)
• Block other users from editing (block)
• Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
• Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
• Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
• Create new user accounts (createaccount)
• Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
• Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
• Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
• Delete pages (delete)
• Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
• Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
• Edit other users' JSON files (edituserjson)
• Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
• Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
• Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
• Edit the user interface (editinterface)
• Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
• Have their edits bypass moderation (skip-moderation)
• Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
• Import pages from other wikis (import)
• Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
• Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
• Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
• Moderate edits (moderation)
• Move category pages (move-categorypages)
• Move files (movefile)
• Move pages (move)
• Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
• Move pages without moderation (skip-move-moderation)
• Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
• Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
• Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
• Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
• Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
• Overwrite existing files (reupload)
• Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
• Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
• Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
• Unblock oneself (unblockself)
• Undelete a page (undelete)
• Upload files (upload)
• Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
• View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
• View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
• View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
• View private logs (suppressionlog)
• View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user (suppressrevision)

However, a Director without the Bureaucrat permission will be unable to:

• Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
• Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
• Create discussion pages (createtalk)
• Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
• Edit pages (edit)
• Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
• Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss)
• Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson)
• Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs)
• Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
• Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation (purge)
• Read pages (read)
• Send email to other users (sendemail)
• Use of the write API (writeapi)

A Director without the Administrator permission will be unable to:

• Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
• Make string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
• Mass delete pages (nuke)
• Override the title or username blacklist (tboverride)
• View title blacklist log (titleblacklistlog)
• noanalytics (noanalytics)

A Director without the Bureaucrat permission will be unable to:

• Edit all user rights (userrights)
• Merge users (usermerge)
• Rename users (renameuser)

The complete list of privileges can be found here