Administrator and SOAP User Group Comparison

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VSTF (Volunteer Spam Task Force) are typically interpreted more or less by users as global administrators, although they do not outrank local administrators. But let's take a look at the tools that Administrators have that VSTF do not, and vice versa.

Administrators — List of Abilities

 * The following abilities are those included with the administrator user group
 * Access Wikia's Video Tool (videopagetool)
 * Allows access to Special:GameGuidesContent (gameguidescontent)
 * Allows access to wiki admin tools, via Special:AdminDashboard (admindashboard)
 * Allows classifying multiple templates at once (template-bulk-classification)
 * Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
 * Block other users from editing (block)
 * Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
 * Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
 * Can archive wall posts (wallarchive)
 * Can delete article comments (commentdelete)
 * Can delete message wall messages (walladmindelete)
 * Can delete videos (specialvideosdelete)
 * Can edit archived talk pages (editwallarchivedpages)
 * Can edit article comments (commentedit)
 * Can edit the old, archived forums (forumoldedit)
 * Can edit wall posts (walledit)
 * Can finish the wiki creation process (finishcreate)
 * Can kick/ban users from Chat (chatmoderator)
 * Can move article comments (commentmove)
 * Can move wall messages (wallmessagemove)
 * Can notify everyone about a Forum thread (notifyeveryone)
 * Can remove wall threads (wallremove)
 * Can toggle extensions available in Special:WikiFeatures (wikifeatures)
 * Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
 * Create a theme for your wiki at Special:ThemeDesigner (themedesigner)
 * Delete comments on blog articles (blog-comments-delete)
 * Delete pages (delete)
 * Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
 * Delete user pages (deleteprofilev3)
 * Edit access to maintain allowed regular expressions and patterns (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-patternedit)
 * Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
 * Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
 * Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
 * Edit the user interface (editinterface)
 * Has admin access to the forums (forumadmin)
 * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
 * Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
 * Is prompted to add a category to a blog post (becp_user)
 * Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
 * Mark reverted edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
 * Moderate Song of the Day content on LyricWiki (moderatesotd)
 * Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
 * Move files (movefile)
 * Move pages (move)
 * Move pages with their sub-pages (move-subpages)
 * Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
 * Move user pages (renameprofilev3)
 * Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
 * Not create re-directs from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
 * Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
 * Override the title black list (tboverride)
 * Overwrite existing files (reupload)
 * Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
 * Preview how a wiki mainpage looks in the Game Guides app (gameguidespreview)
 * Protect blog articles (blog-articles-protect)
 * Quickly revert the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
 * Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
 * Toggle comments on blog articles (blog-comments-toggle)
 * Unblock themselves (unblockself)
 * Undelete a page (undelete)
 * Upload files (upload)
 * Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
 * Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
 * User can request database dumps on demand, via Special:Statistics (dumpsondemand)
 * User has chat admin rights on Chat (chatadmin)
 * User is eligible to earn achievement points (Overrides exempt) (achievements-explicit)
 * View a list of un-watched pages (unwatchedpages)
 * View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
 * View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
 * View page view statistics (pageviews)
 * allowedtoblank (allowedtoblank)
 * batchmove (batchmove)
 * canremovemap (canremovemap)
 * curatedcontent (curatedcontent)
 * deleteinterfacetrusted (deleteinterfacetrusted)
 * editlyricfind (editlyricfind)
 * flags-administration (flags-administration)
 * forum (forum)
 * linkstoredirects (linkstoredirects)
 * mobilesearches (mobilesearches)
 * places-enable-category-geolocation (places-enable-category-geolocation)
 * soapfailures (soapfailures)
 * wikianavlocal (wikianavlocal)
 * wteditimagelist (wteditimagelist)
 * Add groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
 * Remove groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
 * Remove group from own account: Administrators
 * Delete items from a Top 10 list page (toplists-delete-item)
 * Do string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
 * Edit items in a Top 10 list page (toplists-edit-item)
 * Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
 * Edit other users' Java Script files (edituserjs)
 * Import pages from other wikis (import)
 * Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
 * View parser performance statistics (parserspeed)
 * licensedvideoswap (licensedvideoswap)
 * njordeditmode (njordeditmode)
 * wikiawidget (wikiawidget)

Volunteer Spam Task Forces — List of Abilities

 * The following abilities are those included with the volunteer spam task force user group
 * Access Wikia's Video Tool (videopagetool)
 * Allows access to Special:ImageReview (imagereview)
 * Allows access to Special:PromoteImageReview (promoteimagereview)
 * Allows access to Special:ScribeEvents (scribeevents)
 * Allows access to a wizard that helps convert non-portable infoboxes to the new markup (templatedraft)
 * Allows classifying multiple templates at once (template-bulk-classification)
 * Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
 * Block other users from editing (block)
 * Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
 * Can archive wall posts (wallarchive)
 * Can delete article comments (commentdelete)
 * Can delete message wall messages (walladmindelete)
 * Can delete videos (specialvideosdelete)
 * Can delete wall messages with one click (wallfastadmindelete)
 * Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
 * Can edit archived talk pages (editwallarchivedpages)
 * Can edit article comments (commentedit)
 * Can edit wall posts (walledit)
 * Can kick/ban users from Chat (chatmoderator)
 * Can manage global blocks and spam filters (phalanx)
 * Can move article comments (commentmove)
 * Can move wall messages (wallmessagemove)
 * Can notify everyone about a Forum thread (notifyeveryone)
 * Can remove wall threads (wallremove)
 * Cannot be blocked (unblockable)
 * Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
 * Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
 * Clear the contents of an user's profile masthead in one click (clearuserprofile)
 * Control memcached behaviour via request parameters (mcachepurge)
 * Create discussion pages (createtalk)
 * Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
 * Create/execute background tasks (tasks-user)
 * Delete and protect articles in one action, via ?action=powerdelete (powerdelete)
 * Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
 * Delete many pages on a single wiki, or one page across many wikis (multidelete)
 * Delete pages (delete)
 * Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
 * Delete user pages (deleteprofilev3)
 * Edit other user's profile data (editprofilev3)
 * Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
 * Edit the user interface (editinterface)
 * Exempt from Phalanx rules (phalanxexempt)
 * Find pages on many wikis (multiwikifinder)
 * Flags user as exempt from welcome tool messages (welcomeexempt)
 * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
 * Limit actions that can be preformed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
 * Mark reverted edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
 * Mass delete pages (nuke)
 * Move files (movefile)
 * Move pages (move)
 * Move pages with their sub-pages (move-subpages)
 * Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
 * Move user pages (renameprofilev3)
 * Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
 * Not create re-directs from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
 * Not have their user name show up in block notices (hideblockername)
 * Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
 * Override the title black list (tboverride)
 * Overwrite existing files (reupload)
 * Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
 * Quickly revert and delete spam and vandalism (quicktools)
 * Quickly revert the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
 * Undelete a page (undelete)
 * Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
 * User is ineligible to earn achievement points (achievements-exempt)
 * View Special:DiscussionsLog (specialdiscussionslog)
 * View IP actions across all Wikia (multilookup)
 * View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
 * View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
 * View the check user log (checkuser-log)
 * View user edits across all Wikia (lookupcontribs)
 * editinterfacetrusted (editinterfacetrusted)
 * first-edit-dialog-exempt (first-edit-dialog-exempt)
 * Add groups to own account: Roll-backers, Bots and Administrators
 * Remove groups from own account: Roll-backers, Bots, Administrators and Bureaucrats
 * forum (forum)
 * licensedvideoswap (licensedvideoswap)
 * Add groups: Roll-backers and Bots
 * Remove groups: Roll-backers and Bots

Tools that are shared between Administrators and Volunteer Spam Task Forces

 * Access Wikia's Video Tool (videopagetool)
 * Allows classifying multiple templates at once (template-bulk-classification)
 * Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
 * Block other users from editing (block)
 * Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
 * Can archive wall posts (wallarchive)
 * Can delete article comments (commentdelete)
 * Can delete message wall messages (walladmindelete)
 * Can delete videos (specialvideosdelete)
 * Can edit archived talk pages (editwallarchivedpages)
 * Can edit article comments (commentedit)
 * Can edit wall posts (walledit)
 * Can kick/ban users from Chat (chatmoderator)
 * Can move article comments (commentmove)
 * Can move wall messages (wallmessagemove)
 * Can notify everyone about a Forum thread (notifyeveryone)
 * Can remove wall threads (wallremove)
 * Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
 * Delete pages (delete)
 * Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
 * Delete user pages (deleteprofilev3)
 * Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
 * Edit the user interface (editinterface)
 * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
 * Mark reverted edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
 * Move files (movefile)
 * Move pages (move)
 * Move pages with their sub-pages (move-subpages)
 * Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
 * Move user pages (renameprofilev3)
 * Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
 * Not create re-directs from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
 * Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
 * Override the title black list (tboverride)
 * Overwrite existing files (reupload)
 * Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
 * Quickly revert the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
 * Undelete a page (undelete)
 * Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
 * View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
 * View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
 * licensedvideoswap (licensedvideoswap)

Tools that the Administrator User Group has that the Volunteer Spam Task Force User Group does not

 * Allows access to Special:GameGuidesContent (gameguidescontent)
 * Allows access to wiki admin tools, via Special:AdminDashboard (admindashboard)
 * Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
 * Can edit the old, archived forums (forumoldedit)
 * Can finish the wiki creation process (finishcreate)
 * Can toggle extensions available in Special:WikiFeatures (wikifeatures)
 * Create a theme for your wiki at Special:ThemeDesigner (themedesigner)
 * Delete comments on blog articles (blog-comments-delete)
 * Edit access to maintain allowed regular expressions and patterns (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-patternedit)
 * Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
 * Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
 * Has admin access to the forums (forumadmin)
 * Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
 * Is prompted to add a category to a blog post (becp_user)
 * Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
 * Moderate Song of the Day content on LyricWiki (moderatesotd)
 * Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
 * Preview how a wiki mainpage looks in the Game Guides app (gameguidespreview)
 * Protect blog articles (blog-articles-protect)
 * Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
 * Toggle comments on blog articles (blog-comments-toggle)
 * Unblock themselves (unblockself)
 * Upload files (upload)
 * Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
 * User can request database dumps on demand, via Special:Statistics (dumpsondemand)
 * User has chat admin rights on Chat (chatadmin)
 * User is eligible to earn achievement points (Overrides exempt) (achievements-explicit)
 * View a list of un-watched pages (unwatchedpages)
 * View page view statistics (pageviews)
 * allowedtoblank (allowedtoblank)
 * batchmove (batchmove)
 * canremovemap (canremovemap)
 * curatedcontent (curatedcontent)
 * deleteinterfacetrusted (deleteinterfacetrusted)
 * editlyricfind (editlyricfind)
 * flags-administration (flags-administration)
 * forum (forum)
 * linkstoredirects (linkstoredirects)
 * mobilesearches (mobilesearches)
 * places-enable-category-geolocation (places-enable-category-geolocation)
 * soapfailures (soapfailures)
 * wikianavlocal (wikianavlocal)
 * wteditimagelist (wteditimagelist)
 * Add groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
 * Remove groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
 * Remove group from own account: Administrators
 * Delete items from a Top 10 list page (toplists-delete-item)
 * Do string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
 * Edit items in a Top 10 list page (toplists-edit-item)
 * Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
 * Edit other users' Java Script files (edituserjs)
 * Import pages from other wikis (import)
 * Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
 * View parser performance statistics (parserspeed)
 * njordeditmode (njordeditmode)
 * wikiawidget (wikiawidget)

Tools that the Volunteer Spam Task Force User Group has that the Administrator User Group does not

 * Allows access to Special:ImageReview (imagereview)
 * Allows access to Special:PromoteImageReview (promoteimagereview)
 * Allows access to Special:ScribeEvents (scribeevents)
 * Allows access to a wizard that helps convert non-portable infoboxes to the new markup (templatedraft)
 * Can delete wall messages with one click (wallfastadmindelete)
 * Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
 * Can manage global blocks and spam filters (phalanx)
 * Cannot be blocked (unblockable)
 * Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
 * Clear the contents of an user's profile masthead in one click (clearuserprofile)
 * Control memcached behaviour via request parameters (mcachepurge)
 * Create discussion pages (createtalk)
 * Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
 * Create/execute background tasks (tasks-user)
 * Delete and protect articles in one action, via ?action=powerdelete (powerdelete)
 * Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
 * Delete many pages on a single wiki, or one page across many wikis (multidelete)
 * Edit other user's profile data (editprofilev3)
 * Exempt from Phalanx rules (phalanxexempt)
 * Find pages on many wikis (multiwikifinder)
 * Flags user as exempt from welcome tool messages (welcomeexempt)
 * Limit actions that can be preformed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
 * Mass delete pages (nuke)
 * Not have their user name show up in block notices (hideblockername)
 * Quickly revert and delete spam and vandalism (quicktools)
 * User is ineligible to earn achievement points (achievements-exempt)
 * View Special:DiscussionsLog (specialdiscussionslog)
 * View IP actions across all Wikia (multilookup)
 * View the check user log (checkuser-log)
 * View user edits across all Wikia (lookupcontribs)
 * editinterfacetrusted (editinterfacetrusted)
 * first-edit-dialog-exempt (first-edit-dialog-exempt)
 * Add groups to own account: Roll-backers, Bots and Administrators
 * Remove groups from own account: Roll-backers, Bots, Administrators and Bureaucrats
 * Add groups: Roll-backers and Bots
 * Remove groups: Roll-backers and Bots

Tools that the Administrator and Volunteer Spam Task Force User Groups have combined

 * Access Wikia's Video Tool (videopagetool)
 * Allows access to Special:GameGuidesContent (gameguidescontent)
 * Allows access to Special:ImageReview (imagereview)
 * Allows access to Special:PromoteImageReview (promoteimagereview)
 * Allows access to Special:ScribeEvents (scribeevents)
 * Allows access to a wizard that helps convert non-portable infoboxes to the new markup (templatedraft)
 * Allows access to wiki admin tools, via Special:AdminDashboard (admindashboard)
 * Allows classifying multiple templates at once (template-bulk-classification)
 * Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
 * Block other users from editing (block)
 * Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
 * Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
 * Can archive wall posts (wallarchive)
 * Can delete article comments (commentdelete)
 * Can delete message wall messages (walladmindelete)
 * Can delete videos (specialvideosdelete)
 * Can delete wall messages with one click (wallfastadmindelete)
 * Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
 * Can edit archived talk pages (editwallarchivedpages)
 * Can edit article comments (commentedit)
 * Can edit the old, archived forums (forumoldedit)
 * Can edit wall posts (walledit)
 * Can finish the wiki creation process (finishcreate)
 * Can kick/ban users from Chat (chatmoderator)
 * Can manage global blocks and spam filters (phalanx)
 * Can move article comments (commentmove)
 * Can move wall messages (wallmessagemove)
 * Can notify everyone about a Forum thread (notifyeveryone)
 * Can remove wall threads (wallremove)
 * Can toggle extensions available in Special:WikiFeatures (wikifeatures)
 * Cannot be blocked (unblockable)
 * Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
 * Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
 * Clear the contents of an user's profile masthead in one click (clearuserprofile)
 * Control memcached behaviour via request parameters (mcachepurge)
 * Create a theme for your wiki at Special:ThemeDesigner (themedesigner)
 * Create discussion pages (createtalk)
 * Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
 * Create/execute background tasks (tasks-user)
 * Delete and protect articles in one action, via ?action=powerdelete (powerdelete)
 * Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
 * Delete comments on blog articles (blog-comments-delete)
 * Delete many pages on a single wiki, or one page across many wikis (multidelete)
 * Delete pages (delete)
 * Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
 * Delete user pages (deleteprofilev3)
 * Edit access to maintain allowed regular expressions and patterns (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-patternedit)
 * Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
 * Edit other user's profile data (editprofilev3)
 * Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
 * Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
 * Edit the user interface (editinterface)
 * Exempt from Phalanx rules (phalanxexempt)
 * Find pages on many wikis (multiwikifinder)
 * Flags user as exempt from welcome tool messages (welcomeexempt)
 * Has admin access to the forums (forumadmin)
 * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
 * Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
 * Is prompted to add a category to a blog post (becp_user)
 * Limit actions that can be preformed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
 * Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
 * Mark reverted edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
 * Mass delete pages (nuke)
 * Moderate Song of the Day content on LyricWiki (moderatesotd)
 * Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
 * Move files (movefile)
 * Move pages (move)
 * Move pages with their sub-pages (move-subpages)
 * Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
 * Move user pages (renameprofilev3)
 * Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
 * Not create re-directs from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
 * Not have their user name show up in block notices (hideblockername)
 * Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
 * Override the title black list (tboverride)
 * Overwrite existing files (reupload)
 * Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
 * Preview how a wiki mainpage looks in the Game Guides app (gameguidespreview)
 * Protect blog articles (blog-articles-protect)
 * Quickly revert and delete spam and vandalism (quicktools)
 * Quickly revert the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
 * Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
 * Toggle comments on blog articles (blog-comments-toggle)
 * Unblock themselves (unblockself)
 * Undelete a page (undelete)
 * Upload files (upload)
 * Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
 * Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
 * User can request database dumps on demand, via Special:Statistics (dumpsondemand)
 * User has chat admin rights on Chat (chatadmin)
 * User is eligible to earn achievement points (Overrides exempt) (achievements-explicit)
 * User is ineligible to earn achievement points (achievements-exempt)
 * View Special:DiscussionsLog (specialdiscussionslog)
 * View IP actions across all Wikia (multilookup)
 * View a list of un-watched pages (unwatchedpages)
 * View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
 * View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
 * View page view statistics (pageviews)
 * View the check user log (checkuser-log)
 * View user edits across all Wikia (lookupcontribs)
 * allowedtoblank (allowedtoblank)
 * batchmove (batchmove)
 * canremovemap (canremovemap)
 * curatedcontent (curatedcontent)
 * deleteinterfacetrusted (deleteinterfacetrusted)
 * editinterfacetrusted (editinterfacetrusted)
 * editlyricfind (editlyricfind)
 * first-edit-dialog-exempt (first-edit-dialog-exempt)
 * flags-administration (flags-administration)
 * forum (forum)
 * linkstoredirects (linkstoredirects)
 * mobilesearches (mobilesearches)
 * places-enable-category-geolocation (places-enable-category-geolocation)
 * soapfailures (soapfailures)
 * wikianavlocal (wikianavlocal)
 * wteditimagelist (wteditimagelist)
 * Add groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
 * Remove groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
 * Add groups to own account: Roll-backers, Bots and Administrators
 * Remove groups from own account: Roll-backers, Bots, Administrators and Bureaucrats
 * Delete items from a Top 10 list page (toplists-delete-item)
 * Do string replacements on the entire wiki (replacetext)
 * Edit items in a Top 10 list page (toplists-edit-item)
 * Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
 * Edit other users' Java Script files (edituserjs)
 * Import pages from other wikis (import)
 * Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
 * View parser performance statistics (parserspeed)
 * licensedvideoswap (licensedvideoswap)
 * njordeditmode (njordeditmode)
 * wikiawidget (wikiawidget)
 * Add groups: Roll-backers and Bots
 * Remove groups: Roll-backers and Bots