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A newly registered user is a user who has signed up for an account and has logged in to a Wikimedia project. In addition to what an unregistered user can do, a newly registered user can:

Register account

set custom preferences
add pages to a watchlist
move root user pages and category pages
mark their edits as minor
send emails to other users
purge the cache of a page without a confirmation step

The full list of rights for all levels is available at Special:ListGroupRights.

All edits made as a newly registered user will show the username in the history instead of an IP address.

Newly registered users cannot edit semi-protected pages or move any page. Several other minor restrictions, depending on the wiki, may apply to newly-registered users.

Per bug 14556, media uploads are an autoconfirmed right on most wikis, Commons being a notable exception.
Moreover, a very small minority of wikis requires registration to create new pages: en.wiki (since 2005, "as an experiment", because of the Seigenthaler incident), id.wiki, fa.wiki and es.books as of 2011. Note that, based on better social and statistical scrutiny of its effects, the community has decided to stop expansion of this configuration to other wikis, see Limits to configuration changes.
On all wikis, newly registered users editing from the same IP address can't do more than 8 edits per minute all combined (technical details: $wgRateLimits). This can sometimes be a problem if you're creating and/or using several new accounts from a single location (e.g. for workshops).
On some wikis additional restriction could apply, defined by $wgNamespaceProtection and $wgRestrictionLevels. For instance, on pt.wiki newly registered users can't edit the File namespace.

Autoconfirmed status

On most Wikimedia projects, accounts that are more than four days old are considered autoconfirmed. Some exceptions include zhwiki, nowiki and dewikibooks which require seven days to reach autoconfirmed status.

Additionally, some Wikimedia projects require a certain number of minimum edits an account has before it is autoconfirmed. The usual threshold is ten edits. Wikis with a high edit count threshold include arwiki, eswiki, zhwiki and wikidatawiki; all of which require a minimum of fifty total edits across the wiki before reaching autoconfirmed status.

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-A '''newly registered user''' is a user who has signed up for an account and has logged in to a Wikimedia project. In addition to what an [[<tvar|unreg>Special:MyLanguage/unregistered user</>|unregistered user]] can do, a newly registered user can:
+A '''newly registered user''' is a user who has signed up for an account and has logged in to a Wikimedia project. In addition to what an [[<tvar name="unreg">Special:MyLanguage/unregistered user</tvar>|unregistered user]] can do, a newly registered user can:</translate>
+{{Register account button}}
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+<translate><!--T:2-->
-* set custom [[<tvar|help-prefs>Special:Mylanguage/Help:Preferences</>|preferences]]
+* set custom [[<tvar name="help-prefs">Special:MyLanguage/Help:Preferences</tvar>|preferences]]
-* add pages to a [[<tvar|watch>Special:Mylanguage/Watchlist</>|watchlist]]
+* add pages to a [[<tvar name="watch">Special:MyLanguage/Watchlist</tvar>|watchlist]]
 * move root user pages and category pages
-* mark their edits as [[<tvar|help-minor>Special:Mylanguage/Help:Minor edit</>|minor]]
+* mark their edits as [[<tvar name="help-minor">Special:MyLanguage/Help:Minor edit</tvar>|minor]]
 * send emails to other users
-* [[<tvar|purge>mw:Manual:Purge</>|purge]] the cache of a page without a confirmation step
+* [[<tvar name="purge">mw:Manual:Purge</tvar>|purge]] the cache of a page without a confirmation step
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-All edits made as a newly registered user will show the user name in the history instead of an IP address.
+All edits made as a newly registered user will show the username in the history instead of an IP address.
 <!--T:6-->
 Newly registered users cannot edit semi-protected pages or move any page. Several other minor restrictions, depending on the wiki, may apply to newly-registered users.
+</translate>
-* Per [[phabricator:T14556|bug 14556]], media uploads are an [[Meta:Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed right]] on most wikis, Commons being a notable exception.
+* <translate><!--T:14--> Per [[<tvar name="1">phabricator:T14556</tvar>|bug 14556]], media uploads are an [[<tvar name="2">Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Autoconfirmed users</tvar>|autoconfirmed right]] on most wikis, Commons being a notable exception.</translate>
-* Moreover, a very small minority of wikis requires registration to create new pages: en.wiki (since 2005, "[[<tvar|post>w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-12-05/In the news</>|as an experiment]]", because of the [[<tvar|incident>w:en:Seigenthaler incident</>|Seigenthaler incident]]), [[<tvar|bug-20666>bugzilla:20666</>|id.wiki]], fa.wiki and es.books as of 2011. Note that, based on better social and statistical scrutiny of its effects, the community has decided to stop expansion of this configuration to other wikis, see [[<tvar|limits>Limits to configuration changes</>|Limits to configuration changes]].
+* <translate><!--T:15--> Moreover, a very small minority of wikis requires registration to create new pages: en.wiki (since 2005, "[[<tvar name="post">w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-12-05/In the news</tvar>|as an experiment]]", because of the [[<tvar name="incident">w:en:Seigenthaler incident</tvar>|Seigenthaler incident]]), [[<tvar name="bug-20666">bugzilla:20666</tvar>|id.wiki]], fa.wiki and es.books as of 2011. Note that, based on better social and statistical scrutiny of its effects, the community has decided to stop expansion of this configuration to other wikis, see [[<tvar name="limits">Limits to configuration changes</tvar>|Limits to configuration changes]].</translate>
-* On all wikis, newly registered users editing from the same IP address can't do more than 8 edits per minute all combined (technical details: <tvar|config>[[mw:Manual:$wgRateLimits|$wgRateLimits]]</>). This can sometimes be a problem if you're [[<tvar|mass-creation>mw:Help:Mass account creation</>|creating and/or using several new accounts]] from a single location (e.g. for workshops).
+* <translate><!--T:16--> On all wikis, newly registered users editing from the same IP address can't do more than 8 edits per minute all combined (technical details: <tvar name="config">[[mw:Manual:$wgRateLimits|$wgRateLimits]]</tvar>). This can sometimes be a problem if you're [[<tvar name="mass-creation">mw:Help:Mass account creation</tvar>|creating and/or using several new accounts]] from a single location (e.g. for workshops).</translate>
+* <translate><!--T:11--> On some wikis additional restriction could apply, defined by <tvar name="ns-protect">[[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection|$wgNamespaceProtection]]</tvar> and <tvar name="restrict-lev">[[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgRestrictionLevels|$wgRestrictionLevels]]</tvar>. For instance, on pt.wiki newly registered users can't edit the File namespace.</translate>
+<translate>
-<!--T:11-->
+== Autoconfirmed status == <!--T:13-->
-* On some wikis additional restriction could apply, defined by <tvar|ns-protect>[[mw:Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection|$wgNamespaceProtection]]</> and <tvar|restrict-lev>[[mw:Manual:$wgRestrictionLevels|$wgRestrictionLevels]]</>. For instance, on pt.wiki newly registered users can't edit the File namespace.
+</translate>
+{{see also|Special:MyLanguage/Registered user#Autoconfirmed status|l1=<translate><!--T:17--> Registered user § Autoconfirmed status</translate>}}
-<!--T:7-->
+<translate><!--T:7-->
-On most Wikimedia projects, accounts that are more than four days old are considered autoconfirmed. Some exceptions include zhwiki, nowiki and dewikibooks which require 7 days to reach autoconfirmed status.
+On most Wikimedia projects, accounts that are more than four days old are considered autoconfirmed. Some exceptions include zhwiki, nowiki and dewikibooks which require seven days to reach autoconfirmed status.
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-Additionally, some Wikimedia projects require a certain number of minimum edits an account has before it is autoconfirmed. Such wikis with a high threshold include arwiki, eswiki, zhwiki and wikidatawiki; all of which require a minimum of 50 edits before reaching autoconfirmed status.
+Additionally, some Wikimedia projects require a certain number of minimum edits an account has before it is autoconfirmed. The usual threshold is ten edits. Wikis with a high edit count threshold include arwiki, eswiki, zhwiki and wikidatawiki; all of which require a minimum of fifty total edits across the wiki before reaching autoconfirmed status.
 ==See also== <!--T:8-->
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-*[[<tvar|mw-autoconfirm>mw:Manual:Autoconfirmed users</>|Manual:Autoconfirmed users]]
+*[[<tvar name="mw-autoconfirm">mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Autoconfirmed users</tvar>|Manual:Autoconfirmed users]]
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-{{TNT|user groups}}
+{{user groups}}