'''CATS''' ('''''C'''ATS '''A'''ttack '''T'''he '''S'''pam'') is a custom global user group across all language versions of the Minecraft Wiki. Members of this group are trusted community members specializing in removing [[WP:Spam|spam]] and [[WP:Vandalism|vandalism]] across all language wikis. To do this, they gain various rights such as the ability to block users and delete pages. Notably, those rights can be only used to assist in removal of spam and vandalism. This group came into effect on November 24, 2023, after internal discussions prompted by spam and vandalism occurring on some language wikis.
== User rights ==
{{see also|Special:ListGroupRights#cats}}
* Block or unblock other users from editing (block)
* Block queries from Special:SearchDigest (searchdigest-block)
* Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
* Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
* Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
* Create or modify global abuse filters (abusefilter-modify-global)
* Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
* Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
* Delete pages (delete)
* Disable global blocks locally (globalblock-whitelist)
* Edit pages protected as "Allow only [[Minecraft Wiki:User rights#Administrators|administrators]]" (editprotected)
* Edit pages protected as "Allow only [[Minecraft Wiki:User rights#Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed users]]" (editsemiprotected)
* Edit pages protected as "Allow only [[Minecraft Wiki:User rights#Directors|directors]]" (directoreditprotected)
* Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
* Limit actions that can be performed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
* Make and remove global blocks (globalblock)
* Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
* Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
* Move files (movefile)
* 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)
* Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
* Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
* Overwrite existing files (reupload)
* Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
* Propose new OAuth consumers (mwoauthproposeconsumer)
* Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
* Reset failed or transcoded videos so they are inserted into the job queue again (transcode-reset)
* Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
* Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
* Unblock oneself (unblockself)
* Undelete a page (undelete)
* Update OAuth consumers you control (mwoauthupdateownconsumer)
* 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)
* View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
* View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)
* View recent changes patrol marks (patrolmarks)
* View the disallowed titles list log (titleblacklistlog)
* View the spam block list log (spamblacklistlog)
* Add group to own account: [[Minecraft Wiki:Bot|Bots]]
* Remove group from own account: [[Minecraft Wiki:Bot|Bots]]
== Contacting CATS ==
Currently members of CATS can be contacted via [[Minecraft Wiki:Discord|Discord server]] as well as their respective talk pages. In the future there might be more ways to contact members of this group.
== Current members ==