Manual:Autoconfirmed users/en

Autoconfirmed users are wiki users who are members of the “” user group. This is a special user group which is allocated automatically based on certain criteria.

The criteria are:
 * (number of seconds account needs to have existed to qualify)
 * (number of edits account needs to have to qualify)

What rights autoconfirmed users have is controlled via.

Non-autoconfirmed accounts are considered “newbies” for purposes of  and.