Autoconfirmed users

See: [Manual:Autoconfirmed Users]

An Autoconfirmed user are a user group with certain privileges. Users in this group are added automatically.

Requirements

Only registered accounts can be autoconfirmed. There are two requirements:

The account must be old.

The user must have an adequate password.

The user must save an amount of edits to any page.

See: PasswordPolicies

An Autoconfirmed User's password:

Cannot be a substring within their username.

Cannot be in the list of 100,000 most commonly used passwords.

Cannot be the same as their username.

Cannot match a specific list of default passwords.

Must be at least 1 character long.

Must be less than 4,096 characters long.

See: ListGroupRights

Autoconfirmed users gain the following rights:

Edit protected pages set to "allow only autoconfirmed users".

Unaffected by IP-based rate limits.