# Group permissions for specific subcategory
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 2, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541 "2020-07-02T01:04:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541/1 "2020-07-02T01:04:25Z")
Is it possible to set custom permissions for a specific group that applies only to a specific subcategory? To give a simple example, members of `Group A` are granted the permission to make any post in `Subcategory X` into a wiki, but in any other category they would have permissions based on their trust level. Is that possible?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541/2 "2020-07-02T03:23:35Z")
[How to use category security settings to create private categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-category-security-settings-to-create-private-categories/87678) might help.
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541/3 "2020-07-02T11:16:22Z")
I read the post and watched the video. It hints that what I want is _probably_ not possible (based on the UI I can see), but it doesn’t answer my question directly since what I want could theoretically be available somewhere else.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541/4 "2020-07-02T12:28:20Z")
> [@seanblue](#):
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> members of `Group A` are granted the permission to make any post in `Subcategory X` into a wiki
Sorry. That’s a strange request.
Yes, you can give access to a subcategory to a group. No, you can’t give a group rights to make a topic a wiki. You could configure the category so that topics are wikis and make the permission so that only that group can create topics.
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541/5 "2020-07-02T21:00:00Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> That’s a strange request.
I was hoping to allow a small amount of management by community members who aren’t moderators. Oh well.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-permissions-for-specific-subcategory/156541/6 "2020-07-02T21:13:40Z")
The only other thing is that you could use `min trust to allow self wiki` to give wiki abilities to those users and trust them not to go crazy wiki-fying every post they create.