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Improve documentation about user groups

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## Users and their capabilities.
Every user of the system is authenticated; there is no anonymous
access. We use the same authorization groups across competitions whenever
access.
### User Groups
We use the same authorization groups across competitions whenever
possible, since access patterns tend to be the same. The roles we've
settled on are found on the
[help wiki](https://torque.leverforchange.org/help). See
[roles/permissions/files/default-permissions.php](roles/permissions/files/default-permissions.php)
for technical details of each role's access permissions.
This section will always hold the canonical list of groups and their
meanings. For historical background, see
[issue #62](https://github.com/OpenTechStrategies/torque-sites/issues/62) and
the [2020-03-17 meeting notes](https://github.com/OpenTechStrategies/torque/wiki/Meeting-Notes#2020-03-17-frankkarl-discussion-re-eo-and-usergroup-permissions).
Each of these user groups needs to be set up in torque configuration
in order to view data. In the case of group information coming from
outside (see below about Okta), a mapping needs to be done to these
groups.
Note that this "User Groups" section should always be present because
older documents may still point to it. (For historical background,
see [issue
#62](https://github.com/OpenTechStrategies/torque-sites/issues/62) and
the [2020-03-17 meeting
notes](https://github.com/OpenTechStrategies/torque/wiki/Meeting-Notes#2020-03-17-frankkarl-discussion-re-eo-and-usergroup-permissions).)
### Shared user accounts
Some partner organizations may use a shared account -- a single login
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this). So once we have deployed a new enough version of MediaWiki,
the special logout instructions here will no longer be needed.)
### User Groups
### Granting API access
API access is currently grated on a per-competition basis. API users
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