C.Syde's Wiki:Administrators and Moderators
 
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C.Syde's Wiki has a team of administrators (also known as sysops) and moderators that help manage various aspects of the wiki. Administrators and moderators are trusted members of the community, but they are not 'in charge' of it. Although administrators and moderators have access to some tools and privileges that regular users do not, they are still bound to follow wiki rules and community decisions, and are otherwise equal to all other users. Administrator's usernames are highlighted in navy. Assistant's usernames are highlighted in indigo. Content Moderator's usernames are highlighted in brown. Discussion Moderator's usernames are highlighted in grey. Rollbacker's usernames are highlighted in green. If a rollback is also a discussion moderator, their username will instead be highlighted in grey. If a discussion moderator is also a content moderator, their username will instead be highlighted in brown. If a discussion moderator or content moderator is also an assistant, their username will instead be highlighted in indigo. If a rollback, discussion moderator, content moderator, assistant, or administrator is also a bureaucrat, their username will instead be highlighted in maroon. Rollback, Discussion Moderator, Content Moderator, and Assistant rights are prerequisites for requesting administrator rights. If users want to apply for administratorship, they must apply for rollback, discussion moderator, content moderator, and/or assistant rights first. AdministratorsAdministrators have the ability to 'lock' and 'unlock' pages from editing, or limit editing of pages to autoconfirmed users only. Administrators can also use warnings to address issues with editors. Administrators can also delete and undelete pages, page histories, and uploaded files, blocking IP addresses or accounts from editing, quickly revert vandalism, and edit the interface by changing system messages and skins, among others. Administrators have the ability to add and remove the user flags of users with assistant, content moderator, discussion moderator, rollback, interactive map tester, or autopatrolled rights. They also participate in community discussions and help determine consensus in those discussions. In addition to all these jobs, administrators make contributions to the wiki, just like any other user. See the administrators' how-to guide for a guide on using administrator functions.
Administrators are responsible for maintaining the wiki. In addition to the rights extended to interactive map testers, rollbackers, discussion moderators, content moderators, and assistants, Administrators are able to delete pages from the wiki, though non-administrators can nominate pages for deletion. Administrators can 'lock' and 'unlock' pages from editing, or limit editing of pages to autoconfirmed users only. They can use warnings to address issues with editors, and can block editors from editing the wiki if they violate policy. Administrators are able to make some changes to the wiki's appearance and interface for users, through the editing of MediaWiki pages and the wiki's .css and javascript.
Administrators should not use their administrator powers to settle editing disputes; for example, to lock a page on a version he or she prefers in an editing dispute that isn't vandalism. Administrator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. Ideally an administrator shouldn't be considered 'in charge'. The ideal administrator is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the wiki community. BureaucratsBureaucrats have the ability to add and remove user rights for other users. They can only have their bureaucrat flag removed by themselves, Fandom Staff, Wiki Representatives, Wiki Specialists, Fandom Helpers, or Fandom Utilities, and can remove the user flags of users with administrator, assistant, content moderator, rollback, or autopatrolled rights. If a bureaucrat is also an administrator, they can also add and remove user rights for discussion moderators and interactive map testers. Bureaucrats technically do not need to have sysop, assistant, content moderator, discussion moderator, rollback, interactive map tester, or autopatrolled flags, though in practice they almost always have sysop flags anyway. Unlike administrators, assistants, content moderators, discussion moderators, and rollbackers, bureaucrats on this wiki are 'in charge' of it. However users on this wiki can not apply for bureaucratship, as the bureaucrat position is strictly limited to the user who founded the wiki. Bureaucrats on this wiki also have the ability to control how much weight their opinions and ideas hold. However these situations are rare and should be kept to a minimum. So basically a bureaucrat should not manipulate the amount of weight their opinions and votes hold to take advantage of community votes, or to settle simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. A bureaucrat should only manipulate the amount of weight their opinions and votes hold for reasons out of safety of the wiki. AssistantsAssistants have the ability to 'lock' and 'unlock' pages from editing, or limit editing of pages to autoconfirmed users only. Assistants can also use warnings to address issues with editors, import pages from a file upload, mark reverted edits as bot edits, edit and move blog articles, and search deleted pages. Assistants participate in community discussions and help determine consensus in those discussions. In addition to all these jobs, assistants make contributions to the wiki, just like any other user. More information on Assistants can be found here. Administrators implicitly have all these rights, aside from the ability to override spoof checks[1] and bypass rate limits[1] so having assistant flags, as an administrator is unnecessary. While a user doesn't need to obtain discussion moderator rights to be eligible for assistantship, it is recommended that a user requests for these rights, as an assistant by default does not have full discussion moderator status, and both of these rights can be beneficial for prospective assistants. If a user doesn't already have discussion moderator rights before their assistant rights request is approved, they can always still apply for discussion moderator afterwards.
Assistants are responsible for maintaining the wiki. In addition to the rights extended to rollbackers, Assistants are able to 'lock' and 'unlock' pages from editing, or limit editing of pages to autoconfirmed users only. While they can't directly delete vandal and spam only pages, they can protect them so that other users can't edit them, until an administrator and content moderator deletes them. They can use warnings to address issues with editors if they violate policy.
Assistants should not use their assistant powers to settle editing disputes; for example, to lock a page on a version he or she prefers in an editing dispute that isn't vandalism. Assistant powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. Ideally an assistant shouldn't be considered 'in charge'. The ideal assistant is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the wiki community. Content ModeratorsContent Moderators have the ability to 'lock' and 'unlock' pages from editing, or limit editing of pages to autoconfirmed users only. Content Moderators can also use warnings to address issues with editors, and delete and undelete pages. Content Moderators participate in community discussions and help determine consensus in those discussions. In addition to all these jobs, content moderators make contributions to the wiki, just like any other user. Administrators implicitly have all these rights, so having content moderator flags, as an administrator is unnecessary. While a user doesn't need to obtain discussion moderator rights to be eligible for content moderatorship, it is recommended that a user requests for these rights, as a content moderator by default does not have full discussion moderator status, and both of these rights can be beneficial for prospective content moderators. If a user doesn't already have discussion moderator rights before their content moderator rights request is approved, they can always still apply for discussion moderator afterwards.
Content Moderators are responsible for maintaining the wiki. In addition to the rights extended to rollbackers, Content Moderators are able to delete pages from the wiki, though non-content moderators can nominate pages for deletion. Content Moderators are able to 'lock' and 'unlock' pages from editing, or limit editing of pages to autoconfirmed users only. They can use warnings to address issues with editors if they violate policy.
Content Moderators should not use their content moderator powers to settle editing disputes; for example, to lock a page on a version he or she prefers in an editing dispute that isn't vandalism. Content Moderator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. Ideally a content moderator shouldn't be considered 'in charge'. The ideal content moderator is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the wiki community. Discussion ModeratorsDiscussion Moderators are users who have additional tools available to manage conversations in various features across the community where users are having social discussions. They can remove and restore threads and replies from any user, and close and reopen threads. In the discussions feature specifically, discussion moderators have the ability to move threads from one category to another. All administrators are implicitly discussion moderators already. As of the 14th January 2016, Discussion Moderators are now able to delete blog comments and edit and delete article comments.
Discussion Moderators are entrusted with tools to protect conversations from disruptive users. They can lock archived discussions. They are responsible for maintaining the discussions namespace through removing offensive or spam threads and comments made by disruptive users. Aside from this, Discussion Moderators are equal to other users of Forum discussions.
Discussion Moderators should not use their tools to take advantage of users or to take over conversations. They must not ignore the needs and wants of users, and they must never use their tools for personal reasons or against non-disruptive users. Discussion Moderators that abuse their tools may have their status removed. RollbackersAnyone can revert vandalism and bad-faith edits, but it takes a couple of clicks in the page history to get it done. Users with the "rollback" permission are able to undo bad edits with one click, by using the revert link on diff pages and user contributions list. They are just like autopatrolled users with one extra button. When used, rollback will undo the edits of the most recent user to edit a page, thus restoring what was on the page prior to that user's edits. Rollback will undo multiple edits by the same person if the edits were done consecutively. If multiple people have edited in bad faith, it may be necessary to manually roll the page back to an older version. All administrators, assistants, and content moderators are implicitly rollbackers already. Note that rollback cannot be used on a page that has been edited by only one user. Rollback does not prompt a user to confirm the action - the rollback occurs immediately once the button is clicked. This tool should only be used for reverting edits that are clearly vandalism, and any possible good faith edits should be reverted with the undo button. This is done so that the user reverting can explain why they are reverting the edit, for the benefit of both the original editor and any other users looking through the article's history, using rollback suggests that the user made a blatant bad faith edit, hence no edit summary is needed. On C.Syde's Wiki, users with a positive history of contributions on other wikis may be granted rollback rights by requesting it at Requests for Rollback; they may also be nominated for these rights by another user.
Rollback is a feature of the MediaWiki software that runs Fandom. It allows the edits of a user to be undone (reverted) in one click. On C.Syde's Wiki, rollback is commonly used to revert malicious edits, such as vandalism.
Administrators, Assistants, Content Moderators and editors with the rollback permission see an extra button in page histories, user contributions, and diff pages. The button is labelled 'revert' and only appears next to the latest revision of a page. Rollback reverts all consecutive edits made by one user and restores the last revision not made by that user. For example...
The "revert" link appears at the top, which is the latest revision. If revert is clicked, it will revert the consecutive edits made by User A to the last revision not made by User A, which is made by User B (third line). If revert is clicked, that would be where rollback would revert to. Rollback always leaves an edit summary and normally does not allow a custom edit summary to be entered. An edit summary left by rollback looks like this:
Rollback can also be used to revert one's own edit, and will again revert to the last revision not made by the target author. Rollback, however, cannot revert to a specific edit - it is always the last edit not made by the target author. Rollback cannot be used on a page with only one author, as there is nothing to revert to. Rollbacks are always marked as a minor edit.
Rollback can be used for the following situations:
Use of rollback in other circumstances, such as to revert a good faith edit you simply disagree with, is likely to be considered misuse of the tool. When in doubt, manually revert the edit and provide an edit summary. Rollbackers that have misused the rollback tool persistently despite multiple warnings to stop will have their rollback rights revoked. If the user is an administrator, assistant, or content moderator, they may have their administrator, assistant, or content moderator rights revoked to remove their ability to use rollback. Users that have the Rollback script added to their local or global javascript pages are not immune to this policy, and may be blocked if they repeatedly use the script against edits that are not vandalism or done in bad faith.[2] Definitions of Current StatusThe table at the top of this page lists the current status of the various administrators, assistants, content moderators, discussion moderators, and rollbackers on this wiki. Statuses are generally set as follows:
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