Ideally an admin shouldn't be considered 'in charge'.

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. Once a community decision has been reached (or if there is no active community to debate the decision), please leave a message at the wiki adoption requests page and Wikia Staff can provide the rights.Īdministrators 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. If there are no active bureaucrats, use the 'Requests for adminship' page to nominate users to become admins or bureaucrats. On a smaller wiki, you may simply ask on the community portal or Forum, or ask a bureaucrat directly on his or her talk page. On larger Wikia, there will usually be a community page for requests, with a page name such as ' Pirates Tides of Fortune Wiki:Requests for adminship'. See Help:Administrators' how-to guide for a guide on using admin functions.įor you to become an administrator, someone with bureaucrat access must make you one. You may also wish to list them on this page. For a complete list of users with administrator access, see Special:Listusers/sysop. Founders are also given bureaucrat access so they can make any other user on their wiki an administrator or bureaucrat. The 'founder' of a wiki, the person who first requested it, is given administrator access automatically. Please use Special:Contact to contact Wikia staff. They will be shown in Special:Listusers/staff on any wiki. Wikia staff members have full access to all Wikia. Editing the interface by changing system messages and skins.Ī bureaucrat can make other users into bureaucrats or administrators on their own wiki.īureaucrats can also give users the ability to 'rollback' edits not made in good faith.Blocking IP addresses or user names from editing and very quick 'rollback' of undesirable edits.Locking ( protecting) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without admin rights or autoconfirmed status.Deleting and undeleting pages, page histories, and uploaded files.

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