TWC Wiki:User Rights

Wiki Administration Roles are types of roles that users can have on the wiki. These are different from Staff ranks and are given on an 'as needed' basis for permissions. They were once given liberally to Citizens who asked for, say, sysop; now they are reserved mainly for the Wiki Director and interested Hexagon Council members. They were created automatically by the MediaWiki software the wiki runs on.

These should not come up unless special circumstances apply, such as being a forum administrator looking to do work or if a party in power seeks to make a bot. Otherwise, direct all inquiries (including joining the actual Wiki Team) To the Wiki Director: Dismounted Feudal Knight

Or the following admins:

• Alwyn - Content Hex ^{[edit list]}

See all groups and their members here.

List of Roles

Bureaucrats

Users who can change the groups of anyone on the wiki, including themselves and wiki admins. Hexagon Council and Wiki Director only.

Administrators

Also (and more clearly) known as Sysop. Not to be mistaken for the Hexagon Council, and should only be taken in context of conversation. Near 100% permissions on editing technical parts of the wiki. Hexagon Council and Wiki Director only; exception, the Makbot.

Interface Administrators

An overlap of above for editing visual aspects of the wiki (the Javascript and CSS). It is a potential security risk, thus afforded only to the key handlers (interested hex + director) at a given time.

Check User

Allows select users to 'check' the IP of an editor. Also only afforded to the key handlers of the wiki.

Patrollers

A Wiki term for users who monitor new changes and make sure they are correct. This has no formal place on TWC Wiki; any user who's interested can do it as they like.

Autoconfirmed Users

A technical role to distinguish from bots if the wiki was open registration. It is not, thus this role is redundant here.

Bots

Bots are special tools set up by wiki managers to perform tasks. Only the Makbot was in use; the results were mixed and the group has gone unused since.

Not to be confused with web crawlers, which simply come in and index wiki pages and spambots, which are quite unlikely due to how registration works here.