Fangs Wiki:User Rights

While anyone can do most things on the Fangs Wiki, including reading and editing, users who possess administrator rights have access to a few additional technical functions and tools which allow them to perform maintenance tasks and revert vandalism with greater ease. Users with rights, while being trusted members of the community, are not any better or more important than anyone else. They do not have an extra vote, or veto power, and their votes are weighted equally with that of users that do not have added rights. Read the sections on each of the different groups below for more information.

Hierarchy
Hierarchy Bureaucrat Administrator Moderator

Users with additional rights have access to features of the wiki which are not available to others. These rights are granted to those that are known to be able to benefit from them, in addition to being respected by the community.

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats, being at the top of the hierarchy, have an additional ability to promote users up to their own ranking. Users who found a wiki are automatically a bureaucrat of that wiki.
 * List of Bureaucrats

Administrators
Administrators, sometimes called sysops, are trusted users who have access to a wide variety of tools and features, generally for maintenance. In particular administrators are able to:
 * Do everything that a moderator can do.
 * Edit the Wiki's interface file such as changing system messages and skins.
 * List of Administrators

Moderators
Moderators are users who moderate the wiki, deal with vandals and trolls, and are able to delete vandalism and block those who cause it. Moderators are able to:
 * Quickly revert the latest edits by one user on one page, with a single click of a button, while also being allowed to use WHAM for more functions.
 * Block a user or IP address from editing the wiki.
 * Protect pages from editing.
 * Delete and undelete comments, pages or files.
 * Move files, and not create a redirect when moving any files or pages.
 * Not be affected by rate limits on page moves, account creations and file uploads.
 * List of Moderators

Removal of Access
Rights are removed from users who have been inactive for a long time, as inactive users have no further need for them. A user may also have rights removed if found guilty of abusing them. Anyone that has user rights may request removal of them as well.