Help:User access levels

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For information about user rights at C.Syde's Wiki, see this page. For a wiki-table of the individual wiki editing tools and the associated user groups, see this page. For a wiki-table of the individual wiki editing tools without the associated user groups, see this page. For a complete description of all the individual wiki editing tools for all user groups on the wiki, see this page.

All Wikia contributors have access to read and contribute to all of our wikis. A number of special user roles also exist on Wikia with advanced user rights, in order to help prevent spam and vandalism. Below is a description of these rights.

Any of these may be subject to change or variation on individual wikis.

To add or remove users from these groups, use Special:UserRights.

All Users
All users on the Wikia network have the ability to view and read wikia pages. Unregistered (anonymous) users also usually have the ability to edit and add pages to the wiki, though some wikis, such as this one, require signing into a Wikia account first.

Registered Users
Users who have created an account and signed in are able to:


 * Customise the appearance and features of the wiki by setting their preferences.
 * Upload an image, video or other file to the wiki.
 * Add pages to their watchlist, which can be used to track edits to a particular page.
 * Maintain a user profile.
 * Remove advertisements from all pages (except for the main page of each wiki).
 * Upload up to 10 images at once.

Auto-confirmed Users
Registered users who have been with Wikia for at least 4 days and have made at least 10 edits across the wikia network also have access to the following tools:


 * No longer have to go through a captcha when inserting an external link into a page, blanking a page or creating a new account.
 * Edit semi-protected pages.

Power Users
This is not an actual user right, but more of an internal status flag used by Wikia. Unless otherwise noted, it grants no extra abilities or rights. It also cannot be used to filter users via Special:ListUsers.

Chat Moderators
Chat moderators are users who have chat moderator status in chat in order to moderate a wiki's chat room. They are able to block users from chat, which will kick a user out of the chat and ban them from returning until a chat moderator or an admin removes "Banned from chat" at Special:UserRights.

Having this status causes "CHAT MODERATOR" to appear next to the username on the user's user-page.

Roll-backers
Anyone 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 rollback link on diff pages, user contributions list, or the list of recent changes.

It is important to note that admins, assistants, and content moderators already have rollback rights by default. The right can be optional for a user to have rollback, admin, assistant, and content moderator combined, but it will not add extra speed even with slower internet connections. Users with rollback rights are just users who are not necessarily an admin, assistant, or content moderator.

On C.Syde's wiki, having this status causes "ROLLBACK" to appear next to the username of the user's user-page.

Discussion Moderators
Discussion Moderators are users who have additional tools available to manage conversations in various features across the community where users are having social discussions. These tools are:


 * Removing and restoring threads and replies from any user.
 * Closing and reopening threads.
 * In the Forum feature specifically, discussion moderators also have the ability to manage Forum boards, move threads from one board to another, and highlight and un-highlight threads.
 * Moderating chat.
 * Deleting blog comments.
 * Editing and deleting article comments.
 * Moderating the Discussions feature, if enabled.

Having this status causes "DISCUSSIONS MODERATOR" to appear next to the username on the user's user-page.

As of the 14th January 2016, Discussion Moderators are now have chat moderator rights, so they are now able to moderate chat, delete blog comments, and edit and delete article comments.

''Discussion Moderators are a new user group that was officially released across wikia on the 21st January 2015. Before this date, the user group officially did not exist.''

Content Moderators
Content Moderators are trusted users who have additional tools available to moderate parts of the community that host the wiki's content. They have all privileges from the rollback group and also have the ability to:


 * Deleting and moving protected pages.
 * Deleting and moving files.
 * Un-deleting pages and files.
 * Re-uploading files.
 * Protecting and unprotecting pages.
 * Patrol pages if the community has the Recent Changes patrol feature enabled.

Having this status causes "CONTENT MODERATOR" to appear next to the username on the user's user-page.

''The Content Moderator user group is a new user group that was officially released across wikia on the 14th January 2016. Before this date, the user group officially did not exist.''

Assistants
Assistants are trusted users who have additional tools available to moderate parts of the community that host the wiki's content. They have all privileges from the rollback group and also have the ability to:


 * Moving blog articles.
 * Moving protected pages.
 * Moving files.
 * Re-uploading files.
 * Importing pages from a file upload.
 * Marking reverted edits as bot edits.
 * Overriding anti-spoof checks on account creation.
 * Protecting and unprotecting pages.
 * Patrol pages if the community has the Recent Changes patrol feature enabled.
 * Toggling comments on blog articles.
 * Using higher limits in API queries.

On C.Syde's wiki, having this status causes "ASSISTANT" to appear next to the username of the user's user-page. More information on Assistants can be found here.

''The Assistant user group is a new user group that was officially released on the Enyclopedia SpongeBobia on the 20th February 2015, and C.Syde's Wiki on the 30th April 2015. Before those dates, the user group did not exist.''

Administrators
Administrators (or "admins" or "sysop") are trusted users, who are generally chosen by the community and also have access to the following tools:


 * They have all the privileges from the chat moderator, rollback, discussion moderator, and content moderator groups, almost all the privileges from the assistant group, and also have the ability to:
 * Deleting and un-deleting pages, as well as delete images or files.
 * Protecting a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without admin-ship privileges.
 * Blocking users who are vandalising the wiki from editing, etc.
 * Grant and revoke chat moderator, and discussion moderator rights.
 * Edit the wiki's skin and format.
 * Edit white-listed MediaWiki pages.
 * Upload up to 20 images at once.

For more details, see the Help:Administrators' how-to guide.

The state of being an administrator is also referred to as "admin-ship". On C.Syde's wiki, having this status causes "ADMINISTRATOR" to appear next to the username of the user's user-page.

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats are one level up from administrators, but they lack most of the administrator privileges. They only have the abilities to block users, and manipulate users rights. They have the ability to promote and revoke rollback, content moderator, assistant, and administrator rights as well as appointing new bureaucrats; but they cannot grant and revoke chat moderator or discussion moderator rights. While Bureaucrats cannot revoke another user's bureaucrat status, they can revoke their own. They also have the ability to revoke a user's bot status in case the bot is malfunctioning, but community consensus is required for the addition of users's bot status.

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. On C.Syde's wiki, having this status causes "BUREAUCRAT" to appear next to the username of the user's user-page.

Bots
A "bot" is any automated process, program, or script that makes it easier for a user to make tedious or repetitive edits and actions on a wiki. When a bot is running in quick succession, the recent changes log can sometimes be overtaken, making it harder to spot more substantial edits by regular users. Giving an account a "bot flag" will hide these edits from the recent changes list (although any editor can still choose to see them by clicking "Show bots").

On Wikia, a user who wishes to use a bot should set up a separate account for it, then talk with other users on the wiki about whether the types of edits the bot makes should be hidden. After discussing it with the community, the bot owner or admin can request the bot be flagged.

Founders
A wiki's founder is automatically given admin and bureaucrat rights during wiki creation. This allows them to edit the wiki's skin and format. As more contributors join, it's a good idea for bureaucrats to appoint trusted users as admins, assistants, content moderators, discussion moderators, roll-backers, and chat moderators.

The title of "FOUNDER" appears next to the founder's name, unless they later abdicate their position as an administrator. On C.Syde's wiki, the title of "CHIEF" appears next to the founder's name instead.

Check Users
Check Users have the ability to check another user's IP address, as well as the ability to check what users have edited using a particular IP address, and view the Check User log. This ability is generally only available to Wikia Utilities, Wikia Helpers, and Volunteer Spam Task Forces, but on large wikis where sock-puppetry is a major problem, access can be considered.

Authenticated
Authenticated users are the official accounts of large companies, typically from the video game industry. The group signifies that the veracity of the account was checked for by Staff. They are users who are notable or famous IRL for some reason, maybe they represent a game designer or developer, maybe they're a famous musician. A user must be verified by Wikia Staff as legitimately being that important person before they get this right.

Community Councillors
The Community Council is a group of Wikians chosen from throughout the community by the staff to provide preliminary feedback on new features that are under development. While they do not have additional user rights, other than the ability to see the Community Council Wiki, these volunteer users have a "COMMUNITY COUNCILLOR" tag on their profiles for the duration of their time in the group. See Help:Community Council for more information.

Volunteer Developers
The Volunteer Developers program is an initiative that aims to enable technically skilled members of the Wikia community to contribute to Wikia not only by editing and wiki-administration, but also by fixing bugs and improving Wikia's software. These users will have a "VOLUNTEER DEVELOPERS" tag on their profiles.

Van-Guards
Van-Guards are a group of Wikia users who have volunteered to help make Wikia's content available on the widest possible range of devices. To do so, Van-Guard users have a few extra rights that allow them to edit a Wiki community's interface. See Special:ListUsers/vanguard for a member list. Van-Guard users will have a "VANGUARD" tag on their profile.

Volunteer Spam Task Forces
The Volunteer Spam Task Force, abbreviated to "VSTF", are experienced and involved Wikians who combat cross-wiki spam and vandalism. Therefore, they have extended user rights on all Wikia communities, including access to many additional tools that help them to detect spam and vandalism. See Help:SpamTaskForce for more info, or Special:ListUsers/vstf for a list. VSTF users will have a "VOLUNTEER SPAM TASK FORCE" tag on their profile.

Wikia Helpers
Wikia Helpers consist of volunteers working to support and improve non-English wikia communities. Because they exercise staff tasks in their respective language, they share many user rights with Wikia Staff, and almost all the rights extended to VSTF, on all of Wikia's wikis and they have the tag in their signatures. See Help:Helper Group for more info, or Special:ListUsers/helper for a list. Users in this group will have a "WIKIA HELPER" tag on their profile.

Wikia Staff
Wikia Staff are Wikia employees and they have full access to all Wikia wikis. They are shown in Special:Listusers/staff on any wiki, and often have a special Staff signature when they sign their comments. Staff have tools to support them in helping to maintain all of Wikia. Please see Help:Contacting Wikia for details on how to contact Wikia Staff. These users will have a "WIKIA STAFF" banner on their profile.

Wikia Utilities
Utilities are staff tools which they use for more features. These are shown in Special:Listusers/util on all other wikis. The identity to their profile is not shown, and they may not have a staff signature unless they have Wikia Staff privileges.

Bot-Globals
Wikia runs a number of bots on all wikis. These bots usually run autonomously or by command from a Wikia Staff member. Local wikis typically have no control over these bots.

Why can't I give another user privileges?
Users cannot access some tools when they don't have user rights. If a user has its bureaucrat and admin rights revoked by Wikia Staff, they cannot re-grant them back. They can be revoked for one of the reasons:


 * The rights were abused and vandalised.
 * A user is inactive (by request of the community).
 * User request.
 * Found to be as an alternative account which is a sock-puppet.
 * A user was denied from adopting a wiki and still has it on a wiki for one of the following reasons:
 * The user was founded, adopted or given admin access on a wiki and has not waited 60 days and sneaked for admin rights by telling an admin to grant user rights on the wiki even if contributions are good.
 * An admin granted the user rights to a user and someone contacted a staff if a user doesn't have enough edits.
 * A user was blocked from another wiki.
 * Editing MediaWiki interfaces into nonsense, spam, harassment, hate speech, threats, vandalism and more.
 * Mass promoting users with few edits.

What can't blocked users do?
If a user is suspected of breaking Wikia's Terms of Use or a local community's guidelines, they may be blocked by staff or a local admin. Blocked users can't:


 * Create, edit or move pages
 * Delete and undelete pages
 * Protect and unprotect pages
 * Block and unblock users
 * Ban and unban users from chat
 * Use rollback
 * Upload files
 * Change the rights of others
 * Perform certain specific administrative actions

In some cases, blocked users are also prevented from emailing other users, creating new accounts, and editing their own user talk page only if decided by the local admins, Wikia Staff, Helpers and VSTF.

How can I find different users?
See Special:ListUsers and choose the "administrator", "assistant", "bureaucrat", "chat moderator", "content moderator", "discussion moderator", "or rollback" check boxes, and click "Show". You will also see a column showing the date of the user's most recent edit, so you can find users that have been active most recently.

Can user rights messages be edited?
You can customise the user rights message by altering MediaWiki:Userrights-groups-help on your wiki.

E-mail confirmed Users

 * The E-mail confirmed User group has officially been discontinued from the local rights level.

E-mail confirmed users were users who had confirmed their e-mail in their preferences. With this permission, e-mailconfirmed users had the ability to e-mail other users if they had opted to allow other users to e-mail them, as well as requesting lost password information.

Wikia Stars

 * The Wikia Stars User group has officially been discontinued from the global rights level.

Wikia Stars were recognised as leaders within their communities and as experts on their wikis. They may have been invited to join Wikia programming initiatives or even, in some cases, travelled to live events. Stars were denoted with a "WIKIA STAR" banner on their profile, but they did not come with any global rights.

Admin Mentors

 * The Admin Mentor Program is currently on hiatus as we evaluate the future direction of the program. If you need assistance in the meantime, please feel free to post in the Community Central Forum, where other Wikians would be happy to assist you. Thanks!

The Admin Mentor Program (AMP) was a group of experienced administrators on Wikia using their expertise to empower community administrators with the knowledge and skills they needed to best manage their wikis. They were friendly faces to turn to with any questions about wiki creation and management.

AMP could give you a hands-on approach to getting your wiki looking great and running smooth. Each mentor-ship had different areas of focus depending on the needs of individual wikis. To help give you an idea of what we can help you with, there were a few suggested topics that you could request:


 * Design: how to design your wiki and how to find further design help.
 * Templates: design, customisation, use of CSS, ease of use, and more. Info-boxes were included.
 * Policy development: making it easier for users to contribute to the wiki while following your rules.
 * Categorisation: escaping the perils and pitfalls of category structures.
 * Tools and features: how to enable features and MediaWiki extensions and tools, and how to use them.
 * User interaction: dealing with conflicts between editors and creating a collaborative atmosphere.
 * Growing a community: tips and tricks for how to get new editors and promote your wiki.

Even though this right was in the global group rights section, this right could only be applied locally.

Check User-Globals

 * The Check User-Global user group has officially been discontinued from the global rights level. Check User rights can now only be applied locally.

Check User-Globals had the ability to run an IP check across all wikia, as well as the ability to check what users have edited using a particular IP address, and view the Check User log. They were just like regular check users, with check user rights on all wikis.