Help:Assistants' how-to guide

Assistants are editors who are trusted with access to certain features on the Encyclopedia SpongeBobia, and here at C.Syde's Wiki.

How to become an assistant

 * Only users with Bureaucrat rights are able to promote other users to become assistants. Like Administrators, Assistants can't promote users to become rollbacks. However Administrators, unlike Assistants are able to promote other users to become chat moderators, or moderators.

Protection and unprotection

 * To protect a page, click the small arrow on the edit button to activate the dropdown menu.
 * Choose protect. If the menu only has an unprotect option, the page is already protected; you can click that link to change the protection level.
 * You will be brought to a screen where you can set the protection for editing and for moving the page.
 * Choose the protection level you need.
 * There is also an option for cascade protection, which fully protects all templates, page transclusions and images used on that page. This checkbox should generally be left unchecked.
 * Enter a length of time for the protection to last.
 * Enter a reason for the protection change.
 * Click "Confirm"; the page will be protected.
 * Unprotecting a page works in exactly the same way, only you will click the unprotect link.
 * You can protect an image or other file from the file description page.
 * Both the description page and the image are protected.
 * The image description page will be protected against edits
 * The image will be protected so that it can not be reverted to an earlier version, and it will not be possible to upload a new version over the existing one.

Reverting undesirable edits

 * Any user can revert a page using the "Undo" option in the page history. Use the edit summary to explain why the edit is being undone.
 * Assistants and users with rollback status can also revert the edits of one user and restore the page to the last version by the previous author. Administrators also have this ability.
 * Click rollback on the page history, the user contribution list, or on the diff page.
 * Reversions are given the automatic edit summary Reverted edits by X to last version by Y.
 * Because rollbacks skip the step of adding a custom edit summary, they should be used for obvious vandalism only.

Next Pages

 * Learn how to Help:User access levels - including details about assistant promotion
 * Edit ever faster by learning keyboard shortcuts!