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Welcome to the Fanon Wiki! Before you create any articles, you MUST read the Wiki Policy. You MUST be sure to always add Categories to your articles, and properly name all images you upload, or they will be deleted with consequences. If you have any questions, contact Chris6d or another Staff Member. Happy editing!

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Administrators are users with so-called sysop rights. While anyone can do most things on the site, including reading and editing, administrators can access a few additional functions ("tools"), which help to perform maintenance and security tasks.

They are superior to other users, and have access to restricted technical features ("tools") which help to perform maintenance and security tasks. They are also useful as moderators in community discussion and interaction. Administrators still have all of the responsibilities that any other regular user has, in addition to an administrator's more exclusive responsibilities.

Administrator abilities

With their additional rights, administrators of the Fanon Wiki have the following privileges and responsibilities:

  • Rollback. All admins can revert several edits by a same user to the last version by a different user. This is also available to Rollback users.
  • Admin dashboard. All admins have access to restricted features through the "Admin dashboard". The "Theme designer" allows admins to change the design of the Fanon Wiki, while "Wiki Features" allows admins to enable or disable specific, optional features. Both tools are not to be used without prior discussion, because some of the changes that can be made here are hard to revert, or even destructive to existing content.
  • Block and unblock. In severe situations, administrators have the ability to ban "troublesome" users from contributing to the Fanon Wiki, either for a specific amount of time (ex. 3 days, one week, an entire month), or indefinitely.
  • Deletion and undeletion. Administrators can delete and un-delete pages, page histories, and uploaded files.
  • MediaWiki namespace. Administrators have access to the protected pages in the MediaWiki namespace, and may alter them accordingly. These pages are used to define the text of the user interface (see also: MediaWiki namespace).
  • Protecting pages. Admins can lock a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without admin rights. This usually only done in the case of excessive vandalism or content disputes to the in question. This should happen only in certain rare circumstances.
  • User rights management. Exclusively available to bureaucrats, it allow to promote other users to rollback/chat moderator/admin/bureaucrat and demote rollback/chat moderators/admins.

All administrators receive chat moderator and rollback powers automatically as part of the administrative rights. Due to these privileges, admins are expected to be familiar with the policies and guidelines of Fanon Wiki.

Who are this wiki's administrators?

The "founder" of a wiki, the person who first requested it, is given administrator access automatically. Founders are also given bureaucrat access so they can make any other user on their wiki an administrator or bureaucrat. For a complete list of users with administrator access, see Special:Listusers/sysop.

Username colors

  • Bureaucrats: yellow (#DDAA00)
  • Admins: green (#008000)

Current administrators

Administrators
Username Rank Active?
Chris6d ADMINISTRATOR YES
Cakedude222 BUREAUCRAT SEMI
Enchanted Iris ADMINISTRATOR NO
J23odi ADMINISTRATOR SEMI
Cameron33268110 ADMINISTRATOR SEMI

About Chris6d

Chris is a very active admin who fixes the infastructure of this wiki and edits for the better. If you have any questions, contact him first. Thinking about vandalizing while he's around? Think again.

About Cakedude222

Cakedude222 is an active bureaucrat who mainly writes fanons, but at the same time categorizes un-categorized pages. He has been contributing to the wiki since November 2013.

About Enchanted Iris (INACTIVE)

Enchanted Iris is an inactive admin who likes writing stories.

About Cameron33268110

Cameron33268110 is an active admin who has been here for 3 years straight. She mainly helps the wiki stay calm and writes

About J23odi

J23odi is an active admin who likes fanon.

Becoming an administrator

The Fanon Wiki practice is to grant administrator status to anyone who has been an active and regular presence on the Fanon Wiki for a substantial amount of time (ideally, a half a year). Administrators are selected from a pool of the highest quality editors, usually with administration background on other wikis - though the latter is not compulsory.

For you to become an administrator, someone with bureaucrat access must make you one. On this Wiki, administrators have previously been appointed when seen fit by a bureaucrat, without any voting process. Though under unique circumstances, the voting process can be implemented into the decision. As of now, the Fanon Wiki is in no need of extra admins, so you can cool your horses, people.

What should administrators not do?

Administrators should not use their administrator rights 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. 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. Ideally an admin shouldn't be considered "in charge". The ideal admin is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the Wikia community. They are just like any other user.

Different users have access to different functions of the site. While anyone can do most things on the site, including reading and editing, administrators can access a few additional functions:

  • Deleting and undeleting pages and page histories. Administrators can also delete uploaded files, but cannot undelete them.
  • Locking (protecting) a page so it can not be edited or renamed by users without admin rights.
  • Blocking IP addresses or user names from editing; and very quick "rollback" of undesirable edits.
  • Editing the interface by changing system messages and skins.
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