Help:Permissions

This wiki has different account permissions to assist in it's administration. Any editor may ask a bureaucrat for any permission. Granting and revoking is at a bureaucrat's discretion.

Bureaucrat

The only people capable of adjusting permissions are bureaucrats. They may do so at their sole discretion. They can also perform an enhanced version of revision deletion which allows hiding deleted information from even administrators, reserved for getting rid of personally identifiable information.

This permission is strictly controlled due to a lack of need for many people to have it. A bureaucrat account being compromised could cause substantial damage which may not be reversible, and so limited granting is also in the interest of site security.

The following individuals in the Endurance Coalition are bureaucrats.

• Sirdog (sirdog3355)

Administrator

List of administrators available here.

An administrator is a janitor. They are able to block user accounts (which restrict all editing and use of advanced permissions), protect pages from editing (and thus edit any protected page), and are able to delete pages and revisions. This makes it much easier to control the wiki's organization.

Usage of the above tools are at administrator discretion (with an expectation of working nicely with others). The actual use of the tools are explained at Manual:Administrators. Administrators should be aware that deletion is not permanent. All pages and files can be undeleted. To delete specific revisions, see Help:RevisionDelete.

Usage guidelines

Administrators should never block to punish, but to stop an account from disrupting the wiki. The account holder may be drunk and unfortunately stumbled onto the wiki, having an emotional episode, lashing out in response to some kind of falling out, or the account may be compromised. These are the situations where blocking is appropriate. Blocking is performed at Special:Block.

• Blocks should always be marked as Sitewide.
• The box Editing their own talk page should always be ticked.
• Blocks should always be given a legible reason.
• Expiration is at administrator discretion. Generally speaking, most of the examples above would warrant an indefinite block (an inebriated editor perhaps a day or two, someone emotional perhaps a week; these are recommendations, not rules).

Interface administrator

List of interface administrators available here.

An interface administrator can edit pages in the Module: and MediaWiki: namespaces and import pages from other wikis. The Module: namespace contains JavaScript necessary for certain templates to function. The MediaWiki: namespace contains text which changes the look of interface (e.g MediaWiki:Upload-summary which displays the warning at the top of Special:Upload).

Edit filter manager

List of edit filter managers available here.

An edit filter manager is able to create and edit filters at Special:AbuseFilter. They can also view and edit the private filters. The abuse filter is a set of regular expression patterns that perform certain actions when triggered. This wiki uses filters to prevent certain behaviors which may case harm. Filters are marked private by edit filter managers at their discretion.

Account specialist

List of account specialists available here. Note that bureaucrats are functionally also account specialists.

An account specialist can create accounts for users and edit accounts to assist with recovery. Account creation is done through Special:CreateAccount and editing is done through Special:EditAccount. All permissions available to account specialists are bundled into the bureaucrat permission automatically, and so they are also account specialists.

Creating an account

Creating the account is simple. Follow the interface at Special:CreateAccount. Leave the email and real name fields blank. Write a quick reason. Click Create account. That's it.

Verification template

After the account physically exists, there is one more step which is slightly more complicated, which is giving the account their {{Account verified}} template. Since emails are not stored for privacy reasons, there is no easy way — aside from word of mouth — to connect a wiki account to a particular person. The {{Account verified}} template fixes this. The downside is it requires some effort.

To begin, go to the new account's user page. This is User: followed by the exact name you gave them at Special:CreateAccount. For example, Sirdog's user page is User:Sirdog. You will be told the page doesn't exist since you just created the account. Create the page.

At the top of the page, copy and paste the following:

{{Account verified|name=|id=}}

After name= but before the pipe (|), just write the name they commonly go by. If creating an account for Fleff, you'd just write Fleff. After id= but before the curly brackets (}}), you'll write in their Discord ID.

To get a Discord ID, you need to enable developer mode on Discord (Settings > Advanced > Developer mode), right click the account's name on any message they've sent, and click the button Copy User ID. You will paste this after id=. It should just be a long number. For example, Sirdog's Discord ID is 281589411962028034.

The following is an example of a properly filled out template.

{{Account verified|name=Sirdog|id=281589411962028034}}

After you've done this, save the page. Double check the template doesn't look wonky, then, you are done. Thank you!

Usage guidelines

• Accounts should only be made for people currently in the Endurance Coalition Discord. If they aren't, the person must be redirected to a bureaucrat for an answer.
• Never click Close account in the Special:EditAccount interface.
• To help recover an account, simply use Special:EditAccount to change the person's password to something random and give it to them. Instruct them to change it immediately.
  • Make sure, if there is even a sliver of doubt, to double check the account verified template on the user's page to ensure the correct Discord user is getting their account back.