Help:Permissions

This wiki has a variety of account permissions that have been created to assist in it's administration. If a particular permission does not have usage guidelines, it is either because it is anticipated a limited set of users will ever have it, or because usage does not necessarily require written rules.

Anyone with an account may ask any bureaucrat for any permission listed on this page. Whether or not it is granted is solely at the discretion of the reviewing bureaucrat.

Bureaucrat

The only people capable of granting and revoking any permissions listed below are bureaucrats. Such individuals may grant and revoke at their sole discretion. They can also perform an enhanced version of revision deletion called suppression, which allows hiding deleted information from even administrators, reserved for getting rid of personally identifiable information.

This permission is strictly controlled, not due to a lack of trust, but 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. While anyone is permitted to ask to become a bureaucrat, odds are greater than normal that it'll be denied.

The following individuals in the Endurance Coalition are bureaucrats.

• Sirdog (sirdog3355)

Administrator

List of administrators available here.

An administrator is a functional janitor for the wiki. They are able to block user accounts (which restrict all editing and usage of any advanced permissions), protect pages from editing (and subsequently edit any protected page), and are able to delete and restore pages and revisions. This makes it considerably easier to control the wiki's organization than a regular user is capable of doing.

Usage of the page protection and deletion tools are at administrator discretion (with an expectation of working in tandem with fellow administrators and other wiki-enthusiasts). The actual use of the tools are explained at Manual:Administrators (though note not all permissions the page states administrators have are actually available on this wiki). Administrators should be aware that deletion is not permanent, and accidental or ignorant deletion is not something to fear. All pages can be undeleted. To delete specific revisions, see Help:RevisionDelete.

Usage guidelines

Administrators should never block to punish, but as a means of stopping disruption from an account — usually in response to an account compromise, the account owner lashing out emotionally, or the account owner acting abusively in response to some falling out with the Endurance Coalition or any specific member. This is performed at Special:Block.

Interface administrator

List of interface administrators available here.

An interface administrator has no correlation with a regular administrator. They are simply editors who can edit pages in the Module: and MediaWiki: namespaces and import directly from other MediaWiki instances. The Module: namespace contains JavaScript necessary for some templates to function. The MediaWiki: namespace mainly contains text which changes the look and text on the interface itself (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 abuse 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 defined actions when triggered. This wiki uses a limited number of filters to try and stop particular behaviors which may case harm. Filters are marked private by edit filter managers at their discretion, and it tends to be based on vibes, or whether the ability to see the regex will result in easy bypassing.

Account specialist

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

An account specialist is able to create accounts for users and edit accounts so as to assist with account recovery. Account creation is done through Special:CreateAccount and editing is done through Special:EditAccount. The latter interface does not permit editing of account permissions, which is reserved to bureaucrats. All permissions available to account specialists are bundled into the bureaucrat permission. This permission is particularly easy to ask for due to it's limited scope.

Creating an account

The act of creating the account is simple. Follow the interface at Special:CreateAccount. Leave the email and real name fields blank. After the account physically exists, there is one more step which is slightly more complicated, which is giving the account their {{Account verified}} template. This is a requirement to ensure that there is a clear recorded correlation between a wiki account and a Discord account.

To begin, go to the new account's user page. This is User: followed by the exact name you gave them at Special:CreateAccount, with the first letter capitalized. 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 their common username. If creating an account for Fleff, you'd just write Fleff. After id= but before the curly brackets (}}), you'll give their Discord ID. To get a Discord ID, you will 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. 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.
• 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.
  • Never click Close account in the Special:EditAccount interface.