Help:Permissions

This wiki has a variety of account permissions that have been created to assist in it's administration.

Guidelines for granting

The only people capable of granting and revoking any permissions listed below are bureaucrats. This permission is strictly controlled, not necessarily due to a lack of trust, but due to a lack of need for multiple individuals to have it. Furthermore, a bureaucrat account being compromised could cause substantial and devastating damage to the wiki which may or may not be reversible. While anyone is permitted to ask to become a bureaucrat, just like any other permission, odds are likely it will not be granted.

The following individuals in the Endurance Coalition are bureaucrats.

• Sirdog (sirdog3355)

Administrator

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. This makes it considerably easier to control the wiki's organization than a regular user is capable of doing.

The only hard guideline is that 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.

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-enthuisists). 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).

Interface administrator

An interface administrator has no correlation with an administrator, and are simply accounts which can edit interface pages (e.g the Module: and MediaWiki: namespace) and import pages from other MediaWiki sites. That's it.