Help:Permissions

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

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. 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

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.

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.

Usage guidelines

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.

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.

Edit filter manager

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 filters that perform defined actions based on a given pattern. This wiki uses a limited number of filters to try and stop particular behaviors which may case harm, such as not allowing someone to post a link to the Endurance Coalition Discord server. 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.