Help:Group rights

All Pikmin Fanon contributors have access to read and contribute to our wiki. A number of special user roles also exist on Pikmin Fanon with advanced user rights, in order to help prevent spam and vandalism. Below is a description of these rights.

To add or remove users from these groups, bureaucrats can use Special:UserRights.

Users
Users who created an account and are logged in can:


 * Create new pages and edit unprotected pages.
 * Upload an image or other file to the wiki.
 * Customize the appearance and features of the wiki by setting their preferences.
 * Maintain a user profile and talk page.

Autoconfirmed users, however, have access to a few more features.

Autoconfirmed users
Users who are automatically confirmed to be actual contributors to the wiki can:


 * Move articles and other pages.
 * Edit semi-protected pages.
 * Bypass the CAPTCHA.
 * Upload a new version of a file.

Administrators
Administrators, also known as "sysops" or just "admins", are trusted users, who are chosen here by the community and can:

For more details, see the administrator's handbook.
 * Delete and undelete pages, page histories, images, or files.
 * Protect a page so it cannot be edited or moved by users without admin rights.
 * Block a user or IP address from editing.
 * Rollback disruptive/unconstructive edits.
 * Edit in the MediaWiki Namespace.
 * Checking users' IP addresses to prevent account abuse.

Bureaucrats
A bureaucrat is a user who is a trusted admin but has access to a few more features than an admin has. With the same rights as admins, bureaucrats can:
 * Grant (and revoke) administrator or bureaucrat status to other users.
 * Change wiki prefixes in Special:Interwiki
 * Rename users.

Rollback permission
Anyone can revert vandalism and bad-faith edits, but it takes a couple of clicks in the page history to get it done. Users with the rollback permission are able to undo bad edits with one click, by using the rollback link on "View history" pages, user contributions list, or the list of recent changes.

It is important to note that admins have rollback rights no matter what. Users with rollback rights are just users who are not necessarily admin.

Bots
A "bot" is an automated process, program, or script that makes it easier for a user to make tedious or repetitive edits and actions on a wiki. When a bot is running in quick succession, the recent changes log can sometimes be overtaken, making it harder to spot more substantial edits by regular users. Giving an account a "bot flag" will hide these edits from the recent changes list (although any editor can still choose to see them by clicking "Show bots").

Blocked users
Blocked users are blocked from editing by an administrator due to breaking one of Pikmin Fanon's policies and guidelines. Blocked users are unable to:
 * Edit or move pages.
 * Delete or protect pages.
 * Upload files.
 * Change the rights of others.

In some cases, blocked users are also prevented from emailing other users, creating new accounts, and editing their own user talk page.

Staff members
This is a list of all staff members. Staff members that are marked as  active  edit regularly and/or communicate actively; those that are marked as semi-active edit or communicate intermittently; and those that are marked as  inactive  have not been involved in any shape or form for at least 6 months.

Staff member statuses are accurate as of 15.