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.

Users
Users who created an account and are logged in can:
 * Create pages.
 * Edit their own preferences.
 * Edit their own watchlist.
 * Maintain a user profile and talk page.
 * Mark edits as minor.
 * Send emails to other users.
 * Use the write API.

Although newly-created accounts have access to those features, autoconfirmed users have access to a few more.

Autoconfirmed users
Autoconfirmed users are editors that are automatically confirmed to be actual contributors to Pikmin Fanon. This system is in place to prevent giving too many privileges to newly-created accounts in fear that they may be used to cause harm.

Compared to newly-registered users, users that are autoconfirmed can:


 * Bypass the CAPTCHA.
 * Edit semi-protected pages.
 * Move pages and files.
 * Purge the cache for a page.
 * Upload files and new versions of existing files.

Administrators
Administrators (or sysops) are users who are active, trustworthy, and continually publish constructive edits.

The MediaWiki software has a few important features that are restricted to administrators. Compared to regular users, administrators have the ability to:

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats are users who are trusted admins but have access to a few more features than an admin has. With the same rights as admins, they can:
 * Grant (and revoke) administrator or bureaucrat status to other users.
 * Rename users.

Interface administrators
Interface administrators are users who can edit the interface (pages in MediaWiki namespace), including sitewide CSS/JavaScript pages and other users' CSS/JavaScript pages.

Suppressors
Suppressors are users associated with cutting out abuse of the edit system (where edits appear on lists such as the history or recent changes list).

They can:
 * Block a username, hiding it from the public.
 * Delete and undelete specific log entries.
 * View, hide, and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user.

Bots
Bots are 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").