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This is one of Pikmin Fanon's help pages and is meant to aid users by improving their ability to positively contribute to the wiki. Expanding pages such as this with additional information is always welcome.

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.

Basic

Users

Users who created an account and are logged in can:

Create and edit pages.
Edit their own preferences and 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.

For a list of all users, including inactive ones, see Special:ListUsers.

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.

Advanced

See also: Official list of staff members

Bots

Bots are automated processes, programs, or scripts 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").

For a list of all bots, including inactive ones, see Special:ListBots.

Administrators

Administrators, admins, or sysops, are active, trustworthy users granted with the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the wiki. Compared to regular users, administrators have the ability to:

Block disruptive users from editing sitewide.
Delete and undelete pages, images, or files.
Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages.
Protect a page so it cannot be edited or moved by users without admin rights.
Rollback disruptive/unconstructive edits.
Mark edits as patrolled.
Change wiki prefixes in Special:Interwiki.
Create and (de)activate tags.
Create and edit widgets in the Widgets namespace.
Edit in the MediaWiki namespace, excluding JavaScript and CSS pages.
Import pages from other wikis.
Upload files from a URL.

For a list of all administrators,including inactive ones, see Special:ListAdmins.

For more in-depth information on the tools of an administrator, see Help:Administrator's Handbook.

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.

For a list of all bureaucrats, including inactive ones, see Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat.

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.

For a list of all interface administrators, including inactive ones, see Special:ListUsers/interface-admin.

Suppressors

Suppressors are users granted with the ability to remove information from the eyes of sysops.

To request for an edit or action to be suppressed, please contact a suppressor through Special:Email. Do not post the request on the suppressor's talk page or any place that is public, except if you have no access to email or private communication. It makes extra work for them, as they would then have to suppress both your request and the information you were requesting to be suppressed in the first place, so public requests are only acceptable if you have no email access or private communication.

Suppression is used when revision deletion would be unnecessary, such as personally identifiable information of anyone being shared without their consent, PII of an apparent minor being shared, threats of harm against another editor, or anything else the public at large should not be able to view.

For a list of all suppressors, including inactive ones, see Special:ListUsers/suppress.

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-All [[PikminFanon:About|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 impede spam and vandalism. Below is a description of these rights.
+All [[PikminFanon:About|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.
-{{clear}}
 ==Basic==
 ===Users===
-Users who [[Special:CreateAccount|created an account]] and are [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]] can:
+Users who created an account and are logged in can:
-*[[Help:New page|Create new pages]] and edit unprotected pages.
+*Create and edit pages.
-*[[Help:Uploading files|Upload]] an image or other file to the wiki.
+*Edit their own [[Help:Preferences|preferences]] and [[Help:Watchlist|watchlist]].
-*Customize the appearance and features of the wiki by setting their [[Special:Preferences|preferences]].
 *Maintain a [[Help:User page|user profile and talk page]].
+*Mark edits as [[Help:Minor edit|minor]].
+*[[Help:Emailing users|Send email]]s to other users.
+*Use the write API.
+Although newly-created accounts have access to those features, autoconfirmed users have access to a few more.
-{{For|a list of all users|Special:ListUsers/user}}
+{{for|a list of all users, including inactive ones|Special:ListUsers}}
 ===Autoconfirmed users===
-Users who are confirmed, by an autoconfirmation process of the wiki, can:
+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.
-*[[Help:Moving pages|Move]] articles and other pages.
-*Edit semi-protected pages.
+Compared to newly-registered users, users that are autoconfirmed can:
-*Bypass the CAPTCHA.
-*Upload a new version of an existing file.
+*Bypass the {{w|CAPTCHA}}.
+*Edit [[Special:ProtectedPages|semi-protected pages]].
+*[[Help:Moving pages|Move]] pages and files.
+*[[Help:Purge|Purge]] the cache for a page.
+*[[Help:Upload|Upload]] [[Help:File|file]]s and new versions of existing files.
 ==Advanced==
-=== Administrators ===
+{{see also|1=Forum:Official list of staff|t1=Official list of staff members}}
-Administrators, also known as "sysops" or just "admins", are users who are active, trustworthy, and continually establishing constructive edits. Administrators can:
-*[[Help:Deletion|Delete]] and undelete pages, page histories, images, or files.
+===Bots===
-*[[Help:Page protection|Protect]] a page so it cannot be edited or moved by users without admin rights.
+Bots are automated processes, programs, or scripts 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").
-*[[Help:Blocking|Block]] a user or IP address from editing.
+{{for|a list of all bots, including inactive ones|Special:ListBots}}
+===Administrators===
+Administrators, admins, or {{w|sysop}}s, are active, trustworthy users granted with the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the wiki. Compared to regular users, administrators have the ability to:
+{{columns|2|
+*[[Help:Administrator's Handbook/Block|Block]] disruptive users from editing sitewide.
+*[[Help:Administrator's Handbook/Delete|Delete]] and undelete pages, images, or files.
+*Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages.
+*[[Help:Administrator's Handbook/Protect|Protect]] a page so it cannot be edited or moved by users without admin rights.
 *[[Help:Administrator's Handbook/Rollback|Rollback]] disruptive/unconstructive edits.
-*Mark edits as patrolled.
+*Mark edits as [[Help:Patrolled edit|patrolled]].
-*[[Help:Administrator's Handbook/Editing in the MediaWiki Namespace|Edit]] in the MediaWiki [[Help:Namespace|Namespace]].
+*Change wiki prefixes in [[Special:Interwiki]].
-For more details, see the [[Help:Administrator's Handbook|administrator's handbook]].
+*Create and (de)activate [[Help:Tags|tags]].
+*Create and edit [[mw:Extension:Widget|widgets]] in the Widgets namespace.
+*Edit in the [[Help:Administrator's Handbook/MediaWiki|MediaWiki namespace]], excluding JavaScript and CSS pages.
+*[[Help:Administrator's Handbook/Import|Import]] pages from other wikis.
+*Upload files from a URL.
+}}
-{{for|a list of administrators|Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
+{{for|a list of all administrators,including inactive ones|Special:ListAdmins}}
+{{for|more in-depth information on the tools of an administrator|Help:Administrator's Handbook}}
 ===Bureaucrats===
-A bureaucrat are users who are trusted admins but have access to a few more features than an admin has. With the same rights as admins, bureaucrats can:
+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.
-*Change wiki prefixes in [[Special:Interwiki]]
+*[[Help:Account renaming|Rename user]]s.
-*[[Special:Logs/renameuser|Rename]] users.
-{{for|a list of bureaucrats|Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
-=== Interface administrators ===
-Interface administrators (referred to as ''Interface-admin'' or ''Interfaces'' on this wiki) are the only users with the ability to edit sitewide CSS and JS pages (such as [[MediaWiki:Common.js]], [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]], interface messages which are interpreted as raw HTML, or the gadget pages listed on [[Special:Gadgets]]), and other users' personal CSS/JS pages. JS and CSS pages are executed by the browser of wiki editors and readers as code, which can be used to change how content is styled, change the behavior of pages, or even implement gadgets such as [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:HotCat|HotCat]].
-{{for|a list of interface administrators|Special:ListUsers/interface-admin}}
+{{for|a list of all bureaucrats, including inactive ones|Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
-=== Suppressors ===
+===Interface administrators===
-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:
+Interface administrators are users who can edit the interface (pages in MediaWiki namespace), including sitewide CSS/JavaScript pages and other users' CSS/JavaScript pages.
-*Block a username, hiding it from the public (not to be confused with a [[Special:Logs/block|user block]].)
-*Delete and undelete specific log entries and specific revisions of pages.
-*View private logs and revisions that are hidden from any user.
-*View, hide and unhide specific revisions of pages from any user.
-{{for|a list of suppressors|Special:ListUsers/suppress}}
+{{for|a list of all interface administrators, including inactive ones|Special:ListUsers/interface-admin}}
-==Others==
-===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 [[Help:Recent changes|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").
-{{For|a list of bots|Special:ListUsers/bot}}
+===Suppressors===
+Suppressors are users granted with the ability to remove information from the eyes of sysops.
-=== Developers ===
+To request for an edit or action to be suppressed, please contact a suppressor through [[Special:Email]]. Do not post the request on the suppressor's talk page or any place that is public, except if you have no access to email or private communication. It makes extra work for them, as they would then have to suppress both your request and the information you were requesting to be suppressed in the first place, so public requests are only acceptable if you have no email access or private communication.
-Developers are users who can bypass the CAPTCHA when performing CAPTCHA-triggering actions.
-{{for|a list of developers|Special:ListUsers/developer}}
+Suppression is used when [[Help:Revision delete|revision deletion]] would be unnecessary, such as {{w|personal data|personally identifiable information}} of anyone being shared without their consent, PII of an apparent minor being shared, threats of harm against another editor, or anything else the public at large should not be able to view.
-==See also==
+{{for|a list of all suppressors, including inactive ones|Special:ListUsers/suppress}}
-*[[Forum:Official list of staff|Official list of staff members]]