Help:User Rights


 * This is a custom help page for this wiki. For the official page, see Help:Group rights.

There are many different user rights on Wikia. For details, see Special:ListGroupRights. A list of users with each right can be found here.

Normal User
Can do several things, like moving pages and chatting.

Rollback
Rollbacks can quickly revert all the edits by a person (in a row) on a page with one click.

Admins
Administrators (admins for short; sometimes called sysops) can delete pages, protect pages, block and unblock users, and get chatmod rights built-in. Unlike chatmods, they can unban users from chat. They also have rollback built-in.

Bureaucrats
In addition to admin rights, bureaucrats can make other people admins and rollbacks. They can also make other users bureaucrats, but they can't demote bureuacrats. They can only remove their own bureaucrat rights.

Volunteer Spam Task Force
Volunteer Spam Task Force (VSTF) users have admin rights across Wikia, and use their rights to block problematic users on multiple wikis. However, they generally respect the rules of each wiki.

Bots
A bot is a piece of software that you can use to make multiple, quick edits. Staff can "flag" a user account as a bot by giving them this user right, but only on one wiki at a time. It hides their edits from Wiki Activity and Recent Uploads.

Global Bots
A global bot has the bot right on every wiki, and don't need staff to give them this right on each new wiki they join.

Facebook Connect Users
Facebook Connect users are no different than ordinary users, but their accounts are connected to their Facebook accounts. They also log in differently. You can connect it at Special:Connect.

Chatmods
Chat Moderators (chatmods for short) are the admins of chat. This right is automatically assigned to admins, althoguh non-admins can have this right. They can ban users from chat (but not unban), and give this right to others.

Banned From Chat
Unlike being blocked, being banned from chat is actually a user right. It does not affect editing, but you can't chat. An admin has to remove this right. It will last indefinitely unless it is removed.

Community Council
Only Wikia staff can invite you to join this special group of users that get to test out new features before their release.

Checkuser
A checkuser can check the IP address of a user to test for sockpuppets. Admins can request a check among users to see if they at least share an IP. Due to trust issues, this right is used sparingly.

Staff
Wikia staff have full access to all of Wikia. They run it. Becoming one is not like becoming an admin. It is a paying job and requires being hired by Wikia, inc.