Staff and Requirements

A user right is a special type of permission a user has to make a change or perform a task for a community. A "user rights group" is a set of permissions or abilities. The most commonly recognized user rights group is an "administrator" or "admin", also known as a sysop user rights group. A list of user rights by groups can be seen at Special:ListGroupRights.

To add or remove users from these groups, admins or bureaucrats can go to Special:UserRights. Some groups can only be added or removed by bureaucrats or Fandom Staff.

Some communities have custom groups, but the information below applies to most.

## Staff Records

Bureaucrats

Admins

Content Moderators

Thread Moderators

## How to become a staff

Please inform the viewers on discussion board then post on an active bureaucrat’s message wall because bureaucrats can promote you. Each situation varies, but generally you need to fulfil these requirements to become a staff.

* Joined the wiki for more than a month.
* Have at least 350 (for content moderator) or 500 (for admin) combined page edits, thread comments or participation in discussion.
	+ Most of your page edits should be adding/maintaining correct information to pages, to prove that you are suitable to be a staff.
* Have not been blocked at some point in the past.

## Staff tools

Anyone who visits Fandom can view and read pages. Unregistered (anonymous) users also usually have the ability to edit and add pages to the wiki, though some communities require logging into a Fandom account first.

### Bureaucrats

Bureaucrats have the ability to

* Change or assign user rights to people

They have the ability to promote and revoke rollback, Content Moderator, and administrator rights as well as appointing new bureaucrats. While they cannot directly remove another user's bureaucrat status, they can remove their own. Bureaucrats also have the ability to remove a user's bot status in case the bot is malfunctioning, but bot flag requests are handled by staff after being approved (by either a bureaucrat or the community).

Having this status causes the tag "Bureaucrat" to appear next to user's username on their profile, unless changed on MediaWiki:Userprofile-global-tag-bureaucrat.

The bureaucrat status can only be removed by Fandom Staff or by the bureaucrat themselves.

Bureaucrat does not enjoy all the privileges of administrators, so they need to be put both bureaucrat and administrator role in user right management (Special:UserRights).

### Administrators

Administrators (also known as "admins" or "sysops") are trusted users who are generally chosen by the community and also have access to the following rights:

* All privileges from both the Content Moderator and Discussions Moderator groups.
* Block users from editing and other actions.
* Grant and revoke the Discussions Moderator right.
* Edit the community's skin and format in Special:AdminDashboard.
* Edit white-listed MediaWiki pages, for example MediaWiki:Wikia.css.

Being an administrator makes the tag "Sysop" appear next to a user's name on their profile, unless changed on MediaWiki:Userprofile-global-tag-sysop.

### Content Moderators

Content Moderators are users who have additional tools available to moderate specific parts of the community. These tools are:

* Editing and moving fully protected pages
* Deleting and undeleting pages and files
* Editing and moving protected files
* Rollback
* Moving files
* Protecting and unprotecting pages
* Patrolling pages if the community has the recent changes patrol feature enabled

Having this status causes the tag "Content Moderator" to appear next to user's username in their profile, unless changed on MediaWiki:Userprofile-global-tag-content-moderator. See Special:ListUsers/content-moderator for a member list.

Admins enjoy all the privileges of content moderators, so admins do not need to be put into that group in addition to being an admin.

### Discussions Moderators

Discussions Moderators (also known as "threadmoderator") are users who have additional tools available to manage conversations in various features across the community where users are having discussions. These tools are:

* Removing and restoring threads and replies by any user
* Closing and reopening replies
* Manage Discussions categories, and move posts from one category to another
* Deleting blog comments
* Editing and deleting article comments
* Moderating the Discussions feature, if enabled.

Having this status causes the tag "Thread Moderator" to appear next to user's username in their profile, unless changed on MediaWiki:Userprofile-global-tag-threadmoderator. See Special:ListUsers/threadmoderator for a member list.

Admins enjoy all the privileges of discussions moderators, so admins do not need to be put in to that group in addition to being an admin.

### Rollbacks

Anyone can revert vandalism and bad-faith edits, but it takes a couple of clicks in the page history to get it done. The "rollback" permission allows a user to undo bad edits with one click: by using the rollback link on diff pages, the user's contributions page, or the list of recent changes. The edit summary for a rollback edit is (Reverted edits by X (talk) to last version by Y).

Content moderators and admins (sysops) have this permission by default. It can also be granted to other users by adding them to the rollback group. See Special:ListUsers/rollback for a member list of all of them.

The tag next to the user's profile can't be seen unless the UserTags JS script is enabled on your wiki.