Meta:Solarpedia Wiki Staff

**Solarpedia Staff**
**This is a list of Solarpedia staff members, both in service and former.**

Wiki staff members are esteemed users who have been given special user rights, to help guide the community to success. Different users have different rights, used for different applications depending on the situation.

**The Founder**
**The Founder: EarthCab**
**The Founder**, also known as *The Creator*, is the user who creates the community either about a game, movie, show, etc. The Founder (upon creating the wiki) is immediately given administrator and bureaucrat rights.

When appointing a new bureaucrat, the founder has no higher status than any other bureaucrat since they cannot demote a bureaucrat. The status by itself does not grant any special permissions.

They have the rights of an Administrator/Bureaucrat to:

* Appoint trusted users
* Customize theme design
* Create/delete pages
* Rollback edits
* Move pages
* Undelete files/pages
* Protect/unprotect pages
* Merging page history
* Ban users
* etc.

**Bureaucrats**
**Head of Bureaucratic Commissions: StarSubject**
**Bureaucrats** are users who can add an revoke another user's rights. They also have administrator rights.

They have the rights of an administrator/bureaucrat to:

* Appoint trusted users
* Customize theme design
* Create/delete pages
* Rollback edits
* Move pages
* Undelete files/pages
* Protect/unprotect pages
* Merging page history
* Ban users
* etc.

**Administrators**
**Head of Administration: EarthCab**
**Administrators** are users responsible for keeping a community together. They also edit certain parts of a wiki, usually inaccesible to moderators or editors.

**Administrators have the rights too...**

* Appoint trusted users with thread mod.
* Customize theme design
* Create/delete pages
* Rollback edits
* Move pages
* Undelete files/pages
* Protect/unprotect pages
* Merging page history
* Block users
* etc.

**Moderators**
**Head of Moderation: Lemniscate Biscuit**
**Moderators** are users who create and manage discussions and articles. There are two types of moderators.

**Content Moderators** are responsible for pages and **Discussion Moderators** moderate discussions.

**Content moderators** are moderators who have additional tools available to moderate specific parts of a community; these tools are:

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

**Discussion moderators** (also known as **Thread Moderators**) 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.

**Rollbackers**
**Head of Rollback Commissions: ItzEarth2012**
**Rollbackers** are users who assist in vandalism prevention. These users can also assist content moderators in restoring pages.

Rollbackers have the power to:

* Rollback pages

 **List of Solarpedia Staff**
**Staff In Service**

**Former Staff**