In Stars and Time Wiki:Administrators
Administrators are trusted users of the In Stars and Time wiki who have more rights, but also more responsibilities, than other users. If you have questions, need help doing something on the wiki, or need to resolve an issue relating to the wiki, these are the people to ask!
Rights and responsibilites of admins
- Deleting and undeleting pages.
- Patrolling recent changes, checking for vandalism and false information, correcting and reverting changes as needed.
- Blocking users who do not comply with the rules.
- Resolving disputes on the wiki.
- Protecting pages that are subject to vandalism.
List of administrators
| Username |
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| Angelsalcove (Talk • Contributions) |
| Felikitty (Talk • Contributions) |
| ITR (Talk • Contributions) |
Other roles
Usually, a Wiki also has Bureaucrats, who are capable of granting and revoking Administrator rights. As a member of wiki.gg, the ISATwiki does not have its own Bureaucrats. Instead, Administrator rights are granted upon request to wiki.gg Bureaucrats via official channels.
A Guide for Admins
Patrolling edits
Patrolling edits is one of the main duties of administrators. They should check over recent changes to the wiki for rule violations, misinformation, and vandalism.
To patrol edits, go to Recent Changes. Unpatrolled edits are marked with a red exclamation mark (!).
To mark an edit as patrolled, click on the "diff" link comparing revision history of a page. If the edit is acceptable, click [Mark edit as patrolled] underneath the edit summary on the top right.
To mark a page creation as patrolled, visit the new page, and click [Mark this page as patrolled] at the bottom right of the page. Similarly, to mark a newly uploaded file as patrolled, click [Mark this file as patrolled] at the bottom right of the file's page.
Rollback
Any user has permission to undo a singular edit. However, admins can "rollback" several edits at once. By clicking [rollback x edits] in Recent Changes or a page's history section, all revisions of a single user are rolled back, until the last revision by another user.
For example, if User A edits a page, and then User B edits the page 5 times, rolling back reverts all five of User B's edit, back to User A's latest edit.
Autopatrol
Administrators can grant the "autopatrol" status to trusted users. This means a specific user's edits are automatically marked as patrolled, and the user does not need to solve a captcha to add external links.
This status should only be awarded to trustworthy users with a history of clean edits.
To grant someone the autopatrol status, go to Special:UserRights/User and check "autopatrol". The status can also be granted only for a specific period of time.
Deleting pages
There are a myriad of reasons to delete pages. Pages may have been created by vandals, may be obsolete due to reorganization, or may be duplicates of other pages, among other reasons. Generally, a page should be marked for deletion using the {{delete}} template. Then, before deletion occurs, it should be talked over either on the page's talk page or on discord. Only when a consensus is reached, or the reason for deletion does not require debate (such as uneccessary redirects of duplicate files) should a page be deleted.
Admins may also undelete a page by going into Deletion Log.
Protecting articles
Some articles may warrant protection. Possibly because they are frequently vandalized, important enough that not every user should have permission to edit them (such as high use templates), or subject of an edit war.
Articles can be protected by going to the page tools in the top right (under "More" and then "Protect"). There are several different types of protection.
- "Allow all users": allows all users to edit a page.
- "Allow only autoconfirmed users": allows only autoconfirmed users to edit a page. Currently, all users who signed up are also autoconfirmed.
- "Allow only administrators": allow only admins to edit a page.
Furthermore, specific durations can be set for protection to expire. Titles can also be protected, if a page is constantly moved in a dispute. Even non-existent pages can be protected, in the case they should not exist but are created anyways.
Banning users
If a user continuously violates the rules, they may be banned using Special:Block. They can also be unbanned using Special:Unblock.
Before banning an user, warn them on their talk page. If warnings are ignored three times, ban them.
Spambots and sockpuppets warrant in immediate, indefinite ban. If an offense is grave enough, an immediate temporary ban may be warranted.
It is possible to ban either users (and thus any edits from the user's accounts, no matter the IP address) or IP addresses (and thus any edits from users using the same IP address). Users can also be banned from making new accounts (in the case of sockpuppets).
A length and reason for a ban should be specified. Bans should start out short, and grow in length to an indefinite ban only upon repeated offenses.
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